Yeah I know, but statistics will tell you otherwise.
So you're one step ahead by already laying out a plan? This is a man ready for anything, folks.
Yeah I know, but statistics will tell you otherwise.
Let's really confuse people by calling one line the North Shore Line, and come up with a tenuous explanation for how it's got nothing to do with that other North Shore everybody's known by that name for decades upon decades and how could you be so stupid to confuse them.
There we go, perfect.
Plus, at least one duplicitous politician could now come out and say that the North Shore DOES have a railway.
So you're one step ahead by already laying out a plan? This is a man ready for anything, folks.
All this directional naming reminds me of my city. We're built on a bend in the Ohio river, so our city grid runs on a diagonal, rather than north-south. Because of this, the area of town we call the "south side" is actually in the northeast quadrant of town. The "north side" is to the northwest, and the "west end" is to the southwest. The southeast quadrant was a suburb until about a decade ago when we ate it, so it's just called Lone Oak.
If you look at it on a map, parts of the "south side" are actually farther north than the "north side"
And now everybody who's bad with maps and directions is very confused.
I often give people directions saying "meet me on the northeastern corner of X/Y" or "you'll want to be on the southern side of the street", thinking this is perfectly fucking obvious, and they're just "...zuh?"
"What's a grid alignment?"
- Auckland
I like to think I have a good sense of direction, but the cardinal points tend to go over my head when used this way. I think it's because my city's sense of direction is so messed up.
We use landmarks instead. Toward downtown or toward the mall, across from such and such, on the same side of the street as whozywhat.
"What's urban planning?"
- The Gold Coast
This sort of stuff is fine for locals but I've confused some visitors in Melbourne by telling them to meet under the clocks at Flinders Street Station, and that's basically the ultimate Melbourne landmark/meeting place.
Not having a plan is as good as having one. I mean we didn't make Auckland a disaster by mistake, did we now?
I can't wait to visit Adelaide next week to be its one tourist for February.
Practicing good hand hygiene is the best way to avoid spreading anything. Wash your hands, don't touch your mucous membranes, sneeze into your shoulder.I'm bored. Can't wander off an visit my dad.
I tend not to visit the rest home when I've got something like a cold. I don't want to wipe out the population.