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Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: How many cliches can you get into a sentence?
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on: June 19, 2020, 17:12:10
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...but when all's said and done, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. That might leave you sick as a parrot but remember it's a game of two halves, look on the bright side and if life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Stay hungry, that way you can bring home the bacon and put bread on the table, but never eat yellow snow or you'll go tits up (dot com) and be swimming with the fishes.
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / Heritage railway lines, Railtours, other rail based attractions / Re: The end of coal
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on: June 19, 2020, 09:54:16
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Ground-source, air-source and water-source heat pumps sound wonderful but in practice it's probably going to be a long time until most people can afford them without some form of assistance and there must be many buildings where it's impossible for engineering or geological reasons. Not to mention that landlords are not going to invest in these unless forced by law, and as at present rented domestic property is not even within scope of energy efficiency rating, there's scant likelihood of that. So for everyone else, if forced to give up gas heating, it will presumably be electric hot water and storage heaters.
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Facemasks. Change to attitudes (passengers and staff) on public transport?
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on: June 15, 2020, 17:05:08
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Having seen that Easyjey started flights today and with no social distancing https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53049338; how is it that social distancing isn't required on planes but is on trains and buses? It seems to me that it can have little to do with any medical/scientific reason and more to do with the financial support from the DfT» for trains and buses have but planes don't i.e. he who pays the piper calls the tunes. I understand the current cost of running all these empty trains is almost £600m a month, what happens when the Treasury says we are not going to pay that anymore? I understand, from a commercial pilot (not Easyjet), that the air circulation in passenger planes is from ceiling to floor rather than horizontally and to standards which actually exceed those applicable to an operating theatre. That might be an exaggeration, I don't know, but certainly they have safer air circulation, in this regard, than buses and trains, or cars for that matter. |
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Dream, nightmare or the future of long-haul travel?
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on: June 15, 2020, 14:36:30
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My son told me about a strange dream he had. He was on a school trip to America, for some reason, but they didn't have return tickets. They were told this didn't matter because flying with British Airways – for some reason it was specifically BA» – was truly public transport, walk on, walk off, no tickets required. So they walked on and were made to walk off again. The plane, incidentally, had no connecting corridor to the terminal; its door connected directly with the building.
One of the them said not to worry, he could buy tickets for everyone with an array of stolen credit cards. However, direct flights from New York to Bristol – because there were no longer any flights to London – cost $3,000 each. This made transport for the whole class too expensive even for a wallet full of stolen credit cards!
So they ended up on a bus, which took them through a tunnel under the Atlantic to France. Although they didn't actually want to go to France, but that's where the tunnel went.
What do the esteemed panel say? A trans-Atlantic (or rather sub-Atlantic) tunnel by, let's say, the end of the century? And direct flights from Bristol to the USA? I won't ask about teenagers with stolen credit cards as I don't feel that would be sufficiently forward-looking...
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