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It always amazes me when every so often in the news they have to remove some guy in a lorry who's got himself stuck down a country lane because his sat nav sent him there.... and nobody ever thinks 'Hmm...the sat nav says I should be going here.This doesn't look like a motorway,but a path off into the woods about three quarters the size of my vehicle. Maybe I'll get a second opinion before ploughing through the shrubbery'.Nope,it's 'sat nav says here it is,so here I'll go.Crash.Wallop.Bang.'The Copyright Monster has made me tell you that my avatar is courtesy of the wonderful Alice XZ.And you don't want to annoy the Copyright Monster.
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I know a place where the GPS always want me to drive down some stairs to a footpath, but it's still a good help when you go somewhere you haven't been before.
I would miss it, a map is fine and I have one in both my own car and the taxi, but the GPS is so much faster.
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Quoth Kit-Ginevra View PostIt always amazes me when every so often in the news they have to remove some guy in a lorry who's got himself stuck down a country lane because his sat nav sent him there.... and nobody ever thinks 'Hmm...the sat nav says I should be going here.This doesn't look like a motorway,but a path off into the woods about three quarters the size of my vehicle. Maybe I'll get a second opinion before ploughing through the shrubbery'.Nope,it's 'sat nav says here it is,so here I'll go.Crash.Wallop.Bang.'PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.
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These are some questions people have asked me on the train in Alaska this summer.
1. Are we in Canada?
Why yes, sir. The government sold Alaska to Canada to help pay off the national debt.
2. This was asked right before embarking in Seward. Do people live in houses here?
No, everyone lives in tents in the summer and igloos in the winter.
3. This was after being told repeatedly to take their luggage with them after disembarking the train. Do we leave our bags on the train?
Go ahead. I'll just see if there's anything I can use and put the rest on EBay.Question authority, but raise your hand first. -Alan M. Bershowitz
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Quoth EricKei View PostI hate it when people I'm giving a ride to, decide to say "Okay, turn here!" just as I'm zipping past their corner.
Lucy about killed him.
(Jenny and I were cracking up...but quietly, so we didn't piss of Lucy as well.)
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One of my agents got a call earlier today from a genius asking "See here on the website, where it says e-mail address? Do I need to enter my e-mail address?"FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC
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Quoth wolfie View PostI'm disappointed - you should have asked them if they were talking stature miles or nautical miles.
Quoth Jay 2K Winger View PostI took to calling the GPS voice "Navi" in those annoying moments.FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC
You're not a unique snowflake unless you create your own mould (Raps)
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I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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My family was hosting a high school chorus student from Northern Vermont for a regional chorus event over a weekend about 15 years ago. We took her into Rhode Island (about a 5 minute drive) to go the beaches since hadn't ever seen the Atlantic before. No big deal right up till she said "Oh wow, Rhode Island really is an island!!!" as we crossed the river that makes up the southern border between CT and RI.
That one stopped all conversation as she was (supposedly...) a 4.0 student back in her high school.
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To be fair,sometimes you don't realize whereabouts things are especially if you're in another part of the country.I never realized until I went to uni just how close Manchester,Sheffield,Derby and all are,that 10 minutes out of Manchester you can be in the Peaks or how Lincoln is way up past Birmingham(I had it mentally down about Cambridge way)
As far Hawaii,I always had that floating maybe a couple hundred miles off the coast of California-somewhere about where you'd end up if you kept the Alaska border going down south. There's a lot more ocean out there that I expectedThe Copyright Monster has made me tell you that my avatar is courtesy of the wonderful Alice XZ.And you don't want to annoy the Copyright Monster.
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Quoth wolfie View PostEver had the temptation to enter the lat/long co-ordinates 42°26′05″N 83°59′06″W into his GPS (hint - it's in Michigan, about 15 miles NW of Ann Arbor), then let his GPS tell him where to go?
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Quoth RootedPhoenix View PostGoogle Earth says that a given road in a place I used to live goes straight through when it doesn't.
I should know, I used to live on that street.
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Our satnav did not want us to leave Devon. Halfway across the Tamar Bridge it kept shrieking turn around immediately... we declined... doing a U-turn across two lanes of traffic on a bridge is not a sensible ideaThe Copyright Monster has made me tell you that my avatar is courtesy of the wonderful Alice XZ.And you don't want to annoy the Copyright Monster.
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