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You're accepting a significant regression in provision of service for zero gain elsewhere. Ticketing should entirely be a DOT function and have nothing to do with the TOCs.

Were Burger King and McDonalds both the same company and are still controlled by one regulator? The UK has the exemplar in privatising operation of public transport services - the London Buses system. Multiple operators; a single point of contact and method of payment for the user and if an...

Used to have a company Toyota that drank oil (was brand new, too) and would get a litre of oil at a service station on the fuel card ever 1000km or so. It wasn't burning that much but someone else's was and we'd been told to get that much. It's the same type as my own car takes. I'm pretty sure...

The reason I was only playing council courses (before I gave up entirely) was that anyone trying to be that priggish would end up being lectured by the course staff; and I had no interest in associating with those twats anyway One of the DCC courses is a Christy O'Connor Jr design and fairly...

This was the first Albion game I got to go to. Still here, tens of thousands of quid later of flights, hotels, trains and tickets.

I'm leaving the source of all my recent moans today. From the coffee-breathed moron who has somehow managed to get himself promoted to a level beyond his incompetence (still fairly lowly) who spends half his day asking me questions I'd expect a college intern to know, to the guy who turns off...

Unless tourism is actually proving to be a cost rather than a benefit to a city, a tourist tax ends up being counter productive. Also, if its high enough you really have to provide something concrete in return. In Basel, hotels that charge it give guests free public transport around the city...

If you go out No Deal, you don't have any trade agreements and need to negotiate them again. EU members can't negotiate deals on their own. So yes, there would be a period - however brief or long it may be - where you would only have WTO rules trade with Ireland. UK wholesalers are likely to...

If you crash out No Deal, Ireland will be short of various stuff like white flour (grow enough grain but its extensively milled in the UK), hops and malted barley for beer and whiskey, packaged cheese (exported from Ireland in bulk to be packaged in some volume for some insane reasons) and are...

Definitely not as oppressive as it was, or officially in any way but pre-EU Slovakia was probably the worst I've had now. Police going out of their way to harrass anyone who didn't look like a generic downtrodded worker drone. Was actually worse in intensity (but much less frequent) out in the...

I do hope they had the forethought to buy £50 of the cladding one day and scan their B&Q card, wait for the bounce voucher email to come the next day and actually got £119.99 of cladding for the remaining £99.99. Every square foot counts!

A replacement rubber grommet for the end of the arm on the parcel shelf for my car. A generic diffuser for a Bosch heat gun that doesn't quite fight right.

The explemary damages element of this is particularly odd, but not enough to be worth appealing alone (I believe the overall decision is being appealed anyway). Extra 20k for the coverage being nominated for an award? Unjustified. I'd prefer a system where the already extremely wealthy could...

I've not travelled beyond conventional tourist or business places enough for some of the horrors here, so the Preston Park is actually the worst I've been in. By some margin! I've ended up staying in nearly every mid-priced hotel in Brighton & Hove at this stage and they are generally a fairly...

Resigned from work on Tuesday because a former employer which I enjoyed working for (unlike the current place) offered me proper money to come back (was penury before). Three more weeks of not giving a damn left to do in the current place, but I've enjoyed a few local DIPAs and I'm now deciding...

If you need the law to set boundaries for your kids, you aren't doing a very good job. Alcohol, tobacco, gambling and porn are all legal for adults, do you just give up and let your kids use them?

Huge problem in radio in particularly - generally the most popular and/or longest lasting women on radio, particularly current affairs, have deep voices. You could be A1 in terms of interview skills and political analysis and you'd get nowhere with a higher pitched voice. Particularly for...

Hasn't been printed in about six months after years of collapsing circulation. Hasn't been replaced by anything else in print and it's not missed. As goes the prosecution - realistically there needs to be proper, externally run and independent, investigations in to everything that happened on...

The Revenue Commissioners here sent me one about their statistics mailing list and managed to CC: the entire list in the process. Causing a reportable data breach... Was wondering who would be the last company to get around to sending one and it was CrossCountry sending one at 4am. I *think*...

The younger one, "memmeh!" etc, is put on (a bit, the Kerry accent is a bit insane - look up videos of any of the Healey-Rae political dynasty) - the guy filming it is a wannabe youtube 'star'