🚀 go-pugleaf

rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:


>No.  Nor yet in Scotland, Wales, or any part of Ireland (to the best
>of my knowledge).  Rationale (I've posted this once before, but it
>plainly didn't sink in):

>1) We don't get that much sun (we're a good bit further North than the
>   (even remotely) heavily-populated parts of N America, and we have
>   the gulf stream to contend with, which tends to give us moist
>   summers)
>2) Our roads tend to be rather narrow, so that people who drive with
>   an arm hanging out of the window lose their arm by interaction with
>   oncoming traffic rather than through cancer

Oh come on!  Surely the MIRRORS would be hit before the arms...  When we say
arms hanging out, we don't mean out parallel to the road!

There'd be a LOT of missing mirrors and door handles, (and fenders, and
bumpers) is this was even remotely significant.