Today's discussion about the news
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And a lot of Labour voters.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
Back around 2001 I was travelling between Preston and London quite a bit. If you booked late, the only available seats would be in the smoking carriage, most smokers seemed to prefer a seat in non smoking so they didn't have to sit in the haze of smoke they had created, not pleasant.
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Random anecdote. It used to be illegal to smoke outside in Turkmenistan, but it was legal inside. Furthermore, shared taxis were very cheap as petrol was effectively free. This meant that people would flag down taxis to smoke.
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In other news, online orders of boiled sweets made in New Zealand have "spiked"...
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Old peoples homes smell of cigarettes, urine and labour voters?
Some pubs that used to smell of cigarettes started to smell of wee and drains after the smoking ban. Had to improve their cleanliness after that.
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Studies of voting demographics would tend to suggest that Tory voters are rather more likely to smell of urine. (And talcum powder etc)
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Smelling of Labour voters would be even worse than ciggies or urine.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
i read that "raw dogging flights" is a new trend, sounds nasty, what it actually means is taking a flight and not using inflight entertainment, or own music etc., though it seems the moving map is allowed
i.e. it's like longhaul flying was before ife, but for the snowflakes of social media that's a challenge
found a couple of links, there's plenty more out there if you really want to read about these sadfucks
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If you also don't read a book, it's not like flying before screens. It's like meditation.
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I thought raw dogging fights was more about jumping the queue to the best parking spot at a local beauty spot?
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Sleep. The best way to travel. 😉
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 -
If you can, you lucky, lucky bastard.
OTOH, being 99% incapable of sleeping in transit does make night-time driving less worrisome.
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Never managed it on a plane - as well as the lack of space I think I have a fear of farting out loud if I doze off. Would love to fly business or first class but would only do that if I could guarantee being able to do it on all future flights as I suspect they would feel like hell after experiencing the luxury.
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me: another fourteen hour flight, i'll have the usual
medic: certainly sir, 10 or 20mg?
me: 10, just in case something happens
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Must confess I can see why a criminal would find it funny, but however much a law abiding citizen can say "I told you so" I'd think that's quite depressing reading.
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Is that 'inspection' done in a similar fashion by a similar bunch of (insert term of choice here) that 'inspect' schools? And induce head teacher suicide? The column headings seem familiar...
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You may be able to control the numbers coming in by legal channels, that's simply a political decision, but preventing people getting in by the back door is not easy. It would certainly be costly, and even with the massive advantage this country has by being an island it will never be 100% effective.
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Agree it will never be 100% effective, but it can be and needs to be more effective. On both fronts - legal and illegal.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Seriously, does any one have a shred of empathy with train drivers at this point?
I pretty much don't give a shit any more and hope they all get automated.
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Just yet more evidence that the government shouldn't be running the railways. If you have a monopolistic employer you will inevitably end up with a similarly inflexible employee union to counterbalance that. Let individual operators set their own pay and conditions and they can compete for staff like normal businesses.
Separately, you need a far more enclosed route like the LU or DLR for automation to be viable.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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They would still be heavily unionised and I'm still not convinced that vital national infrastructure (which includes that actual services) is safe in the hands of the private sector.
I just want train drivers to fuck off. Is that too much to ask?
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Well you'd have to say cars are well on there way to being fully automated if desired. A train on a track, on a track! I mean jeez.
Yep, bring it on.
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I mean, I can't think the one who cannot be named's company would be able to adapt software/hardware to a train pretty quick.
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I genuinely don't understand why you'd give up your pay for that dispute.
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Going on strike for being asked favours and being contacted remotely. Basically they are paid a multiple of the national average but don't want any of the burden of a high paying job.
One solution is pay them a wage commensurate with train drivers in the rest of the world, and ask them for no favours.
Howany of them would take a 50% wage cut?
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That's the theory that drove the privatisation of the railways. In practice it hasn't delivered what it promised and has introduced more layers of complixity that hinder proper management of the railways.
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