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Nothing confirms the ineptitude of this government like Grant Shapps saying on record he reckons the £500m Beeching fund will be sufficient to re-open 'a dozen' lines when anyone with any industry knowledge can tell you it wouldn't pay for one and a half lines, never mind the other issues like rolling stock, stabling etc arising from reopening those lines.
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It me, the person who wears a ballgown and flowers while harassing sheep in the forest, where sheep live.
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OwlFancier posted:It me, the person who wears a ballgown and flowers while harassing sheep in the forest, where sheep live. ...David Cameron? e I take it back Davey C couldn't pull off a ballgown. Maybe the flowers.
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Jan 29, 2020 10:31
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Guavanaut posted:More importantly, why didn't they make it base 28, to include the sheep's toes? If you've only got one sheep to count i don't think it matters what base you're working in
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Jan 29, 2020 10:35
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Speaking of, Limmy talking about Glinner being a oval office and UBI: I got about 10 mins in and gave up. Was he really hungover or something I couldn't even figure out what point he was trying to make?
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Jan 29, 2020 10:44
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Tesla was right posted:I think that's less representative of reality, and more representative of artists being horny for shepherdess feet.  OwlFancier posted:It me, the person who wears a ballgown and flowers while harassing sheep in the forest, where sheep live. JeremoudCorbynejad posted:If you've only got one sheep to count i don't think it matters what base you're working in It's Turing/von Neumann architecture for sheperdry.
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Guavanaut posted:Does this mean that fine art was lying to me all along? 0,2,2,2. Easy.
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Jan 29, 2020 11:00
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Tesla was right posted:I think that's less representative of reality, and more representative of artists being horny for shepherdess feet. Somewhere, a finger on a monkey's paw curls, and Quentin Tarantino plans his next film.
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Jan 29, 2020 11:08
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I'd like to see Tarantino do a pastoral themed work. Even if that means that half of it is
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Pistol_Pete posted:0,2,2,2. I think you'll find there's a lot more sheep than that in that second picture. You'd make a poo poo shepherd.
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Jan 29, 2020 11:19
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Tesla was right posted:I think that's less representative of reality, and more representative of artists being horny for shepherdess feet. This standard of beauty is unrealistic. It was the milk maids that were beautiful because they all got cowpox instead of small pox.
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Jan 29, 2020 11:22
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kecske posted:hi thread, I'm here to pick some brains. I would hazard buy to let sales. It's been a plague here in Edinburgh. A flat comes up and a cash buyer will be offering 30% over the home valuation report and it'll close in a week. Now it's slightly different in England because you did not want my fabulous Property Information Pack* so there's no public home valuation report to base you prices off so the prices just start out higher out of the gate. *I'm not suggesting England didn't want the PIP's because I did it but rather because ya all backwards down there.
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Jan 29, 2020 11:23
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Bacon Terrorist posted:Nothing confirms the ineptitude of this government like Grant Shapps saying on record he reckons the £500m Beeching fund will be sufficient to re-open 'a dozen' lines when anyone with any industry knowledge can tell you it wouldn't pay for one and a half lines, never mind the other issues like rolling stock, stabling etc arising from reopening those lines. I think I said as much in the thread when that fund was still announced. It really is pure Johnson/Conservatives. The Beeching Cuts are one of those things where there's a sort of national feeling of a wrong being done, or a mistake being made (regardless of the realities or practicalities of the time), especially among the Conservatives' core voters of elderly and rural people. And there's no denying that a proper DfT-level review of which lines could and should be opened would be worthwhile. And actually reviving a lot of the closed lines would be a good thing...except it would have to be part of a multi-tens-of-billions-of-pounds national railway renewal scheme to not only reinstate the branch and regional lines that Beeching closed but to upgrade swathes of the existing network to cope with the new traffic flows and to provide the rolling stock and so on. And that's on top of all the scope for making other much-needed improvements to the rail system we already have. And that's why no major party has put any sort of 'reversing Beeching' policy in their manifesto before - because it's mostly an unachievable pipedream that may be popular with voters in a sense of 'if you directly ask them if they want their local branch railway reinstated they'll say yes' but no one would actually support or give political priority to a real-world policy on the matter. Except now we live in a time when the Tories can just stick a 'large' amount of money (and £500 million is a lot in anyone's books, it's just a pittance in railway rebuilding terms), say they're going to 'undo the Beeching Axe' and all the old folk in Warwickshire who never used the train when they had one but have overwritten their memories of 1960s BR with "Oh, Doctor Beeching!" episodes think it sounds like a great idea and BORIS is the first to suggest it because he's the People's Prime Minister!
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Jan 29, 2020 11:33
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Anyone caught up in the Egyptian revolution will know what that feels like. British Embassy = Chocolate Teapots
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BalloonFish posted:Except now we live in a time when the Tories can just stick a 'large' amount of money (and £500 million is a lot in anyone's books, it's just a pittance in railway rebuilding terms), say they're going to 'undo the Beeching Axe' and all the old folk in Warwickshire who never used the train when they had one but have overwritten their memories of 1960s BR with "Oh, Doctor Beeching!" episodes think it sounds like a great idea and BORIS is the first to suggest it because he's the People's Prime Minister! Reopening the Borders Railway cost £353 Million, and that's a pretty short stretch, 50km in total.
