Directions

Degag · 09-08-2020 12:03am #1

Anyone else an absolute moron with directions?

I mean for example, if I hear on the news that something happened in the West, I need to go "Never Eat Shredded Wheat" in my head to figure out where the West was.

Same with left and right. Need to think in my head what hand i write with before determining the actual direction:rolleyes:

Pinch Flat · 09-08-2020 12:06am

Seems harmless enough.
You're not thinking if becoming an airline pilot by chance?

alchemist33 · 09-08-2020 12:08am

Well now, I wouldn't start from here, if I was you

Degag · 09-08-2020 12:09am

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Seems harmless enough.
You're not thinking if becoming an airline pilot by chance?

Nah, watched Sully a few weeks ago. Not for me

touts · 09-08-2020 12:11am

I used to have a reasonable sense of direction.

But it's gone to hell since I got Google maps.

Tiredalways · 09-08-2020 12:13am

I'd get lost in a circle. My mantra is all roads lead somewhere! Thank god now for sat navs.

Mr_Muffin · 09-08-2020 12:13am

Before Google Maps existed and I had to ask for directions from random people in the street. If they said more 2 lefts/rights I would lose all grasp of what they were saying and just thank them before scooting off in the general direction.

09-08-2020 12:19am

Ahh..Why wouldn't you eat shredded wheat?..It's ok like..haven't had it in years..prefer weetabix myself..

Charlie19 · 09-08-2020 12:20am

My head hurts when someone cant tell the difference between north, south, east and west.

09-08-2020 12:20am

Degag wrote: »

Anyone else an absolute moron with directions?

I mean for example, if I hear on the news that something happened in the West, I need to go "Never Eat Shredded Wheat" in my head to figure out where the West was.

Same with left and right. Need to think in my head what hand i write with before determining the actual direction:rolleyes:

Your left hand is designed to tell you it's on the left. Extend your index finger and your thumb and it's an L. Try doing the same with your other hand to find an R.

East, west though. Maybe there's something with toes.

Degag · 09-08-2020 12:21am

Deleted User wrote: »

Ahh..Why wouldn't you eat shredded wheat?..It's ok like..haven't had it in years..prefer weetabix myself..

But eating shredded Weetabix would make you a wierdo surely

09-08-2020 12:26am

Confusing left and right is extremely common and is nothing to do with your level of intelligence. That's why if you're having a kidney removed or a knee operated on they will often draw around it or point an arrow at the correct side, so the doctor doesn't accidentally take the left instead of the right or vice versa.

09-08-2020 12:32am

Deleted User wrote: »

. That's why if you're having a kidney removed or a knee operated on they will often draw around it or point an arrow at the correct side, so the doctor doesn't accidentally take the left instead of the right or vice versa.

Happened my aunt there a couple of years ago..Not sure what she got done, but they did the wrong side..

09-08-2020 12:36am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Happened my aunt there a couple of years ago..Not sure what she got done, but they did the wrong side..

Yikes!

Errashareesh · 09-08-2020 12:50am

Was staying at a resort in Majorca, and one night walked "home" to another resort (wasn't drunk - my ex was, so figuring out the way home was my job).

I used to work in Dublin's north inner city and lived on the south side. Every evening - without fail - I would head "home" north, up Capel Street.

I'm a reasonably intelligent person but that part of my brain doesn't work.

sugarman wrote: »

I've always strangely had a great sense of direction, even if I land into a new destination I've never visited or done any prior research on I'll have it sussed in a few hours unaided.

I've always wondered where it comes from.

I've traveled in large groups over the years and seen first hand just how bad some people really are with it. Like not being able to find there way back to hotels and heading miles in the opposite direction and such.

Sure I know people who have gotten lost in their own City. People from Dublin getting lost IN Dublin.

Is it something we subconsciously learn over time? Why are some people good at it and other bad?

My brother reckons terrible sense of direction (i.e. mine) is just laziness, and reliance on others to learn the directions. That you should always be mapping things in your mind when in a new place. His words have made an impression on me all right, as my sense of direction has improved since he said that.

Degag · 09-08-2020 12:57am

Errashareesh wrote: »

My brother reckons terrible sense of direction (i.e. mine) is just laziness, and reliance on others to learn the directions. That you should always be mapping things in your mind when in a new place. His words have made an impression on me all right, as my sense of direction has improved since he said that.

