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[Moriath]

Channel tunnel is wayyy better than a plane from heathrow to cdg.

 

[Job]

Depends on the people around you..it is public cattle class and if I get on a late train from Liverpool, its only a matter of time before a mouth breather wants a chat.
I use taxis for safety and if theres a few of you...guess what..its cheaper, because the taxi charges for the journey and the train charges individuals.
Its 20 quid to get home from the city centre in a safe..door to door taxi.
Its exactly the same for four people on a crowded train, with drunk idiots and a 1/2 mile walk at the end.
Its a no brainer...trains are shit.

 

[Ormorof]

For that very specific purpose perhaps

 

[Job]

www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/beckybarnicoat/slightly-crap-things-that-happen-on-all-british-train-jou

 

[Scouse]

Yay! A brexit inspired race to the bottom.

Queue a brexit supporter saying it doesn't matter anyway as it's good enough for the yanks, or somesuch.

 

[Moriath]

Yay! A brexit inspired race to the bottom.

Queue a brexit supporter saying it doesn't matter anyway as it's good enough for the yanks, or somesuch.

Its a cue not a queue? And cue a brexit opposer saying not ruling something out means its automatically gonna happen.

 

[Scouse]

Its a cue not a queue?

It's late and I'm tired

But as for the rest of your overly optimistic sentiment - every time something like this has happened, where you can expect the worst but people have expressed sentiment like yours - from councils using terrorism laws to spy on people's bins, erosions of freedoms of speech, erosions of liberty - every single time some dullard has said "it doesn't mean it will happen" it has.

Every. Single. Time.

So - unlabelled GM food, cows hopped up on steroids, chlorinated chickens all with shockingly low welfare standards.

And when it comes to our shores, and you're proven wrong, you'll just change your tune to "you don't have to buy it" - which a) isn't true for the poor and b) misses the point entirely anyway.



Edit: Yep. It's late and I am tired - didn't you just agree with me? Don't think my eyes are working right

 

[Scouse]

It wasn't planned - unexpectedly come across this story - but it's exactly that sort of sentiment that make people cool with this sort of shit

 

[Scouse]

And for three in a row: WTF?! We live on an island ffs!

 

[TdC]

Depends on the people around you..it is public cattle class and if I get on a late train from Liverpool, its only a matter of time before a mouth breather wants a chat.
I use taxis for safety and if theres a few of you...guess what..its cheaper, because the taxi charges for the journey and the train charges individuals.
Its 20 quid to get home from the city centre in a safe..door to door taxi.
Its exactly the same for four people on a crowded train, with drunk idiots and a 1/2 mile walk at the end.
Its a no brainer...trains are shit.

www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/beckybarnicoat/slightly-crap-things-that-happen-on-all-british-train-jou

what can I say? I looked at the prices quoted in that buzzfeed *spits* link. I can get a 1st class ICE ticket to Berlin from Amsterdam, on a Monday, in rush hour for 139 euros. That's a 6,5 hour journey. I can get the 1st class Thalys to Brussels on the same day and time, a 2 hour journey for 89 euros. your country handles these things poorly I guess. as to taking a taxi because it's evidently unsafe to take public transport home...well I'll leave you to think about why that may be and what it means.

sadly my brother says much the same (he lives in the UK). he visited me here in the NL and it got late. his mrs started one about getting a taxi to their hotel (10 mins up the road) and I said they were better off walking up by the riverside (romance, eh) or cutting through the park (double romance, woo, Im a good brother, me) because it was really pretty at night with the moon out. they looked at me like I was insane. then they explained that going anywhere secluded at night where they lived in the UK was basically begging someone to mug you.

then they told me that the wood burner the restaurant owner had thoughtfully placed in the street near our outside table would never be allowed in the UK because some fuckwit might mess with it, get burned by it and sue the restaurant. because, you know, some fuckwit fucking him-/herself up while trying one on would argue open flames are dangerous rather than their own idiocy and thus their horribly self-inflicted burns would become the restaurateur's fault somehow.

when I told them I've walked alone and often quite drunk through most of the major NL cities, not to mention major German cities and other places in Europe, often late at night, and never for a single moment had cause to be fearful, and capped that off with my favorite story to tell people from England which is travelling in the U-Bahn in Berlin at 23hrs surrounded by drunk Germans all carrying glass half-liter bottles of beer...glass...bottles....with no police in sight and guess what? nothing happened and everyone was having a great time and I got out at where I was going. my bro, who is a wise ass, blamed café culture for Europe generally being more chilled than Britain. café's man. you sit around drinking coffee, or beer. maybe have a conversation. terrible. the worst. clearly breeds socialist liberal scum. I mean, they just want to have fun and generally get on just fine with each other. where's the fun in that?

