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…