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Hung parliament with Muslim nationalist Humza Yousaf pulling Keith's strings.
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I'm going to stay at my parents over easter since I'll be having my birthday then too as a week holiday and to get to norwich and back its going to cost £140 with the cheapest tickets and this is travelling on a thursday before easter and friday after. So not even a bank holiday journey
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Mar 21, 2023 10:16
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i was trying to get by train to a funeral near stafford by train from the continent, and for the london to stafford portion for some reason they weren't selling advance singles or off peak, more than 10 days in advance, a regular anytime single was £225 for a 1hr20 min journey this is the same as petrol for driving the whole entire thousand mile round trip & the chunnel costs or alternatively 10x the max train fare of €29,40 in the netherlands for a ~5 hour journey i hate england
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Mar 21, 2023 11:18
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Mr SuperAwesome posted:
Same OP
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Inglan is a bitch
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Mar 21, 2023 11:29
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Mr SuperAwesome posted:i was trying to get by train to a funeral near stafford by train from the continent, and for the london to stafford portion for some reason they weren't selling advance singles or off peak, more than 10 days in advance, a regular anytime single was £225 for a 1hr20 min journey You got intensely ripped off there (it's a journey I make semi-regularly), advance tickets are pretty easy to get and are about £25 but the most expensive peak ticket is £117 and if you take the stopping service at peak it's £70. Walk on off-peak is about £50 e: missed the "from the continent" bit, not sure how you would have booked a ticket but you could have got a pass to get you unlimited travel on most trains in the country for several days for less than that Betjeman has issued a correction as of 11:48 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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Mar 21, 2023 11:32
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Betjeman posted:You got intensely ripped off there (it's a journey I make semi-regularly, advance tickets are pretty easy to get and are about £25 but the most expensive peak ticket is £117 and if you take the stopping service at peak it's £70. Walk on off-peak is about £50 i said "gently caress it ill drive instead" lol but yeah also very cool that you need to be In The Know to buy train tickets
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Mar 21, 2023 11:47
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Maybe from the continent, though I imagine I would have similar issues trying to book a ticket in advance in a foreign country. When I travel abroad I tend to just turn up at the train station and wave my hands around until there's a ticket in it (pretty much the same as I do here).
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Mar 21, 2023 11:52
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i just went to nationalrail.co.uk and typed in euston and stafford and didn't bother going to a TOC website since i assumed (incorrectly lol) that nationalrail would show advance/off peak/cheaper anytime singles if they were available because, well it usually does/did, you only needed to go to a TOC to actually buy the tickets sadly i am english and i know the many stupid ways to buy tickets in england, but apparently not well enough
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Mar 21, 2023 11:55
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I was on holiday to Norway a few years back up in the stupid empty North of the country, realising that I'd been dumb and booked the wrong return dates for the train I was able to simply cancel and reschedule it for an earlier date with no hassle no additional cost and a full refund for the cancelled tickets (which I think were about £150 for the pair on a 5 hour train journey). Can't imagine that situation ever arising in the UK without me ending up paying double for already overpriced tickets and sitting on the floor in a cramped and smelly avanti West Coast train. This train even had a diner car with seating and one car that was a dedicated soft play and ball pool where you could just abandon your kids.
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Mar 21, 2023 12:51
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The only country I've been to with shittier infrastructure than the UK is Bosnia, and in their defence had just been through a civil war and genocide not long before that.
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Mar 21, 2023 12:56
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Lol https://twitter.com/Jefflez/status/1638131359167160320?t=yZz5VSum73_2Tvqgh1lJ4g&s=19
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Mar 21, 2023 13:18
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Genuinely impressed she avoided wrenching Woody Allen apologisim into that tweet
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Mar 21, 2023 14:15
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Lol at voters of the only party that djdnt vote for the war https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1638199002150715394?t=NGuxmXX7KNXNbOXYptAnkA&s=19
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Mar 21, 2023 16:38
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Jose posted:Lol at voters of the only party that djdnt vote for the war I assume this is already being used to paint people who think Blair is a war criminal as secret Tories
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Mar 21, 2023 18:41
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Jose posted:Lol at voters of the only party that djdnt vote for the war 2019 lib Dem voters aka the statistically insignificant sample
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Mar 21, 2023 19:00
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Can't think why all the people who work in London are unwilling to come after the big racist gang of rapists with clubs and guns
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Mar 22, 2023 14:45
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https://twitter.com/The_TUC/status/1638513698187689984?s=20
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thank you comrade reaper
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Mar 22, 2023 15:01
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how could this happen in my neoliberalism
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Mar 22, 2023 15:16
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Boris currently lying his rear end off to the privileges committee. Got him this time!
