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To: S100 who wrote (13420)	7/5/2001 6:20:34 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Wonderful. If a right-handed Brit drives a standard shift model with gear shifter on floor, he gets to shift with his left hand. Has to be at least as difficult for a right handed person as picking up peas with a knife. Can't be right. If he is an inattentive driver like me, a right handed BritBloke puts his arm out on the right side while he attempts to steer using his non-dominant extremity. Can't be right, either.

To: S100 who wrote (13420)	7/6/2001 6:37:06 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 34857

OT: Whipping on the right side at blocking peasants, which obviously was natural. (popular theories often miss this one, your text didn't) I once read an academic article trying to track right-left handed traffic through history, some more detail, if I remember it right - meeting traffic was not the reason, but aristocrates on horse,carriage trying to pass by "commoners" which were slower, walking (keeping a horse alive demanded much more investments, more inefficient than an ox) - the aristocrat chose the left side to able to whip the one they tried to pass, get them more to the right or off the road. (similar to why a walking stick was the sign of the right to use it, cmp right to bear guns) - as a result the left side of the road became,was reserved for the aristocrates with the right to whip. - as roads were usually narrow, muddy at times, the meeting traffic problem was solved by either one driving off the road. - different rules applied for towns, two lane roads, rural roads, etc.. Anyway, the french revolution ended the priviledge of the left side of the road, also as a result of larger mobile armies, trade than ever before, traffic rules had to be more efficient and less violent. Also where the upper and lower classes would sit in parliement, the right and left Btw, one point of confusion is that now all traffic move with mostly the same speed on otherwise empty roads, that was not the case earlier, walking was the general way to get somewhere carrying things, and slow ox wagons. Ilmarinen Anyway, it is not just a pleasure to be the tax evasion center of ones neighbours, talk Laissez fair and spread mad cow, foot in the mouth decease as a result of lacking funds and free market forces (full gvmt payment for culling,etc) UK has to change a lot of "practices", converge, to join EMU, but they are now well on theri way. The present media war on satellites, digital TV does not improve relations. And finally, europe is much in debt to russia, for attempts at invation from Napoleon to later days. And luckily the punishment policy did not continue from WW1 to after WW2, much thanks to US