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Forum Index > News & Politics | >> £1000 to travel from Cornwall to Scotland. | | |
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cailyn10289
Scottish on Fridays
Über Master Debater
8365 points
20/F/, United States (general)
Join Date: Nov 2007 | Saegespaene said:
No, I hadn't heard that you were right around the corner! What newspaper or broadcasting station carried that story?
That question was directed at jmo, seeing as he lives in the city.
Obviously someone from Connecticut would have no idea what I'm talking about. |  | |
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Saegespaene
Licker of Old Wounds
TFS Monkey+
42967 points
108/M/Im Walde, Spazieren, Connectic
Join Date: Jan 2008 | cailyn10289 said:
That question was directed at jmo, seeing as he lives in the city.
Obviously someone from Connecticut would have no idea what I'm talking about.
Obviously......... I'm surprised that, with all your worldly travels, you hadn't bumped into me! I'm not 'from' Connecticut. I just wound up living here.
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cailyn10289
Scottish on Fridays
Über Master Debater
8365 points
20/F/, United States (general)
Join Date: Nov 2007 | Saegespaene said:
Obviously......... I'm surprised that, with all your worldly travels, you hadn't bumped into me! I'm not 'from' Connecticut. I just wound up living here.
Well the fire happened over the summer, so unless you just moved to Connecticut from Edinburgh, my above statement didn't apply to you.
Sheesh
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jmo
Shakebar
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72070 points
20/M/Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Join Date: May 2006 | Um, Yeah I was at T in the Park at the time. My mates dad is a fire-fighter who's colleague died in the fire. Not a pub I've ever been to but I think it was in the Gorgie area. | | | |
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jmo
Shakebar
Bogey Man+
72070 points
20/M/Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Join Date: May 2006 | I can't help but think, if you buy a £25 rail card you would save £333.33 on that journey! | | | |
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mark_is_god
Ogler+
29544 points
19/M/antrim, Ireland
Join Date: Aug 2006 | Jennifer1984 said:
This price shocks me, to be honest. During the summer, me and the missus went to London to visit my family and for the first time, we took the sleeper train from Penzance to Paddington rather than drive. It was brilliant, and not unreasonably expensive, either. We rather liked the train service, getting a good night's sleep and waking up to a nice breakfast just before our destination.
I don't think I'd pay £1K+ to travel that way to Scotland...... flying must surely be cheaper..... but I'm sure it wouldn't be an entirely unpleasurable way to travel.
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i don't seeing it being much cheaper.
remember this £1000 figure is only achieved if you buy the ticket there and then without any pre-booking and is for first class.
if you do the same for a flight in first class, it also is going to be ridiculously expensive.
and another point, no one has actually paid £1000 and i doubt anyone will.
Got a leaflet through my door this morning.
It said "People like You Vote bnp"
How did THEY know I'm an ignorant racist c***?! |  | |
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SparklyKatie
Munchkin
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20582 points
23/F/, United Kingdom
Join Date: Jan 2009 | mark_is_god said:
i don't seeing it being much cheaper.
remember this £1000 figure is only achieved if you buy the ticket there and then without any pre-booking and is for first class.
if you do the same for a flight in first class, it also is going to be ridiculously expensive.
and another point, no one has actually paid £1000 and i doubt anyone will.
The first and last legs of the journey don't even have 1st class seats though, it's like buying a 1st class ticket from Sheffield to London and being asked to move to carriage at Luton, would you be happy with that?
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm an agnostic Jehovah's Witness. I knock on people's doors, but I'm not sure why. | | | |
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jmo
Shakebar
Bogey Man+
72070 points
20/M/Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Join Date: May 2006 | SparklyKatie said:
The first and last legs of the journey don't even have 1st class seats though, it's like buying a 1st class ticket from Sheffield to London and being asked to move to carriage at Luton, would you be happy with that?
Get a railcard! | | | |
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SparklyKatie
Munchkin
Ogler+
20582 points
23/F/, United Kingdom
Join Date: Jan 2009 | jmo said:
Get a railcard!
I pay £40 a week to travel to work on the bus, if someone I worked with and lived near me could pick me up in their car it would cost me less than half that, yet I have to put up with farts, loud ipods and miserable bus drivers and fellow passengers. Surely it should be cheaper 
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm an agnostic Jehovah's Witness. I knock on people's doors, but I'm not sure why. | | | |
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jmo
Shakebar
Bogey Man+
72070 points
20/M/Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Join Date: May 2006 | It should me. It costs me f*** all a week cus I don't go to my classes and just sit and be lazy and that.
Yeah, think about that the next time your tax comes off your income. It is going towards paying me to do sweet f*** all, shocking isn't it?
Not sure why I'm indignant, I'm getting free money.
I just know I'll be pissed off in five years time when I have a real job.
In the long run, at least you can read 'metro' on public transport. | | | |
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