Right, this is a rant! unlike all of my other posts of course!
multi-storey EFFIN car parks! who designs them? well..the ones specifically in locations in Middlesbrough and Leeds. The ones i've 'attempted' to shove my car in to have been designed by a man who owns a smart car, it is quite obvious, either that or he drives a satsuma!
it's ridiculous, first of all they have this really low pavement reservation thing in the middle, now, if you drive a smart car, you're fine..or a satsuma..go ahead! you just whizz right in there mate, but try and complete the turn in a family sized estate or hatchback and you'll rip you're flipping bumper off.
Now i know that some reading this will be men, they will say 'what a plum, he must drive like a woman' but no..really...if we overlook the problems of actually trying to get a pass then we come to the idiot who decided to place every other parking space across the centre of a concrete pillar!
and it's not just me that feels the rage bubble inside when i enter the concrete garage of hell.
i have seen people having to let the whole family out of there mondeo first, then back in to the space with the wing mirrors folded in down the passenger side. i have seen land rovers parked at unusual angles across two spaces, i've seen people park so incredibly sandwiched between other cars that they only realise they won't get out when they open there doors and 'thud'.
it's a menace! something has to be done! we need to start a facebook campaign for the reinstatmement of normal size car parking spaces! you know, the types designed for a 15 foot long and 6 foot wide car not a 3 foot long and 1 foot wide satsuma on wheels.
Sunday, 21 February 2010
UK Transport Madness
Lets go on a journey together, from my location in the UK to London. It's a distance of around 6 hours by car so I thought to myself 'Hey Tiger' << i say that alot, to myself, nobody else will say it 'Why don't we head on down to London by the power of public transport?"
Great, thats an excellent idea brain, lets do this. We'll go and log-on to a website, say, Virgin Trains, they were very good the last time i travelled with them (4 years ago). Tum te Tum. 10 minutes later it is calculating my one way fare.
£80....!!!!..CATTLE CLASS
£147...!!!!...FIRST CLASS
something must be wrong, maybe i've entered it for 4 people or something.
The increase is shocking, the last time i went south towards Bristol it cost me £60 RETURN! in cattle class and then another £20 each way for a first class upgrade. Thats £50 each way, station to station.
Today the same journey would cost me £147 each way thats nearly 3 times as much...and there seems to be less ticket availability than before, yet a more confusing website ordering system, tickets that seem cheap come with restrictions e.g. you have to have a student pass or you have to be over 50 to enjoy the price that i had 4 years ago.
To summarise. I can get to london and back in my car, direct from my home to the meeting and in half the time it takes to piddle about with taxis and waiting for trains to arrive at the wrong platform. I can do this journey for less than £100 including some food along the way and i can do it all in one day..by train..i'd probably need to add atleast £50 for a hotel room for the night.
and they still keep taxing me on my god darn car!!!
Great, thats an excellent idea brain, lets do this. We'll go and log-on to a website, say, Virgin Trains, they were very good the last time i travelled with them (4 years ago). Tum te Tum. 10 minutes later it is calculating my one way fare.
£80....!!!!..CATTLE CLASS
£147...!!!!...FIRST CLASS
something must be wrong, maybe i've entered it for 4 people or something.
The increase is shocking, the last time i went south towards Bristol it cost me £60 RETURN! in cattle class and then another £20 each way for a first class upgrade. Thats £50 each way, station to station.
Today the same journey would cost me £147 each way thats nearly 3 times as much...and there seems to be less ticket availability than before, yet a more confusing website ordering system, tickets that seem cheap come with restrictions e.g. you have to have a student pass or you have to be over 50 to enjoy the price that i had 4 years ago.
To summarise. I can get to london and back in my car, direct from my home to the meeting and in half the time it takes to piddle about with taxis and waiting for trains to arrive at the wrong platform. I can do this journey for less than £100 including some food along the way and i can do it all in one day..by train..i'd probably need to add atleast £50 for a hotel room for the night.
and they still keep taxing me on my god darn car!!!
EMI U-Turn on Abbey Road
When i saw the headline in the Daily Mail i was outraged.
