The “ I’ve got something to say, but it doesn’t warrant its own thread “ thread.

[grobyfox1990]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

I’ve been doing more than my fair share, which can only mean that some of you aren’t trying at all. Shut up and drink more. 
 

 

Jersey is very high up, if stripped out of the uk. Who’d have thought putting a load of rich old people on a rock with no other entertainment than getting blasted would result in that  

 

https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2023-04-20/jersey-ranks-among-worst-nations-for-alcohol-consumption

[grobyfox1990]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67808645
 

serves them right for eating French food

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

3 hours ago, leicsmac said:

 

By comparison to practically every other nation of similar land area, population and level of development, public transportation in the UK (except perhaps in Greater London) is an absolute joke.

Absolutely.

Ive been luckily enough to see a few European countries and whether it be by bus, train or tram the whole experience is far cheaper and better organised. 

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

Absolutely.

Ive been luckily enough to see a few European countries and whether it be by bus, train or tram the whole experience is far cheaper and better organised. 

Yep.

 

Same with most of East Asia, too.

[BKLFox]

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

 

By comparison to practically every other nation of similar land area, population and level of development, public transportation in the UK (except perhaps in Greater London) is an absolute joke.

I know you love South Korea and everything about it and often use its land mass, population and development to compare to the UK which is fine to a degree but it’s not like for like in it’s actual working.

It probably is a fantastic place to live and everything runs efficiently but you can’t compare the railway in the same way, for example, the UK’s line infrastructure alone is almost 4 times the size & KOR only has approximately 638 rail stations where as the UK has 2,579 (not including underground’s)

 

Bigger train set means bigger problems, manning it, running & maintaining it, more things to go wrong with it & ultimately funding it.

 

Those that don’t run at all are for a multitude of reasons from signalling or engineering (breakdowns), to weather conditions, to animals / people on the line, resource issues including strike action, all pretty good reasons to cancel I’d guess.

It’s old and in need of a full upgrade of course it does but as it stands 24,000 trains run everyday in the UK with just about 100% arriving within 15mins of its schedule start/finish time.

The time table is pretty good considering, it’s just a bugger when your particular train is cancelled and you have to wait 30 minutes for the next available which it would be (or less) from a major city & not just London.

Not everything can be picked up and simply stated this orange looks roughly like this orange so we’ll use them to compare.

 

(Disclaimer stats from Wiki I don’t work for NR 😊)
 

[leicsmac]

5 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

I know you love South Korea and everything about it and often use its land mass, population and development to compare to the UK which is fine to a degree but it’s not like for like in it’s actual working.

It probably is a fantastic place to live and everything runs efficiently but you can’t compare the railway in the same way, for example, the UK’s line infrastructure alone is almost 4 times the size & KOR only has approximately 638 rail stations where as the UK has 2,579 (not including underground’s)

 

Bigger train set means bigger problems, manning it, running & maintaining it, more things to go wrong with it & ultimately funding it.

 

Those that don’t run at all are for a multitude of reasons from signalling or engineering (breakdowns), to weather conditions, to animals / people on the line, resource issues including strike action, all pretty good reasons to cancel I’d guess.

It’s old and in need of a full upgrade of course it does but as it stands 24,000 trains run everyday in the UK with just about 100% arriving within 15mins of its schedule start/finish time.

The time table is pretty good considering, it’s just a bugger when your particular train is cancelled and you have to wait 30 minutes for the next available which it would be (or less) from a major city & not just London.

Not everything can be picked up and simply stated this orange looks roughly like this orange so we’ll use them to compare.

 

(Disclaimer stats from Wiki I don’t work for NR 😊)
 

...well, apart from the corporate white-collar crime, the way big business is in bed with government over there, and the fact that nine months of the year it's either too hot, cold or smoggy to actually do much outside...

 

...but to be fair, my comparison wasn't just with that one country - it's with a lot of different countries in Western Europe and East Asia. The UK lags behind practically all of them on this particular matter - particularly in terms of customer cost, as opposed to efficient running.

[BKLFox]

2 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

...well, apart from the corporate white-collar crime, the way big business is in bed with government over there, and the fact that nine months of the year it's either too hot, cold or smoggy to actually do much outside...

 

...but to be fair, my comparison wasn't just with that one country - it's with a lot of different countries in Western Europe and East Asia. The UK lags behind practically all of them on this particular matter - particularly in terms of customer cost, as opposed to efficient running.

