Thread Crush - Overtake

[Blakewater]

Len Woodman said:

bigothunter said:

Surely banning overtaking on our 'high risk' single carriageway roads must be on the horizon?

Has already been discussed in New South Wales. And increasingly double white line systems are being pained on many long straights.

For a supposedly laid back nation, the Australians really are up themselves in many ways with petty, handwringing rules and restrictions.

[Dr Jekyll]

Blakewater said:

For a supposedly laid back nation, the Australians really are up themselves in many ways with petty, handwringing rules and restrictions.

What do you expect from a population descended from prison officers?

[dvenman]

Dr Jekyll said:

Blakewater said:

For a supposedly laid back nation, the Australians really are up themselves in many ways with petty, handwringing rules and restrictions.

What do you expect from a population descended from prison officers?

And descended from the best of British bureaucrats?

[InitialDave]

Blakewater said:

For a supposedly laid back nation, the Australians really are up themselves in many ways with petty, handwringing rules and restrictions.

Yep, I've noticed that myself.

In my experience, the South Africans I've met have been much closer to the chilled out, she'll-be-right reputation Australia trades on.

[Len Woodman]

Blakewater - Correct
Dr Jekyll - Correct
dvenman - Correct
InitialDave - Is that pre- or post apartheid

[InitialDave]

Len Woodman said:

InitialDave - Is that pre- or post apartheid

Well, the ones I've met I've met post apartheid, but half of them were old enough to have been around before, both black and white. Can't say the subject ever came up.

Of course, it's a self-selecting sample, as I was only meeting people with professional careers who've emigrated, so perhaps there's a certain personality type there.

But even in isolation, I think the Australian image of being chilled out and freewheeling doesn't tie up with reality as much.