In England, Drive thrus must be backwards, amirite?

duuuuudde...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Whooooooah..

by Anonymous 14 years ago

There's no reason they need to be backwards. The drive through lane just needs to be to the left of the building instead of to the right.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I suppose... assuming this is only considering the same building and how two different sorts of cars would approach it. There are still other options.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I find this simple logic a little retarded. Until the car has to reverse it or go to the food window then order window it can never be backwards. The direction of the road is correct, the building is set for use with road, car has a front and back that work accordingly. This is like saying if you order from a drive thru in a different street you are driving backwards sideways upward etc as the road is point differently in accordance with the world. As long as you are not driving an imported car to show off you wont have trouble with this simple set up.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Nah, it's backwards

by Anonymous 14 years ago

In England we take a meal at random, drive through and pay for it and then tell the cashier what we actually wanted before driving off.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

That made me lol.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

<3

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Lol This made me crack upp

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Why did this get on the home page? It's not even that funny

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Not everything is about "funny" -.-

by Anonymous 14 years ago

For the love of all that is Holy, JUST LOOK AT ANTHONY'S DIAGRAM.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Really though, it's so fucking simple.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It's depressing that this many people must ask how they are backwards.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

People make funny things un-funny. Very quickly sometimes.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

no, they are backwards in the states, they are the correct way in the UK.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

That is the commonly accepted idea, but the question is why? What makes one way more correct than another?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

They were doing it that way first.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

How does that make it right?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

thanks for stating the obvious...wtf lame

by Anonymous 14 years ago

They go clock-wise in England, amirite?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I live and the US and some of you people from the us are being fucking retarted

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Maybe it's just my conditioning, but to me it always seemed counter-intuitive to drive forward on the left side of the road. I've always suspected that the road planners (or car designers, depending on how you look at it) in such countries were left handed.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It actually goes way back to the time when transportation was horses. They held their lance or sword or whatever in their right hand, and had to ride on the left. Get it? People are right in saying that driving in Canada/USA is opposite.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

But transportation is no longer horses. It doesn't seem to make sense to adapt the ways of old technology to the ways of newer technology. That doesn't take advantage of the newer technology to its greatest extent. Then again, I guess we do that all the time. Like how we're still using the QWERTY keyboard layout that was designed to slow typists down and not jam up typewriters. It's the same logic, and likewise, it doesn't exactly make sense.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It's just the origin. I don't think it's any more of an advantage to drive on either side, so it's weird to me the way it is on this side of the world. But you do have the option to change your keyboard if you like.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It's really not that hard to get... I don't understand why people need it explained

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Mind. Blown.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

go back to mlia.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

ahahahahahaha soo true, good god i just cracked up. they say that so often over there it makes me want to die

by Anonymous 14 years ago

England doesnt really have drive thrus.... :(

by Anonymous 14 years ago

This is the kind of thing that makes my brain malfunction trying to fathom it out. I still can't, but I voted up anyway.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

No wonder I was so confused; I read "thrus" as "thrus" (short U sound), not "throughs". :S

by Anonymous 14 years ago

hahaha I felt like an idiot because I read it the same way, so I'm glad I'm not the only one.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

i just read "throughs" as "troughs."

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Wow, I never really thought about it. I don't get why people don't grasp the concept after seeing Anthony's diagram, it's not that difficult.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

The poster isn't saying that our drive thrus are correct and your's aren't, there's just no other way to explain this thought. So just compared to us, your's is backwards...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Neither of them are "backwards" just different ways. England is backwards to the U.S. and vise versa, so they are just different. If that makes any sense.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Well. Not technically backwards but just mirrored.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I am in complete shock that so many people got in little arguments over the layout of a fucking drive-thru...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Whoa, that would feel so weird! Hahahaha

by Anonymous 14 years ago