Today's discussion about the news
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It feels like they’ve been designed to get as many people as possible from one place to another which is plainly a ridiculous idea for a public transport system. Why does no-one think it unreasonable the Tube doesn’t provide facilities for commuters to work on the move?
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I probably shouldn't laugh at ignorance, so I'm sorry that I did. Perhaps I can pretend that 'Nevina' is actually a satirist.
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A lot of the tube has WiFi I think.
I very rarely go underground but I'm pretty sure I had mobile & data signals on the (quite deep) jubilee line today
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No, I think the main thing it demonstrates is Peter Foster's lack of preparation or flexibility. With a little bit of planning you can always have something offline to be productively getting on with.
On train WiFi is only as good as mobile data coverage and outside cities coverage along railway routes will also be patchy.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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lol you can’t sit with a laptop on those seats. Not enough room. You can have it on your actual lap but you can’t open the screen far enough to be easily visible in that uncomfortable position because it bumps into the seat infront.
If you manage to contort yourself to do so, you can’t really do it for very long. Far too uncomfortable, and it pushes your elbows out quite far to type.
Also sucks if you want to watch anything, as you get terrible neck ache having to peer down at your own crotch to watch it.
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The irony is, no one takes that line if they can avoid it because the carriages are so awful and there are alternatives where you can have a flip out table for your things.
When they change out that train carriage for those everyone grumbles.
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Doubt you’d be working on there though
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I can and do almost every day.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Ffs "not being able to watch TV comfortably" on a train is the most snowflake whinge in the history of self entitled snowflake whinges.
You should be compelled to manage with a C90 Maxwell cassette with illegally recorded top 10's on it, powered by two shitty alkaline batteries the size of your thumb, giving a total play time of 2 hours. The headphones would have wires.
I'm going to have to go outside for a walk to calm down.
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The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
😄 Post of the month. Quoted for posterity.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
A Matsui Walkman? Luxury.
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Washing machines are nice.
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It’s a great defence. My favourite. Things we even worse when I was younger so I will demand that any complaints about things that are still an improvement on that must never be uttered.
Such crab bucket behaviour. On the one hand we all must move out and commute because we must not complain about house prices but we must also never complain that the trains we spend dozens of hours on a week, because they were once worse.
did you know Victorian trains were slow and noisy?
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He's doubling down.
You couldn't even listen to a whole song because of Steve Fucking Wright talking over half of it.
Plus your trousers pockets all got baggy on account of the Walkman weighed as much as Ryanair hand luggage.
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We're definitely into '4 Yorkshiremen' territory, in a very amusing sort of way.
I'm jealous of people who could afford Walkman at such a young age.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Don't forget that you weren't protected from jumping off while it was moving, or from being decapitated.
The back rests were quite uncomfortable as well. And the wood veneer used to be sticky and smell of juicy fruit.
Life was tough back then.
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People used to have to use a mangle to help dry their clothes.
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Carshalton to Farringdon then the Elizabeth line to Liverpool Street. Occasionally Northern line from Morden to Bank. Laptop balanced on top of rucksack on lap is more comfortable. The luggage racks by the doors are also just the right height if there are no seats. If it's just emails you can do that on your phone.
I think the Cambridge to Brighton trains are longer than the Sutton - St Alban's stock. I don't know who decided to spec 3/4 of that stock without fold-down tables and WiFi but it doesn't make that much difference.
I usually have 3 or 4 projects on site so I'm traveling back and forth on a variety of rail, tube and bus networks throughout the week and I can't afford to just sit and look out of the window for all of it.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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In fairness, the train seats were wider and more comfortable, the overhead baggage was designed to take baggage and the slam doors prevented you from being timed out from boarding. So some things were rosier.
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It's a mode of transport - you can't work whilst commuting by car, bike or bus either. For someone who has as many issues with public transport as you do I'm surprised it even registers. Getting from place to place on time, not spending a fortune and having a seat for your journey are surely far more important?
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There were very high rates of mangling injuries. Far more than the number of people who are hung out to dry these days.
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But he is a pain in the neck.
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There was no limit to the number of people who could sit on a bench seat.
Plus, they had that horrid scratchy red velour.
It was unbearable, but we all managed somehow.
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Didn't have Wi-Fi or USB charging points though (and if you wanted a seat you normally had to go in a smoking carriage).
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I remember there used to be smoking at one end of a carriage, because diffusion hadn't been invented yet.
Every public space withing British Rail used to smell of one or both of cigarettes or urine.
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As late as 2007, I went a way for a while and took no devices that needed to be plugged in to power at all. I quite miss that.
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To be fair old people's homes used to smell of cigarettes and urine.
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