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vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: themadhippy on June 08, 2023, 01:15:37 am ---
--- Quote ---Not impossible of course, just unusual.
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youve never been on the M25 then,especially the bit from the M40-M3,its unusual if 1 carriage way is free running let alone both

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Or Perth, WA.

A lot of people live in the Northern Suburbs & work in the Southern ones, & vice versa, & as well as a lot who live in either set of Suburbs & work in the CBD.
The Mitchell & Kwinana Freeways are quite often choc-a-block in the morning or at evening.

Lagos may be situated similarly geographically to Perth.
PwrElectronics:

--- Quote ---On my first visit to Germany, ca. 1990 during August, I was not surprised that reasonably-priced hotels did not have air conditioning, but I could not believe that they had no screens on the windows to keep the wasps out when trying to cool the room.
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My first and so far only trip to Germany in 2008 I was surprised at no AC in the hotel but then I am not traveled out of the US much either.  But, like you I found the lack of screens on the hotel windows odd.  It also surprised me that the hotel windows could be opened fully.  In the US, even if the windows in hotels open, I find they do not open very far so as to avoid kids or drunk adults from falling out.  The office I was visiting there also had opening windows w/o screens and no AC.  Any office building built in the US since probably the 1950s or 60s the windows are not made to open.

I am from Minnesota originally and a rural farm area at that.  No screens would mean the house filled with mosquitoes and biting flies.  Especially the mosquitoes at night.  The local joke was they are so large and numerous they are the state bird.  I still have memories of being bitten repeatedly as a small child in my bed due to a torn screen and eventually crying enough my parents were woken up.
Stray Electron:

--- Quote from: RoGeorge on June 07, 2023, 06:24:44 am ---We rather rarely have them here, in Romania/EU.  Most often called "mosquito nets".  Almost nonexistent in the past, when the window frames were made out out of wood.

Slowly the wooden frames were replaced with plastic frames (popular name "Termopan", which is a brand AFAIK, with plastic frame and double/triple layers of sealed glass).  The plastic frame windows often have insect-screens, but not always (screens can be eventually ordered after installing).

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   FYI  "mosquito nets"  in the US are five sided fabric nets that are made to hang over a bed and to keep the insects off of anyone in the bed.  They don't see them used much in the US any more other than people that are camping. But my parents and grandparents all used them many years ago. The US Military still issues them for field use.  But before air conditioning many houses were kept as wide open as possible so mosquito nets were common in the early 1900s and before window screens became standard.  If you watch an old movie such as 1930s Tarzan movie you will frequently see mosquito nets in them.

   Both of my parent's parents built new houses in 1934 and 1935 and both had screens in the windows from the start. Every house that I know that was built after that also had screens built in. 

   Insects ARE a problem in England. I've studied parts of Kent where the population steadily dropped for over 300 years after the introduction of African mosquitoes in the 1500s.  Go look up the Romney Marshes if you want to know more.
Stray Electron:

--- Quote from: PwrElectronics on June 08, 2023, 12:53:00 pm --- The local joke was they are so large and numerous they are the state bird.


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  My father was a student pilot in Florida in 1940s and he used to tell us that a mosquito landed at the airport one time and they loaded on 10,000 pounds of fuel before they realized that it wasn't an airplane.
TimFox:

--- Quote from: Stray Electron on June 08, 2023, 01:33:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: PwrElectronics on June 08, 2023, 12:53:00 pm --- The local joke was they are so large and numerous they are the state bird.


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  My father was a student pilot in Florida in 1940s and he used to tell us that a mosquito landed at the airport one time and they loaded on 10,000 pounds of fuel before they realized that it wasn't an airplane.

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I'm also originally from Minnesota.  The story is told about the two tourists who ignored advice about the mosquitos and ventured into the woods without precautions.  Two 6-foot mosquitos proceeded to kill them.  One asked the other, "should we take them deeper into the woods to eat them?"--"No, the big mosquitos will take them away from us."
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