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ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote:

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> Yes, re-nationalise it!


CWALD! We agree! See I'm not all bad. I think some shareholders might not like us though.


Jeremy - really? Are you serious? I could see it working on very short routes where people travel only a few stops but anything longer and journeys would be exhausting. Not to mention the elderly, those with children, etc.

Commuting is hell - other people are hell (well those standing too close to me are).


If I could earn the same in ED as I do in the West End (or even just a bit less) I'd jump at the chance - it would improve my standard of living considerably.


(Puts hands down)

Brendan Wrote:

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> Hands ups if you are in an office which you had to

> commute to and you could just as easily be doing

> your job from a business centre based in ED.

>

> Ok hands down now people are looking.


[Puts hand up]


Now, you try telling my boss that!

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Jeremy - really? Are you serious? I could see it

> working on very short routes where people travel

> only a few stops but anything longer and journeys

> would be exhausting. Not to mention the elderly,

> those with children, etc.


I wasn't being totally serious. But there more I think about the idea, the more I like it. Fold down seats could be provided, which are locked shut during peak hours. The elderly could have a separate compartment with floral armchairs and free cakes... give us all something to look forward to in a few years time.

So is the idea suggested by ???? (Loadsamoney?)to meet up with burning torches and pitchforks to sort out this uppity chav still a goer or not?

Debag the oik I say, that'll teach him some manners. It's what Boris Johnson would do.

Not at all Sean, though if there's any sort of prize attached to such a feat then I'll happily accept it. Just a combination of being off work sick, having a sleepless night and being new to the board.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> great name too btw. If you are sick tho can I

> assume you won't be making an appearance tonight?



Thanks and I like the name Sean too.


How the compliments flow when the quality meet as Brendan Behan once wrote. Though it was ironic when he wrote it, but not when I did.


Cheers, have a good Burns night.

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