bungeejumper wrote:Are you sure? The argument I was always told was that if you were driving your cart down a narrow road and ran into an ambush, you'd have only a second or two to get your sword arm (or gun) organised. Which being the case, an attack from the left was always more dangerous because you'd have to turn your body round to deal with it. Whereas an attack from the right could be repelled much more quickly because your right arm was in the right place. Thus, you were better off keeping to the right of the road, so as to give yourself the maximum time for fending off an attack from the left.
Yes that's correct, per my understanding. Brits rode horses on the left of a path, [and drive carts/wagons/cars similarly]. Since most people encountering a foe would wish to draw a sword or a gun with their right hand. You see the reverse in medieval jousting, you approach on the right of your opponent so you/your weapons weight has momentum into your target, rather than pinging you straight back off your horse, ie if you approached from the left.
But Bonaparte being [arguably!] a bit of a proto 'Little Hitler' was left-handed, and so the protocol within the jurisdictions he oversaw was the reverse. The world's driving laws re: left vs right is still largely as a result of 19th century and various European colonial histories.
[quote="BJ'] Aaah, but wasn't that the British autopsy report, after he'd spent years being slowly cross-gendered by the [expletive deleted] that leaked out of the wallpaper in his exile home? (I notice we still called him Boney, though.
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O/T, but I'm also told that a silverback mountain gorilla's member is only 3-4 centimetres long. Nobody ever seems to give him any trouble on that account.
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Hehe, well you're going beyond my knowledge now, but if I hadn't enough reason to generally dislike already wall-paper you've just sealed it's fate for me