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SnarfVader
2012-02-13 08:38:04 AM
DutchDynamite
2012-02-13 09:14:31 AM
4th house up the road thats how i would describe it but then i am white so what do i know
staypuft242
2012-02-13 10:21:36 AM
strange... I only have the options of the British woman and the other guy. I need to upgrade to get the African version I guess.
Drubell
2012-02-13 10:23:31 AM
I don't think I'd get this one since I'm adverse to the random sounds of truck noises while I'm trying to listen to my GPS
Snapper Carr
2012-02-13 10:37:00 AM
I'm not sure if I need this since I just installed the
redneck version
(new window)
sholter
2012-02-13 11:11:46 AM
Ok, its 93 north to 3, but its four traffic lights, you hit a Chevron station, and a little past that there's gonna be a retahded kid selling fireworks. Hang a left by him you're at the Jordan Marsh pal.
/What's the best way
berniex
2012-02-13 11:18:03 AM
and ???
Are we supposed to laugh at the fact that in 3rd world countries they don't have streets with names and addresses ?
What's next ?, "Hey little girl, tell us about malaria !"
Oh, ah haha, hoho !
Kanemano
2012-02-13 11:47:17 AM
staypuft242
:
strange... I only have the options of the British woman and the other guy. I need to upgrade to get the
African
Jamaican version I guess.
FTFY
CoonAce
2012-02-13 12:19:27 PM
I'm told there's a download to get Ozzy's voice on your GPS.
nicoffeine
2012-02-13 12:23:37 PM
berniex
:
and ???
Are we supposed to laugh at the fact that in 3rd world countries they don't have streets with names and addresses ?
What's next ?, "Hey little girl, tell us about malaria !"
Oh, ah haha, hoho !
I was laughing at the fact that the directions sounded more complicated than they were, because she was a kid, and kids see things simply, but can't communicate them visually. Ask a kid to describe something simple (like baseball), and it's funny.
But, go on with your joyless existence in finding offense in everything ever.
berniex
2012-02-13 12:32:03 PM
nicoffeine
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berniex: and ???
Are we supposed to laugh at the fact that in 3rd world countries they don't have streets with names and addresses ?
What's next ?, "Hey little girl, tell us about malaria !"
Oh, ah haha, hoho !
I was laughing at the fact that the directions sounded more complicated than they were, because she was a kid, and kids see things simply, but can't communicate them visually. Ask a kid to describe something simple (like baseball), and it's funny.
But, go on with your joyless existence in finding offense in everything ever.
Her directions were complicated BECAUSE she lives in some crap-hole without named streets and numbered addresses.
But, go on with your blinders to the real world.
nicoffeine
2012-02-13 12:41:28 PM
berniex
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nicoffeine: berniex: and ???
Are we supposed to laugh at the fact that in 3rd world countries they don't have streets with names and addresses ?
What's next ?, "Hey little girl, tell us about malaria !"
Oh, ah haha, hoho !
I was laughing at the fact that the directions sounded more complicated than they were, because she was a kid, and kids see things simply, but can't communicate them visually. Ask a kid to describe something simple (like baseball), and it's funny.
But, go on with your joyless existence in finding offense in everything ever.
Her directions were complicated BECAUSE she lives in some crap-hole without named streets and numbered addresses.
But, go on with your blinders to the real world.
Which has nothing exclusive to the Third World, either. Blinders... really.
lordaction
2012-02-13 01:02:54 PM
She gives directions no different then any other woman.
berniex
2012-02-13 01:05:51 PM
nicoffeine
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berniex: nicoffeine: berniex: and ???
Are we supposed to laugh at the fact that in 3rd world countries they don't have streets with names and addresses ?
What's next ?, "Hey little girl, tell us about malaria !"
Oh, ah haha, hoho !
I was laughing at the fact that the directions sounded more complicated than they were, because she was a kid, and kids see things simply, but can't communicate them visually. Ask a kid to describe something simple (like baseball), and it's funny.
But, go on with your joyless existence in finding offense in everything ever.
Her directions were complicated BECAUSE she lives in some crap-hole without named streets and numbered addresses.
But, go on with your blinders to the real world.
Which has nothing exclusive to the Third World, either. Blinders... really.
Yes, really.
Gig103
2012-02-13 01:17:02 PM
sholter
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Ok, its 93 north to 3, but its four traffic lights, you hit a Chevron station, and a little past that there's gonna be a retahded kid selling fireworks. Hang a left by him you're at the Jordan Marsh pal.
Someone needs to come up with a Google maps equivalent that does this (give landmarks). I don't care if my GPS says to "turn right on Ivy Street" because it also tells me WHEN to turn right. If I don't have GPS and I'm just driving, I want instructions like you juts gave.
