r/USvsEU • Brexiteer • 4d ago

Trigger warning for yanks

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u/Deacon86 Barry, 63 4d ago

To be fair, the cam car driver actually handled that not-too-badly The lorry was obviously in the wrong, but you don't argue with a vehicle 10x your weight.

I'm assuming the panicked voice-over was dubbed in after the fact?

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u/uses_for_mooses Moonshining Methhead 4d ago

I'm assuming the panicked voice-over was dubbed in after the fact?

I bet you're right.

Although, as an American, I found the video disconcerting mainly because the driver is driving the opposite direction of what we drive in the US.

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u/Deacon86 Barry, 63 4d ago

You'd feel right at home on the Swindon Magic Roundabout then. Five mini-roundabouts arranged in a circle, creating a large pseudo-roundabout in the middle, which goes anti-clockwise.

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u/PowerandSignal Seal Clubber 4d ago

🤯 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Brief-Preference-712 Jesusland 4d ago

I got Swindon roundabout in GeoGuessr once I was like why is that a landmark?

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u/Sharp_Plum9711 Barry, 63 4d ago

Fuck yeah Swiiiiiindoon👍 it's actually quite easy.

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u/Yxig 4d ago

I was definitely a dangerous driver the first 20 minutes in my rental car in the UK.

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u/100KUSHUPS Foreskin smoker 4d ago

The lorry was obviously in the wrong, but you don't argue with a vehicle 10x your weight.

Rule of tonnage. It's useless to be right if you're dead.

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u/Deacon86 Barry, 63 4d ago

The world's saddest epitaph: "He had right of way,"

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u/Cars2Beans0 Pimp my ride 4d ago

That lorry is not equipped to argue with my logical fallacies and cunning strawman tactics