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This is a link post Paris subway train with a surprise
It is an ordinary train from the outside, but when you get on that train you find yourself in a fairytale.
 (stepdeki, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:08, Reply)
This is a normal post Try that in london and it'll be covered in CDCs and tramps piss in no time.

(I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:12, Reply)
This is a normal post actaully...
there was a thing recently where they hung grandmasters paintings around soho... hardly any got graphed...

i dont think they like drawing over actual art....

so this might fly

I WANT A STAIR CASE ON MY TUBE!
 (DefyingDarwin Old, untalented and white,, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:24, Reply)
This is a normal post I remember that
it was great. I very drunkenly tried to explain a painting by Tintoretto to a girl I was trying to chat up, at about 1 in the morning. Half way through my expert exposition, she pointed at the label and pointed out that it was a Titian.
 (SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:34, Reply)
This is a normal post Not everyone will call it art but "cans festival" used to have some good stuff on a regular basis.
Every few weeks some new bits of work to see and watch artists at work.

Then it all got covered in little scrots tagging their name over everything.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:35, Reply)
This is a normal post tagging isnt gaffitti
its vandalism... can't stop tagging...

untill the concentration camps are started... then i'll stop tagging.. and listening to music on inbuilt mobile phone speakers.

and people who need to be prompted to use the self service till at tescos WHY DO YOU NOT GO UNTILL I ASK IF I CAN USE IT?
 (DefyingDarwin Old, untalented and white,, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:01, Reply)
This is a normal post because they're crap and I hate them,
and if I'm going to do your job for you I damn well want paying minimum wage for the time I spend doing it. So even if you prompt me to, I still won't.
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:09, Reply)
This is a normal post im not talking about
people who catagorically WONT use them..thats your right as an individual...

what makes my blood boil is people who wont use them UNTILL ive pointed out to them that one is spare...
 (DefyingDarwin Old, untalented and white,, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:20, Reply)
This is a normal post yeah they probably feel the same way as me but aren't so strongly principled about it,
most people are quite easy to herd about, they don't want to upset an authority figure. They'll just do what you suggest and grumble about it under their breath.
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:23, Reply)
This is a normal post People who 'tag' stuff should be injected with petrol.

(pissflaps. FSPW, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:12, Reply)
This is a normal post You wooly liberals and your floaty ideals.
Also
answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060708064844AAkTUQH
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:28, Reply)
This is a normal post whats the point of that...
if your not going to set them on fire from the inside out?
 (DefyingDarwin Old, untalented and white,, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:32, Reply)
This is a normal post The psychology behind it is interesting:
When going into an impeccable looking public loo, the individual makes more of an effort to keep it that way. When it ends up covered in toilet paper and grafitti, people soon decide to shit up the walls. They call it the broken window theory.
 (I helped save b3ta! maninahat Too many cocks spoil the brothel., Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:33, Reply)
This is a normal post I think paris is worse for tagging and graffiti
This train will be wrecked in no time.
 (Miggyman, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 14:09, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm always a little disappointed by first class on trains,
this is what I expect it to be like.
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:13, Reply)
This is a normal post Can't find pics online
but until about the 1920s there used to be special carriages into and out of the City on some London Underground services, where the carriage was all cut glass mirrors, wood-panelling, and chandeliers, and there were leather armchairs and a bar so you could relax with a G&T after a hard day in the office.

That's the sort of thing I want when I pay for first class. Nowadays it's an extra £50 for a bigger chair and free coffee.
 (SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:20, Reply)
This is a normal post if you book in advance you can get an upgrade for next to nothing,
they give you your dinner in the East Coast main line too, and wine.

