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As much as I love this thread, I've often wondered, are the people who work with the people who post on here, on their own forum of preference posting stuff like "There's a guy who would rather get upset about a dog in the office than do his work" or "There's a guy who whenever I walk past his...

Next year I'm going to be doing the trek to Everest base camp and some of the surrounding mountains. Getting excited planning it and there is a mine of info online but has anyone on here done this? There seems to be two likely options, one going as a volunteer, doing the 2 week trek and then...

I once, aged about 20, left a backpack with all my festival medicine in at Reading train station. Not the kind you would report missing. Apart from being out of pocket I spent the entire festival shitting myself that I had I.D in the bag, I couldn't recall.

Left 500 notes in a wallet on the floor of Gatwick airport when I bent down to sort out passports, tickets etc, upon rushing back realised I was never seeing it again. I was only 17at the time and it was a LOT of money to me then. I was so pissed off.

Well they've had a better holiday than me this year, I haven't got abroad for more than a couple of days at a time since Feb.

At least you admit to being ignorant. It's a small sign of progress. For you.

Jungle Soldier, the true story of Freddy Spencer Chapman. And English botanist, explorer, climber and fighter against the Japs in WW2. Pioneered out army's use of Guerrilla warfare. Left behind enemy lines, with the help of the Chinese, he waged a 3 year war of surveillance, counter terrorism...

Ah yes, I still listen to Dirtchamber sessions. I think it's track 2, Bomb The Bass/Jane's Addiction etc. That's a blinding mix.

I enjoyed it at the time,I was more into traditional rock but I saw them live a few times. Was at The Reading Festival when they had that "spat" with the Beastie Boys. Was quite a fresh and new sound in 97 but very much of it's time. Now anyone with access to Cubase can make that stuff in an...

I can well believe it.

Having said that, the slam doors were utterly ghastly when you had a hangover. They had very particular metallic snap to the end of the thump/slam. Ugh, I can hear it now.

The problem we have found though is that it is debateable whether the efficiency has been improved and if they have managed to cut down costs they have certainly not passed this onto the commuter, it's been passed to the shareholders, spent on dividends and poured into bonuses.

You're absolutely right, I agree with you wholeheartedly.

For me personally, Privatisation is probably better financially as I'm self employed, rarely work in London and can choose the times I travel. But it's a very unfair and inefficient system and as a whole, nationalisation would be better for our commuters and our economy.

To be fair, one can get some pretty great deals if you shop around and you are able to travel on specific departures. A ticket for me to Weymouth bought on the day is £67, bought a few weeks earlier is £17.

Yes, he points put that we follow the airline model, charge as much as you can during peak times and then get bums on seats during quieter times. Whereas other rail services spread the cost out evenly so no-one sector is penalised according to when they have to or can or can't travel.

It's not dated but its from the site "The man in seat 61". A good site for finding cheap fares. I think the conclusion about us being the most commercially aggressive tells more than the price lists though.

I'll re-check the date...

So given that we are "commercially Aggressive" under a private system, it's a fair thing to say that it would be likely that if we returned to nationalisation that the daily commuters fares would, over time, become cheaper but that this would be offset by the advanced, non peak journeys becoming...

This is interesting, excuse the large cut and paste. Long-distance inter-city or short-distance commuter? First, I believe that any sensible discussion of fares must be clearly divided into long distance or short distance/commuter, as the issues are totally different. It makes no more sense...