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jpmaster wrote:
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John wrote: and dont be too exicted on travelling on british trains.... ;)
I think you have never been on a hungarian train :) 2nd class, no smoking (but the 1/3 of the passengers are smoking)
yep, sounds like Britain...not to mention babies crying, phones ringing and you have to listen to how poor someones sex life is because they can't be bothered to speak to someone at a normal volume of noise.
in the 'quiet' coach where no mobile phones are supposed to be used....


drunk chavs also seem to feature A LOT....
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I had the best today... an accountant literally shouting expletives at his laptop. I sat opposite him, quietly soaking the floor with tears.
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lmao. If he asked nicely maybe the laptop would have done what he wanted.
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Well... I'm sure the bloke in front of him thought the same when he asked him to "nicely" SHUT THE f*** UP!

lmao... just another day on a Plymouth-Glasgow Voyager service!
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Guh, its Virgin! explains everything. Wireless Internet probably didnt work, or was not yet installed contrary to their continued assurances.
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its not installed for public use on their trains yet. Only in the first class lounges
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And now we have all the information we need to solve the case of the business man and the abnormal continued use of swearing.
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Oh, no... Looking over at his work he was doing some complicated code, by the looks. I was all for asking him what it was.

That's all I could see from my position anyway.
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Nah I wasn't - I was looking at porn in code ;)

heh...

I probs missed Dave by a matter of moments - I was going from Birmingham to Shrewsbury yesterday afternoon
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