The servants use public transport most of us are driven around. You lot still use a horse and cart.
Whinging 'southerners'
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The servants use public transport most of us are driven around. You lot still use a horse and cart.
I've never understood the whole northerners/southerners thing and its location. Surely the north should be above the midpoint of the country and the south should be below the midpoint? Seems to me it's just a case of self entitled people claiming the area above them personally is north and the area below south... which ends up with thousands of geographical misrepresentations
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It's pathetic that's why.
So much this.
Learn to speak properly Northerner's.
Its all about the whippets and flat caps, being exploited in mills and pits. Balm cakes and such
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If the passengers were at Kings Cross, then maybe it was whinging northerners unable to return to home?
As a commuter myself, I have to put up with service disruption but understand and accept that this is 100% necessary, even if it's at the cost of my convenience. It's not different to major road works IMHO.
If the passengers were at Kings Cross, then maybe it was whinging northerners unable to return to home?
All hoping for cheap return fares after having come down for the sales with the intention of buying next year's cards and presents.
Maggie says hi.
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I went up North once, all they did was drink and moan about Thatcher.
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The complaining about disruption doesn't bother me. I would love that amount of disruption up here as it would imply money is actually being spent on improvements!!
And the additional spend in the North-West is only because of Sellafield! North-south divide? No bloody wonder.
There's over 700 million rail journeys per year in London, more than the Midlands and North put together, we actually use it so that's why it gets the spending and that's why it's a big deal when engineering over runs. If a single station closed in the North, do you think the alternative would end up looking like this:
Fed up of all the moaning about the investment London gets, it's the financial capital, get used to it.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...ta/file/363718/rail-trends-factsheet-2014.pdf
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I've never understood the whole northerners/southerners thing and its location. Surely the north should be above the midpoint of the country and the south should be below the midpoint? Seems to me it's just a case of self entitled people claiming the area above them personally is north and the area below south... which ends up with thousands of geographical misrepresentations
Scotland = North
Yorkshire = Middle
Birmingham and below = South
Wales = Leeks
Ireland = Leprechauns
Simple no?
I hate them both. Midlands master race checking in.
Isn't the midlands just South North though?
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I'm sure we all complain as much as each other but I must say anything that impacts London even in the slightest seems to make national news very quickly.
There's over 700 million rail journeys per year in London, more than the Midlands and North put together, we actually use it so that's why it gets the spending and that's why it's a big deal when engineering over runs. If a single station closed in the North, do you think the alternative would end up looking like this:
Fed up of all the moaning about the investment London gets, it's the financial capital, get used to it.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...ta/file/363718/rail-trends-factsheet-2014.pdf
Don't get in the way of a misinformed ranting
Probably because of the respective impact it has, due to the population density etc. The main newspapers are all based in London as well so it's easy news.