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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: STEMO on 07 March 2017, 13:35:07
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My missus is going to visit a school in Wembley tomorrow, going down by train. I decided to get her what used to be a 'travelcard' when I was there so she could hop straight on the tube.
Zones 1-4, for one day, £12.30! Kinell...... :o
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Thats cheap, sounds like a Off Peak Travel Card, after 9.30am Travel, try and get in before then, as most people do, and back out again at clocking off time and you probably wont get much change out of £20 for the day.
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I try to avoid public transport. Mixing with the great unwashed is rarely a good idea.
I hope your good lady doesn't end up sitting next to the local nutter or worse still picking up a dose of bubonic plague.
Other than that I'm sure her time away from you will be most enjoyable. :)
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I try to avoid public transport. Mixing with the great unwashed is rarely a good idea.
I hope your good lady doesn't end up sitting next to the local nutter or worse still picking up a dose of bubonic plague.
Other than that I'm sure her time away from you will be most enjoyable. :)
I have the budget statement to keep me amused while she is away. Should be interesting for you, tax cuts for millionaires on the way, I think.
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I try to avoid public transport. Mixing with the great unwashed is rarely a good idea.
I hope your good lady doesn't end up sitting next to the local nutter or worse still picking up a dose of bubonic plague.
Other than that I'm sure her time away from you will be most enjoyable. :)
I have the budget statement to keep me amused while she is away. Should be interesting for you, tax cuts for millionaires on the way, I think.
That has always been the Tory way.
Didn't vote for them. Never will. Wouldn't vote for Corbyn either. Where does that leave us? :-\
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Just use your contactless bank card, works like an oyster with less hassle
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Yup. No need for travel cards, I either use my Apple Watch or iPhone for all TfL travel. It automatically limits to travel card costs, depending how much you use it.
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Well I've bought the bleedin thing now.
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Yup. No need for travel cards, I either use my Apple Watch or iPhone for all TfL travel. It automatically limits to travel card costs, depending how much you use it.
You can't expect Steve to be up to speed with the modern world at his age. The old chap is doing his best. :)
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Yup. No need for travel cards, I either use my Apple Watch or iPhone for all TfL travel. It automatically limits to travel card costs, depending how much you use it.
You can't expect Steve to be up to speed with the modern world at his age. The old chap is doing his best. :)
I'll have you know I was using contactless travel at the barriers over 25 years ago. Unless I got caught ...... ;D ;D
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sitting
Bugger me, when was the last time you got on a train :o
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sitting
Bugger me, when was the last time you got on a train :o
During the British Rail era. :)
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About four years ago an off-peak (after 9.30am) Travelcard was about £9. But these days few people use them. mostly Oyster or contactless or whatever. So, £12.30 isn't too bad, of course you could always have told he to get up early and walk to save a few quid ::)
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My missus is going to visit a school in Wembley tomorrow, going down by train. I decided to get her what used to be a 'travelcard' when I was there so she could hop straight on the tube.
Zones 1-4, for one day, £12.30 Kinell...... :o
Blimey, that return.
Bought one two weeks ago zones 1-6 £32.50. Return. Company paid.
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I try to avoid public transport. Mixing with the great unwashed is rarely a good idea.
I hope your good lady doesn't end up sitting next to the local nutter or worse still picking up a dose of bubonic plague.
Other than that I'm sure her time away from you will be most enjoyable. :)
I have the budget statement to keep me amused while she is away. Should be interesting for you, tax cuts for millionaires on the way, I think.
That has always been the Tory way.
Didn't vote for them. Never will. Wouldn't vote for Corbyn either. Where does that leave us? :-\
As Shakespeare might have said "Therein lies the rub".
Lib Dems?
Gert Wilders?
Monster raving Loonies?
Everyone is decrying the Tories for running down the NHS and preparing chunks for privatisation BUT plenty are still voting for them! You can never find anyone who says I vote Tory.
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I try to avoid public transport. Mixing with the great unwashed is rarely a good idea.
I hope your good lady doesn't end up sitting next to the local nutter or worse still picking up a dose of bubonic plague.
Other than that I'm sure her time away from you will be most enjoyable. :)
I have the budget statement to keep me amused while she is away. Should be interesting for you, tax cuts for millionaires on the way, I think.
That has always been the Tory way.
Didn't vote for them. Never will. Wouldn't vote for Corbyn either. Where does that leave us? :-\
As Shakespeare might have said "Therein lies the rub".
Lib Dems?
Gert Wilders?
Monster raving Loonies?
Everyone is decrying the Tories for running down the NHS and preparing chunks for privatisation BUT plenty are still voting for them! You can never find anyone who says I vote Tory.
