I used to go to London most weeks by train. For some reason, Reading to Ealing Broadway was the suicide hotspot. It may of been passengers as the crap commute with the price and poor service could make you suicidal. Reading station especially.
I thought the Tories were already a fascist dictatorship or at the very least a dictatorship. TBH every time I’ve used trains which isn’t often they’ve ran on time so as an infrequent user it ran ok for me. The only experience of have with other countries trains is France but again an infrequent user and that too was fine. Although the free Frankfurt tram system was brilliant too turned out it wasn’t free it’s just we neglected to pay through ignorance. There you have it the British approach to service reflects on the railway network both the infrastructure and the trains.
When I did a stint on London Underground there were a few suicides at pub kicking out time, we used to get the night off whether the attempt was successful or not.
I know what I am doing now - I bet you are all interested! When I pass the driving assessment telephone interview ( for driving on the road no longer counts) and get my license back by apologising for the accident and agreeing that the Police and courts were all wrong and it was my fault, really and they were right to suspend my driving license, I am going to get a car first. I've got a horrible feeling, based upon my experience, that I won't get motorbike license back without a further fight. As they can't stop me from driving a car if I pass the driving assessment (although I believe it is a "fix" and am not 100% sure that I will pass. Well, I know that I will, but the DVLA will put their spin on it and will do anything that they can to still refuse to return my license) the plan is to get a Ford car from one of three local Ford dealers. That first and if I do get compensation money and a motorbike license (I'm not holding my breath, for either) I will get a KTM Duke 890 R from Fowlers. No new Ducatis do anything for me, as there pricing is wrong (I think) with the KTM 890 Duke R nearly 4k less than the Supersport S with more power, lighter and just lacking the fairing, but also with top suspension (WP Apex) and no stupid desmo servicing (a system that Ducati themselves have discredited). I'll part-ex (or offer for sale here) the ST2 and then decide what to do with the ST3. I'll do a desmo check on that and get back into riding it. If I still like it then I'll keep it and if I don't, I'll part-ex it for a Triumph (with shaft drive) or a BMW, like my mate's, driven by a rubber band rather than a chain.
Like you I have no idea, I’d like to say it’s the first time he mentioned his trials and tribulations but that would be untrue. But to be generous he may have mistakenly posted a reply in the wrong thread, it’s not the first time it has happened with other posters or it’s just thread drift very abruptly but drift non the less.
I would even narrow the BS attitude to the southeast of France. People in the southwest are a lot friendlier and generous, I think. I lived almost a decade in Orange (15 miles away from Carpentras) and I can’t say I miss the locals... Pity, really, as the area is absolutely magnificent.
So friendly here. Our French teacher is a star too. Funny old girl with a superb sense of humour and excellent grasp of the English language. Lucky too that she gets on really well with my wife (who is doing so well with the language) just waiting for covid easing for some social events together. She has never ending patience with my English stupidity Would add that we have been introduced to her family. Very accepting and they treat us as she does, as friends.
