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Meludreen's guide to being agog.

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iamus

13:25 / 25.08.05

What the sweet fuck has been going on here?

Sekhmet

13:27 / 25.08.05

2) Is this another British thing, like roundabouts?

Haus of Mystery

13:30 / 25.08.05

Well, a horse crawled in here this morning, and since then a lot of people arrived and started flogging the poor bastard. EVEN THOUGH HE'S DEAD!!!!
Ugly...

Eloi Tsabaoth

13:32 / 25.08.05

We tried to catch them but they all jumped onto a bandwagon and rode off.

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:32 / 25.08.05

I feel any objective impartial analysis will conclude that it was funny and good until the one started just after mine.

Haus of Mystery

13:35 / 25.08.05

True. And what's more, I followed the simple guidelines set out by your thread and lo! I AM A GUY RITCHIE!

BOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLARKS!

sad

Wait, hang on, do you not have Roundabouts in Texas????!!11!!!!

Not Here Still

13:54 / 25.08.05

Come from North Wales.

Prize for the first person to tell me why.

Ariadne

14:06 / 25.08.05

I don't think you get roundabouts - the road kind - in America at all? I may well be wrong...

Not Here Still

14:09 / 25.08.05

We have a very refined winner, who I shall dignify by not naming here...

Magog?

Call me sad again Nina, and I'll faakin' kneecap ya.

Tryphena Absent

15:37 / 25.08.05

Oh shut up MacGyver. I could easily behead you with my cutlass before you could kneecap me.

Haus of Mystery

16:20 / 25.08.05

Now, y'see, back when I was a ninja I would have crept up and cut you in two like the wind whistling through the trees...but now I'm a cockernee, my hoarse yelling of 'Apples and bleedin Pears' gives the game awy every time.

Oh well. At least I get to shag Man-donna.

Mourne Kransky

16:22 / 25.08.05

There is a roundabout in Texas. It's by a diner somewhere in Waco and they call it The Circle. They are so proud of it, they give you a badge saying "I survived the Circle" if you manage to drive to the diner without crashing on the roundabout.

Chiropteran

16:32 / 25.08.05

We've got roundabouts here in Massachusetts, but we call them rotaries. When my parents moved here from California (shhhh!), it took them forever to get the hang of them - my mom still has right-of-way issues.

Sekhmet

16:59 / 25.08.05

(* boggles at Xoc *)

The Elite Diner. Yes. How do you know this?

There are a couple of little roundabouts in the area of Austin called Hyde Park, oddly enough. They confuse the crap out of people.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:43 / 25.08.05

Ask not how Xoc knows stuff. Just know that he knows stuff.

Lilly Nowhere Late

20:13 / 25.08.05

There is also a roundabout in Hollywood Florida.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

20:40 / 25.08.05

Are these roundabouts in any way magic(k)?

France somehow seems to have more roundabouts than Britain; maybe it's that they have even more roads over there, and really don't like stopping for too long?

Are there roundabouts in Canada? Australia? New Zealand, even?

Tryphena Absent

20:54 / 25.08.05

I have this vision of American tourists taking photos of roundabouts the first time they come across them.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

20:59 / 25.08.05

...taking photos of roundabouts the first time they come across them.

And then crashing through the traffic on the other side which they just hit after driving across the middle. Probably as a result of not being able to see while taking a picture.

Haus of Mystery

20:59 / 25.08.05

Wow. That ranks right up there with Martin Luther King's.

Haus of Mystery

21:00 / 25.08.05

(to Nina btw)

Sekhmet

21:02 / 25.08.05

My first encounters with roundabouts were on a gigantic tour bus that swayed from side to side as the driver whipped through with no apparent regard for other vehicles, lanes, sidewalks or passerby. It was terrifying.

I still have nightmares about the big crazy multi-lane one around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

21:12 / 25.08.05

I still have nightmares about the big crazy multi-lane one around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

In a vehicle or on foot? The latter method of traversing said roundabaout is really fucking scary. Not having been round it in a car recently, I can't recall if it's fightening that way, though I expect it must be.

Tryphena Absent

21:16 / 25.08.05

That ranks right up there with Martin Luther King's.

I am a very profound person. Full of dreams, ideals and a vision for the future.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:21 / 25.08.05

Yeah, but we all ignore them cos you're a gurl.

Haus of Mystery

21:44 / 25.08.05

Yeah. Any vision that doesn't include Optimus Prime is teh!!1 suck.

Regrettable Juvenilia

23:04 / 25.08.05

Nina had a dream. Aaliyah had a dream. Left-Eye had a dream. So I reached out to Kanye and I brought you all my dreams.

iamus

23:45 / 25.08.05

The latter method of traversing said roundabaout is really fucking scary.

Erm. Isn't there a tunnel that goes under it?
I only know this because my pals almost died weaving through the traffic and discovered it afterwards. That knowledge came in useful when I was in Paris the next year.

alas

00:51 / 26.08.05

There are two roundabouts in the state of Kansas.

invisible_al

01:08 / 26.08.05

Hah we have The Magic Roundabout it is, in fact, non-euclidean

iamus

01:16 / 26.08.05

Jesus. That thing hurts my head.

I demand video footage of it during peak time. I think it might be the evidence I need to finally prove my Holographic Universe theroem.

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