Right… where on earth do I start.???
How about that thirteen year old boy who looks like an eight year old and knocked up his 14 year old girlfriend.? Or is that too obvious even for me perhaps.? Judging by the first reports from the girls house the parents are to blame (obviously) but I am sure the boys parents are just as much. A case of “where is your son?” – “At some bird’s house sleeping in her bed and banging her in between doing her maths homework and making sure her tamagotchi is still alive).
I was checking out the classic show for those of you who feel bad about your personal look, hygiene or appearance earlier. Mr Jeremy of Kyle. All you need to do to make yourself feel so much better about life is to settle down, switch on the TV and check out his guests. Especially shouty slappers who have eight kids all looked after by a “friend” and doesn’t have a clue who their father’s are. Or shouty youths who think they know better and smack their bitches up whilst drinking their benefit money away.
Oh it makes you feel so good.!
The Labour party have awarded a contract to Jap firm Hitachi to build new trains worth £7.5 BILLION for the East and Great Western Main Lines. This didn’t make my tummy feel all lovely and so the Guardian website got this little rant from me…
“Firstly electrifcation is not the answer to everything. It is inefficient in comparison to diesel power (where on earth do you think the electricity comes from?? Power stations, burning oil or fuel passing it via transformers, lots of loss through various radiation points (heat from transformer vanes for instance). Most of the current multiple units in use are diesel engines running through a mechanical final drive meaning no loss through voltage conversion although thermal energy loss may be an issue within the gear boxes (as well as the obvious tractive effort being lower depending on the rolling resistance of the stock itself ).
Secondly, why do you think the country is full of General Motors USA devised class 66’s.? Because British built locos were so badly put together they had far less availability than anything they could build overseas.
It does worry me that the East Coast mainline Class 91 sets will be superceded as there is nothing wrong with them, they are quiet and fast and recently refurbished.! As a Great Western Mainline user I am terrified by the news that we are getting Diesel Multiple unit style trains again, we only just got rid of the horrendous Adelante units, which like all DMUs, have underfloor engines which will ALWAYS be noisier than a standard locomotive hauled carriage. First Group have already ruined the interiors of the current HST sets with their “design” led meddling and now they wish to make them louder as well.!
Goodness forbid the new sets are anything like Virgin’s horrible Voyagers, modern trains should be more spacious and comfortable, NOT airline style seating and no luggage space crammed into DMUs. Even the West Coast Pendos are more cramped than a standard HST (which is the ULTIMATE in UK trains, obviously).
Oh and the use of hybrid trains sets (bi-mode, call it what you will) is very common in many countries. We in the UK have had bi-mode locos for about 40 years (class 73 and 74) so please try picking up a book on trains before writing ill-informed articles”
And that is just about it for now. Maybe a little more later… you know, I am sure i had more to say, I wonder what it was about.!?