 

[Scouse]

That's my experience of Europe too.

Sure, some places are shitholes. But there's a lot less shithole-to-the-mile than in Blighty. But then we make better capitalists than you guys - quite happy to argue for our own poverty because business comes first eh?

I mean - look how we hate the French and their 35 hour weeks and laissez-faire attitude to work eh? It doesn't matter that they've got it pretty much better than us in every single way. Them and their attitudes make them the froggy little twats we love to despise

 

[Raven]

You must live in and visit some absolute holes.

 

[Job]

what can I say? I looked at the prices quoted in that buzzfeed *spits* link. I can get a 1st class ICE ticket to Berlin from Amsterdam, on a Monday, in rush hour for 139 euros. That's a 6,5 hour journey. I can get the 1st class Thalys to Brussels on the same day and time, a 2 hour journey for 89 euros. your country handles these things poorly I guess. as to taking a taxi because it's evidently unsafe to take public transport home...well I'll leave you to think about why that may be and what it means.

sadly my brother says much the same (he lives in the UK). he visited me here in the NL and it got late. his mrs started one about getting a taxi to their hotel (10 mins up the road) and I said they were better off walking up by the riverside (romance, eh) or cutting through the park (double romance, woo, Im a good brother, me) because it was really pretty at night with the moon out. they looked at me like I was insane. then they explained that going anywhere secluded at night where they lived in the UK was basically begging someone to mug you.

then they told me that the wood burner the restaurant owner had thoughtfully placed in the street near our outside table would never be allowed in the UK because some fuckwit might mess with it, get burned by it and sue the restaurant. because, you know, some fuckwit fucking him-/herself up while trying one on would argue open flames are dangerous rather than their own idiocy and thus their horribly self-inflicted burns would become the restaurateur's fault somehow.

when I told them I've walked alone and often quite drunk through most of the major NL cities, not to mention major German cities and other places in Europe, often late at night, and never for a single moment had cause to be fearful, and capped that off with my favorite story to tell people from England which is travelling in the U-Bahn in Berlin at 23hrs surrounded by drunk Germans all carrying glass half-liter bottles of beer...glass...bottles....with no police in sight and guess what? nothing happened and everyone was having a great time and I got out at where I was going. my bro, who is a wise ass, blamed café culture for Europe generally being more chilled than Britain. café's man. you sit around drinking coffee, or beer. maybe have a conversation. terrible. the worst. clearly breeds socialist liberal scum. I mean, they just want to have fun and generally get on just fine with each other. where's the fun in that?

I say this on every holiday I go on with the missus, spend all day noticing things that wouldnt last two minutes in the UK.
We have a chav culture that is supported by a complete break down of individual responsibility and respect...a justice system that penalises any attempt by the general public to intervene.
Crime is kept low by fear and locked doors..empty streets.
To visit continental Europe and see a bit of technology or artwork left in the street amazes me..it would be gone or vandalised within hours in any city or town in this country.

 

[Raven]

Again, what sort of shithole do you live in? I don't experience any of that where I live.

Make better life choices or something.

 

[Ormorof]

The discussion is clearly about cities not middle of nowhere villages

 

[Job]

And for three in a row: WTF?! We live on an island ffs!

Theres very good evidence to support not teaching people to swim..because most drowners are good swimmers and non swimmers rarely drown because they stay out of the water.
Swimming unaided outside of a pool is idiotic...so many things can happen...and does to even strong swimmers..who quite often have a macho attitude to how far they can swim.
I have scuba dived most of my life, but I hate swimming.

 

[dysfunction]

I think you have excelled yourself in the drivel department there.

 

[Raven]

The discussion is clearly about cities not middle of nowhere villages

I visit plenty of cities, I have never been afraid of violence or seen much in the way of destruction of public property. People need to live in or visit better places...or stop making things up.

If where people live is as horrible as they claim then why do they chose to remain there? Or, to put it another way, they could stop lying.

 

[dysfunction]

Plenty of street art work in London. None them Ive seen have been vandalized or stolen.

 

[Scouse]

Theres very good evidence to support not teaching people to swim..because most drowners are good swimmers and non swimmers rarely drown because they stay out of the water.
Swimming unaided outside of a pool is idiotic...so many things can happen...and does to even strong swimmers..who quite often have a macho attitude to how far they can swim.
I have scuba dived most of my life, but I hate swimming.

