Chancellor Rachel Reeves: Her Time Is Up!

[Larry O'Hara]

I like trains vs coaches as if a table you can read

 

[Orang Utan]

I like trains vs coaches as if a table you can read

I find it easier to read on a coach as there’s no one opposite you

 

[Orang Utan]

I find coaches fairly comfortable and I’m a big guy. One reason I often book them is a guaranteed seat, also generally a lot cheaper.

Aye, you get a seat and there’s more than one road to get to your destination. Never had a cancelled coach.

 

[iona]

Aye, you get a seat and there’s more than one road to get to your destination. Never had a cancelled coach.

I've had:
Cancelled coaches
Coaches that turned out not to be a double decker, meaning no one's seat booking was valid and some people couldn't get on the coach at all
Coaches that turned up two hours late and then there was a massive row between the driver and passengers and other passengers waiting for the next coach on that route which was also delayed
Coaches that made an unscheduled stop at a motorway services at 2am, dumped everyone's luggage out when another coach pulled up alongside, then after kicking some passengers onto the other coach the driver went through everyone else telling them whether he was still going to stop at their destination or if they'd have to change onto another coach at some point or if he didn't even know if that was still on his route

 

[two sheds]

On coaches I always seem to end up on a seat next to the toilet

 

[Larry O'Hara]

I find it easier to read on a coach as there’s no one opposite you

I use a table as I underline/make comments in books

 

[Serge Forward]

I use a table as I underline/make comments in books

That's cruelty to books!!! Is there a librarian in the house who can have provide the appropriate "flea in the ear" about this sort of behaviour? I bet you even fold over the page corners to mark your place

 

[Pickman's model]

That's cruelty to books!!! Is there a librarian in the house who can have provide the appropriate "flea in the ear" about this sort of behaviour? I bet you even fold over the page corners to mark your place

while it's really shit to write in library books, people should mark their own ones. one of the best articles i've seen about using (your own) books is this one from an american soldier - Reading to Recall - The Company Leader

 

[Orang Utan]

On coaches I always seem to end up on a seat next to the toilet

You can book em now.
iona my usual coach trip is just the National Express down one road the M1 from Leeds to London and back again, so possibly why my experience differs from your so much

 

[Serge Forward]

while it's really shit to write in library books, people should mark their own ones. one of the best articles i've seen about using (your own) books is this one from an american soldier - Reading to Recall - The Company Leader

That's fair enough. But there was also Flann O'Brien's proposed book handling service.

 

[PR1Berske]

Having experienced a National Express taking longer to get across England than it does the Atlantic on BA, I vowed never to repeat it. A horror story.

 

[two sheds]

That's fair enough. But there was also Flann O'Brien's proposed book handling service.

The Third Policeman is a treasure and gave me perhaps the deepest belly laugh I can remember from any book

 

[kabbes]

That's cruelty to books!!! Is there a librarian in the house who can have provide the appropriate "flea in the ear" about this sort of behaviour? I bet you even fold over the page corners to mark your place

Without highlighting things and marking the pages, how do you quickly find the important bits again later?

 

[Serge Forward]

Without highlighting things and marking the pages, how do you quickly find the important bits again later?

One simply jots it down in one's Moleskin notebook of course!

 

[Orang Utan]

I baulk at paying five times more than a coach fare to not sit on a train. Would rather sit on a coach for twice as long and pay only £20 to get to London and back.
There’s also no chance of overshooting your station and ending up at Waverley

 

[two sheds]

I do enjoy train journeys, coach journeys too when i can get to move away from the toilets A couple of times I came back overnight from the Netherlands on the coach which was surprisingly painless.

 

[Pickman's model]

One simply jots it down in one's Moleskin notebook of course!

moleskine. unless it's your rave notebook.

 

[Pickman's model]

Having experienced a National Express taking longer to get across England than it does the Atlantic on BA, I vowed never to repeat it. A horror story.

not a very helpful comparison. while true it adds nothing to understanding.

 

[Larry O'Hara]

That's cruelty to books!!! Is there a librarian in the house who can have provide the appropriate "flea in the ear" about this sort of behaviour? I bet you even fold over the page corners to mark your place

No I don’t fold the corners
And I only do it to
a) my own books
b) ones I am either reviewing or need for research purposes
So there…

 

[pbsmooth]

Raising the minimum wage is fine and dandy, though when it happens, those of us on Agenda for Change NHS wages will be under it by 40-odd-pence an hour until the inevitable backpay bonanza later in 2025. Make any of it make sense.

Minimum wage for everyone!

https://archive.is/2024.11.15-224000/https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/11/13/britains-big-squeeze-middle-class-and-minimum-wage

 

[PR1Berske]

In response to the inheritance tax changes, farmers are descending on London. The Telegraph is breathless with excitement.

 

[brogdale]

In response to the inheritance tax changes, farmers are descending on London. The Telegraph is breathless with excitement.

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In contrast to the usual Telegraph response....

None of these rent-a-mob protesters clearly have a proper job; they're all living off state hand-outs...blah, blah, blah

 

[Spymaster]

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Is that flag upside down on purpose?

 

[Larry O'Hara]

In contrast to the usual Telegraph response....

None of these rent-a-mob protesters clearly have a proper job; they're all living off state hand-outs...blah, blah, blah

The irony is they actually are!

 

[magneze]

I assume they will be locked up for years like the climate protesters, right? right?

 

[brogdale]

I assume they will be locked up for years like the climate protesters, right? right?

Look! There's a blocked ambulance behind all of those tractors....

 

[brogdale]

Yeah, whatever. The daft cunts can withhold as much meat as they like AFAIC...

 

[Whagwan]

Seems Reeves has been lying about her work experience.

After a former BoE employee accused her of never being an Economist, just a Complaints Manager she has edited her LinkedIn:

 

[brogdale]

Seems Reeves has been lying

Her "job"

 

[Spymaster]

Yeah, whatever. The daft cunts can withhold as much meat as they like AFAIC...

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Exactly. Who gives a toss?

It's like postmen going on strike.

Less shit through your door.

And?