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Posted April 22, 2014
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Sachys: I'm suggesting it as a sweet and gloopy dessert topping though!
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Maighstir: Here's a dessert toping for you.
Thats some dangerous sounding shit. Arseholes with neckbeards will be looking at buying shares!
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reaver894: Get 2 Scots together and thats what happens
We're also the only UK representatives in thread so far... heheh!
Post edited April 22, 2014 by Sachys
Posted April 22, 2014
Hmmm well in Aus we drive on the left and I tend to veer to the left in a corridor. It just seems logical and most people do seem to do the same.
Posted April 22, 2014
Anyway , back on topic.

I had a similar dilemma the other day with a gentleman coming the other way down the hall, and that's when it got weird.
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Posted April 22, 2014
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tinyE: Anyway , back on topic.

I had a similar dilemma the other day with a gentleman coming the other way down the hall, and that's when it got weird.
Should have used that move when yer basement flooded and just tipped it out of the window!
Posted April 22, 2014
Lets get wasted
Posted April 22, 2014
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saramakos: Hmmm well in Aus we drive on the left and I tend to veer to the left in a corridor. It just seems logical and most people do seem to do the same.
Same here. It's even specified when there's a shared walking/biking path.
Posted April 22, 2014
I was just in Britain and Ireland and discovered people walk both ways. It was kind of a clusterfuck, honestly.
Posted April 23, 2014
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saramakos: Hmmm well in Aus we drive on the left and I tend to veer to the left in a corridor. It just seems logical and most people do seem to do the same.
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Cormoran: Same here. It's even specified when there's a shared walking/biking path.
Here, people walk and bike every which way, even when the paths are marked for direction and use.
Posted April 23, 2014
When I was in school (in the UK), they taught us to walk on the left when using stairs, and that's what I still do now unconsciously, even in hallways, etc.
Posted April 23, 2014
I'm just a generally scary looking person, even when I'm in a good mood I almost always look like I have an angry look on my face. So, I just walk forward and most of the time people look like their avoiding me and move out my way before I even get close to them when they notice me. The rest of the time I'll just move more to whatever side of the hall I'm more on. I don't exactly make a point to walk in any particular area of the hall.

I'm also pretty good at predicting people's movements with their body language, so I've never had that issue of awkwardly moving to the same side as the person your trying to avoid.
Post edited April 23, 2014 by Lenriak
Posted April 23, 2014
I think most English people just hide in their offices until they're ABSOLUTLY sure that the coast is clear before venturing out just to avoid potentially awkward situations like this and others such as should you nod or say high to someone you only vaguely know? What if they say 'Good Morning' at the last second and you miss your opportunity to say it back without it being weird? And don't get me started on the whole minefield of whether or not to hold doors open for someone you're aware is behind you...
Being a repressed, awkward Englishman is a nightmare sometimes - how I wish I could just be Scottish and stagger around drunkenly head-butting people! *sigh*
Posted April 23, 2014
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Fever_Discordia: I think most English people just hide in their offices until they're ABSOLUTLY sure that the coast is clear before venturing out just to avoid potentially awkward situations like this and others such as should you nod or say high to someone you only vaguely know? What if they say 'Good Morning' at the last second and you miss your opportunity to say it back without it being weird? And don't get me started on the whole minefield of whether or not to hold doors open for someone you're aware is behind you...
Being a repressed, awkward Englishman is a nightmare sometimes - how I wish I could just be Scottish and stagger around drunkenly head-butting people! *sigh*
England have their equivalent of the Scottish way of doing things.

I think its called Liverpool
Posted April 23, 2014
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Fever_Discordia: I think most English people just hide in their offices until they're ABSOLUTLY sure that the coast is clear before venturing out just to avoid potentially awkward situations like this and others such as should you nod or say high to someone you only vaguely know? What if they say 'Good Morning' at the last second and you miss your opportunity to say it back without it being weird? And don't get me started on the whole minefield of whether or not to hold doors open for someone you're aware is behind you...
Being a repressed, awkward Englishman is a nightmare sometimes - how I wish I could just be Scottish and stagger around drunkenly head-butting people! *sigh*
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reaver894: England have their equivalent of the Scottish way of doing things.

I think its called Liverpool
Think that involves less headbutting and more stealing...
Posted April 23, 2014
I have some questions for Brits. What is the point of calling someone, a "wanker"? And in the eyes of the British people, what is the worst insult out there?
Post edited April 23, 2014 by monkeydelarge
Posted April 23, 2014
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monkeydelarge: I have some questions for Brits. What is the point of calling someone, a "wanker"? And in the eyes of the British people, what is the worst insult out there?
What is the point? You mean, other than to insult them?

Worst, for most people as far as I've experienced, starts with C and rhymes with 'blunt'...
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