On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 09:50:55 -0800 (PST), pH wrote:

On Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 9:36:06 PM UTC-8, John B. wrote:
On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 18:00:11 -0800 (PST), pH snip wrote:

On Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 7:05:42 AM UTC-8, Joy Beeson wrote:
Fall continues: today I got my silk scarf out of storage. If it gets
cold enough to require a balaclava, I'll have to dig out my old
rear-view-mirror holder. The new helmet adjusts by just turning a
screw instead of messing around with sizing pads, but the oval can be
made longer or shorter, but not any wider.

In a rush to hit the road. No spell check.

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Joy Beeson, U.S.A., mostly central Hoosier,
some Northern Indiana, Upstate New York, Florida, and Hawaii
joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/
The above message is a Usenet post.
I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site.

Fall is here in Aptos, CA. The leaves are falling and we have had two or three fires in the woodstove now.
Seems like the cold weather and rain are holding off, though.
I really like this time of year and watching the leaves fall.

Q: for John....are the stoplights in Thailand red?
For some reason I just got to thinking, we have all sorts of different customs in different countries: dress, side of road we drive on, acceptable food items....but it seems that we all agree on red lights for traffic signals. I'm just wondering if it's actually true.

pH in Aptos.

Yup, stop lights are red, and train crossings have flashing red
lights, and regular old green, yellow, red traffic lights.

Thank-you for the reply.
I've been to Europe, so I knew there are red lights there.


In Asia, I have been in about every country in South East Asia, and,
if they use lights, they all use red stop lights. In Vietnam,
Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar I don't remember seeing any traffic lights
at all :-)


Ha! Sometimes people drive as if they're aren't any here....guess we all experience that.

Well, when one has (one might say) "arrived" and now has sufficient
funds to afford an automobile then one might feel that he/she/it was
above the laws :-)

As for side of the road we drive on the left hand side, which I might
add makes perfect sense as that puts the driver of a team of oxen (or
water buffalo) on the near side and not in the center of the road :-)

In looking at google I see that the first directive seems to be Pope
Boniface VIII directed pilgrims to keep left, in the year 1300
(Which would seem to put us on the side of the Angels :-)

Which leads to the Brits maybe driving on the left because the C. of E. vs. Pope. (just kidding)

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cheers,

John B.

Now, do you see any Morris Minors over there? Think I'll take mine out today.
pH

Not in Thailand but Singapore has a Classic Car Club and you
occasionally see antique (usually) British cars with the driver and
passengers in period costume.
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cheers,

John B.