Where is...?

I prefer to go the scenic route alot of the time, unless the journey was 'business' then it was the 'get there the sooner the better' route.

When I was involved with the coaches I always printed out a route for the drivers, they quite appreciated it though not cos of the directions given but the time the journey took to do. They would then add on an hour or so for hold-ups and from that they worked out their break stops, seeing as they can't drive more than four and a half hours in one go and passengers don't like travelling more than 90 mins at a time.

Rhys wrote: I get the scenic route if our lass is navigating.. "At the next junction we are coming to just past the so an so blah blah.." erm.. we are AT the junction.. what now, which lane.. can't you just say left, right or straight on? "At the next junction you will be wanting to turn.. left".. she says while pointing right.. (or vice versa) Oh well

erm Rhys...thats her way of telling you to...


GET LOST!!!!!

I get the scenic route if our lass is navigating..
"At the next junction we are coming to just past the so an so blah blah.."
erm.. we are AT the junction.. what now, which lane.. can't you just say left, right or straight on?
"At the next junction you will be wanting to turn.. left".. she says while pointing right.. (or vice versa)

Oh well

Actually thats similar to my Routefinder prog I had before I got the AA one, it was obsessed with sending you on the motorway and would send you miles out of your way to get you on one for a junction or two.......

Just on this subject...
MSN used to have a bug in their online mapping system (now fixed) which if you went to http://maps.msn.com/
click on "Directions"
Start from country: Norway; City: Haugesund
End in country: Norway; City: Trondheim
Select shortest route
Click on "Get Directions"
you got this:-

Goldryder wrote: I see the heated debate got sent to the moddygyrators section then and deleted of this one. Typical.

??? when did that happen. it was there when I left to put the kettle on? Last I heard no action was being taken, I left topic as certain people were getting right up my nose and talking a load of offensive rubbish

Lol, my fave bit from Convoy was the black female driver "widow woman" overturning her truck, kicking it and saying "god d*** white truck, new I should have bought a black one"  Hmmm, should have cast Ally in the film!

Talking of other forums, searching for info on E28 528's, roadtests etc, turned up loads of bmw/528 stuff including another forum.

Was surprised to see someone had posted how he(?) wouldn't buy new again as he was so pleased with his dealer's 2nd owner 528 touring, instead of congratulations, 6 out of next 7 posts slagged him and car off. What pleasure do they get out of doing that? 

No, I'm just old enough to remember most of them. Do you know the one about the 55,57 etc chevy nicked piecemeal in the blokes lunchbox? Cringeworthy!

Edited by rubberknees50

Lol, had Rhys's one from another source in email this morning, maybe we should start a thread giving directions.

I was at school when Gene Pitney charted with 24 hours from Tulsa, popular as our school was at Tulse Hill in London and most of us wanted to be 24 hours away- heading in the opposite direction.