TWO HOURS?

It took over two hours for the train to travel from Nottingham to Manchester. TWO HOURS? It didn't get above walking pace for any part of the journey.

Two hours (plus 20 minutes to get home from Manchester) to travel 106 miles. PerTHETIC!

How crap are trains? Utter bollocks. That's what they are.

Of course, our carriage was blessed with the presence of a nutter: young, tall, Asian-looking feller who kept wailing out and sort of singing in what sounded like Arabic. I suppose the language and his racial background are irrelevant, he was just an annoying twat. I made the point of saying "Shurrup, dickhead" at the top of my voice and responding to his "singing" with calls of "nobhead!". He moved on.

Why do people have to act such utter wankers? And when he was outnumbered by about 30 to 1, why didn't anybody challenge him? I was on the verge of chucking an empty pop bottle at him when he moved. I might have been done for assault.

"I'm sorry Your Honour, he was a complete dick and he was annoying me, so I threw something at him."

"GUILTY AS CHARGED! Your sentence is to work the snack trolley on the Norwich to Liverpool Lime St route for ONE YEAR. Take her down."

"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!"

Trains are shit. You have reserved seats and find that they've been taken. There are no other seats. Do you a) let it go, b) tell em to shift. I went for b). I'm not taking any fucking shit on no train, fool! "I feel really bad for asking you to move, but these are our reserved seats and there's no other seating available. You can lean your crutch over there if you must."

And there's always that nonsense of travelling backwards too. What can't they make it so that all the seats face forwards?


Training courses can be shit, but I was on an interesting(ish) one today. If there's anything that really pisses me off about namby pamby NHS/social work types though; they assume that everybody who uses the health service in this country is: disabled; unemployed; black or asian; incapable of speaking English; illiterate. "We need to empower people, give them control of the entire process. They are the experts and should always take the lead." Bollocks. I could happily slap these patronising cunts, but I just make it known that I think they're talking utter shit.


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My Docs have come. They don't half hurt for a while when you're not used to them. Timberlands? Pfhah! These are the real babies. They're not actually, they're the greasy black ones with chunky soles and ankle padding. I'm bound to pull in these once I've managed to stop limping while wearing them.