Train driver, husband, dad/grandpa, snapper, whippet owner, cider & ale fan, centre-left. ASLEF. Part-time misanthrope. Opinions unrelated to employer.
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Meanwhile on Normal Island, a petition to defund the RNLI is gaining momentum, but there’s just one teeny, tiny little problem - the RNLI is funded through charitable donations. This basically means that there’s nothing to actually f*****g defund you absolute weapons-grade, 63-carat c**kwombling thunderc***s.
DE-DEFUND THE RNLI - rebrand.ly/imvl9mb
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When I find myself in times of trouble, Jenrick’s promoted over me, I’m completely fucking useless, 30p 🎶
#PoliticizeMusic
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It's July 24th 1995 and Class 117 117310 is off to the Fife Circle from Edinburgh Waverley.
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Protesting against the RNLI is grim enough.
Doing it within sight of Penlee Point is a whole other level of vile.
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Apparently being a 'Patriot' nowadays means loving Russia over the UK, loving Israel over the UK, loving the US over the UK...oh and shouting 'Traitors!' at RNLI volunteers...it's a funny old world.
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In case you had any doubt about who encouraged the bigots and racists to pile on to the RNLI.
His usual approach. Light the touch paper, retreat to a safe distance and wait for the gullible to do your bidding.
Meanwhile, you delete the post so you can say ‘not me guv.’
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Twats often argue that immigration has diluted British culture, but we tend to ignore the elephant in the room: the influence American culture has had on Britain over the last 40 years or so. I mean, proms. WTF?
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We are used to seeing the 1920s in black and white. This is what London actually looked like, in full color, more than a hundred years ago.
What you are watching comes from The Open Road, filmed in the summer of 1924 by a British cinematographer named Claude Friese-Greene. It is some of the earliest colour film of London ever made.
What I love about this film is that the color collapses the distance between us and them.
The black-and-white footage we are used to is beautiful, but it makes the past feel like another world. Colour changes that. Red buses, a blue sky, the green of the trees, and suddenly 1924 does not feel like history at all...
What most people don't know is that this footage was one man's attempt to finish his father's life's work: Claude was the son of William Friese-Greene, one of the pioneers of early cinema. Together they had spent years developing a way to capture true color on film, using a system of spinning red and blue-green filters in front of the camera. The process was flawed. It flickered, it produced strange color fringes around anything that moved too fast, and it was soon overtaken by better systems and forgotten. Claude set out on a journey by car from Land's End to the north of Scotland, filming the whole country in his imperfect color, trying to prove that his father's dream could work.
For decades the footage sat largely unseen, its flaws making it almost unwatchable. Then, in our own century, the British Film Institute used digital technology to clean away the flicker and the fringing, revealing what Friese-Greene had actually captured: a lost world, brought back to life in color.
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Now u look stupid
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Two East Midlands trains collided near Bedford today. One from Corby, one from Nottingham, both heading to London St Pancras. The rear one hit the train in front after it had stopped, around 5:15pm.
Passengers said it felt like a bomb going off. Smoke, people thrown from seats, blood everywhere. They had to get out through damaged doors in the middle of the chaos. One person confirmed dead so far, dozens injured including 11 very serious cases. It's been declared a major incident. Air ambulances, fire, police and paramedics all turned up fast. The line's shut and hospitals are dealing with it.
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch is looking into exactly what happened. Early reports suggest the lead train stopped, possibly over a safety system issue, and the one behind didn't stop in time.
This comes after rail companies have spent years pushing diversity targets in driver recruitment. Over the last couple of years there were comments from diversity leads at places like GTR noting that most drivers are middle-aged white men and calling for more varied hires to bring "creativity and fun" into the job. The emphasis was less on putting the most experienced and qualified people in the seat.
The BBC complained that there were simply too many middle-aged white men driving the trains. It didn't matter that they were hired for their competence or that they held their jobs because of their experience. What matters is that they had to go. Diversity was more important.
Jobs where one mistake can kill people don't run on good intentions or optics. They run on competence, training, experience and focus. When any of that gets treated as secondary to other priorities, passengers end up paying for it.
Britain needs the investigation to be proper and transparent. No rushing to conclusions before the facts are clear. But the basic point stands: critical roles like this can't afford to compromise on who does them.
Thoughts with everyone caught up in it and their families.
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It was on the 12th of June in the summer of 1976 that we got to #1 in the charts aboard The Combine Harvester! And who would have thought that 50 years on we would still be going, and still making people dance, sing and laugh!😁
THANK YOU to everybody for your support!😀🍏🍻
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This really is Two-Tier Britain. Those who know how to respect a grieving family’s wishes, and those who don’t.
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How does ‘boycotting the RNLI’ work exactly? If you’re in a boat at sea in need of rescue and they turn up to help, do you just shout ‘nah mate we’re fine’ and then sink?