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Mar 22, 2023 15:17
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Alan_Shore posted:Boris currently lying his rear end off to the privileges committee. Got him this time! *Retains his seat at the next election and is rewarded with a lifetime peerage* ah well nevertheless
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Mar 22, 2023 15:25
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I do enjoy the media trying to push bojo as our trump where he's a uniquely dishonest politician and ruined everything, except he was only in for like a year and did gently caress all except catch covid and try to get some new curtains
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Mar 23, 2023 13:51
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cincinnati cincinnati !!
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Mar 23, 2023 13:56
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Kieth has decided to praise thatcher in the speech he's giving today lol
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Mar 23, 2023 14:02
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Lol https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1638893959320567808?t=foIuUNlI_p5IBIP_lfgDrA&s=19
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Mar 23, 2023 14:37
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Jose posted:Lol lol
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Mar 23, 2023 14:42
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Private Eye has always been stuffed full of terrible opinion pieces but having a Luke Akehurst chatbot write the literature reviews seems a bit much even for them. This poo poo is like a dog trying to understand Capital vol 1 https://imgur.com/IpkO56W
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Mar 23, 2023 15:13
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Jose posted:Lol What a shocking turn of events!
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Communist Thoughts posted:I do enjoy the media trying to push bojo as our trump where he's a uniquely dishonest politician and ruined everything, except he was only in for like a year and did gently caress all except catch covid and try to get some new curtains I'd argue that Boris' brand of cultural populism was a lot more effective and far-reaching than Donald's
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Mar 23, 2023 15:20
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Starmer has more skeletons in his closet than most MPs which is saying something. His career really shoulda excluded him from being labour leader, it's like the most authoritarian and anti-person career you could have
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Mar 23, 2023 15:21
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Starmer is labour leader partly *because* he has about ten career kill switches incorporated into his weird puffy body ready for use
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Mar 23, 2023 15:23
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Betjeman posted:I'd argue that Boris' brand of cultural populism was a lot more effective and far-reaching than Donald's He's just been riding the same wave of right wing garbage that's been around since before I was born, I don't think he's personally been very influential on the policital landscape because his opinions are dime a dozen mainstream
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Mar 23, 2023 15:23
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Shogi posted:Private Eye has always been stuffed full of terrible opinion pieces but having a Luke Akehurst chatbot write the literature reviews seems a bit much even for them. This poo poo is like a dog trying to understand Capital vol 1 i dunno about private eye anymore, i used to really like it but as i’ve grown up i’ve realised that the politics and foreign correspondent stuff is dodgy as heck. also i think there’s an anti trans cartoon every issue now? trouble is they do pretty good investigative journalism and their specialty correspondents seem very knowledgeable about their remits the book review is section is loving dire for years anyway, the tv review guy at least tries to be funny in short, throw the first 3 pages out and it’s an ok read
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Mar 23, 2023 15:40
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Jel Shaker posted:i dunno about private eye anymore, i used to really like it but as i’ve grown up i’ve realised that the politics and foreign correspondent stuff is dodgy as heck. also i think there’s an anti trans cartoon every issue now? You have to take some of it with a pinch of salt. I used to take it at face value but then they had a bit on my then boss in Doing the Rounds that was complete bollox. (This was over 25 years ago). The book reviews bit is a bit annoying except where they highlight all the mutual backscratching that goes on.
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Mar 23, 2023 16:03
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Jel Shaker posted:i dunno about private eye anymore, i used to really like it but as i’ve grown up i’ve realised that the politics and foreign correspondent stuff is dodgy as heck. also i think there’s an anti trans cartoon every issue now? They're still fundamentally establishment as gently caress, they're not Good Guys Much like the FT they're only interested in the system working less worse (so that the broader status quo can be maintained and the rich can keep getting richer)
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Mar 23, 2023 16:07
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https://twitter.com/hoffman_noa/status/1638857991658291200?s=12&t=t5tiuHEdU31jr3-QGztGWg tough on weed crime, tough on the causes of weed crime (the causes are left as an exercise to the reader)
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Mar 23, 2023 16:25
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Reefer Madness seems too modern for Starmer, I expect him to bang on about more Victorian moral panics like the evils of cheap Gin.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Reefer Madness seems too modern for Starmer, I expect him to bang on about more Victorian moral panics like the evils of cheap Gin. At this point would it even be surprising if next year those gin dispensing cats were back, but now in an app form that's worse?
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