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« on: October 01, 2024, 12:50:13 »
https://www.facebook.com/A.Travel.Bucket.List/posts/pfbid02Gu4MwtiYDEnJmUWHN1kcDxkTpTd13eDLRrUCRJzYN6Cjt6JtymRAuPKYKQk1NjYbl

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In Cluj-Napoca, Romania, you can pay for your bus ticket by doing 20 squats. A device measures the squats and issues a bus ticket valid for a trip in the CTP Cluj Napoca network (urban area). Disabled and elderly people can ride for free.
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« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2024, 16:19:17 »
I look forward to GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) introducing a similar system, and seeing a similar photo of Graham adopting a similar pose in front of a ticket machine at Melksham!

(After 25 years playing in the front row, if I tried to get as low as the young lady in the picture, my knees would never allow me to get up again!)  Cheesy
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« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2024, 09:07:10 »
Snap, that's also the sound my knee would make these days.
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