Wouldn't necessarily agree. I think its a skill of sorts. Like, i am very good with figures. But some friends of mine would struggle adding 2+2 (not really but you know what i mean) but would have no problem directing you to some random rural place in west cork with exactness

Lewis_Benson · 09-08-2020 1:59am

Degag wrote: »

Anyone else an absolute moron with directions?

I mean for example, if I hear on the news that something happened in the West, I need to go "Never Eat Shredded Wheat" in my head to figure out where the West was.

Same with left and right. Need to think in my head what hand i write with before determining the actual direction:rolleyes:

No...

Degag · 09-08-2020 2:08am

Lewis_Benson wrote: »

No...

Or maybe you mean Yes? Maybe you have an issue with affirmedness (made up word i reckon).

PTH2009 · 09-08-2020 2:12am

I'm too brave to ask for directions and just walk every direction I think till i find where I was looking for

Asking a stranger for directions seems more of a generational thing, where abouts the younger generation would be more embarrassed by it than older folk

What I hate though is if someone asks you for directions and you don't know, they give u a dirty look, well piss off you ****ing cow

alchemist33 · 09-08-2020 10:22am

touts wrote: »

I used to have a reasonable sense of direction.

But it's gone to hell since I got Google maps.

I have a good sense, but use my TomTom or Google for long drives. I actually miss the challenge of plotting a route on a map

Mad_maxx · 09-08-2020 10:28am

Used to be clueless with directions when younger , pretty good now

Ted_YNWA · 09-08-2020 12:13pm

Degag wrote:

but would have no problem directing you to some random rural place in west cork with exactness

The standard rural directions:

Take the first left, keep going for 2 miles and next right.

Go easy going over Brady's Bridge, and take it handy at Murphys Bad Bend. Jacksie turned the Passat over there last week bringing Bridie to Mass.

If you go by Doyle's sheds, you have gone too far.

gogo · 09-08-2020 12:16pm

Common trait with dyslexia... my son is dyslexic, has no clue of left and right and is also ambidextrous... something to do with which side of his brain is dominant, I remember they made him do lots of tests of looking through a hole in a piece of paper with each eye, and confirming one side of his brain was more dominant than the other? Something like that?

Saying that I’m also useless with it, but not dyslexic... I use the Wales/England for west/East

Allinall · 09-08-2020 12:38pm

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

The standard rural directions:

Take the first left, keep going for 2 miles and next right.

Go easy going over Brady's Bridge, and take it handy at Murphys Bad Bend. Jacksie turned the Passat over there last week bringing Bridie to Mass.

If you go by Doyle's sheds, you have gone too far.

Was in England a few years ago ( quite a few as no sat navs), and asked directions for a particular road.

“Keep going straight and it’s the third last turn on the right”

Lewis_Benson · 09-08-2020 3:41pm

Degag wrote: »

Or maybe you mean Yes? Maybe you have an issue with affirmedness (made up word i reckon).

No.

cnoc · 23-06-2021 3:29pm

My wife got an appointment for 2nd Vaccine at LK Racecourse.
Could someone please let me know what number exit do I take to get there?

Bob Harris · 23-06-2021 3:34pm

Anyone had experience of sat navs telling you do drive east or west? How in the lords name are you to know which way you're facing?

Gregor Samsa · 23-06-2021 3:34pm

cnoc wrote: »

My wife got an appointment for 2nd Vaccine at LK Racecourse.
Could someone please let me know what number exit do I take to get there?

Limerick? Exit 9 off the M50.

cnoc · 23-06-2021 3:38pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Limerick? Exit 9 off the M50.

Thanks a million Appreciated.

cnoc · 23-06-2021 3:41pm

Bob Harris wrote: »

Anyone had experience of sat navs telling you do drive east or west? How in the lords name are you to know which way you're facing?

Sat Nav.....................

cnoc · 23-06-2021 3:43pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Limerick? Exit 9 off the M50.

Sorry I meant the LK Tunnel coming from Co Clare.

