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Should've used a car...

To stansted? And risk getting trapped on the M11 in massive 4" snow drifts?

I drove down the M11 5 nights a week between 9pm and 1am for over 2
years. Never came across a snowdrift.

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Conor

Hi. This is my friend, Jack ****, and you don't know him.

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Conor Turton wrote:

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That's not bad.
Unfortunately it would cost me and the family £80 return for the fare to
Stansted (4 hour-ish journey) plus the trouble of crossing London.

Should've used a car...

Wrong answer.

Why, because its right?


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Conor

Hi. This is my friend, Jack ****, and you don't know him.

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But you don't have to shell out several thousand for a car, money
for road tax, some for insurance, and more for maintenance of the
car.

You can buy a car with tax and MOT at an auction for £50. You can
insure said car for a day for a tenner.

Where can you get insurance like that?

Pick any broker. My brother does it now and again when he comes to
visit.

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Conor

Hi. This is my friend, Jack ****, and you don't know him.

Conor Turton wrote:

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Conor Turton wrote:

In article , says...

That's not bad.
Unfortunately it would cost me and the family £80 return for the fare to
Stansted (4 hour-ish journey) plus the trouble of crossing London.

Should've used a car...

Wrong answer.

Why, because its right?

Nope. Because even if you ignore the fact that just the journey to Stansted would
be longer that the whole train trip to Belgium, the overall fare is more
expensive.

The car is not always the answer tho' many seem to want to believe so.

John B

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:14:42 +0100, JohnB wrote:
The car is not always the answer tho' many seem to want to believe so.

No, but it usually is

Paul Weaver wrote:

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:14:42 +0100, JohnB wrote:
The car is not always the answer tho' many seem to want to believe so.

No, but it usually is

No, it usually isn't.

John B

"PeterE" wrote in message
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A standard class return from Manchester to London is £175 now, you know.

Are you really trying to say car hire, for two people, is dearer than
that?
Are you sane?

You posted that at 11:48, so literally "now" .... at that point, it would
have been £50.

Approx the cost of 2 day's parking.

AND the reason why its 175 quid when you leave between 7am and 9am, is
because people will pay for it.
You wouldn't want to "buck the market" would you?

"JNugent" wrote in message
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JohnB ) wrote:

PeterE wrote:

A standard class return from Manchester to London is £175 now, you
know.

So what.

Exactly.

Soince no-one sensible would even think of paying that much - per person -
for such a journey, so what?

The trains that cost that much are pretty much full.
Every one of them not sensible?

Its perhaps a problem with the free market that people do not always behave
in a sensible way, but some poor sods do have to go to london.

W K wrote...

"JNugent" wrote:

JohnB ) wrote:

PeterE wrote:

A standard class return from Manchester to London is £175 now, you
know.

So what.

Exactly.
Soince no-one sensible would even think of paying that much - per
person -
for such a journey, so what?

The trains that cost that much are pretty much full.
Every one of them not sensible?

Or every one of them not paying.

Its perhaps a problem with the free market that people do not always
behave
in a sensible way

Spoken like a true pimply-faced 15-yr-old who thinks he's the life and soul
of the party in the back row of the first lesson of the Economics GCSE
course.

"JNugent" wrote in message
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W K wrote...

"JNugent" wrote:

JohnB ) wrote:

PeterE wrote:

A standard class return from Manchester to London is £175 now, you
know.

So what.

Exactly.
Soince no-one sensible would even think of paying that much - per
person -
for such a journey, so what?

The trains that cost that much are pretty much full.
Every one of them not sensible?

Or every one of them not paying.

Some of them must be paying.
Those who are not can fully justify it to the accounts department.

Its perhaps a problem with the free market that people do not always
behave
in a sensible way

Spoken
snip Irrational and ad-homineum abuse
You lose, norm.

In what way would you disagree with the above?

The 175 pounds is fully justifyable as "you can't buck the market".