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So this means cars in Thailand have right-hand steering and taxis are pink ?
You surely have heard about that cool Robonaut of Nasa which is being tested on the International Space Station.
He now gets some competition... from zee fatherland of course .. by SpaceJustin.
SpaceJustin is a tele-presence operated version of the german aerospace center robot Justin of which i posted a video here a while ago. That one that does the Pulp Fiction dance.
Big idea is to mount SpaceJustin's torso on his very own satellite which is so turned into a repair and maintenance station in orbit.
This also means that shooting down satellites with missiles was yesterday.
Soon you just fly over and smash them directly with a big hammer or smear some peanut butter on their optics
Prepare for some funny english and flat jokes in that video though.
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Here is the old Justin with the Pulp Fiction dance again.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Celeon999:
So this means cars in Thailand have right-hand steering and taxis are pink ?
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Yes Celeon, the Thais drive on the left. Well, when they feel like it! I've been run-over by a taxi-motorcycle on the pavement before now.
Taxis in Bangkok are all different colours: red, orange, pink, green, blue... I think it might have something to do with the Chinese/Buddhist association of certain colours to days of the week. That's why patriotic Thais wear yellow on Mondays. The King was born on a Monday.
Most Bangkok taxi drivers are from the rural NE of the country and don't know their way around. You get in the cab, tell the driver your destination and then get driven around in circles for the next two hours. He doesn't know where to go, or probably even understood in the first place. But the 'cannot lose face in front of Falang' (White foreigner) thing most Asians have prevents him from admitting he doesn't know his way around the city.
It would be quicker to put him in the back and drive the bloody thing yourself!
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That's a lot like the Toronto taxi drivers.
Driver: New to the city?
Me: Yes, I want to get to the Royal York Hotel. (which happens to right across the street from union station.) (Never tell them this)
Two hours later you get there and they want thier 25 or so dollars.
They don't get it from me. I do know my way around Toronto, I worked there for 5 years.
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I've had several bust-ups with incompetent/idiotic BKK taxi drivers. One time I was with friends going back to our hotel after a night out. We got off the skytrain about one km from the hotel and didn't feel like walking, so we hailed a tuk-tuk.
"How much for one kilometre?" pointing down the street.
"300 baht." (about $10)
We waved him away and then tried various taxi-meters. None would take us for less than 300 baht and all refused to use the meter.
In the end, we got back on the skytrain, headed AWAY from our destination for two stops and then caught a cab to the hotel for 120 baht.
Logic? You won't find that in the 'Land of Smiles'.
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Little info the USS NC and fuel (got me thinking since I read the petrol. thread)
Data for the ship is as follows with Tank Capacities:
Fuel Oil: 1,985,314 gallons
Average price of Gas in North Carolina as of today is $3.06
This would bring the totlal to: $6,075,061
You would need roughly 221 of these
to fill up The Showboat.
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Foe was a little unhappy at the time he took this picture. Now goingbut at the time, it was not fun climbing to the driver's side of his (red) car from the passenger side.
This smartypants of a driver should be grateful there isn't a dent in his passenger side door. Look how much room there is on the other side of him... Also look at the yellow markings on the pavement.
Why people do this is beyond me.
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Foe if that would have been I would have done one of 4 things.
A if I had the time I would have waited for the person to come back and proceed to chew his *** out.
B left a nice and nasty note about their parking job.
C let the air out of one or both of his tires on the side next to my car then move my car closer so he can not get to them and then find a nice spot to watch and take pictures of when he damages my car.
D any combo of the above.
I was parked in a city lot one day, had a van parked next to me plenty of room as I was walking back to my car the van backed out and started turning right away and hit my car and instead of stopping and pulling forward he stepped on it and took the rear end of my car off I was parked on his drivers side. He was going to pull away until he saw me standing there about 3 cars away watching him.
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