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Fox Under A Train

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:59:14 +0000
Bruce wrote:
Try complaining to LU and see where it gets you.

I bet you have never tried. Not even once. Yet we have to suffer

You'd lose your bet. I did complain many years ago but it got me nowhere.
Also complaining to station managers about the lack of announcements
is a waste of time too.

your ridiculous whinging diatribes on here almost on a daily basis.

Nothing like a nice bit of irony to make the day pass by :)

B2003

Fox Under A Train

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 04:08:02AM -0800, Paul wrote:

How could a fox get on to the sub surface section of the track?

By walking.

--
David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world

The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons

Fox Under A Train

On 19 Jan, 13:22, David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 04:08:02AM -0800, Paul wrote:
How could a fox get on to the sub surface section of the track?

By walking.

Is there still a large, vacant site just over Euston Road where
something was demolished?

More likely it entered the station than walked along the track.

Fox Under A Train

On 19 Jan, 01:43, "DW downunder" noname wrote:
"Bruce" wrote in message

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On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:55:35 +0000 (UTC),
wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:36:57 +0000
Bruce wrote:
They probably make a snap judgment to emigrate having been driven
around the bend by chronic moaners like you!

You are the very definition of a "Whinging Pom". ;-)

Whinging is complaining about stuff you just don't happen to like. Thats
different to complaining about a ****ty service you pay through the nose
for. I doubt many aussies would put up with the same kind of **** train
service we get in this country.

If London is so unattractive to Australians ...

... why are so many of them over here?

To make space for all the Kiwis and boat people who keep flooding into Oz,
of course G.

You'll notice that almost all in GB are Euro-Australians, and for many, GB =
the nation of family origins. So, it's natural to seek out one's roots if
one lives in an environment with so many references to "the Old Country".

For example, I was born in Luton. My late father-in-law came from South
Shields. My late father was a Brummie. My mother from Islington. My wife has
a maternal ancestor from the East End. And so on it goes.

So, Earl's Court was (is) the first stage of an Ozzie's "pilgrimage" to
'honour' their ancestors.

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Wasn't there a fox photographed at Walthamstow Central recently? Even
so I can't see how what one would be doing in the vicinity of Warren
Street tube station.

Fox Under A Train

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:09:19 -0800 (PST)
Paul wrote:
Wasn't there a fox photographed at Walthamstow Central recently? Even
so I can't see how what one would be doing in the vicinity of Warren
Street tube station.

Central london has a population of foxes. I guess they live in gardens and
the parks.

B2003

Fox Under A Train

MIG wrote on 19 January 2010 07:37:29 ...
On 18 Jan, 23:39, "Richard J." wrote:
MIG wrote on 18 January 2010 21:27:23 ...
On 18 Jan, 19:53, "Richard J." wrote:
wrote on 18 January 2010 16:55:35 ...
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:36:57 +0000
Bruce wrote:

They probably make a snap judgment to emigrate having been driven
around the bend by chronic moaners like you!
You are the very definition of a "Whinging Pom". ;-)

Whinging is complaining about stuff you just don't happen to like. Thats
different to complaining about a ****ty service you pay through the nose
for. I doubt many aussies would put up with the same kind of **** train
service we get in this country.

Some comments on the London Tube on a TripAdvisor thread last month:
"The most efficient transport system I've had anything to do with"
"not one delay, not one closure ever.........so I am in awe of the tube !"
- both from Aussies!

That would count for something if there were never any delays or
closures.
In this case, it just makes them an unreliable witness. Best not to
put them on the stand.

Unreliable? Why? It's their opinion based on probably more journeys than
Boltar manages to do, and since he only travels by tube in inclement
weather when both road and rail performance will be worse than average,
it's his evidence that is unreliable.

And, based on it, do you agree that there are never any delays or
closures?

No, of course not. But it's worth remembering that people can spend a
week in London and be impressed by the transport system.

One doesn't have to take Boltar's tone to observe that such things are
frequent.

I look at the service updates right now and see

Circle Suspended
District Severe delays
H'Smith & City Part suspended
Metropolitan Part suspended

I think you'll find that all of those were caused by a single incident
requiring emergency engineering work in the Aldgate area. Personally
I'm impressed by the number of times I see "good service" on all lines,
much more common than it was a couple of years ago, I would think.

I also see that at the weekend, EIGHT lines will have at least partial
closures.

The witness may only commute between Theydon Bois and Epping one
Monday morning per month and never see such things, but the evidence
is unrepresentative.

Yes, the foxes can get out of the way more easily there.

--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

Fox Under A Train

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:09:19 -0800 (PST), Paul
wrote:
Wasn't there a fox photographed at Walthamstow Central recently? Even
so I can't see how what one would be doing in the vicinity of Warren
Street tube station.

At Warren Street?

More likely to be a rabbit. ;-)