On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 02:17:25PM +0100, mike wilson scripsit: > ---- Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:10:39PM +0200, Tim Øsleby scripsit: > > > 2009/5/6 Graydon <[email protected]>: > > > > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:03:21PM +0200, Tim Øsleby scripsit: > > > >> L for LEARNER. > > > >> It is mandatory to have an L at the back of the car when you are > > > >> learning to drive. > > > > > > > > Ah! > > > > > > > > Thank you. Not the local custom. > > > > > > It's nutty to learn to drive without a L at the back of the car ;-) > > > > I believe there's this misguided notion that special consideration for > > learners and new drivers would make them weak and uncertain. > > HTFU? I thought that was an entirely Australian phenomenon.
It is generally insufficiently recognized phenomenon that Canadians under enough stress turn into Australians, only without the lovely accents. People taking actual driving instruction are generally in a vehicle that has an illuminated driving school sign on it; people just practising don't come with any sort of warning at all. Attempts to suggest that such a warning would be a good thing suffer similar fates to that of mandatory retesting at set intervals. (Which is to say, no one ever finds the corpse.) -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
