Uh, you know we have roundabouts in the US too, right?
This is a reference to a series of old memes that popped up as a reaction to each other
https://lemmy.world/post/14474175
https://lemmy.world/post/14726913
https://lemmy.world/post/14707889there were a lot more
Round about one roundabout
You don’t need a roundabout to drive around a block forever.
American here, kills me every time it’s not that difficult!
Can easily do this around the Arc of Triumph
Paint It Black starts playing in french
We have one of these in rural middle of bum fucked and nowhere America.
Traffic control for deer
Is there a joke I’m missing out on?
The Longest Roubdabout by Germany
I really wanna know what they put in to Google to make it spit out that time estimate.
Probably a scripted route.
How to correct (or exacerbate) uneven tire wear:
Drive around the other way at night when nobody sees it.
Or visit Brexitania!
Take this, Germany:
I live in NL and we’re soaked in roundabouts, but this … this thing, it scares me.
wanted to look this up, here’ the link for anyone else who wants to see it
https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Magic+Roundabout,+Swindon,+UK/@51.5626913,-1.7719816,191
zooming it, it feels like a pinball playfield :)
The truly mind-bending part is that the inner circle runs backward.
What’s up with the strange assphault squares in between the inner and outer? Did they used to have grass or statues or something?
Upvoted in horror
that’s the isekai portal
Do you have to run it clockwise thrice on each circle to open it up?
Because the (my) American mind in fact cannot even begin to comprehend this, I’ve freedomized it so the drivers are on the right:
What in tarnation
I do this one in Australia mutiple times daily. It’s great.
Look kids, big ben! Parliament!
Big ben! Parlament!
I thought I’d look. That roundabout is still there. But, sadly it is now concrete and not grass in the middle…
>my citizens in Cities:Skylines
Don’t forget to put a toll booth on every street
LANE CHANGE
2,219km is only 1,378mi… that’s about the distance from the southern tip of California to the top of Washington State. Not even the width of the US.
Or the circumference of your mum’s fat arse
Or the size of your Mom’s big butt.
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It also would only take around 20 hours.
20 hours to travel 2219km is 110km/hr. Around the narrow lane of a roundabout, that’s at least 6gs, which can be fatal without training
Yeah, that’s some serious donuts they’re making! Is there a German idiom for driving rapidly in a circle?
You never heard about Kennedy in Berlin, eh?
I heard he claimed he was a kind of jelly-filled donut, but not that he went joyriding.
No, but it’s no problem to spontaneously invent one, so I call it “hochgeschwindigkeitskreiseln”
“Arschlochfahren”
In Germany, they don’t say “driving rapidly in a circle,” they say “Was soll der Scheiß? Pass doch auf, verdammt!” and I think that’s beautiful
Truly the language of love.
Schaut mal, Kinder, Big Ben
Unexpected European Vacation quote.
Mr bean, is that you?
do germans move their cars like the flintstones or how do they manage to have fuel/battery for 74hrs?
Since you’re in a roundabout, you just need a large funnel into the gas tank. Every time around, someone standing at the side pours a bit of fuel in while you pass, so you get a splash of fuel per lap!
Just add a long range tank in the trunk.
A normal car can do 1600 km or 1000 miles on a tank. By normal of course I mean diesel-powered German executive class sedan or wagon with an 80 liter tank.
At the low speeds of the roundabout, you might use more fuel, so maybe it’ll only do 1200 km on a tank. Just use a long range tank and you’re golden. They use them in endurance racing, or to go illegally fast for extended periods of time in Cannonball Runs.
There’s a few diesel cars that can reach that distance on one tank (though it requires hypermiling)
I did not know
hypermiling
means making post-purchase changes to your car to make it more efficient. Why wouldn’t manufacturers sell them in better quality to begin with?
Not necessarily, it can mean disabling aircon, driving the lower speed limit, taking a flatter route, etc
It’s not always about quality or performance, you want cars to be comfortable too, which is why you have to make tradeoffs. One thing hypermilers sometimes do is taping the seams on the hood, door, etc to improve aerodynamics. You could make a car from factory without seams in the body, but you won’t sell very many unless you can convince people to crawl in through a window.
Other things may be prohibitively expensive, or not durable, so you make tradeoffs. As efficient as possible while staying within the chosen price class and providing a certain standard of comfort.
Two words: German Efficiency
I hear their gas devices are very efficient.
Gassing out your soldiers during the first deployment of chemical weapons because you forgot about the wind is less than impressive.
Their cars run off centrifugal force.
There’s a million things Americans can’t comprehend. Not licking billionaire’s boots, for one
You can fit 74 Germanys inside a Texas roundabout. The European mind cannot comprehend this.
That says more about the fat-ass Texans than the Germans
You can fit 74 texases inside an Australian cattle station. They’re hilariously angry about it.
I think those are called beltways
