On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 09:39:26 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 07:37:09 +0100
Martin Edwards wrote:
On 10/23/2015 9:46 PM, Recliner wrote:
No, the 378 seats are really hard, much worse than the 313s. The new
Victoria line 2009 stock also has thin, hard seats.


Like much else that is wrong today, it has its roots in the Thatcher
era. It was assumed that everyone would eventually have cars and the
railways would die out. Today's problems are caused not by malice, but
the unprecedented demand on rail travel, especially to, from and round
London.

Wow, blaming hard seats on a train built only a few years ago on a PM who
left in 1990 would be pushing it even for the most diehard, out of touch
Corbynista. Thats quite an impressive political contortion you managed there.

Thatcher was mainly a response to the **** The Lot of You attitude of the
unions in the 70s who were composed mainly of indolent, greedy, bloody minded
halfwits (see RMT for a modern equivalent). If the Wilson and Callagham
governments of the day had anything resembling a backbone the political
landscape of the 80s might have been rather different so if you want to blame
anyone blame them.

BIG AMEN.

On 10/27/2015 9:18 AM, d wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 07:33:29 +0000
Martin Edwards wrote:
On 10/26/2015 9:39 AM, d wrote:
On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 07:37:09 +0100
Martin Edwards wrote:
On 10/23/2015 9:46 PM, Recliner wrote:
No, the 378 seats are really hard, much worse than the 313s. The new
Victoria line 2009 stock also has thin, hard seats.


Like much else that is wrong today, it has its roots in the Thatcher
era. It was assumed that everyone would eventually have cars and the
railways would die out. Today's problems are caused not by malice, but
the unprecedented demand on rail travel, especially to, from and round
London.

Wow, blaming hard seats on a train built only a few years ago on a PM who
left in 1990 would be pushing it even for the most diehard, out of touch
Corbynista. Thats quite an impressive political contortion you managed there.

Thatcher was mainly a response to the **** The Lot of You attitude of the
unions in the 70s who were composed mainly of indolent, greedy, bloody minded
halfwits (see RMT for a modern equivalent). If the Wilson and Callagham
governments of the day had anything resembling a backbone the political
landscape of the 80s might have been rather different so if you want to blame
anyone blame them.

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Spud


Apart from that, how was your goat hunt?

If you're going to attenmpt sarcasm at least try and be vaguely intelligable
though judging by the nonsense you spouted above I suspect you find that
difficult.

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Spud

It's noisy under the bridge today.

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Myth, after all, is what we believe naturally. History is what we must
painfully learn and struggle to remember. -Albert Goldman

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 07:30:40 +0000
Martin Edwards wrote:
It's noisy under the bridge today.

Oh look - Idiots Guide to Debating, skill #1: If you don't agree with someones
opinion but you can't think of a half decent counter argument then simply
accuse them of trolling which removes the need for you to debate the point.
What a cliche you are.

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Spud

On 2015\10\28 10:14, d wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 07:30:40 +0000
Martin Edwards wrote:
It's noisy under the bridge today.

Oh look - Idiots Guide to Debating, skill #1: If you don't agree with someones
opinion but you can't think of a half decent counter argument then simply
accuse them of trolling which removes the need for you to debate the point.
What a cliche you are.

You say that as if accidentally wasting everyone's time is more
admirable than deliberately wasting everyone's time.

On 10/28/2015 10:14 AM, d wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 07:30:40 +0000
Martin Edwards wrote:
It's noisy under the bridge today.

Oh look - Idiots Guide to Debating, skill #1: If you don't agree with someones
opinion but you can't think of a half decent counter argument then simply
accuse them of trolling which removes the need for you to debate the point.
What a cliche you are.

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Spud


If you have Windows, you can get the acute accent with Character Map.

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Myth, after all, is what we believe naturally. History is what we must
painfully learn and struggle to remember. -Albert Goldman

On 29/10/15 07:34, Martin Edwards wrote:

If you have Windows, you can get the acute accent with Character Map.
And if you have Linux the spell checker will add it for you.

In article ,
(Martin Edwards) wrote:

On 10/28/2015 10:14 AM, d wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 07:30:40 +0000
Martin Edwards wrote:
It's noisy under the bridge today.

Oh look - Idiots Guide to Debating, skill #1: If you don't agree with
someones opinion but you can't think of a half decent counter argument
then simply accuse them of trolling which removes the need for you to
debate the point.
What a cliche you are.


If you have Windows, you can get the acute accent with Character Map.

Actually, acute accents are easier than that, e.g. é is Ctrl+Alt+e.

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Colin Rosenstiel

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:34:47 +0000
Martin Edwards wrote:
On 10/28/2015 10:14 AM, d wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 07:30:40 +0000
Martin Edwards wrote:
It's noisy under the bridge today.

Oh look - Idiots Guide to Debating, skill #1: If you don't agree with
someones
opinion but you can't think of a half decent counter argument then simply
accuse them of trolling which removes the need for you to debate the point.
What a cliche you are.

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Spud


If you have Windows, you can get the acute accent with Character Map.

Thanks for the heads up. Next time I have the misfortune to have to use
Windows I'll give it a go.

Is that it? You all spent now? Go have a lie down.

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Spud

In message , at 08:12:53 on Thu, 29 Oct
2015, Martin Coffee remarked:

If you have Windows, you can get the acute accent with Character Map.
And if you have Linux the spell checker will add it for you.

It's nowt to do with Windows vs Linux. My Windows client has a
spell-checker that adds the acute on cliché.

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Roland Perry

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:25:17 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:12:53 on Thu, 29 Oct
2015, Martin Coffee remarked:

If you have Windows, you can get the acute accent with Character Map.
And if you have Linux the spell checker will add it for you.

It's nowt to do with Windows vs Linux. My Windows client has a
spell-checker that adds the acute on cliché.

Just a shame your spell checker apparently uses 8 bit ascii which can resolve
to a number of different characters depending on the code page loaded, rather
than doing it properly and using UTF8.

Either way, who gives a **** about accents. This is english, not french.

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Spud