Today's discussion about the news
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You'll note these are all closed metro systems, airport monorails and Disneyland. Those have been around for decades. We've not moved forwards on ATO because it's just not worth it.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Yes of course, RMT have leveraged the maximum benefit for their members. That's their job. The solution is not to have a single inflexible employer, not fantasising about ATO.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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This is quite an interrogation for stating a personal preference. I'm well travelled and didn't grow up in London. I feel I am suitably qualified to decide what I prefer having spent a number of years being me.
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I grew up in semi rural Benfleet in Essex, spent a few years in London as a student, then lived near Southend.
Since then lived in increasingly rural places, finally in a hamlet of 5 houses in SE Scotland.
I/We prefer rural life to big city life - could give a list of pros and cons - but really just a personal choice like yours.
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Welcome to cake stop, where unless you're a rural retiree you'll get grief for your decisions in life, ideally somewhere so undesirable the cost of living is not a factor ( merely the ability to find a job)
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Jesus how can this discussion still be going on? London is very nice. The countryside is very nice. It's only new build suburbs that are soul destroying.
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They don't destroy everyone's soul though.
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Only those who moan about their circumstances largely due to their personal choices get grief.
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.1 -
You don't half spout some shite.
How many of the posters on here that live rurally are actually retired?
How many of those posters live in undesirable areas?
From what you have moaned about, it sounds like you live in a pretty undesirable urban area.
You give the impression you don't know anything about quality of life or work life balance. But of course you are always right, and only your opinion counts.
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I am not convinced that your proposal would be the lesser of two evils to be honest. Unless all railways become double track with passing places, there is no real competition. It's been tried already and if we try again we will end up back where we are now. Besides, you can't deunionise an already unionised workforce.
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Clearly competing for passengers is a challenge. Competing for staff would be possible though. The TOCs (when they actually had independence) have a better record of negotiating pay disputes than central government. Refusing to negotiate just hsnds power to the unions and drives employees towards membership.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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New builds do. The motorway noise gets to everyone in the end.
I've heard that Ewell village is nice though. I think that's a suburb.
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Just interested. I will ask no further.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Well if that's your 'winning' argument I can see why the discussion is continuing.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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another dc announcement (among other news)
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/12/uk_datacenters_cni/
also, spot the difference...
tory nimbyism: https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/10/datacenter_plans_blocked/
labour sense: https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/09/uk_datacenter_new_govt_planning/
...this isn't some unspoilt landscape, ex-quarry, then waste dump, complaints included that the dc would be visible from bridges over the m25
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Why? She is happy with her choice and fully aware of the earning/potential.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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I did try and persuade mine that medicine might be a better bet but hey ho - vet med isn't poorly paid in the scheme of things.
[Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]0 -
I had a similar conversation, not to try and dissuade her but to make sure she considered her options properly - in the end she really wanted to do veterinary so stuck with her preference. Fair play.
Agree the money being a doctor is generally better, but medics I know don't seem to be that happy with it these days.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
It's a bit late, but the biggest problem with being a vet is the owners of the animals, and if you only want the pragmatic lot (aka farmers), then you need to live very rurally.
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It's not a problem it's an integral part of the job. Personally, I think the people are the really interesting bit.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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You don't need to live 'very' rurally to deal with large animals. You just need to live in a town with easy access to the livestock farms, so pretty much any market town in the country. (Or is your definition of 'very rurally' anywhere outside of a town or city of 200,000+ inhabitants?)
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The first commercial spacewalk! Now that's proper news.
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You do if you only want to deal with large animals. There's plenty of mixed practices.
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Within a mixed practice there will be vets who only deal with large animals and there will be vets who only deal with small animals, and some who may deal with both.
For large animals, there is no need to live very rurally, you just need to be in a town or smaller city with easy access to the farms you serve. Obviously there is very limited demand for large animal vets if you live in London or central Birmingham. Unlike you (who doesn't like to use a car), large animal vets will drive from their homes to the farms.
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It's the reason one of my relatives farms rather than vets*, but yes it does involve a car.
*Just to offend the pedants like Brian.
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Surprised Brian hasn't started the vet thread yet...
Anyway which will be first, automated trains or fusion. Discuss!
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My daughter is leaning toward what appears to be a compromise in the form of equine vets, in particular those who look largely after racehorses and will tend to fall into the pragmatic category.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Noting that this is second hand, but I understood them to be even worse than the small animal owners! Plus it's even more restrictive on where you get to live. Good luck to her though and I hope I'm wrong.
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