Well quite. The problem is that recent general elections are a case of voting for the best of a bad bunch. Did I vote Tory ? Yes. Am a through and through Tory ? No. Over the years I've voted for pretty much every party at some time depending upon policies and leadership at the time. God forbid, I helped vote Bliar in >:( I would need a gun to my head to vote for Labour as it is today. But to just NOT vote ? Nope. Anyone that does not vote has no right to complain
Just as an aside, everyone goes on about the privatisation of the NHS, big chunks of NHS services were privatised and/or farmed out to the private sector under the last Labour government, it's not exclusive to the Tories. I don't believe that the NHS really is safe in the hands of any government.
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Yep, the last Labour Govt. privatised more of the NHS than all previous and subsequent Govts. put together.
I was speaking to someone last week who has worked in the NHS for decades and asked them who was telling the truth. Those who say the NHS desperately needs money, or those who say it is being given more money than at any time in its history.
His opinion was that they are both telling the truth, but ignoring the elephant in the room.
The elephant being Labours PFI hospitals, which saddled the NHS with new hospitals, bought on hire purchase, with payments deferred for a while (basically until the people who introduced it have retired or lost an election) and then payments kick in with almost payday loan interest rates, on sums involving £ billions.
They were the most cynical Govt. in living memory.
The bare fact is that Labour more than doubled the NHS budget - and made it worse !
Anne Widdecombe mad an interesting statement on the subject recently. She said that the NHS was introduced on the assumption that once the populations ailments had been treated and attended to then demand would drop and so would the required budget.
History shows that the complete opposite has happened and there isn't a sum of money which would be enough.
She then said, we need to have an adult conversation about where we are now with healthcare, where we want to be, and then decide how we are going to try to get there.
Makes sense to me.
Personally I believe it pretty unlikely that the Tories want to completely privatise the NHS, but its about the only thing Labour have left to scare people with. Labour seem to think they actually own the NHS.
Personally, I don't have a problem with more privatisation of the NHS if its done sensibly. So far it hasn't been done sensibly. They are even allowing that cretin Branson to start getting his claws into it.
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Yep, the last Labour Govt. privatised more of the NHS than all previous and subsequent Govts. put together.
I was speaking to someone last week who has worked in the NHS for decades and asked them who was telling the truth. Those who say the NHS desperately needs money, or those who say it is being given more money than at any time in its history.
His opinion was that they are both telling the truth, but ignoring the elephant in the room.
The elephant being Labours PFI hospitals, which saddled the NHS with new hospitals, bought on hire purchase, with payments deferred for a while (basically until the people who introduced it have retired or lost an election) and then payments kick in with almost payday loan interest rates, on sums involving £ billions.
They were the most cynical Govt. in living memory.
The bare fact is that Labour more than doubled the NHS budget - and made it worse !
Anne Widdecombe mad an interesting statement on the subject recently. She said that the NHS was introduced on the assumption that once the populations ailments had been treated and attended to then demand would drop and so would the required budget.
History shows that the complete opposite has happened and there isn't a sum of money which would be enough.
She then said, we need to have an adult conversation about where we are now with healthcare, where we want to be, and then decide how we are going to try to get there.
Makes sense to me.
Personally I believe it pretty unlikely that the Tories want to completely privatise the NHS, but its about the only thing Labour have left to scare people with. Labour seem to think they actually own the NHS.
Personally, I don't have a problem with more privatisation of the NHS if its done sensibly. So far it hasn't been done sensibly. They are even allowing that cretin Branson to start getting his claws into it.
Yep...that was the general idea back in 1948.
Clement Attlee and the labour government of the time clearly hadn't figured new technology and future new procedures into the financial equation.
The NHS of 1948 is the bare bones of what it is today.
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I try to avoid public transport. Mixing with the great unwashed is rarely a good idea.
I hope your good lady doesn't end up sitting next to the local nutter or worse still picking up a dose of bubonic plague.
Other than that I'm sure her time away from you will be most enjoyable. :)
I have the budget statement to keep me amused while she is away. Should be interesting for you, tax cuts for millionaires on the way, I think.
That has always been the Tory way.
Didn't vote for them. Never will. Wouldn't vote for Corbyn either. Where does that leave us? :-\
As Shakespeare might have said "Therein lies the rub".
Lib Dems?
Gert Wilders?
Monster raving Loonies?
Everyone is decrying the Tories for running down the NHS and preparing chunks for privatisation BUT plenty are still voting for them! You can never find anyone who says I vote Tory.
Great hair.
I suppose I could vote for UKIP now Paul Nuttall has the reins.
Born and bred in Stoke and as honest as the day is long. ::) ::)
No porkies or historical football inaccuracies from this fella. :)
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Yep, the last Labour Govt. privatised more of the NHS than all previous and subsequent Govts. put together.
I was speaking to someone last week who has worked in the NHS for decades and asked them who was telling the truth. Those who say the NHS desperately needs money, or those who say it is being given more money than at any time in its history.
His opinion was that they are both telling the truth, but ignoring the elephant in the room.
The elephant being Labours PFI hospitals, which saddled the NHS with new hospitals, bought on hire purchase, with payments deferred for a while (basically until the people who introduced it have retired or lost an election) and then payments kick in with almost payday loan interest rates, on sums involving £ billions.
