Whinging 'southerners'

Faustus said:
What is it about southerners? They whinge if it rains, they whinge when it snows, it even makes the national news. The latest in a long line of whinging is the Kings Cross train debacle. Again this has made the national news headlines, network rail boss has had to forgo his bonus and there are questions being asked by government.

So, some much needed engineering works overran, folk missed a few hours of shopping - big deal. We had years of disruption when the west coast mainline was upgraded. That didn't make national news headlines, we didn't demand anyone's head, we simply got on with life.

No wonder the Aussies call the Brits 'whinging poms'. If based on southerners they do have a point.
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Steady on old sport, got to polish the Rolls, don't you know? Wouldn't go "oop north" anyway, I've heard its full of those ghastly northern types. Dreadful plebs from I've heard, dahling.
 
Let's just hope the late night transport is running OK to get the London New Year revellers home or else we'll have more days of moaning and whinging. :p
 
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Murf said:
Do you know why there's more journeys in London and the South East than other areas?

1 - There's more people (my figures were investment per head, not in total per region)
2 - The infrastructure. More people would travel by train in other parts of the country if the infrastructure existed or (where it does exist) wasn't unfit for purpose!

It's a self fulfilling prophecy. London needs more capacity so build Crossrail. But building Crossrail means businesses choose to locate to London (With its increased capacity) rather than Birmingham or Manchester. This means you need Crossrail 2, which drives further growth which means Crossrail 3 ad infinitum.
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Let's face it, even if there were good train lines to Newcastle no one would want to live there. Even Alan Pardew preferred to move to Croydon of all places. :eek:
 
Because people coming in and out of xkcross all have or going shopping!!

Having use this station for my daily commute I would say about 1% are shoppers incidentally all whining Northeners ;)
 
Em3bbs said:
Let's face it, even if there were good train lines to Newcastle no one would want to live there. Even Alan Pardew preferred to move to Croydon of all places. :eek:
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Newcastle is a fantastic city and I'd urge anyone who hasn't been to have a shufty around. Fantastic city centre, legendary nightlife, almost pathological friendliness towards others and home of Pink Lane Coffee house, opposite Central Station ..... the finest coffee I have had anywhere in the country.
 
Em3bbs said:
Let's face it, even if there were good train lines to Newcastle no one would want to live there. Even Alan Pardew preferred to move to Croydon of all places. :eek:
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Because Pardew owns a single brain cell? People from all over the world - not just the UK - come to Newcastle and think the opposite of you.

Threads like these are the blight of GD.
 
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If this is the promised land,
I've had all I can stand,
And I'm headed back below that Dixie line
Well I just don't fit in,
And I'll never come back again,
I'm busted here with Dixie on my mind,
Oh, I'm stuck up here and I got Dixie on my mind.
 
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