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🗓️ 11 March 2021
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0:00.0 | Yes, I'm a member of the Dole Men's Club. |
0:04.3 | Let me make sure I'm understanding you correctly. It's called the Dole Men's Club. Yes, Dole as in boring. |
0:09.5 | Yeah, Dole is the new black. It's sexy being Dole. |
0:13.5 | We mean like Dole Men. They know we're not going to run off with Lady Gaga or something. |
0:17.7 | Yeah, understood. We're very reliable. Exactly. |
0:22.8 | That is Kevin Beresford. In addition to the Dole Men's Club, he belongs to another group that might sound Dole. |
0:29.6 | I'm the president of the UK Roundabout Appreciation Society, also known as Lord of the Rings. That's my official title. |
0:38.0 | A roundabout, if you don't know, is a small circular traffic intersection, typically with one lane. |
0:44.0 | There is no traffic light or stop sign, more likely a yield sign at each entry in exit. |
0:50.2 | The traffic therefore flows continuously, if slowly, around a center island. |
0:56.3 | A roundabout is not the same as a rotary, which is also known as a traffic circle. |
1:01.3 | Rotaries tend to be substantially larger than roundabouts with higher speeds. |
1:06.3 | Roundabouts are much more common in the UK than in the US, and you could think of them as a kinder, |
1:12.4 | gentler version of the rotary. So that's nice. But still, a roundabout appreciation society. |
1:19.5 | All this came about in the year 2003. I ran a small printer in the town of Reditch in Worcestershire, England. |
1:27.8 | Reditch is in the West Midlands near Birmingham. |
1:31.3 | We did have a lot going for us in that town. We had three prisons, but no cinema. |
1:36.4 | We did have a 24-hour test go, but that was about our limit. |
1:40.8 | What we did have was a copious amount of roundabouts. |
1:44.8 | So just for the gigal, I'll be honest there, just for the gigal, we ran off a roundabout |
1:49.8 | calendar to give to our customers. And I couldn't believe the feedback I got. |
1:54.2 | It sold all round the world. |
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