Things you'd like to say, but can't
- Thread starter Stig-OT-Dump
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twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Aw for gawd's sake just stop, listen to what I said, process it and then decide what the way forward should be. Hearing is not listening 
FishFright
More wheels than sense
LSD helps
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Nah - he dislikes them so much that he wouldn't listen to them even if you paid him!
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Ditto, not my cup of tea either, but I appreciate that they reflected a moment in time - post-war gloom left behind and a fresh and vibrant swinging 60's etc.
Like most music, best left in the past and maybe revisited very occasionally.
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Nah - he dislikes them so much that he wouldn't listen to them even if you paid him!
Oh yes, subtle, very subtle. "You rose" to the challenge, as its @Andy in Germany.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I originally included a footnote explaining my post for younger (post-decimalisation) forum members, but decided it was better without!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
And while we are on that subject...Dear whoever-plans-operation-of-the-UK-rail-network... (somebody does actually plan it, right?
Could you please explain to a poor ignorantpassengersorry, customer, how this makes any kind of sense...?
I get on a London-bound West Midlands train in Coventry, take it to Northampton, and get off there. Price: £12. I get on the same train to Northampton, but don't get off there. I stay on for another couple of stations and get off at Milton Keynes instead. Price £11.50.
Is Milton Keynes council so desperate to poach shoppers from Northampton that they subsidise tickets to MK? If so, somebody should point out that a Northampton passenger could simply buy a Milton Keynes ticket and disembark 2 stops early!
It is awfully nice of you to pay me to use the train to get from Todmorden to Leeds to catch a train to Exeter, and then pay me to get back from Leeds again after my holiday, but is that really any way to operate a railway service?
(A return ticket from Leeds to Exeter is £98-something with my railcard. A return ticket from Todmorden to Exeter via Leeds is only £97-something, and that is using the same trains from Leeds to Exeter and Exeter to Leeds!)
Things you'd like to say, but can't....
Lets cut the defence budget in half, give rest to NHS, then get more money for NHS by drilling for oil and gas and selling it to europe, banking half profit to NHS and the other half to pay down the debt
New cycle lanes should have a physical barrier on traffic side, as for cars we can weld steel, for humans we cannot weld them
No one over 65 should be taxed on their pension income, unless its chunky enough to not matter so much
- Location
- Glasgow
Are you not a pensioner now?
Apply for your NEC (can be done online), you get a hefty discount on rail fares, on the underground too.
And of course free bus travel.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
What's that... speak up! Er, yes - I AM a pensioner.
What is an NEC - 'C' for card? PS I just looked it up - a Scottish National Entitlement Card.
I have a Senior rail card so I get 1/3 off - that costs me about £70 for 3 years but I save about 4 times that every year. Those fares would be nearer £150 without the card and I make the trip 4 times a year. I have started using buses again since getting free bus travel.
- Location
- Glasgow
Sorry, I thought by National it meant UK wide
This is the card that gives you a hefty discount on trains, underground, also certain venues like theaters and cinemas.
Here even the hairdressers have a "concession card holders" day where pensioners get a discount.
How do you call your OAP bus pass card in England?
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Do you have (or need) a hearing aid? Having one qualifies you for a disabled person’s railcard which gets you 1/3rd off all fares. I know you get that already but there are no time restrictions on this one AND the person travelling with you gets the same discount. Cost for 3 years is £54.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
They call it a 'senior travel pass'. I recently found out that the bus pass can be used on trains in West Yorkshire. I don't get those journeys free, but I get them at half price rather than one third off with my rail card.
That's interesting - thanks! I do have a hearing aid, although I haven't started using it yet. (I went for a hearing test and they gave it to me without me asking for it.) I'll look into that next year when the current pass runs out.