They were the most cynical Govt. in living memory.
The bare fact is that Labour more than doubled the NHS budget - and made it worse !
Anne Widdecombe mad an interesting statement on the subject recently. She said that the NHS was introduced on the assumption that once the populations ailments had been treated and attended to then demand would drop and so would the required budget.
History shows that the complete opposite has happened and there isn't a sum of money which would be enough.
She then said, we need to have an adult conversation about where we are now with healthcare, where we want to be, and then decide how we are going to try to get there.
Makes sense to me.
Personally I believe it pretty unlikely that the Tories want to completely privatise the NHS, but its about the only thing Labour have left to scare people with. Labour seem to think they actually own the NHS.
Personally, I don't have a problem with more privatisation of the NHS if its done sensibly. So far it hasn't been done sensibly. They are even allowing that cretin Branson to start getting his claws into it.
Yes. The old girl is mad as a box of frogs and if the rumours are to be believed probably in need of a good shag.
She is an 'old school Tory' but I do find her quite endearing at times. :y
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Anne Widdecombe
Yes. The old girl is mad as a box of frogs and if the rumours are to be believed probably in need of a good shag.
She is an 'old school Tory' but I do find her quite endearing at times. :y
Get in there M'Lud! :y ;D
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Anne Widdecombe
Yes. The old girl is mad as a box of frogs and if the rumours are to be believed probably in need of a good shag.
She is an 'old school Tory' but I do find her quite endearing at times. :y
Get in there M'Lud! :y ;D
No....no....no. STMO may be tempted though. ;)
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Anne Widdecombe
Yes. The old girl is mad as a box of frogs and if the rumours are to be believed probably in need of a good shag.
She is an 'old school Tory' but I do find her quite endearing at times. :y
Get in there M'Lud! :y ;D
No....no....no. STMO may be tempted though. ;)
Does she breathe?
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Anne Widdecombe
Yes. The old girl is mad as a box of frogs and if the rumours are to be believed probably in need of a good shag.
She is an 'old school Tory' but I do find her quite endearing at times. :y
Get in there M'Lud! :y ;D
No....no....no. STMO may be tempted though. ;)
Does she breathe?
Does it matter?
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Anne Widdecombe
Yes. The old girl is mad as a box of frogs and if the rumours are to be believed probably in need of a good shag.
She is an 'old school Tory' but I do find her quite endearing at times. :y
Get in there M'Lud! :y ;D
No....no....no. STMO may be tempted though. ;)
Does she breathe?
Does it matter?
Not as long as there still warm ............ :D :D
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Anne Widdecombe
Yes. The old girl is mad as a box of frogs and if the rumours are to be believed probably in need of a good shag.
She is an 'old school Tory' but I do find her quite endearing at times. :y
Get in there M'Lud! :y ;D
No....no....no. STMO may be tempted though. ;)
Does she breathe?
Does it matter?
Not as long as there still warm ............ :D :D
No, stop this now . . . . . . . . (http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j74/Old_Mosher/Vomit_Small_zpszx3tzun2.gif)
How did this go from the price of a train ticket to . . . . . . . .
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It's that Opti fella.......again. If he doesn't bury the bone some time soon, his ballsack will explode. ;D
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It's that Opti fella.......again. If he doesn't bury the bone some time soon, his ballsack will explode. ;D
His gonads are swollen like mellons.
I pity his sister-in-law, with all his built up "back pressure"
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It's that Opti fella.......again. If he doesn't bury the bone some time soon, his ballsack will explode. ;D
His gonads are swollen like mellons.
I pity his sister-in-law, with all his built up "back pressure"
Blow her bleedin head off if he ever gets in there. ;D
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It's that Opti fella.......again. If he doesn't bury the bone some time soon, his ballsack will explode. ;D
His gonads are swollen like mellons.
I pity his sister-in-law, with all his built up "back pressure"
Blow her bleedin head off if he ever gets in there. ;D
It remains just a dream, I'm afraid. :-\
Still, there is always sexy Shami to think about when I'm alone. :-* :-* :-* :-*
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It's that Opti fella.......again. If he doesn't bury the bone some time soon, his ballsack will explode. ;D
It sounds like you and a pair of tigers/tiggers have the hots for AW. ;D
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......and that Doctor Gollum fella seems far from fussy what he dips it in. :) ;) ::)
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......and that Doctor Gollum fella seems far from fussy what he dips it in. :) ;) ::)
Fussy? Me dear? No dear... ;D
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Yup. No need for travel cards, I either use my Apple Watch or iPhone for all TfL travel. It automatically limits to travel card costs, depending how much you use it.
You can't expect Steve to be up to speed with the modern world at his age. The old chap is doing his best. :)
I'll have you know I was using contactless travel at the barriers over 25 years ago. Unless I got caught ...... ;D ;D
;D ;D ;D