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Same, and definitely agree with what you're saying. There must be a way of getting round it though, how do the canadians/russians do it - anyone? That's something I hadn't thought of, and makes sense in the health and safety world we live in.

I totally agree, I'm just hoping someone will point it out. It's probably hugely obvious but I just don't see it. One of those things that really doesn't matter in the long run but really gets on my tits.

Just because I'm mega mega sad. I also just found some stats for the amount of people passing into each station in the UK. I narrowed this down to just the Southern network and excluded season ticket holders because they wouldn't be spending money day to day. I then averaged this to a daily amount of people - 101,272. Let's assume (because there is a limit even to my sadness) that 20% of these people will have been able to get a train anyway during this period of cancellations and disruptions, which means that 81,018 people PER DAY couldn't make their journey (read as: BUY A TICKET AND GIVE SOUTHERN MONEY). Even if this is only £3 a ticket (which is ridiculously small) it means £243,053 revenue PER DAY lost. Sure, they wont have been paying certain outgoings during this time but I doubt it would balance that out. I guess my whole argument rests on how much it would have cost them to buy, fit, and run a plough. I'm sure they have people who think like this, so really it's a meaningless rant but I'm bored at work so there we go.

Hence the retro fitting bit, just fit them when needed to trains that are undercover when the snow falls. In regards to how much of a difference it would make, I just think about my local operator - Southern. Here's the map of their network: Train goes to London Bridge, and does one big ass plough down to brighton then comes back up to Croydon, down to Uckfield, up to Hurst Green, down to East Grinstead, up to Croydon, down to Caterham, repeat for Tattenham Corner. That's a big ass segment done in like 4 hours NOT the 3 days it has taken for me to get on a train this morning only to get a rail failure and be delayed by half hour anyway. In those 3 days, do you not think they lost enough money on those lines alone to pay a couple of grand for plough? And how long do ploughs last? Worthwhile investment, even if it only happens once every 10 years, in my eyes. I'm not having a go, it just doesn't make logical business sense to me for them to have taken this long faffing around. Snow, although not common in this amount in this country, is something which DOES happen and DOES need a contingency plan.

That was my first thought about ploughs too, but what's wrong with putting a plough scoop on the front of normal train? Surely it could be retro fitted somehow when needed? If not, what about the machinery that is used to repair tracks? This is much more like heavy plant machinery and could definitely be made to take a plough. I don't think there's any real excuse for the rail network not to have a few of those floating about...

Why not just put them to good use by locking them up forever, but in a place to make my trainers. The UK struggles to get its manufacturing costs down, and yet there's all those thousands there who aren't worth minimum wage. Sorted. I personally wouldn't be against the death penalty if it was in place, but I don't know whether I would vote for it given the choice.

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My advice would be to do whatever you are interested in. There is no point in doing something just because you think it will benefit you in the future, you will get bored and drop it or get shit grades. A lot of people do something like Media or Film studies to pad out their timetable because it is fun to do. I picked Maths, Computing, Business Studies and Electronics and I dropped electronics within 6 months because I wasn't even slightly interested in it...

That's completely the reason why it IS viable, topical and interesting to the right people. The drop in the value of the pound means that it is commercially viable for UK firms to have their products made in the UK instead of elsewhere. And with unemployment at a ridiculously large amount at the moment, labour costs are falling by the minute. It is time for a new era of UK engineering and manufacturing. Whether that's interesting or not is a matter of personal taste, and obviously it doesn't appeal to you, but it doesn't make it untrue. It also makes it an examiners dream, hence my easy distinction at GNVQ and A at A level - and that's all that matters isn't it?

Pretty much anything UK based in the manufacturing industries which have recently been outsourced elsewhere around the world are loving the climate at the moment, perhaps look at the re-expansion of one of those firms that were forced to downsize due to not being price competitive with far eastern manufacturers?

As an album it's definitely in my top 3, but didn't want to over big it originally because so many people would start debating what makes 'recent times' and how sugerbabes clearly have the best album of the century...

I was kind of getting at the fact the lyrics while he's hidden behind the piano are just the word f**k in various forms, live on radio. Hardly the process of a band who are just on a commercial mission.

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I always assumed that it wouldn't have human input till the end... Like a bot trawls through the videos running them through a system similar to that phone service where you phone it, play a song down the phone and it texts the song name back to you. Then all the ones it recognises get put through a list of songs the record companies want banned and actioned accordingly? If not, isn't that how it should be done?

Business GNVQ (2 Options), Resistant Materials and Humanities... 8/9 years ago... JEEZ

I presume, like the art titles I was ever given, that he just had to explore "Sets, Segments and Sequences"... Have you been given any material to study already that can give us more of an idea of what your teachers are looking for? Straight away you can think about trials moves as a set or sequence - i.e. photos of the beginning, middle and end of a move. The thing I found is that you can make the title of almost any school art project apply to absolutely anything you want with a little imagination.

Great power, as has been said... Am I the only one who feels like I could have a fit from all the flashes though? Seems a bit unnecessary and takes away from the smoothness of the video. Otherwise awesome work.

Am I completely missing something clever that you did there, or are you proving to me that my corrections are indeed correct?

Ultimately, if you really think an apology is what you need to do then great - fill yer boots. I guess what pissed me off mostly was the fact that not only do I think it's unnecessary to be clogging the forum up with shit like this, but you couldn't even concentrate on your spelling and grammar for that ONE post?! Being as that was one of the bits of the shit from last night. Ultimately I don't give a toss, but it just seems very attention seeking like Baby Pizzle already mentioned.

Me for one, I can't vouch for everyone else but lots of people just read what's been going on whenever they are online. And by generally not letting it slide. Fantastic, you were in a shit mood last night. Get over it and forget about it, everyone else will.

Seriously, just stop posting shit... Including this. Now you're not only annoying people who were around last night while you were being a dick, but you're also annoying people during the day! Great for apologising, but it's hardly worth a new thread when you've already apologised in the LNT?!

Totally agreed though. I can't stand it when people bring out that card. If you are dyslexic then you'd be careful with spell checkers and the like. If you're not then you're just stupid and lazy and need to sort it out. Makes me laugh when someone's given so many opportunities to get themselves out of a hole they've been digging, and they just keep asking for a bigger shovel.

Screenshot from sometime in March 2005...

Hell yea. I was bricking it the 2nd time in case I ended up with a pass 1st time, fail 2nd record...

Anyone else here passed both 1st AND 2nd times? 1st time I passed I got like 14 minors, 2nd time I got zero.