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Welcome to my little page, where I try to justify my slightly twisted mind.
For many years I lived on the south coast of England and worked in the centre of London. Yes I did spend a long time on public transport. (I use the word transport as an ever-loosening term).
I am very fortunate at the moment to be able to travel to work by ferry. I only starting doing this in August 2005 and it really does glide effortlessly down the Thames. The service receives no subsidies from the government and this means its ticket price is more expensive. It is by far the best way to commute to work.
I like beer and wine, I particularly like draft beer, Spinnaker Best being my favourite of all time, but alas the brewery recently close, I still enjoy TEA and London Pride. As for wines, one of my most exciting adventure was a trip to Chinon in France, where I collected a few cases. I would thoroughly recommend the trip, it takes 7 hours from Calais, and was good fun, although I was driving my little red Lotus Elise, it makes driving anywhere fun.
The Elise is a lightweight sports car managing 60 mph in 5.38 seconds, mine averages about 45 miles to the gallon, unfortunately the US government does not allow importing of this car. Obviously, the same government also sees petrol/gas as bad and follows a policy of burning as much of the nasty liquid as possible ;-)
Apart from my dislike of petty laws - I dislike many of the excuses given for things, e.g.
"Trains have been cancelled due to a land slide caused by excess rain"
Equals
"We failed to invest in the shoring up the banks of the railway lines after ripping up all the trees"
Previously we had
"Trains have been delayed due to leaves on the line"
Equals
"We haven't bothered clearing the leaves, don't worry were going rip all the trees out next year"
Courtesy LMScott...
“The wrong kind of snow."
This really means,we have made our essential staff redundant, and now we do not have a clue how to solve the problem.In addition, We have spent the enormous subsidies that we have been given, on more urgent matters.
And also this one
“Passengers keep falling out of trains, because they keep opening the doors and jumping out, when they are drunk."
This really means, our trains are badly maintained, and the doors keep opening at speeds over 70mph because the door frames are weak, and the locks are not secure.
A non-train related one
"Sorry for the smell on the beach, this is caused by rotting seaweed"
Equals
"We tried to charge the local farms for collecting it and they said no"
Hope you found this of interest.
P.S.
If I collect enough of these poor excuses I may make an article.
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