Agree fully with the cost and it’s part of the reason I don’t work in London as an annual 5 day a week train ticket would cost £4450 although this could be off set by London waiting if your company buys in & in-fact you’d be £2k up on the deal and probably have a higher wage also, if company doesn’t buy in then obviously that’s an expense you could do without.

 

For me it was just the fact of doing that everyday and that work ends up becoming your life and the family’s pushed out due to start/end times in a day.

 

i have used the train twice this week due to meetings and functions and they must have a festive eat out to help out type deal on as 1 25minute journey was only £5 return and the London journey was only £23 return normally £38 ish but yes normal cost is maddening.

 

I think I’m more annoyed of the UK is shit and everything in it is shit approach that often appears on this forum especially when it’s used in a holiday type anecdote; I went to Italy and for the 5 days I was there travelling around the trains, buses or whatever run on time and everyone got a seat etc etc

 

Btw this is a generic outburst not aimed at your specific comment as I know you lived/live in KOR therefore aware of how things run on a daily basis.
Likewise I lived in Germany for a good 6yrs and I don’t put its network miles above the Uk, they had aging trains and delays brought on by similar issues but yes cost wise it’s very cheap in comparison but guess that’s down to government v privatisation 🤷‍♂️ 

[Daggers]

[UniFox21]

8 hours ago, Unabomber said:

I can’t believe train pricing is going up. It’s an absolute shambles we must have the worst rail network in Europe. It’s such a piss take, the pricing is already way too high!

 

8 hours ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

Get people off the roads they say and yet public transport in this country is ridiculously expensive. 

Then you have shit like this, and they wonder why people either avoid paying or don't use them.

 

 

[Parafox]

2 hours ago, Daggers said:

 

As is the case for all emergency services, A&E depts, and many others.

 

I don't understand your point here, sorry.

[whoareyaaa]

trying to work out if this is real ? 

 

 

[Free Falling Foxes]

5 hours ago, Daggers said:

 

3 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

As is the case for all emergency services, A&E depts, and many others.

 

I don't understand your point here, sorry.

I guess the RNLI and organisations like mountain rescue, are unique in-so-far they are largly staffed by volunteers.

I gave the post a thumbs up but would, equally, give all emergency services a massive thanks 24/7, 365 days/year.

 

Edited 23 December 2023 by Free Falling Foxes

[Daggers]

Being a volunteer > being an employee > being someone who bitches about emergency services - especially when where you are volunteering places your life at genuine risk. 

 

I didn’t realise it needed explaining. 

[Nalis]

2 sleeps to go until we get the Boxing Day 1963 results which are always presented as a crazy revelation deep dive into the archives despite being recycled to death every single year

Edited 24 December 2023 by Nalis

[Ian Nacho]

Christmas pudding is vile. I eat it all every year but it's disgusting. 

[The Bear]

10 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

Christmas pudding is vile. I eat it all every year but it's disgusting. 

I had apple crumble with custard instead. 

 

Chrimbo pudding can get in the bin. 

[FoxesDeb]

13 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

Christmas pudding is vile. I eat it all every year but it's disgusting. 

Agree it's horrible, but why eat it if you don't like it?! We're having sticky toffee pudding instead, it's a bit of effort to make, but well worth it 

[Bellend Sebastian]

Who boils parsnips instead of roasting them?

 

My mother in law's latest random tactic to undermine an otherwise very nice Christmas dinner

[Chelmofox]

Feking Sprouts. The one time of the year i eat the bastards and im letting off all sorts of noxious gases. 

[fox_favourite]

2 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Who boils parsnips instead of roasting them?

 

My mother in law's latest random tactic to undermine an otherwise very nice Christmas dinner

Sackable offence

Edited 25 December 2023 by fox_favourite

[The Bear]

17 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

Sackable offence

Yellow card.

 

Red card if they don't go straight in the bin 

[Ian Nacho]

Parsnips are a far worse vegetable than sprouts. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

Latest development is that my mother in law softens up ice cream in the microwave because it's "too hard". It then goes back in the freezer.

 

This cannot be a good thing, can it?

[The Bear]

3 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Latest development is that my mother in law softens up ice cream in the microwave because it's "too hard". It then goes back in the freezer.

 

This cannot be a good thing, can it?

It's fine I've done it plenty of times. As long as you don't microwave it for too long and melt it. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

48 minutes ago, The Bear said:

It's fine I've done it plenty of times. As long as you don't microwave it for too long and melt it. 

Does making it closer to a milkshake in consistency than ice cream count as melting it?