ABBEY ROAD TO BE SOLD OFF
Or something along those lines, i cannot be bothered to go back and search for it now, it's 2am and i'm on an old laptop that keeps disconnecting from the interwebs.
so anyway, back to EMI, they've actually taken notice of the outcry from the public over the proposed closure and sale of Abbey Road Recording Studios. Now i know there will still be mixed feelings on this, those hard-nosed business people would say..'yes but it would generate a multi-million pound cash injection if it were sold off' but the fact still remains, the building is in use, it serves a purpose and it is a world renowned site, the Beetles recorded there for crikeys sake!
It looks as though the Facebook and Twitter campaigns have made there mark though. Unlike with the Cadbury - Kraft Deal which was a blatant 'let sell it for as much as we can get then go on holiday to las palmas'
ABBEY ROAD TO BE SOLD OFF
Or something along those lines, i cannot be bothered to go back and search for it now, it's 2am and i'm on an old laptop that keeps disconnecting from the interwebs.
so anyway, back to EMI, they've actually taken notice of the outcry from the public over the proposed closure and sale of Abbey Road Recording Studios. Now i know there will still be mixed feelings on this, those hard-nosed business people would say..'yes but it would generate a multi-million pound cash injection if it were sold off' but the fact still remains, the building is in use, it serves a purpose and it is a world renowned site, the Beetles recorded there for crikeys sake!
It looks as though the Facebook and Twitter campaigns have made there mark though. Unlike with the Cadbury - Kraft Deal which was a blatant 'let sell it for as much as we can get then go on holiday to las palmas'
Good Old Hugh
I remember him from the Blackadder series mainly, the lanky and stupid first world war sergeant (or whatever he was, i can't remember)..but he never struck me as a superb actor or indeed comedian.
Zoom forward to 2010 and Hugh Laurie is a sex-symbol in the states. His new hit series 'House' i haven't watched, but understand it to be quite a gripping series and it has been met with great applaud from both the States and the UK audiences that have propelled Hugh Laurie from being a bit-part comedic actor to being a headline grabbing act on screen.
I think it's excellent. Christopher Goodwin over at The Times also thinks it's cracking. Linky
Zoom forward to 2010 and Hugh Laurie is a sex-symbol in the states. His new hit series 'House' i haven't watched, but understand it to be quite a gripping series and it has been met with great applaud from both the States and the UK audiences that have propelled Hugh Laurie from being a bit-part comedic actor to being a headline grabbing act on screen.
I think it's excellent. Christopher Goodwin over at The Times also thinks it's cracking. Linky
Randy Chelsea
Just what on earth is going on over at Chelsea HQ..first the revelations that eternally bewildered looking John Terry is humping away like a pornstar earning commission by the hour then we hear that the very pretty geordie Miss Cole is having to hear stories that her slightly boring husband is having it away with several other women.
Why do they do it? because they can? possibly...but then, there is the fact that as soon as you step outside your home you're confronted with a dozen or more photographers..you know that ANYTHING you do thats either illegal or slightly unusual will be picked up at some point down the line, it's really not worth it! they cannot say they're wives are not attractive...they also cannot say they don't get to take the odd trip to ann summers because money is a bit tight!
I just don't understand it.
Linky from the times.
Why do they do it? because they can? possibly...but then, there is the fact that as soon as you step outside your home you're confronted with a dozen or more photographers..you know that ANYTHING you do thats either illegal or slightly unusual will be picked up at some point down the line, it's really not worth it! they cannot say they're wives are not attractive...they also cannot say they don't get to take the odd trip to ann summers because money is a bit tight!
I just don't understand it.
Linky from the times.
Playground Bully
As if things were'nt bad enough as it is already. Poor old Jonah (McBroon, McDoom,McCavity, One Eyed Scottish ****) is now being battered and bruised in the national papers..just like his mobile phone and stapler by the sounds of it. It appears that behind closed doors, McBroon gets a tad irate and descends in to fits of anger towards anything..anything at all..from stationery, to people, to chairs, to tables, to the odd window or three...what a total looney!
OUT OUT OUT OUT
oh and heres the linky..again..i know its the daily mail and i get reports that they do like to sensationalise the opening of an envelope but this stuff is being published across the net...it's spreading like wildfire. LINK
OUT OUT OUT OUT
oh and heres the linky..again..i know its the daily mail and i get reports that they do like to sensationalise the opening of an envelope but this stuff is being published across the net...it's spreading like wildfire. LINK
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