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Cat poni, Whorseman of Apocalypse
pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz
when parking on sidewalk is not enough of shithead behavior for you, make sure you also boldly stand in the middle of it, to make the point
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Cat poni, Whorseman of Apocalypse
pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz
@ljs i mean, this is not "i really need to park there because i carry a sick grandma pregnant with a bag of cement" as the usual excuse goes, this is just pure fuck you
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Cat poni, Whorseman of Apocalypse
pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz
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lkundrak@metalhead.club
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Cat poni, Whorseman of Apocalypse
pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz
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lkundrak@metalhead.club
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Tomáš Janoušek
liskin@genserver.social
@vbabka @pony @lkundrak @ljs I wish this whole "jet do prdele" thing was not a joke. Lorenzo might disagree, but I really quite like the railways around London. They are, in a sense, "jet do prdele" and "jet z prdele" trains—the British might say "commuter trains". But they cover similar distances as long distance trains in Czechia do, and some of these "commuter" trains are 200 km/h Pendolinos. Yet you still can use them without reservation and with no extra payment for carrying a bicycle. And, as any good commuter trains should, they go every 15 minutes (give or take).
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Fred Brooker
fredbrooker@witter.cz
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@liskin @pony @lkundrak @vbabka ok so all cyclists should be shot obviously so we might mildly disagree on that bit (perhaps a little bit?) but yes the actual network is good what's not good is
1. They charge so much money you are left destittute
2. They go on strike for even more money despite earning 5x - 10x as much as they would in any other industry
3. They're unreliable
4. Most staff are fine these days, but you get some that very clearly know their jobs are safe
5. All cyclists should be shot out of a cannon
EDIT: 6. They run trains so short (like 4 carriages too few) you have to stand and still pay outrageous amounts of money
1. They charge so much money you are left destittute
2. They go on strike for even more money despite earning 5x - 10x as much as they would in any other industry
3. They're unreliable
4. Most staff are fine these days, but you get some that very clearly know their jobs are safe
5. All cyclists should be shot out of a cannon
EDIT: 6. They run trains so short (like 4 carriages too few) you have to stand and still pay outrageous amounts of money
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Tomáš Janoušek
liskin@genserver.social
@filabrazilska @lkundrak I might actually try the Rail and Sail thing one day, and then just cycle from Hoek. But I'm terrible at planning anything, so always just end up in the local brewery doing nothing remarkable 🙁
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Tomáš Janoušek
liskin@genserver.social
@ljs @pony @lkundrak @vbabka I do have a vague memory of seeing another human on a train but it's really vague. Mostly I travel on very long empty trains. 😁
Also I don't think I saw a staff member on a train this year. Vague memory of maybe having seen them in the past once. The only staff interactions I have is they telling me to take skates off on the platform because health and safety. Suppose the cannon thing applies here too.
Also I don't think I saw a staff member on a train this year. Vague memory of maybe having seen them in the past once. The only staff interactions I have is they telling me to take skates off on the platform because health and safety. Suppose the cannon thing applies here too.
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@liskin @pony @lkundrak @vbabka yeah sorry skaters go in the cannon too, I don't make the rules.
Actually wait, I do! But shit, I appealed and the appeal failed. Sorry.
Yeah the negative staff stuff hasn't happened to me for a while tbh, but when younger and super reliant on trains I had some moments were people talked to me like I was the biggest piece of shit.
Had a guy scream at me at a train station for asking about whether I could use an oyster (early days of oyster), like literally scream at me.
Had a guy at Reading train station when I asked a simple question about a train say 'look at the board!' in a hugely disrespectful and aggressive tone (when the board didn't answer my question the colossal fucking moron) and then he walked off like I had done something wrong.
And countless arrogant moments of disdain over the years.
Obviously you encounter arseholes everywhere, but in commercial settings there's a sense they realise being a total dick to customers is unwise, on the railways not so much.
This shit makes an impression and stays with you...
Actually wait, I do! But shit, I appealed and the appeal failed. Sorry.
Yeah the negative staff stuff hasn't happened to me for a while tbh, but when younger and super reliant on trains I had some moments were people talked to me like I was the biggest piece of shit.
Had a guy scream at me at a train station for asking about whether I could use an oyster (early days of oyster), like literally scream at me.
Had a guy at Reading train station when I asked a simple question about a train say 'look at the board!' in a hugely disrespectful and aggressive tone (when the board didn't answer my question the colossal fucking moron) and then he walked off like I had done something wrong.
And countless arrogant moments of disdain over the years.
Obviously you encounter arseholes everywhere, but in commercial settings there's a sense they realise being a total dick to customers is unwise, on the railways not so much.
This shit makes an impression and stays with you...
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@liskin @lkundrak @pony @vbabka There's also a casual sort of disrespect in like they'll randomly decide to close the station car park or a large part of it with zero notice, zero indication of how long it'd take and a half-arsed sign in biro they stuck up in a place you wouldn't see driving in.
Like guys, you charge 12 quid a fucking day for your shit car park then charge another 25 quid to get the train, then I have to pay another 5 - 10 quid to get anywhere, maybe show a LITTLE respect?
Like guys, you charge 12 quid a fucking day for your shit car park then charge another 25 quid to get the train, then I have to pay another 5 - 10 quid to get anywhere, maybe show a LITTLE respect?
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Cat poni, Whorseman of Apocalypse
pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz
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@lkundrak
isn't czech language beautiful?
return +/- 90y back to times of voskovec and werich and their forbinas (vsi vod ni a vsi vodni). nanosekunda is calling for such scetch/forbina :)
(edit: i can't resist:
werich: (koukaje na voskovce) nad cim premyslis?
voskovec: jak dlouha je nanosekunda? a da se to vubec zmerit?
werich: vsechno se da zmerit a nezalezi jestli je na nose, nebo na necem jinym. dlouha je, dle meho soudu, stejne )
@ljs @pony @vbabka
isn't czech language beautiful?
return +/- 90y back to times of voskovec and werich and their forbinas (vsi vod ni a vsi vodni). nanosekunda is calling for such scetch/forbina :)
(edit: i can't resist:
werich: (koukaje na voskovce) nad cim premyslis?
voskovec: jak dlouha je nanosekunda? a da se to vubec zmerit?
werich: vsechno se da zmerit a nezalezi jestli je na nose, nebo na necem jinym. dlouha je, dle meho soudu, stejne )
@ljs @pony @vbabka
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