Conversation during circuit when I was doing my PPL(A)...
Instructor (angrily): Why did you turn base there?
Me (nervously): Well, X (former instructor) said I should turn when I'm at 45 degrees to the runway.
Instructor (even more angrily): You don't do that here; you turn at the road!
Me: Er...OK..but why?
Instructor: Because the other way doesn't work with 1500 ft circuits. And because that's what we do, and you should know that by now.
I prudently didn't reply, and did it his way (and then changed instructor), but it does work, and works for every airfield I've ever been to. Do some of these guys actually attend an FI course?