Church on Tuesday · 23-06-2021 3:44pm

Thank God for eircode, the joys of when I was younger at home trying get stuff delivered to the house that wasn't An Post or just a takeaway from the nearby town was a complete and total nightmare.

Always had the driver ringing looking for directions, you'd give the best directions you could for a place in the middle of nowhere but it was 50/50 if he would get there at all.

Gregor Samsa · 23-06-2021 3:48pm

cnoc wrote: »

Sorry I meant the LK Tunnel coming from Co Clare.

Ah.

After you go though the tunnel, take Exit 1 off the M7 onto the M20 (Signposted Cork). Then Exit 4 off the M20 (signposted Patrickswell). Take a left onto the L1407 (signposted Limerick Racecourse) at the top of the exit ramp. Racecourse is about 1km down the L1407 on your left.

cnoc · 23-06-2021 3:58pm

Thanks again.

iamstop · 23-06-2021 3:59pm

Pretty decent with directions in general.
I know some people who are useless even with a map.
Usually if I've seen a map, say at a park or on a trail I'm pretty good at remembering the lay of the land and able to find my way to where I want to go without needing to check a load of times.
Since I lived in Chicago for a few years in my 20s I've had a pretty good sense of North, South, East and West. Prob due to the grid system there but I carried it with me since then. I believe it can be learned pretty easy with a smidge of effort and practice.

pavb2 · 23-06-2021 4:05pm

That What 3 word app is fascinating and so simple I wonder if eventually it will replace eircodes/post codes

What3words uses a grid of the world made up of fifty-seven trillion squares of 3 metres by 3 metres. Each square has been given an address composed of three words.

https://what3words.com/pretty.needed.chill

Gregor Samsa · 23-06-2021 4:06pm

Went to the Glastonbury festival a good few years ago with friends. When we got to the entrance, we were given a map. I looked at it for a few seconds, and that was it. I knew where all the stages were, where the camping areas were, the Stone Circle, the food areas, and off we went. I can still picture the layout of the whole place in my mind.

Even after 3 days of walking around the site, my mates hadn't a clue where they were or how to get anywhere.

So I'm pretty good with directions and orientation. But I can't remember names at all, no matter how hard I try, which is actually something that really annoys me about myself.

Capt'n Midnight · 23-06-2021 6:14pm

pavb2 wrote: »

That What 3 word app is fascinating and so simple I wonder if eventually it will replace eircodes/post codes

What3words uses a grid of the world made up of fifty-seven trillion squares of 3 metres by 3 metres. Each square has been given an address composed of three words.

https://what3words.com/pretty.needed.chill

Proprietary and business have to pay to use it. https://what3words.com/select-plan

Almost anyone who needs to use it has a smartphone that can transmit a GPS location.

Greyfox · 23-06-2021 7:06pm

Im useless with directions too. Usually i give it a go and as soon as their gone i realise i fecked up and remember the correct directions

Hint of Sarcasm · 23-06-2021 7:45pm

I hate when people try to cover up that they have a bad sense of direction.

"I'll meet you on the north side of the river, okay?". They're rarely able to ask which side is that, as they don't want to admit they don't know. It ends up making things more complicated.

Feisar · 23-06-2021 7:53pm

Hint of Sarcasm wrote: »

I hate when people try to cover up that they have a bad sense of direction.

"I'll meet you on the north side of the river, okay?". They're rarely able to ask which side is that, as they don't want to admit they don't know. It ends up making things more complicated.

Sat nav telling me to “head East” is a pain in the hole. I need it to tell me left/right as I come out of a random car park. I don’t know my compass points nine times out of ten unless it’s somewhere obvious. Out and about in the countryside I’m pretty good as you came make yer own trail and use large geographical features as a guide.

Oink · 23-06-2021 8:06pm

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Thank God for eircode, the joys of when I was younger at home trying get stuff delivered to the house that wasn't An Post or just a takeaway from the nearby town was a complete and total nightmare.

Always had the driver ringing looking for directions, you'd give the best directions you could for a place in the middle of nowhere but it was 50/50 if he would get there at all.

What does the eircode have to do with directions? The way it works with me is I give them the eircode, then they ask me for directions, then they go to my neighbour’s house who sends them to me. That’s how’s the eircode works.

