What are you talking about? I grew up in an area that essentially runs on trains, I never had to drive anywhere when I lived in the city and even if I wanted to get to surrounding suburbs there were trains to take me there. There are lots of cities in America with amazing subway and elevated transit systems.

I love Cyber Monday

I have 7 new dresses and a new pair of shoes :)

Actually you both make good points. Some urban train/subway systems in the US are indispensable and convenient, even for surrounding suburbs.

On the other hand, convenient and efficient cross country travel on a train in the US is a joke compared to the systems in Europe.

We would probably seem very quaint to the European visitor. We've still got a very old milk cart which delivers all sorts of things to our houses, the roads are cobbled in some places, the houses are all built out of sandstone and milstone grit but yet the trains are electric. Explain?

I just talked to someone who lived in England for a year, some time back.
He thinks it's awful. The english themselves are allright, except that they do everything in 'groups'. The the country seems like a third world country. Everything is broken :D.

That's what he said, at least.

You're an outlier, dude.

Most of middle America doesn't have access to cheap rail systems; the exceptions to that are almost always major cities, and even they don't necessarily have anything going for them. Getting around in LA on public transport is an absolute nightmare.

Not quite everything is broken! I'm sure in central London they've got themselves a nice little patch of unspoiled land.
"Do everything in 'groups'"? I'm not sure about that. We aren't much more of a country for cliques or circles than any other. In the country, people are generally more friendly and kinder to "foreigners" (except in rich areas), being everyone from outside Cheshire. Certainly we've got some very well attended clubs; the Ritz in Manchester for example.

I dunno, the guy said you are very much a country for cliques. I'm not sure if he was right, but the guy's 50 now. I think it may have been 25 or 30 years back he lived there.

lemme guess, he was in a university?

Dunno! Don't think so, I'll ask later :)

get paid on sunday. my social life has been tragic recently.

I cant stand England sometimes.

On the news today, over 20,000 people complained about Jeremy Clarkson making a few jokes!
We all know what he's like.
If you dont like him, grab the remote and switch off!

Jesus! Who the f*ck are these people?

Get a life!

I friggin' love Clarkson.
And if people don't like british humor, they should move out alltogether.

Agreed :pssst:

I just read what it was all about (didn't know yet) and yes with remarks like that you are bound to get criticized. But come on... you just know he's not that serious.

An alumnus from my high school (which graduates between 30-60 people per class, so it's tiny and everyone knows everyone) who is an actor (Broadway, a few small film roles, and a short-lived TV series) is dating a girl who has a TV show coming up in February on NBC. It's called "Smash", and she plays one of the main characters, a woman fighting Katharine McPhee for the role of Marilyn Monroe.

She's a REALLY nice woman, and I'm really hoping this is a successful show - for those of you who've watched Louie or Bones, she's had pretty big parts in episodes of those series, and quite a lot of Broadway success (Wicked, 9 to 5, etc.).

This show could either bomb miserably, or be an extremely popular television series. I see it as NBC's answer to Glee, but with professional theatre instead of high school Glee club. Not really my kind of show premise, but I'm definitely watching it to support one of the nicest peeps I've ever met.

The Soft Parade is definitely the Doors' best album.

Bit miserable. Sorry about that.

And by the way, Jeremy Clarkson said that the strikers ought to be shot in front of their families.
I'll have him know that the strike allowed us to arrive about half an hour earlier than normal this wednesday!

i haven't seen that episode yet, but i don't think he was making a joke, sounds like he's serious

The audience did laugh at that comment. He said something like "how dare they think that they can complain about having their pensions lowered to what the rest of us get?"

I can see a lot of people agreeing with this.

On a related note, my old dad, who is a university professor, got into a huge row with his trade union over this. They wanted him to strike, he said that it was a political strike and wanted nothing to do with it, and in the end he ended up leaving the commitee. He's going to retire soon anyway, so I don't think he'll suffer much.

No, wait, you forgot something here.
The media says the strikers ought to be shot in front of their families.
Somewhere earlier he says to have said that he's in favor of the strike.

meeeh?!?!?!

Sorry. Again. Now without the important missing words;

The Media says he said the strikers ought to be shot in front of their families.
Somewhere earlier in the same interview he appeared to have said that he's actually in favor of the strike.

Exactly.

And thanks to Vanilla for that picture.

Oh, another onboard footage video for those who give a f*ck:


300 miles and nothing really interesting happened.
Apart from me getting very lost :D

F**************************ck!

Dammit, too late.

You know your post count won't go up when posting here, right?

It won't go up at all while i'm logged on

Lol. Modpowers.

Should I spoil the surprise for him, or just let him find out on his own?

Because we're a bunch of elitist cunts.

Next question?

...I'm gonna let him find out.

From the rules:

SPOILER ALERT JANZS geez

Apparently I've got 677, but it only says 498. It comes with living in the same time zone as Urb.

And by the way, can't he contribute to the songwriters section?

:laughing:

Nothing to do with me

I was going to wait until you got to 1000 and do it all in one go.

Huh. The post count doesn't really matter, though. The fact is that when I posted them, people will have read them and been able to communicate with me. And to be honest, Urb, I post here far to often and perhaps I ought to go back and delete some of my more useless posts...

Save you overworked mods a job, right?