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Jan 29, 2020 11:54
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Aramoro posted:Reopening the Borders Railway cost £353 Million, and that's a pretty short stretch, 50km in total. Did they compulsory purchase the land that had presumably been sold when the line closed? I think some people (who should know better with their Oxbridge PPE degrees) think all you have to do is lay down a few tracks like a giant railway set, chuck up a few signals and divert a few 2-car trains up there. To reopen the 6000 miles of Beeching cuts would require acquisition of approx 100000 hectares - approx quarter million acres - of land (allowing length of rail and average of 100m width to cover rail, embankments, servicing yards, platforms etc) and not sure what land values in rural Wales are but using 1.1 acres of grazing land in Llanelli at £5k as a guide, we're looking at £1.1bn just to get the land before anything else.
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Jan 29, 2020 12:12
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Are you really committed to building a model railway set if you don't do a hundred model eminent domain disputes before you lay down the first track?
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lol at the foreign office saying "want to be safe? ruin your marriage. oh, that's no good? then die bitch"
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Given your average model train enthusiast I think that consists of arguing with their wife over whether they can use the spare room.
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Jan 29, 2020 12:21
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mrpwase posted:Given your average model train enthusiast I think that consists of arguing with their wife over whether they can use the spare room. My parents are an example of this. When they redid one of their homes (yes, wall, I know) my dad managed to wangle getting an entire section of the top floor for his trains. And to be fair it’s a pretty amazing setup combining British scenery, a Eurostar link and a town in Alsace (which even features 5mm high French ladies of the night).
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Bold of you to assume a wife's in the picture. Although I suppose late-onset trainbrain could cause such a scenario.
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mrpwase posted:Given your average model train enthusiast I think that consists of arguing with their wife over whether they can use the spare room. A model-railway enthusiast friend of mine's wife went away for a few days and when she came back, the entire house was full of his model railway. There's a youtube video of it, but it would doxx me to share it.
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Tesla was right posted:horny for shepherdess feet Camrath posted:5mm high French ladies of the night
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Camrath posted:My parents are an example of this. When they redid one of their homes (yes, wall, I know) my dad managed to wangle getting an entire section of the top floor for his trains. Is your dad Rod Stewart? Jaeluni Asjil posted:A model-railway enthusiast friend of mine's wife went away for a few days and when she came back, the entire house was full of his model railway. There's a youtube video of it, but it would doxx me to share it. Is your friend Rod Stewart and/or Camrath's dad? Guavanaut posted:Extremely niche fetishes itt 2day. Is your extremely niche fetish Rod Stewart?
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Tesseraction posted:Now I'm imagining a 5m tall French lady. Zut alors!
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sebzilla posted:Is your dad Rod Stewart? No, though over Christmas he did make me listen to an entire Rod Stewart album for the first time in my life.
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sebzilla posted:Is your extremely niche fetish Rod Stewart?
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Mind you "giantess" is literally a common fetish, at least according to twitter users liking horny tweets that then appear in my timeline.
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Jan 29, 2020 12:35
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Which I then click like on myself.
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Guavanaut posted:Yes, specifically a version of Rod and Emu where Rod Hull is replaced with Rod Stewart and Emu is Orville the Duck. This is my Rod Stewart fetish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgOPgkrXz-c
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Tesseraction posted:Mind you "giantess" is literally a common fetish, at least according to twitter users liking horny tweets that then appear in my timeline. Do you have an account that collates the horny tweets so that I may peruse also?
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Jan 29, 2020 12:42
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Tesseraction posted:Now I'm imagining a 5m tall French lady. Keep your hands where we can see them, thanks.
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Aramoro posted:I would hazard buy to let sales. It's been a plague here in Edinburgh. A flat comes up and a cash buyer will be offering 30% over the home valuation report and it'll close in a week. Now it's slightly different in England because you did not want my fabulous Property Information Pack* so there's no public home valuation report to base you prices off so the prices just start out higher out of the gate. Surely it's more likely to be buy-to-leave, in London? You get more value out of a flat by just leaving it empty and letting its value increase, than you do by letting it out, which comes with the added expenses of wear and tear, appointing agents, etc etc. Or money laundering. Or both. London is full of empty property, also, homeless people.
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Jan 29, 2020 12:54
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As today seems to be Horny Day in the UKMT: https://twitter.com/andyparmo/status/1222069120277065728
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Jan 29, 2020 12:58
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DFT OLR shell company just changed it's name to Northern Trains Ltd according to Companies House.
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Camrath posted:No, though over Christmas he did make me listen to an entire Rod Stewart album for the first time in my life. He's a bit of a joke now, but in fairness some of his early stuff is amazing
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I’m near three grand deep in an overdraft every time it rolls to the week before payday so I can’t wait for the bank to absolutely gently caress me rotten, thanks! Very cool!
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:He's a bit of a joke now, but in fairness some of his early stuff is amazing Yeah, not the sort of stuff I'd listen to personally (literal dadrock), but it certainly wasn't 'bad' for the most part.
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