I hope they have a “packet of crisps/chips” pocket on the other side.

It’s very dependent on which region, which route and which train company you’re travelling with.

From a Yorkshire perspective, if your train runs North-South through bigger cities i.e. Edinburgh, Newcastle, York, Leeds, The South etc, without stopping at small in-between stations, you get 100 people on a 10 carriage long futuristic aerodynamic LNER Azuma Class 800 train, that feels like a luxury private jet and travels at 125mph.

If your train travels East-West and stops at places like Halifax, Bradford, Wakefield, Selby, Hull, but also stops at little in-between stations called stuff like Boggy Fence, Coaltown, Upper Frogbottom, Chough, Milton-upon-Jeremy and Thribblewick, you get 400 people squashed onto a 2 carriage Northern Rail Sprinter, that feels like a livestock wagon and travels at 30mph. It’s perfectly pleasant outside of commuter times, to be fair.

When the train is stopping at stations 5 miles apart, there’s not a lot of room for big fancy trains to do big fancy train things like “accelerate smoothly and aerodynamically” and “brake gently and quietly like a falling leaf”.

☝️🤓 Um, actually, the 4-decade-old “Pacer” (pictured) was retired a few years ago.

It was replaced by the exciting new “Sprinter”, merely 40 years old.

Wow! So futuristic!

We used to suffer from this, but now have a cat-based monitoring system:

3 cats sleep on bed = perfectly clean
2 cats sleep on bed = clean enough
1 cat sleeps on bed = prepare to change sheets
0 cats sleep on bed = change bedsheets now

All fair points for a motorway/highway/freeway/whatever. I’d mistakenly thought the previous post was referring to a smaller local road with a 55mph limit.

I don’t really care so much about what speed people do on motorways, but I have a massive problem with people doing 40-60mph in a 20-30mph limit residential area. Bear in mind where I live in the UK, the cars are driving 2 metres from the front door of everyone’s houses.

I don’t think it’s just Gen-Z.

Here’s former Manchester United and England footballer Gary Neville, telling us about his “mini-retirements”

Gary Neville - Mini-Retirements (youtube link)

Gary is 50 years old.

Not personally, no - but the police would only need to catch a handful each day to get things moving a little more safely in the area.

Why don’t they confiscate driving licences and imprison all the criminals who are driving 20-25mph dangerously over the limit?

Having read that, yes :)

Hahaha.

I used to have a home office room, and I bought and installed a whiteboard on the wall, for noting things down, planning, to-do list etc.

For five years, it had a single scrap of paper blue-tacked to it, which read “1) Buy a whiteboard pen”.

I eventually solved it by moving house.

I think it only works if your brain is wired in a particular way.

Tons of open browser tabs? Long, impossible-to-complete to-do list? Unread emails? Unplayed Steam Games?

Good chance of it working :)

When I wanted to stop smoking, the idea of never smoking again would make me stressed and make me want to smoke.

The solution was I put “have a cigarette” on my to-do list, at the bottom.

So I never quit smoking, I’m definitely going to have a cigarette at some point, when I get round to it - just after I’ve re-tiled the bathroom, wrote a novel, made a computer game, taught the cat to play piano, finished a series of 100 paintings, wrote an album of songs etc…

… so it’s over ten years since I last had a cigarette, and there’s only a thousand or so things to do on my to-do list.

Reddit hater, eh?

Everyone! This guy loves Facebook!

I didn’t know they’d made an American remake of it. Worth watching?

Ah, looks like the old “eat yourself entirely, so you are invisible, then when the plane is on the return flight, you poo yourself back out again” trick.

Yeah, that nacelle placement and orientation is so laughably off, it must be deliberate.

I must admit I’m not familiar with “Spock Spock Spock Spock Spock Girl-With-Giant-Wrists-and-Ankles High School”.

They exist. Go on a Steam discussions page for a popular game that doesn’t currently support Linux, and create a new post politely asking about the possibility of Linux support.

*A wild WINDOWS ZEALOT appears*

If she wants to find a political party that bullies trans people, she’s not exactly going to struggle to find options.

Absolutely - I’m just slightly cautious of reporting from news sources I’ve never heard of before, but yeah, it certainly looks pretty clear and damning.