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I had to do a public-road test up here in NH, but it was definately just a formality (the tester knew i'd been driving for years back in Britain and just wanted to see that I was comfortable on the other side of the road and the car).

Ooo.....hello neighbour. :D Me and my wife also use Geico (I love the caveman ads on telly btw :D ) for our joint policy, which was just over $900 a year for our new Yaris. I can't remember what coverages I selected when arranging the policy online, but I did ramp things up a few levels...

Where are you AP? 93 hit nearly $3.30 here in NH a couple of months ago, but it's been settling back down again slowly. I'm pretty sure this state has a concealed firearms permit too.

It can happen anywhere though Sam, not just over here. You'll probably find that the kid with the sporty car probably lives in the family home still, and as such it's easier to afford a decent motor. Live over here and you'll see that the "average" car is usually a sensible Toyota or Honda, oh...

Too many to give a definative answer, but I recently read "Inconceivable" by Ben Elton and found it to be superbly well written.

Travel any motorway over here and you'll see loads of tyre fragments laying around, some of them absolutely massive. The lorries here seem to shed rubber like a human sheds dead skin, and i'm hoping to never be unfortunate enough to be in the way of the flak.

On a similar note to that: Back in London the gym my wife was a member of used to have weekly "Women Only" evenings, no males were allowed (obviously). Now, that's all well and good but the membership price was the same regardless of gender. Therefore there were four evenings a month where...

We thought of that, and left a good tip under my empty plate, just in case.

I just want to post a little story that shows what can happen when the customer (i.e. me) is polite and courteous to the staff: Me and my wife went out to a little local place for breakfast on Saturday morning. The waitress came, took our order, commented positively on my accent (happens all...

My Dad left us when I was four, and made probably five or six token efforts over the years to see me and my younger brother. I'm thirty four now, married to someone I thank my lucky stars for, and we've just began a new life in the US. In short, I am very very happy. My point is that I...

I'd have to disagree with that I think. If the father wanted to make a new start he would have made an attempt at communication, not a poxy card with a cheque in it. MOT: It really is your choice mate, and I don't know what your financial health is like, but i'd be tempted to send the...

My neck of the woods is similar. I really need to get out and about with a camera, the scenery here is fantastic.

Absolutely useless. :(

You're comparing British and US building standards, on a civil-engineering level (seeing as we're talking bridge building here), based on being a 16th edition spark? And have you ever worked on a US site at all, or is it idle speculation? Don't make me laugh. And before you accuse me of...

And that equates to a bridge in the US how exactly?

You were beaten to it earlier in the thread. ;)

Bingo....I agree completely.

I wouldn't call it "harsh". I would instead choose "mind-numbingly stupid and ignorant". Do you think that a bridge has never collapsed, or could ever collapse, anywhere else in the World?