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a 500% ticket price increase year on year for a billion years
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Dec 15, 2015 13:26
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Government subsidy or increased ticket prices. Most trains do run on time, the biggest problem is that we run waaaaay too many trains for the level of infrastructure available in this country.
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Dec 15, 2015 13:46
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Define 'on time' Also I think measuring by numbers of trains on time is fallacious, because no-one cares that a 3-person train in the Welsh valleys is not late. It's the ten minute delay to thousands and thousands of people on e.g. the manchester commute that causes a problem. Hang the government and make train tracks from their bones, imo
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Dec 15, 2015 14:25
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On time is defined as within 5 mins of booked arrival at destination for local services, within 10 minutes for long distance. This is more strict than any other mode of transportations definition of "on time" I believe. E: also this has only really become a thing since privatisation because it's how delay minutes are calculated.
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Dec 15, 2015 14:47
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it's annoying me how many people who keep saying tim peake is the first british astronaut, especially the news who should know better
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Dec 15, 2015 15:42
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Andy Murray, first British winner of Wimbledon for 70 years!
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Dec 15, 2015 16:10
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Trains are occasionally on time. None of the fuckers actually have the capacity required though.
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Dec 15, 2015 16:14
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The problem is nothing to do with trains and everything to do with the number of workers trying to access an obscenely tightly grouped set of businesses in the centre of a city that none of them actually want to live in. It is the basic problem of every major city. Burn it all down, full communism now, hail Satan, etc..
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Dec 15, 2015 16:25
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Squalitude posted:How much will it cost to make the trains run on time We have to give Bozza a snazzy uniform, some jackboots and a nice hat.
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Dec 15, 2015 16:34
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goatface posted:Burn it all down, full communism now, hail Satan, etc.. Yes.
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Dec 15, 2015 16:45
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The problem is that our freaking trains are not long enough, somehow we accepted this utter bullshit excuse about only being able to add on two extra carriages with another engine attached and if there are none spare then there is nothing they can do or whatever the bollocks they spout is. So now the train companies know that instead of having to upgrade trains so that they are at the same standard as somewhere like Germany, Japan or Switzerland, 300 people who all catch the same train will just grumble a bit and still pay £20 a pop to be rammed into two poo poo 1980s carriages instead of telling the conductor to gently caress off I'm not paying for this poor standard of service.
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Dec 15, 2015 17:30
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i too am very annoyed by minor inconveniences
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Dec 15, 2015 17:38
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also lol tokyos train system is even more hosed up and crowded than Londons wtf is your point even
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Dec 15, 2015 17:40
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corn in the fridge posted:also lol tokyos train system is even more hosed up and crowded than Londons wtf is your point even The people who talk about how great the train system in Japan is have never actually tried to use them to get to work during peak commuter hours so they have no idea just how bad the crowding gets or how late / slow trains can be.
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Dec 15, 2015 17:46
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how dare you speak ill of my spiritualhome, glorious nippon
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Dec 15, 2015 17:52
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Bobby Deluxe posted:how dare you speak ill of my spiritualhome, glorious nippon settle down fluo
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Dec 15, 2015 17:54
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the trains are poo poo, the roads are poo poo, cycling is poo poo, walking is poo poo, flying is poo poo... Horseriding wins?
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Dec 15, 2015 17:55
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Horses are dumb and bad Source: am a horse
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Dec 15, 2015 17:57
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there are trains outside of london and theyre garbage
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Dec 15, 2015 17:58
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horses are great, they try and commit suicide randomly throughout the day for no apparent reason, we could all learn a lesson from them
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Dec 15, 2015 18:20
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Pistol_Pete posted:I never order the salad, it just kind of turns up with the rest of the food. I always assume it's intended as an offering to some Hindu bin god and act accordingly. yeah I never order it but its thrown in like with chinese I get prawn crackers thrown in, korean some kimchi but whenever a curry its that soggy goes in the bin salad
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Dec 15, 2015 18:24
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Vitamins posted:for no apparent reason, no your right I would love to carry clarinda and claire around all day with a bit of metal wodged in my mouth and occasional whippings would not want to kill myself at all
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Dec 15, 2015 18:25
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feedmegin posted:We have to give Bozza a snazzy uniform, some jackboots and a nice hat. he'd still look like a fat bellend :/
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Dec 15, 2015 18:30
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simplefish posted:no your right I would love to carry clarinda and claire around all day with a bit of metal wodged in my mouth and occasional whippings plastic bags and cars giving a wide berth and mild wind are not threats! will accept spiders and wet leaves as reasons though cos they're gross
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Dec 15, 2015 18:35
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buteruc posted:I ate an entire Co Op cake. yum!
