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I was gonna get the train and go camping this weekend but it's like £60 for a train ticket or £10 in fuel for driving.
hemale in pain fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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Apr 11, 2024 19:50
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It's free to not do anything.
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Apr 11, 2024 21:10
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shouldn't camp on trains imo. makes it hard for the drinks trolley to get past
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Apr 11, 2024 21:11
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Home from Tenerife lads. Brought you all presents.
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Apr 11, 2024 21:29
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Ronmiel I hope loving love that stuff gimme
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Apr 11, 2024 21:40
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Salisbury Snape posted:Newquay is basically one big building site at the moment, have fun lol The Carland Cross non-existent junction on the A30 in theory was terrible but traffic kept moving so it was fine. We're staying somewhere in the wilderness near Bodmin, so not even Newquay so I'm not sure if that counts or not. Also, I'm drove my mum's car and the normal pressure I would apply on brakes to stop my own car has caused it to emergency stop three times, which isn't ideal. On the other hand, when my mum was driving she decided that trying to overtake in mist and heavy rain at 90mph was fine, fiddling with the aircon when leaving Perranporth beach as traffic was coming towards us in a fairly narrow road was fine and also waving to my brother who was following while going down a twisty single track road was fine. I have never felt as much fear being driven as I have today
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Apr 11, 2024 21:43
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I was hella confused but then i looked it up and the A30 really does run from Staines to Lands End lol
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Apr 11, 2024 22:25
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The A3 runs from the Monument tube station to the Spice Island Inn in Portsmouth and the Portsmouth end looks so non-descript
ShaneMacGowansTeeth fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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Apr 11, 2024 22:51
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Microplastics posted:Ronmiel I hope straw donkey
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Apr 11, 2024 23:02
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NO IT'S GOT TA RHYME
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Apr 11, 2024 23:59
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fridge corn posted:I was hella confused but then i looked it up and the A30 really does run from Staines to Lands End lol hosed me up when I found out that I moved a couple of hundred miles to go from living just off the A6, to living just off the A6.
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Apr 12, 2024 09:24
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Dysgenesis posted:Nice. I'm currently making char siu fried rice (rice currently cooling and drying in the fridge). That sounds lovely. How was it?.. I think I may cook adobo this week now you've mentioned rice.
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Apr 12, 2024 11:14
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CancerCakes posted:hosed me up when I found out that I moved a couple of hundred miles to go from living just off the A6, to living just off the A6. Funny enough I moved from one end of the A12 to the other too and had to double check it.
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Apr 12, 2024 11:17
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A LOVELY LAD posted:Just leaving Aberdeen now i know bozza is there. Currently quite pleasant I took a picture of the Union Square puddle, what a landmark
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Apr 12, 2024 11:25
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Itt goons learning how roads work
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Apr 12, 2024 11:31
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Butterfly Valley posted:Itt goons learning how roads work I have an excuse..I don't drive. I never have. It seems like a huge expense. Especially living in London.
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Apr 12, 2024 11:42
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dinky 1l petrol, ulez exempt, road tax is like £30 a year. parking, speeding, congestion fines etc are just a skill issue box junctions are my nemesis
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Apr 12, 2024 12:15
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I think London is one of the few places where public transport infrastructure isn’t completely terrible.
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Apr 12, 2024 12:15
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Yeah honestly if I lived in London I wouldn't bother with a car. On a similar note, could it please not be 1/4 of the cost to drive me and my missus to London (including parking for multiple days, thanks North Ealing tube station!) than to get the train?
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Apr 12, 2024 12:31
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I live in London and it feels like councils are becoming rabidly anti car. Like not just LTNs which are great, but everything becoming an inscrutable one way system with no directions, new raised crossings and speed bumps that hit like going up a kerb, cameras and fines for everything. I honestly think the meetings go "yeah just punish those fuckers (please don't minute that)", but otoh anyone supporting drivers is inevitably Joseph Gammon Esq. or Lutfur Rahman
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Apr 12, 2024 12:51
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i used to live in a lovely city where everything was within walking distance and i wish i could go back only drawback was the university didnt boot out problem students until after xmas when their second accommodation payment came through, so there was a 1/4 of a year when the town was brimming with cunts
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Apr 12, 2024 12:55
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Only 1/4, unlucky, City grad schemes hire all year round 
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Apr 12, 2024 13:06
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Strategic Tea posted:I live in London and it feels like councils are becoming rabidly anti car. Good. gently caress cars and most drivers too
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Apr 12, 2024 13:15
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I'm planning a severe mental breakdown in my 40s revolving around the prevalence of cars in modern society
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Apr 12, 2024 13:17
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I'm planning a severe mental breakdown in my 40s revolving around the prevalence of cars in modern society it's important to have something to strive for
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Apr 12, 2024 13:17
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It's a shame the 3 hours of good weather for this month are over.
