Page 3 | I've noticed there was a lot of Americans on Mumsnet lately, so I'm posting this to spook them!

mummaof0 · 2024-07-04T21:31:10+00:00

Pshhht! Psshht! I'm armed with an Ameriscram now!

saltinesandcoffeecups · 05/07/2024 00:02

I’m not shy about driving in Chicago or Atlanta… haven’t braved Boston yet. Not sure if I’m up to it 🤣.

ETA; Although I did grow up on the streets of St. Paul. Which was once described as being designed by drunken men by the governor.

CheeseSandwichRiskAssessment · 05/07/2024 00:07

HueyDueyandBluey · 05/07/2024 00:00

@YesIReallyDoLikeRootBeer Just follow the pilgrim hat....it's very simple really. They can shove their roundabouts. Good luck on 1s, 93s which is also 95n. Britbegone! So fun! So lighthearted!

If they make it the reward is a nice, cool glass of Moxie and a plain Dunkin donut.

Ladyzfactor · 05/07/2024 00:10

saltinesandcoffeecups · 05/07/2024 00:02

I’m not shy about driving in Chicago or Atlanta… haven’t braved Boston yet. Not sure if I’m up to it 🤣.

ETA; Although I did grow up on the streets of St. Paul. Which was once described as being designed by drunken men by the governor.

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St. Paul is the worst. I've been driving for over twenty years and my anxiety driving in that city goes through the roof

Zoflorabore · 05/07/2024 00:11

On the estate where I live in NW England some idiot decided to put in a roundabout the size of a dinner plate which everyone just drives over. Completely and utterly pointless thing it is. We do have a HUGE one though which is a thing of beauty as has gorgeous plants and flowers all over it and is well tended.

the only thing I’ve ever really learnt about roundabouts is to “give way to the right” and I’ve been ok 😉

saltinesandcoffeecups · 05/07/2024 00:11

CheeseSandwichRiskAssessment · 05/07/2024 00:07

If they make it the reward is a nice, cool glass of Moxie and a plain Dunkin donut.

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Yup the closest I’ve come is I90 N. Skirt Mass on my way up to Maine.

Thislittlekitten · 05/07/2024 00:37

Haha I live in the “circle” city too!! Always a mystery to outsiders 🙈

ThatWorthySheep · 05/07/2024 00:41

Do Americans even have roundabouts

YesIReallyDoLikeRootBeer · 05/07/2024 00:42

ThatWorthySheep · 05/07/2024 00:41

Do Americans even have roundabouts

Yes, we do. In fact the one in my town can be watched 24 hours a day on YouTube. I'm not sure why it would be so surprising that we have them.

IceLolliesForStickyFingers · 05/07/2024 00:45

RoseDog · 04/07/2024 23:20

They are not roundabouts they are "circles"...where am I from?

India? They are called circles there.

ThatWorthySheep · 05/07/2024 00:47

Zoflorabore · 05/07/2024 00:11

On the estate where I live in NW England some idiot decided to put in a roundabout the size of a dinner plate which everyone just drives over. Completely and utterly pointless thing it is. We do have a HUGE one though which is a thing of beauty as has gorgeous plants and flowers all over it and is well tended.

the only thing I’ve ever really learnt about roundabouts is to “give way to the right” and I’ve been ok 😉

Photos or it didn’t happen

Saschka · 05/07/2024 00:49

CheeseSandwichRiskAssessment · 04/07/2024 23:40

New Jersey

Is it a cliche that there aren't roundabouts in the US? Odd.

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To be fair, we put a mini roundabout where you would put a four-way stop in the States or Canada.

No British person has any clue who is meant to move first at a four-way stop sign, so we just sit there politely waiting for the other three cars to go, so we can set off again without hitting anyone.

Beanieton · 05/07/2024 00:50

I have wondered if a lot of them are bots. There seems to be a lot of pro Trump Americans all of a sudden. Slightly suspicious on this forum.

saltinesandcoffeecups · 05/07/2024 00:53

Beanieton · 05/07/2024 00:50

I have wondered if a lot of them are bots. There seems to be a lot of pro Trump Americans all of a sudden. Slightly suspicious on this forum.

Not a bot. 🤖. Of course a bot would say that 🤔

Slavetomycat · 05/07/2024 00:55

Circles are definitely scary!

BritinDelco · 05/07/2024 00:56

Saschka · 05/07/2024 00:49

To be fair, we put a mini roundabout where you would put a four-way stop in the States or Canada.

No British person has any clue who is meant to move first at a four-way stop sign, so we just sit there politely waiting for the other three cars to go, so we can set off again without hitting anyone.

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I was about to say exactly that, moved from UK to the DE/PA border, they put roundabouts in places but noone knew how to use them, some near me have now put the stop signs back at every entrance to the roundabout which kinda defeats the object.

On a positive note I'm pleasantly surprised by 4 way stop sign etiquette

Ponderingwindow · 05/07/2024 01:02

Meh

some city planner with a fresh masters degree or something, got ahold of my towns streets and decided to go roundabout crazy. I could navigate that in my sleep.

im actually annoyed there isn’t a roundabout outside the high school.

Wigtopia · 05/07/2024 01:10

YesIReallyDoLikeRootBeer · 05/07/2024 00:42

Yes, we do. In fact the one in my town can be watched 24 hours a day on YouTube. I'm not sure why it would be so surprising that we have them.

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There’s a Simpsons episode where the family came to Europe. Homer accidentally enters a roundabout and can’t get off it! So all us Brits of course see the Simpsons as a documentary and think it must be true! 😉

DdraigGoch · 05/07/2024 01:33

DreamTheMoors · 04/07/2024 22:45

Boo!@mummaof0 from California

That's hideous! Have they not heard of trees over there? I know that grey was fashionable a couple of years ago but come on!

DdraigGoch · 05/07/2024 01:40

Wigtopia · 05/07/2024 01:10

There’s a Simpsons episode where the family came to Europe. Homer accidentally enters a roundabout and can’t get off it! So all us Brits of course see the Simpsons as a documentary and think it must be true! 😉

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It was broadcast 20 years ago so probably had some truth at the time.

ditalini · 05/07/2024 01:47

Wigtopia · 05/07/2024 01:10

There’s a Simpsons episode where the family came to Europe. Homer accidentally enters a roundabout and can’t get off it! So all us Brits of course see the Simpsons as a documentary and think it must be true! 😉

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Or for those of us of a certain vintage, National Lampoon's European Vacation

pikkumyy77 · 05/07/2024 01:50

No we have always had roundabouts. Really.

Ponderingwindow · 05/07/2024 01:59

We joke about that Chevy chase movie constantly as we are trying to teach our dd to drive. She doesn’t get it since at 14 she was old enough to learn to drive but really not ready for that movie.

mommaduck09 · 05/07/2024 02:04

American here

🤣🤣

momtoboys · 05/07/2024 02:30

pikkumyy77 · 04/07/2024 23:26

I’m from Massachusetts. We have rotarys here that would freeze your blood. And since we took down all our street signs in 1776 to confuse you all its almost impossible to even figure out where you are going.

LOL! Irish here but living in America.

YesIReallyDoLikeRootBeer · 05/07/2024 02:35

Wigtopia · 05/07/2024 01:10

There’s a Simpsons episode where the family came to Europe. Homer accidentally enters a roundabout and can’t get off it! So all us Brits of course see the Simpsons as a documentary and think it must be true! 😉

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Well, I'm 56 and in the town I grew up in there is a Rotary (what we call them in Mass) that has been since long before I was born. Of course I am in New England, so maybe we are more like Old England then the rest of the country