The Off Topic Topic

[HVC]

Funny to see some glitches are still there. I recall 20 odd years ago a nav system insisted on having our party drive onto a road that was abandoned and long ago overgrown with trees. At night. In a snow storm. Good times.

Also, wasn't googled sued recently when some old guy drove off a collapsed bridge? Said route had been flagged as inaccurate by several people in the app.

[garbon]

For the last two stories, God forbid we look at a route in advance.

[HVC]

For the last two stories, God forbid we look at a route in advance.

We were travelling and got hit with a snow storm that screwed up traffic

[HisMajestyBOB]

This happened this morning in a ford near to here:

Looks like a Volkswagen to me.

[Josquius]

Also in fun with driving.
I was at Beamish Museum on the weekend for their christmas stuff. Went home at 4 or something after it was already dark.
Checked which way google maps suggested to go home, and it said a road I don't normally take. A bit more direct but using backroads, a lot of which are single lane.....
So off we went straight through Hell Hole Wood (that's its name), as soon as we got to the abandoned Medieval settlement of Ravensworth a deep fog set in so we couldn't see more than a few metres in front of us.
It all just felt so very cursed.

Once we got back onto a more familiar road the fog then lifted. I wonder if that is why the village the familiar road goes through is named Sunniside.

[grumbler]

This happened this morning in a ford near to here:

Looks like a Volkswagen to me.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

This happened this morning in a ford near to me

Ideally this was attempted in Ford.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

This happened this morning in a ford near to here:

Looks like a Volkswagen to me.

Dammit!   

[Syt]

From "Don't Cry for me, Argentina":

It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I've done
You won't believe me, all you will see is a girl you once knew
Although she's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you
I had to let it happen, I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel

[crazy canuck]

6-7 is all the rage with the kids these days.


It's a great time to be alive

[Savonarola]

From "Don't Cry for me, Argentina":

It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I've done
You won't believe me, all you will see is a girl you once knew
Although she's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you
I had to let it happen, I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel

Heh, sixes and sevens (as Evita uses it) dates back at least to Chaucer's time:

"Lat nat this wrechched wo thyn herte gnawe,
But manly set the world on sexe and seuene."
-Troilus and Criseyde