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Apr 12, 2024 13:22
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tomorrow the weather is / was forecast to hit twentington
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Apr 12, 2024 13:28
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Dysgenesis posted:Nice. I'm currently making char siu fried rice (rice currently cooling and drying in the fridge). Both of those things require prep from the day before. 
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Apr 12, 2024 13:46
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mfcrocker posted:Yeah honestly if I lived in London I wouldn't bother with a car. my unfortunate counter to this is be careful what you wish for LNER have started doing a much bigger and aggressive demand led advance booking system which means if you know when you want to travel you can get some real steals if you can be flexible (like Easyjet) but if you leave it until the last minute, or woe betide on the day, you will be paying max price every time fundamentally we have an issue where people want both and you functionally can't design a system that does both cheap inter regional rail can only be made possible by not allowing turn up and go passengers on it, and similarly, making turn up and go cheap (ie aimed at metro, s-bahn type arrangements) means making long distance very expensive in nearly all cases we currently have the worst of both
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Apr 12, 2024 14:07
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Bozza posted:my unfortunate counter to this is be careful what you wish for I'm aware that there's a snowballs chance in hell of it happening, but I'd really rather we just subsidised nationalised rail travel (because lord knows we already slip enough bungs to private rail firms)
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Apr 12, 2024 14:55
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I was in Germany for the 9€ ticket and it was so loving good.
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Apr 12, 2024 15:01
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Nettle Soup posted:I was in Germany for the 9€ ticket and it was so loving good. Yeah, even other privatised systems are better. We took the train from Florence to Rome about 18 months back and it's the nicest train I've ever taken.
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Apr 12, 2024 15:06
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I've got to come down to Bristol in August and it's £105 for a return and I'm loving fuming. Like there's literally no justification for that kind of price lol
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Apr 12, 2024 15:51
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mfcrocker posted:I'm aware that there's a snowballs chance in hell of it happening, but I'd really rather we just subsidised nationalised rail travel (because lord knows we already slip enough bungs to private rail firms) my point is rather that it is simply *not possible* to have cheap intercity travel without severely restricting it to *only* intercity travel which will break most of how the UK network is set up (for example Cross Country trains which are used by commuters between the various short hops) you'd need to totally reform ticketing top to bottom and there would be substantial downsides for a lot of people vs today - classic would be a commuter ticket from somewhere like Reading to London on the fast trains would cease to exist, you would need to book an individual ticket for that leg, or use Crossrail which is designed as a commuter metro
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Apr 12, 2024 16:03
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From where I live now, it's cheaper to get down to City airport, fly to basically any western EU city and spend the night, return flight and back home again than it is to get a return train to my parents place in Devon lol
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Apr 12, 2024 18:14
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legit just checked flights from Liverpool to Bristol but that requires going up to Belfast to change lol. Still kind of tempting as it'll be better than the train change over at Birmingham New Street.
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Apr 12, 2024 18:29
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When I was looking to get my wedding suit made by Suitsupply I looked into going to the Amsterdam one because it was cheaper to fly there then get the train to London.
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Apr 12, 2024 18:45
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Train prices are always a little nuts, especially now when I have an electric car which costs gently caress all and arguably less emissions than a diesel train. Nationalisation of the trains just make sense, or rather a government owned by shares private company. While they are there they can work on my Cardiff to Edinburgh sleeper train idea
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Apr 12, 2024 19:19
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Solefald posted:I've got to come down to Bristol in August and it's £105 for a return and I'm loving fuming. Like there's literally no justification for that kind of price lol For August, you may well be checking too early. Anytime and off-peak tickets go on sale before advance fares. The Man touches on this. Also consider split tickets, they may save you some money for a slightly different (or sometimes not) route. Perhaps having a poke around a closer date on equivalent days will give you an idea if advance fares might save you? That said, I still completely agree the rail prices are are beyond the pale. Starbucks posted:Nationalisation of the trains just make sense, or rather a government owned by shares private company. e: clearly the solution is for the state to run the trains and the operators to compete on selling individual seats aboard those trains Nam Taf fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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Apr 12, 2024 20:13
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Ragnar Gunvald posted:That sounds lovely. How was it?.. I think I may cook adobo this week now you've mentioned rice. It was my best effort yet. Cooked the rice first slightly underdone and put it in the fridge to dry and cool. Marinaded the pork in a recipe I found online. Warmed some star anise and szechuan peppercorns in vegetable oil in the wok. Removed them blasted some scrambled eggs, then cooked the pork (I was left over cooked pork so just warm3d it through) added spring onions, peas and carrots and then finally the cooled rice and then the egg back in. Dressed with toasted sesame oil.
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