But I still expect mahogany panelling, brass fittings and lampshades with tassels on.
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:23, Reply)
This is a normal post I was thinking Virgin Trains
which is normally crap. East Coast is better when I've travelled it though, yeah. Chiltern too.
 (SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:26, Reply)
This is a normal post virgin are terrible,
the toilets stink the whole carriage out and luggage doesn't fit in the overhead luggage racks, either. Also lucky if they don't go on fire.
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Now you know
what the men's toilets are like in traditional pubs
 (I helped save b3ta! The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:38, Reply)
This is a normal post Still cannot beat
the Moscow Metro
 (I helped save b3ta! The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:18, Reply)
This is a normal post I know their stations are incredible,
but what are the trains like?

I think my favourite fact about the Moscow metro is that their circle line is actually a circle. Just because they decided it should be.
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:21, Reply)
This is a normal post Trains are typical Russian
clean and functional, what amazed me too was the dogs that travel alone and know what stops to get off

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPi7tIm9tj4
 (I helped save b3ta! The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:28, Reply)
This is a normal post Come to south east London
We've got pigeons that do that.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:38, Reply)
This is a normal post one of either London Bridge or Paddington
(I don't remember which) has an open-plan food court on the concourse. Bad idea.
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:57, Reply)
This is a normal post I don't want to come over like some massive train geek
because I'm really not (I just happen to have read a book about the Tube recently), but the Circle Line on Moscow Metro is quite interesting. Engineers who'd worked on the London Underground told them to avoid a Circle, as it was a total pain and there were too many junctions with other lines. Khruschev, who'd had been put in charge of the project by Stalin, decided fuck it, we'll have a Circle Line anyway. Since they were building from scratch rather than melding lots of different lines togehter as happened in London, it actually turned out to be quite easy to build, and just demonstrated how much of a mess the London system is.
 (SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Or the prospect of being sent to a work gulag, fed feet first into a furness or just worked to death.
Really makes you concentrate on what you're doing in Stalinist russia.

Another great Stalins project was the road of bones built by political prisoners.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:39, Reply)
This is a normal post or demolishing this
what was rebuilt and reopened in 2000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHq7ZX54fZA

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Christ_the_Saviour
 (I helped save b3ta! The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:43, Reply)
This is a normal post has the narrator got a cold?

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:53, Reply)
This is a normal post Which Tube book? I've read (and recommended) three on here recently.
(You massive train geek)
[edit] Reading your post makes me think it was Andrew Martin's "Overground, Underground".
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:16, Reply)
This is a normal post Andrew Martin
yes. It wasn't brilliant - quite bitty in a lot of places - but still plenty of nice little facts and stories.

Also, it send me on a spending spree for vintage Tube posters. Currently have this in my kitchen: www.amazon.co.uk/Brightest-London-Reached-Underground-Poster/dp/B0049A9EK4/ref=sr_1_2?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1342011258&sr=1-2

EDIT: And which other Underground books are any good, then (you massive train geek)?
 (SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:54, Reply)
This is a normal post I'll ignore that, Mr Buys-Gay-Posters.
Christian Wolmar's "Subterranean Railway".
And I can't remember the one before Andrew Martin's....ask me again, I'll look on my kindle.
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 14:43, Reply)
This is a normal post this is why we can't have nice t..
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 (I helped save b3ta! --- ---, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:23, Reply)
This is a normal post J'adore le RER.

(I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:26, Reply)
This is a normal post You ever going to join in with conversations or just going to post inane links?
6 links posted so far.
 (I helped save b3ta! Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:43, Reply)
This is a normal post Imagine someone posting links on /links
Don't be a massive retard, Bentos
 (I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:44, Reply)
This is a normal post Oi! Shut it you ;-)
Perhaps I should have advised him to post it on /talk. That's the usual solution at these times.
 (I helped save b3ta! Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:52, Reply)
This is a normal post please stop doing that

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 12:59, Reply)
This is a normal post STOP IT! you're tearing this family apart!
he he
 (I helped save b3ta! --- ---, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:07, Reply)
This is a normal post ^What ManMeat said

(I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:11, Reply)
This is a normal post Is that your new name for me?
It's rather good. Could be an off-the-wall superhero. My alias is Sir Loin Manmeat.
 (I helped save b3ta! Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:17, Reply)
This is a normal post I agree
with this


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