When it comes to mail, I give them my eircode, then they don’t use it and the postman delivers the letter anyway.

SpitfireIV · 23-06-2021 10:06pm

Ever pretend you were just a visitor or not a local in the town that you spent all your life in just because someone stopped you and asked directions to somewhere that in your mind you know but couldn't explain how to get there?!!!

Yeah?

Me too...

Gregor Samsa · 24-06-2021 12:51am

When I was about 10, an English man stopped me on Collins Avenue in Dublin and asked me how to get to the city centre. So I said “you just go down to the traffic lights, turn right and keep going straight, following the road”. He asked me was it far, and I said only a few minutes.

It was only when I saw him walking off with his two young children (younger than me) that I realised he didn’t have the car I just assumed an adult would have, and that I had given him very rough and incomplete directions to walk 3 miles to the city centre with two kids.

PARlance · 24-06-2021 1:10am

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

When I was about 10, an English man stopped me on Collins Avenue in Dublin and asked me how to get to the city centre. So I said “you just go down to the traffic lights, turn right and keep going straight, following the road”. He asked me was it far, and I said only a few minutes.

It was only when I saw him walking off with his two young children (younger than me) that I realised he didn’t have the car I just assumed an adult would have, and that I had given him very rough and incomplete directions to walk 3 miles to the city centre with two kids.

My and my friend were stopped at a similar age by someone looking for directions to the nearest town... It's a straight road in to town... well, it's a road with quite a few twists and turns... but if you stay on it, you are straight into town.

My friend proceeded to instruct him to "take a left/right" at every twist and bend in the road. I thought he was taking the p1ss at the start but he was deadly serious.

Atlantic Dawn · 24-06-2021 1:23am

Before I will ask a person for directions I will resort to the very basics I will have on me...
Sat nav
Google Maps
AA Road Map from circa 2010
Sun setting in the west, rising in the east
River direction flowing in to sea
North Star

With these 6 you should generally never become lost.

SpitfireIV · 24-06-2021 9:40am

A few years back in Kilkenny 'city' a woman stopped me in a bit of a fluster, she had trouble finding a parking spot, was due at a funeral and was running late. She asked for directions to the church, I happily obliged and we both went on our way.

It wasnt until a little while later that I realised I had sent her to the wrong church!!

I just hope in my mind that she's convinced herself she told me the wrong church name as opposed to me being a dummy!! :P

Vita nova · 24-06-2021 9:51am

In the days before Satnav, a little dashboard compass was a common accessory for the directionally challenged.

Gregor Samsa · 24-06-2021 10:39am

Walking down Nassau Street one day about 25 years ago. Heard this voice behind me shouting, but didn't pay much attention. Then it got louder. "Mick! Hey Mick!", in an English accent. My name's not Mick, so I ignored it. Next thing I felt a hand on my shoulder pulling hard, so I turned around to find this little fat English guy with a face like a stung arse going "Hey Mick, I was calling you! Where is Trinity College?"

I was a bit taken aback. Mick? Fúck that. If he had just looked to his right, he would have seen the entrance into the Douglas Hide Gallery. But for his insolence I sent the cnut off up to Baggot Street.

Capt'n Midnight · 24-06-2021 11:54am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Before I will ask a person for directions I will resort to the very basics I will have on me...
Sat nav
Google Maps
AA Road Map from circa 2010
Sun setting in the west, rising in the east
River direction flowing in to sea
North Star

With these 6 you should generally never become lost.

Moss growing on a tree depends on too many things, I'd nearly trust which way an exposed tree was leaning.

Solar panels, Satellite dishes and TV aerials are good for direction too.

Gregor Samsa · 24-06-2021 12:08pm

I look out for the direction Humpbacked Whales are travelling. If i'm in the northern hemisphere, they'll be swimming north in Autumn, south in Spring. Vise versa in the Southern hemisphere.

How do I know what hemisphere I'm in? The constellations in the night sky. The antipodean ones are all weird stuff like "the teapot" and "the triangle", whereas the proper ones up here are all cool Greek stuff.

How do I know when it's night? Simple, I look out for owls.

How do I know which way the sky is? I fall forward. When my face hits the ground, I know the sky is in the opposite direction.

You just need to be in tune with nature and your surroundings to know these things.

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