Crewmannumber6
2012-02-13 01:43:10 PM
I'm a racist and even I thought that was racist
tweek46420
2012-02-13 01:46:42 PM
CoonAce
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I'm told there's a download to get Ozzy's voice on your GPS.
how in the hell would that even work.
does it go. mumble mumble SHARRON mumble muble
HI-FYE
2012-02-13 02:25:32 PM
The funny thing is that she can see her house from where she is standing.
Tony_Pepperoni
2012-02-13 02:36:06 PM
You want directions? Watch this
Link
(new window) Skip to 5:20 and keep and eye on Curly.
/funny as hell
Donnchadha
2012-02-13 03:01:35 PM
berniex
:
and ???
Are we supposed to laugh at the fact that in 3rd world countries they don't have streets with names and addresses ?
What's next ?, "Hey little girl, tell us about malaria !"
Oh, ah haha, hoho !
She'll show you a place high on a desert plain?
ZMugg
2012-02-13 03:06:18 PM
Knight Rider GPS w/William Daniels voice.
(new window)
Alien Robot
2012-02-13 03:16:54 PM
staypuft242
:
strange... I only have the options of the British woman and the other guy. I need to upgrade to get the African version I guess.
Why do you think she's African? Her accent is Caribbean Islander (probably Jamaican). Is it because she's black?
lewismarktwo
2012-02-13 03:40:27 PM
ZMugg
:
Knight Rider GPS w/William Daniels voice. (new window)
$270 bucks dollars american?
ZMugg
2012-02-13 03:57:58 PM
lewismarktwo
:
ZMugg: Knight Rider GPS w/William Daniels voice. (new window)
$270 bucks dollars american?
But,but,but you can pretend you're in here:
so it's cheap at twice the price.
Sorta
ZMugg
2012-02-13 04:00:53 PM
lewismarktwo
:
ZMugg: Knight Rider GPS w/William Daniels voice. (new window)
$270 bucks dollars american?
Bucks dollars?
peahez
2012-02-13 04:32:24 PM
Don't worry guys. I mapped it out.
HI-FYE
2012-02-13 05:21:43 PM
That_Bob_Guy
2012-02-13 06:24:28 PM
As a father of a 6yo and a 4yo I understood that perfectly well.
And, as a weekend dad it made me miss my babies. And smile.
Thelyphthoric
2012-02-13 07:21:03 PM
My old crappy tom-tom has John Cleese telling me to "bear right... beaver left" so whatever.
Maynotlast
2012-02-13 07:48:52 PM
peahez
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Don't worry guys. I mapped it out.
[i51.tinypic.com image 476x638]
Awesome.
scotth
2012-02-13 08:05:28 PM
Why does creepy guy want to know where the little girl lives? Chris Hansen would like to have a word with you, Sir!
HellRaisingHoosier
2012-02-13 08:12:24 PM
I have buddy down the road from me that tells people "Head down the highway until you reach a row of silver mailboxes. Turn right at the mailboxes onto the gravel road then take a right at the
horse
".
First time I laughed when I heard it, but damned if there wasn't a real horse standing where he said it would be. Apparently that horse (he owns it) is a sort of the "guard dog" and will always run to that corner of the fence when it hears someone coming.
Drunken_Polar_Bear
2012-02-13 08:44:03 PM
About like the time I asked for some directions in Mexico. It was "Go up that way for a while. You turn at the street with the yellow flowers on the corner. Keep going that way until you see the old man in a wheelchair with the three legged dog. Turn right."
And yes, there really was an old man in a wheelchair with a three legged dog out by the road. Directions were spot on.
Hack Patooey
2012-02-13 10:30:26 PM
I love getting local directions when I'm out and about, makes for an adventure some times. Best one I ever got included the gem "Turn left before the bridge that used to be painted green"
kyrg
2012-02-14 12:19:53 AM
Hitchhiking in the UK one time, I once asked directions from a Scot on a bus in Ayr Scotland how to get to the M what ever it was hi way.
He explained how to for 3 minutes. I thanked him profusely, got off the bus and admitted to myself I hadn't understand a GD thing he had said.
GreatGlavinsGhost
2012-02-14 01:36:26 AM
peahez
:
Don't worry guys. I mapped it out.
[i51.tinypic.com image 476x638]
+1
That is awesome!
I wonder if there's a way to compare your map to a Google map or something?
A seat? Over there?
Okay!
/What could possibly go wrong?
//But, seriously. Only to check for accuracy.
///I'm bored.
Alien Robot
2012-02-14 03:29:28 AM
GreatGlavinsGhost
:
I wonder if there's a way to compare your map to a Google map or something?
She says the name of a local crossroads/town/villiage/all-inclusive-resort at the beginning but I can't make it out. "Monnymaji"?
rockymountainrider
2012-02-16 08:40:02 AM
HI-FYE
:
[i43.tinypic.com image 476x638]
Here you'd have to replace the arches with Tim Horton's. But the result is the same.
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