Interesting/good things that never caught on in the US

[Por_sha911]

Roundabouts are great until you get stuck behind "Granny" who just comes to a complete stop and waits...

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

two Australian Au Pairs

The only thing I read in your post.

Oh...also, something that never seemed to catch on in the US but should have...two Australian Au Pairs...

[Geronimo '74]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

Roundabouts are great until you get stuck behind "Granny" who just comes to a complete stop and waits...

Roundabouts can only handle so many cars at a time.
When that number gets exceeded, flow grinds to a halt.

We have roundabouts with lights now, not really an improvement.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by Geronimo '74

We have roundabouts with lights now, not really an improvement.

Well they do work if the roundabouts are massive in size, but that defeats the purpose of a roundabout, which is to get something put in place with limited cost and space requirements.

For instance in Holland they do huge roundabouts to support highway crossings with overpasses.



But yeah, on their own, small roundabouts choke
medium roundabouts with lights also eventually choke
And deconflicting traffic with overpass or tunnel nets the best throughput but has highest cost and needs the most space to implement

It's usually a case of "should have done it ages ago, but , no money then or now."

[WPOZZZ]

Cheap drugs.

[72doug2,2S]

A Chinese coworker from Shanghai once gave me some tea. I asked her if there were any special instructions. She said, just wash it first.

Oolong and dark tea


https://www.zhentea.ca/why-do-we-rinse-wash-the-tea/

Anyway, since practicing this I believe my black tea is less bitter.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

Bend, Oregon

Albany too...not so sure they improved anything.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by 72doug2,2S

A Chinese coworker from Shanghai once gave me some tea. I asked her if there were any special instructions. She said, just wash it first.

Oolong and dark tea


https://www.zhentea.ca/why-do-we-rinse-wash-the-tea/

Anyway, since practicing this I believe my black tea is less bitter.

Very interesting, thanks for posting. Two of my favorite teas are Oolong and Pu erh which should be rinsed according to the article. It sounds like this is why the second and sometimes third infusions are often better than the first.

I use a timer or at least watch the clock pretty closely when making tea because over infusing often leads to bitterness.

[RWebb]

French women

Italian women (young ones)

[72doug2,2S]

The Italian ones are hairy

[Crowbob]

Hirsute, my man. Hirsute.

Grows in patches.

[Danimal16]

Originally Posted by john70t

Ugh. One step backwards. Those don't work with maximum load. Stop and get rear-ended, or go and cut someone off? Is traffic within going to turn without blinkers or switch lanes or speed up? Or not? Close your eyes and pray the car has enough instant HP to make it.

That, and the Michigan left turn (make a right, speed up, merge lanes, brake and pull off, make a left across two lanes into traffic already at speed or squat in the fast lane).

They got rid of the damn things decades ago for these very reasons. They are the cause of more accidents and don't calm traffic but tend to back it up at higher than average load.

[Danimal16]

Originally Posted by mrm

well the thread asked for interesting or good things .

Back to the universally recognized good things- definitely hot hatches and turbo diesels. Grand touring station wagons.

+1

[GH85Carrera]

This looks you could dizzy real fast. It looks like it handles all the traffic great, no backups at all!

The real problem is the lanes are on the wrong sides.

[john70t]

^That's full of extra parking spaces.
The Metro entrance must be nearby. Park and walk. How convenient.


I'll add The Hoff singing on stage.

[herr_oberst]

Rotate the canvas to accommodate our lane direction and it makes total sense...

[Iciclehead]

Kwark cheese...better than yogurt and just about as healthy

Dennis