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What's the most fucked up shit you've seen irl?
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2019-06-09 at 9:08 PM UTC
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2019-06-09 at 9:22 PM UTC
Originally posted by Common De-mominator Yes, because right hand dominance which now makes more sense in the left.
its for defensive purposes. your right hand is your sword hand. people drove on the left, on the right side of the vehicle so they could defend against oncoming attack.
but in modern day your right hand is still the hand you fire a weapon or hold a knife. in an american car, if a mugger jumped into your passenger seat with a knife or gun it would be very difficult to draw on him. he's to your immediate right, best position to get the better of you. i didn't think americans would have missed that trick, what with their proud wild west heritage an all that.
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2019-06-09 at 9:30 PM UTC
Originally posted by Narc its for defensive purposes. your right hand is your sword hand. people drove on the left, on the right side of the vehicle so they could defend against oncoming attack.
but in modern day your right hand is still the hand you fire a weapon or hold a knife. in an american car, if a mugger jumped into your passenger seat with a knife or gun it would be very difficult to draw on him. he's to your immediate right, best position to get the better of you. i didn't think americans would have missed that trick, what with their proud wild west heritage an all that.
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So if you had a knife to defend yourself from a mugger you think it would be easier driving from the right side of the car as a right handed individual? No -
2019-06-09 at 9:34 PM UTCi seen a guy ambush a dude and attempt to set him on fire, had a jerry can and everything, pretty tame i guess.
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2019-06-09 at 9:41 PM UTC
Originally posted by larrylegend8383 So if you had a knife to defend yourself from a mugger you think it would be easier driving from the right side of the car as a right handed individual? No
imagine having a knife in your right hand now. now go through the motions of stabbing somebody that would be sitting to your left, then try the same to your right.
try shooting them with imaginary gun too.
awkward innit?
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2019-06-09 at 9:42 PM UTCand remember if they're to your left then they're in the awkward position.
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2019-06-09 at 9:44 PM UTC
Originally posted by Narc imagine having a knife in your right hand now. now go through the motions of stabbing somebody that would be sitting to your left, then try the same to your right.
try shooting them with imaginary gun too.
awkward innit?
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No bro. Holding a blade pointing down in your right hand would feel quite natural pounding it into his neck from an American driving position. -
2019-06-09 at 9:45 PM UTC
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2019-06-09 at 9:53 PM UTC
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2019-06-09 at 9:59 PM UTCLol no. Picture holding a knife like Jason Voorhees when he's stabbing downward. Now picture holding your hand at the left side of your chest with the blade horizontal pointing away from your chest. Now picture swinging your arm to the right.
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2019-06-09 at 10:01 PM UTC
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2019-06-09 at 10:13 PM UTC
Originally posted by larrylegend8383 Lol no. Picture holding a knife like Jason Voorhees when he's stabbing downward. Now picture holding your hand at the left side of your chest with the blade horizontal pointing away from your chest. Now picture swinging your arm to the right.
but if he stabs as you stab then you're just gonna lock arms with his as his knife goes in your face.
also don't forget about that steering wheel right in front of you.
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2019-06-09 at 10:14 PM UTC
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2019-06-10 at 3:06 AM UTC
Originally posted by Narc its for defensive purposes. your right hand is your sword hand. people drove on the left, on the right side of the vehicle so they could defend against oncoming attack.
but in modern day your right hand is still the hand you fire a weapon or hold a knife. in an american car, if a mugger jumped into your passenger seat with a knife or gun it would be very difficult to draw on him. he's to your immediate right, best position to get the better of you. i didn't think americans would have missed that trick, what with their proud wild west heritage an all that.
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2019-06-10 at 11:14 AM UTC
Originally posted by Common De-mominator ^ This guy is retarded đź‘Ť
NoWhy do Brit's drive on the left?
Let’s be honest, this question is only phrased this way to appease the two-thirds of the drivers of the world that now drive on the right-hand side of the road. The real question, the question that deserves to be asked, is this: why did everyone else stop driving on the left?
Taking the left hand side in traffic is a habit that goes back hundreds of years, possibly as far as the ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Romans, but certainly to an era when people habitually carried swords when traveling. As around 85-90% of humans are right-handed, passing on the right-hand side would leave carriage and cart drivers more open to attack from people coming the other way. Knights with lances, squires with knives, peasants with pitchforks, everyone had to be ready for a dust-up at a moment’s notice, and that meant keeping to the left so you could get a good swing at your assailants. Granted, this did mean they were more vulnerable to be attacked from the pavement, but no system is entirely foolproof.
In 1773, the British Government introduced the General Highways Act, which encouraged horse riders, coachmen and people taking their vegetables to market (while carrying swords) to drive on the left, and that was that. The Highway Act of 1835 later reinforced this, making it the law of the land.
However, things were slightly different elsewhere. Russian authorities, for example, had already noticed that their people tended to favor the right (maybe swords are less of a worry if you have to wear heavy coats all the time), so their first edicts on the topic were that they continue to do so. The pre-revolutionary French were on the left, but having revolted, they moved over as part of a general reordering of all society, and when Napoleon took over the army and began invading nations, he ordered them to stay on the right hand side too. Popular myth suggests this was also because he was left-handed, but there were other advantages; it would prove unsettling for his enemies, it would show him to be a great military tactician, and it would irk the British. Perfect!
Everyone else kept left, but with increasing traffic on the roads in mainland Europe, this began to cause confusion, and slowly, over the course of the next hundred years or so, the European nations began to move over too.
Also, this divergent approach occurred at a time when the British and the French were very busy colonizing the world. Every country occupied by the Brits—like Australia, New Zealand, India and the West Indies—kept to the left, and the ones occupied by France moved over to the right. The Americas were split, with the new arrivals from Britain, Holland, Spain and Portugal keeping to the left, and the French colonies insisting on the right.
However, two vehicles were about to force this situation to change. In the late 1700s freight wagons (including the great Conestoga wagons) became more and more popular, particularly in America. These were pulled by a chain of horses, arranged in pairs. The best place to sit in order to control these mighty beasts was on the back of the left-hand horse at the back, so you could whip the others with your right hand. With the postilion driver in position, the best way for one wagon to pass another without accidentally banging wheels was the right hand side of the road. And where the wagons went, everyone else followed. So driving on the right became more common.
And then the motor car arrived. While original designs for cars put the driver in the front and center of the vehicle, it wasn’t long before the advantages of having the driver able to see down the middle of the road became clear. And in those countries where car manufacturing became an essential industry for export (America, this means you), right-hand-drive vehicles with the steering column on the left quickly became a worldwide norm, forcing relative latecomers like Sweden to give in and move over too.
Although it’s interesting to note that this arrangement does favor the left-handed driver somewhat, as their dominant hand is the one that never leaves the steering wheel. A right-handed driver in a British car spends a good deal of their time steering with his or her right hand while fiddling with the gear stick with their left, which seems the safest way.
This may account for the relative popularity of stick-shift gearboxes in British cars to this day.
Oh and one last thing. In Japan, they historically drove on the left—partly by choice, partly because British engineers built their railway network to be left-hand drive—until 1945, when U.S. rule forced the Okinawa Prefecture to switch to the right. They returned to the left in 1978
http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2015/01/brits-drive-left/
i'm not making this shit up, its well documented.
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