Magic in the sense that the guy who designed that was on the magic fungi?

It actually makes a lot of sense when you know how to use it (and apparently, everyone going through it does, hence no crashes).

As a whole, roundabouts work better in terms of continuous traffic flow (note: barely any gridlocks!) than anything used in non-roundabout-using countries.

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Elvish Crack Piper probably says this to all the girls:
Still fucks tourists up Id imagine

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The whole "we drive on the left here, not the right" fucks up tourists to England... and Australia...

Now, if you have someone stupid enough to make a roundabout WITH TRAFFIC LIGHTS, like we have in Montreal... >:o

I'm still not sure about some of the finer details about the lanes and turning, but I'm sure I would figure it out fairly quickly if I saw it in action.

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Maradon! was naked while typing this:
Wait just one goddamn second - why do you even NEED a five-way intersection in the first place?

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Maybe because all 5 roads came to a single point? kinda like if you draw a line through a pentagon from the outside of each point to the centre...

I can think of 3 seperate seven-way intersections all within 10 minutes drive of where I live... plus another 4 six-way intersections within another 15 minutes..

..funnily enough, only 1 has a roundabout.. the rest are all controlled but traffic lights (and very rarely is there any traffic backup)

If you even had room to put one of those in NYC, it'd instantly enter gridlock and stay there, due to the sheer volume of entering traffic. You'd have to let them in from one entry point at a time with stop lights. Then again, nearly every street in Manhattan and about 2/3 of the streets in Brooklyn and Queens are one-directional (dunno about the Bronx), turning them into high-capacity (square) roundabouts anyway. The difference is that on a real roundabout, the traffic already in the loop gets priority. As a result, you can't get in until enough cars get out.

There's a famous roundabout in Paris. It's famous for having the most accidents of any place in the city, because it's 4 lanes wide, with no actual lanes or other traffic control marked on it. At least, if I remember correctly.

screw co-op, I'm going to Disneyland.

Looks to me like he should not have trusted them to build roads either

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Lyinar Ka`Bael was listening to Cher while typing:
The Magic Roundabout was mentioned in Good Omens, and it was a place of evil, and all your music turned to Queen when you were on it.

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In Good Omens, any music left in a car for over two or three weeks became a Bohemian Rhapsody tape. That was a truly uber book.

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Star Collective had this to say about Punky Brewster:
In Good Omens, any music left in a car for over two or three weeks became a Bohemian Rhapsody tape. That was a truly uber book.

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I thought it was just that it became Queen, not the specific tape. And I haven't read it in a while, so I thought it was just when you passed the roundabout

And yes, that book kicked ass. Anathema Device was my favorite.

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Lyinar Ka`Bael had this to say about (_|_):
[QB]I thought it was just that it became Queen, not the specific tape./QB]

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Best hits of Queen I thinkupo...

For some reason I recall the one part where he's trapped the demon in the message recording cassette, and contemplates playing him over and over again till he turns into Freddy Mercury - but that's too cruel =p

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Star Collective impressed everyone with:
In Good Omens, any music left in a car for over two or three weeks became a Bohemian Rhapsody tape. That was a truly uber book.

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Only in Crowley's car actually.

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Pvednes got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
Only in Crowley's car actually.

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No, any car. Best of Queen.

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Zaza obviously shouldn't have said:
No, any car. Best of Queen.

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Really? I need to read it again...