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Dec 15, 2015 18:37
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corn in the fridge posted:settle down fluo 
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Dec 15, 2015 18:42
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poor freckles, thought of ants and died 
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Dec 15, 2015 18:43
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Horse patrols at night in nightclub districts are the weirdest poo poo, how can a horse be frightened by a car being within a half mile but not phased St being pawed at by 30 drunk scousers with Sean Paul blaring down one ear and Duran Duran down the other
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Dec 15, 2015 18:50
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Fingerless Gloves posted:Horse patrols at night in nightclub districts are the weirdest poo poo, how can a horse be frightened by a car being within a half mile but not phased St being pawed at by 30 drunk scousers with Sean Paul blaring down one ear and Duran Duran down the other in Glasgow they use them a lot to police football matches, and they walk in traffic
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Dec 15, 2015 19:00
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XMNN posted:there are trains outside of london All the government statistics are based on the ones connected to London, other regions get to suck dicks and turn up when they feel like it.
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Dec 15, 2015 19:01
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McDragon posted:poor freckles, thought of ants and died that thread was amazing
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Dec 15, 2015 19:02
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crispix posted:he'd still look like a fat bellend :/ Well, so did Mussolini, so...
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Dec 15, 2015 19:15
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just ordered dominos because i hate myself.
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Dec 15, 2015 19:43
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Fingerless Gloves posted:Horse patrols at night in nightclub districts are the weirdest poo poo, how can a horse be frightened by a car being within a half mile but not phased St being pawed at by 30 drunk scousers with Sean Paul blaring down one ear and Duran Duran down the other and by used to i mean they still do horses that are scared of traffic are the molly coddled middle class ones that should be shot and turned into glue like theyre owners
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Dec 15, 2015 19:50
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trains are bad, horses are bad, bowling is bad (i went bowling tonight)
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Dec 15, 2015 19:55
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some hotels are nice, im in a hotel and can confirm its nice
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Dec 15, 2015 20:13
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Hello I am unemployed atm and now I have to go to the job centre every day for half an hour so they can presumably supervise my internet job searches. Essentially they're taking 1.5-2 hours out of my day to travel there and back which could be better spent looking for jobs Also they've changed the sign on thing to an electronic tablet which never works and you have to do it several times, streamlining nothing  I don't like being benefit scum 
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Dec 15, 2015 20:18
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learnincurve posted:The problem is that our freaking trains are not long enough, somehow we accepted this utter bullshit excuse about only being able to add on two extra carriages with another engine attached and if there are none spare then there is nothing they can do or whatever the bollocks they spout is. So now the train companies know that instead of having to upgrade trains so that they are at the same standard as somewhere like Germany, Japan or Switzerland, 300 people who all catch the same train will just grumble a bit and still pay £20 a pop to be rammed into two poo poo 1980s carriages instead of telling the conductor to gently caress off I'm not paying for this poor standard of service. lol yep, we'll just make the trains longer this will not be an issue at all fucks sake this is like babbys first I don't know what I'm talking about argument
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Dec 15, 2015 20:44
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i like how every train has its resident drunk glaswegian with a plastic bag full of special brew, is that like part of the package when you buy a train?
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Dec 15, 2015 20:46
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bigger and longer. two words that scare people who like trains
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Dec 15, 2015 21:02
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