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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , T0m $herman   
    wrote:   
      
   > On 3/15/2014 4:06 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > > In article , T0m $herman   
   > > wrote:   
   > >> On 3/12/2014 12:53 AM, Your Name wrote:   
   > >>> I said "some places". There's also a variety of other reasons for   
   > >>> perhaps not moving over to the "slower" lanes ... including all the   
   > >>> impatient morons zooming up behind you, changing lanes and passing you   
   > >>> on the "wrong side".   
   > >>   
   > >> Your paragraph makes no sense.   
   > >   
   > > It makes perfect sense.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >> Staying in the right lane (left lane for   
   > >> most of the Commonwealth and Japan) means the faster traffic will   
   > >> naturally overtake on the correct side. Works in Northern Europe, where   
   > >> the police *will* ticket you for blocking the inside lane.   
   > >   
   > > I purposely avoided using "left lane" and "right lane" so that it was   
   > > irrelevant which side of the road a particular country drives on.   
   > >   
   > If you were paying attention, you would not have people "zooming" up   
   > behind you and passing in the outside lane.   
   >   
   > The only time people ever pass me on the right on controlled access   
   > roads is where there is an exit-only lane and someone moton [1] go by in   
   > it at higher speed.   
   >   
   > [1] Conflation of motorist and moron.   
      
   As I said somewhere (may even have been snipped from above), the only   
   time I've had people zoom up from behind in free-flowing traffic   
   conditions is when they're exceeding the speed limit, so they shouldn't   
   even be going that fast in the first place.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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