I'd recommend directing said pouting at the First Great Western train company
They charge obscenely unreasonable prices to get between London and the West of England. I would hope that a well-organised mass pout outside their head offices might encourage them to recitfy this.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 11:55, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

£12 each way from the midlands :D

( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 11:58, Reply)

What the wobbling buggery-fuck?
Hang on...how many months in advance did you have to book that?
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:00, Reply)

6 days

(Himjim died a little more inside on, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:02, Reply)

£12 return from Birmingham to London
on the day, as long as you don't mind it taking 2.5 hours on the Chiltern train rather than just over an hour on the Virgin one.
(berk, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Hmm...clearly I've just had bad experiences when I've had to travel to Reading with them.
(Worst of all, at the end of the outbound journey I find myself in fucking Reading...)

Edit: Hang on, I've been retarded as usual. Just remembered that Brum would, of course, be serviced by Virgin trains, not FGW. *spangs self duly*
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:05, Reply)

The worst thing about that train is it's full of people from Derby by the time it gets to Birmingham

( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:11, Reply)

Derby Birmingham
gets to pulls out of
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:13, Reply)

I will organise something along those lines immediately to encourage that rectification.

(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 26 Nov 2010, 11:59, Reply)

Get the megabus then you plank
It'll probably cost you less than a tenner return.
(berk, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 11:59, Reply)

You've seen the size of me
Folding myself into a bus seat for three or four hours is a less-than-ideal solution to the problem.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:01, Reply)

how tall are you?

(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:02, Reply)

About 6'2"
Legroom is frequently an issue.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Depends how badly you want to go to the bash, I guess
they're not that bad - the ex and I used to get the megabus occasionally and he's 6'5.
(berk, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:04, Reply)

And they are proper coaches now, aren't they?
I was put off after I spent several hours in a retro-fitted double decker bus stuck on a seat next to my not-as-tall-but-certainly-wider friend from Bristol to London.

(How did your ex cope? Did he have an extra pair of knees or something?)
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:12, Reply)

you must have looked weird standing together
my ex of a long time ago was 6'5 but I'm 5'10 in heels so there wasn't a huge gap.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:19, Reply)

Probably a similar gap between myself and a not-too-distant ex,
who was 5'0.

Basically I looked like a nonce.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:21, Reply)

I also had a 5' ex once.
And also looked like a nonce.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:23, Reply)

Monty, the apostrophe is supposed to indicate 'feet'
Not 'years of age.'
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Ah, my mistake.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:29, Reply)

My ex is 5'3 and had a crazy look in her eye

( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:38, Reply)