You are literally scared of everything aren't you. Scared absolutely witless.

You poor thing. Missing out on the joys of what humans have been doing since the day the species evolved.

And as @Raven said - you really should stop making things up. Especially when you call what you just made up "evidence".

 

[Job]

Scared of everything..seriously, I've dived with hammerhead sharks off Malta, recovered a 20 ton prop off a ship at 50m in the Clyde, been stung by a jellyfish the size of a car off Tobermory while diving a wreck at 40m..
Well its 30 years of diving..proper diving..not red sea holiday diving.
Just look at the facts..good swimmers drown because they dont realise hiw weak they are compared to the sea.
Swimming bores the ass off me..its just like a water treadmill.

 

[Raven]

I suddenly realise why you like Trump so much, he makes perfect sense to you. I mean, you communicate on the same level. Umbrellas.

 

[Gwadien]

I say this on every holiday I go on with the missus, spend all day noticing things that wouldnt last two minutes in the UK.
We have a chav culture that is supported by a complete break down of individual responsibility and respect...a justice system that penalises any attempt by the general public to intervene.
Crime is kept low by fear and locked doors..empty streets.
To visit continental Europe and see a bit of technology or artwork left in the street amazes me..it would be gone or vandalised within hours in any city or town in this country.

I love people that say 'You know what the problem is with kids today? They have no respect!'

 

[Job]

Tbh..it was the same when I was a kid.
Nice people have always been the frightened majority in this country

 

[Job]

I suddenly realise why you like Trump so much, he makes perfect sense to you. I mean, you communicate on the same level. Umbrellas.

Im typing one finger on my phone..dont have time for pseudo intellectual waffle
Hopefully an app will come out to add it in for me.

 

[Raven]

Im typing one finger on my phone..dont have time for pseudo intellectual waffle
Hopefully an app will come out to add it in for me.

Pseudo intellectual waffle = The English language, in coherent form. Righto.

 

[Raven]

Idle fuckers in the EU taking two weeks off because they are "le tired" business keeps going forward, fuckers, we don't have time for you to put your feet up. Businesses shutting down completely for 2 weeks...

 

[old.user4556]

I think we could all do with working a bit less.

 

[Bodhi]

That's my experience of Europe too.

Sure, some places are shitholes. But there's a lot less shithole-to-the-mile than in Blighty. But then we make better capitalists than you guys - quite happy to argue for our own poverty because business comes first eh?

I mean - look how we hate the French and their 35 hour weeks and laissez-faire attitude to work eh? It doesn't matter that they've got it pretty much better than us in every single way. Them and their attitudes make them the froggy little twats we love to despise

Having lived in France for 18 months, and popping over there for work 4 - 5 times a year I can't say I agree - some bits are better, others are far worse. They have plenty of shitholes over there (most of the cities), and whilst they may have slightly better working conditions than us (the 35 hour thing doesn't work as you would expect, they do just as many hours as anyone else - they just get it off in lieu in August) but it's harder for them to find a job, outside of the cities the Internet is awful, the roads are quieter but only becuase you have to pay to use them, the TGV is good but every time I've taken it it's been delayed and they're just as bad for internet snooping as Mrs May would like us to be. They do have a better Health Service than us in terms of keeping people alive, but then they have a mix of Private and Publicly funded health care, which I doubt you'd get past the UK Population brainwashed into thinking the NHS is the greatest thing ever.

 

[Gwadien]

Having lived in France for 18 months, and popping over there for work 4 - 5 times a year I can't say I agree - some bits are better, others are far worse. They have plenty of shitholes over there (most of the cities), and whilst they may have slightly better working conditions than us (the 35 hour thing doesn't work as you would expect, they do just as many hours as anyone else - they just get it off in lieu in August) but it's harder for them to find a job, outside of the cities the Internet is awful, the roads are quieter but only becuase you have to pay to use them, the TGV is good but every time I've taken it it's been delayed and they're just as bad for internet snooping as Mrs May would like us to be. They do have a better Health Service than us in terms of keeping people alive, but then they have a mix of Private and Publicly funded health care, which I doubt you'd get past the UK Population brainwashed into thinking the NHS is the greatest thing ever.

Yeah, I was going to say - difference between UK cities and continental cities is that continental city centres are more desirable for richer people, whereas in the UK, lots of poorer people live closer to the city = more crime.