777 crash analysis

I don't recall them making much of the point that it could be like the
floor of the stock exchange on Black Wednesday though.

 

As long as I don't expect to hop on a train a couple of minutes before
it leaves London then yes. I've yet to fail to get a seat from Bedford
in the morning.

My views are obviously distorted by the fact that it's not my money so
I don't give a **** but I'd happily pay out £100 and use the train
rather than **** up either my 10R or my KTM by doing a 120 mile per
day commute.

Cost wise it's a close run thing as well: petrol for either bike would
cost me in the region of £75 per week and then a service every 7
weeks, a new back tyre every 4 weeks, a new front tyre every 5 weeks
depreciation going sky high...

The train seems to come in a bit cheaper now I think about it. If I
had to pay for the parking myself I'd cycle to the station in under 10
minutes so I wouldn't be paying out there.

 

It certainly is. I have to have a beer in the nearest pub before I
venture into Knightsbridge tube station for the evening scrum.

True. Apparently a rather famous Russian has lashed out many millions
for one of the penthouses and rumour has it that he's also purchased
the entire floor below it.

We get all sorts of bollocks floating around the site about costs but
one that amused me was a figure of £250k/year for one parking space.
If someone can afford to spend up to £100 million on a flat I'm sure
they have a driver to pick them up whenever they want to nip out to
the paper shop or a game of football.

 

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:38:48 +0000, said

Indeed. Luckily for me, they seemed quite used to retrieving people
from their hedge.

 

Ich auch. The only land-line phone calls I've made in the last
<mumble> years were to the cops to report my stolen motorbikes. Oh, and
one to Austravel when I accidentally spent £630 on a 16-hour layover in
Brisbane airport -- but they'd gone home and weren't answering...

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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
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WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~eesridr/HeathrowWx.jpg

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

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It's just dawned on my why my killfile is killing Boots' posts.

The key is to be found in the word 'despammed'.

Killfile adjusted.

 

For whom does the ringtone toll? It tolls for ... oh bugger - him
over there.

 

During the "Ring of Steel" security alert I was trapped on a commuter
train aiming for Euston. The station had been closed as 'a
precaution' and so the train came to a halt somewhere (nowhere) South
of Wembley.

It was a cold early morning, with frost on the ground and the carriage
was, as ever, rammed full. It got steadily colder, and as it did, the
humidity increased. The drips of damn cold condensation descending
from the celing had become annoyingly frequent by the time we moved
again.

As the train jerked and clanged repeatedly into staccato motion, the
squeaks and grumbles of discomfort built to a cacophony as the
dislodged drips turned into an icy monsoon and struck us all.

I'm so glad that I don't have to do that any more *shudder*

 

I don't think I've had to stand more than twice in either direction in
the last 4 months or so. The trick is to know where the doors are going
to be so you're always among the first on the train, or know which
platform the train will be on at the terminus for the return journey. If
I'm running late and my usual train's really packed I pop to the pub for
a cheeky half and wait for the next one.

I doubt I could do the same journey by car or bike for £280/month - the
petrol alone wouldn't be much less - and I'd have to endure the cold,
rain, traffic and wouldn't be able to read/watch videos/whatever.

If I was daft enough to not live a 5 minute walk from a mainline station
it might be a bit different.