Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Mammy told me not to come.

[RichieM]

They've so many problems, as can be seen by nearly every city in Europe not using them.

Bendy buses, to use the Boris moniker, are much better for access for everyone. Loads of space for wheelchairs and buggies and ease of access for the elderly.

They have better suspension, so you don't have that horrible rickety sensation of double-deckers at the top.

Way easier to let people on and off so they have quicker stop-and-restart times at bus stops.

Much more widely manufactured so they are cheaper as a result - e.g. theres more cheap electric options.

Plus double-deckers have no actual advantages over bendy buses. Nothing.

This is actually a serious question

Does the extra length not cause more traffic congestion?

[Solksjaer!]

Bus wankers.

[ComradeCollie]

[Solksjaer!]

What was that song Lazare used to sing about Mickste?

Mickste it's me your Cathy oh come home now?

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[Strewelpeter]

"Believe in the double decker!"

+20

[Hectorjelly]

You should be ashamed of yourself.

"Today, the majority of buses running in Hong Kong are double-decker buses, and all of them are air-conditioned. Also, Hong Kong has a double-deck trams system, one of three only in the world as of 2015 and the only fleet which is all double-deck."

I was in Chile last year, and every bus I got was a double decker bus. QED

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[Guest]

"Believe in the double decker!"

Damn right!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr-lNUyuFWE

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[Hectorjelly]

I purposefully left out Hong Kong as a cunning trap - A-ha!

Double-deckers were introduced by the Brits to Hong Kong precisely to engender a feeling of closeness to London. More details on Hong Kong development here.

Double-deckers are a British disease.

Who brought them to Chile then?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/VnsDQBXjo5tHViGL8

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[Hectorjelly]

Is this what we're down to? Relying on Chile?

Does China count, or is that too provincial?

Besides Guilin and Nanning, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Dalian, Foshan and Kunming also have those buses in service, particularly on routes during rush hours.

[Guest]

[Hectorjelly]

Also that doesn't seem to be a double-decker bus, but rather a bus with only an upper deck.

No its a double decker, I know because I slept on the bottom.

https://www.wanderlustchloe.com/15-things-to-know-about-travelling-by-bus-in-chile/

" Buses in Chile are generally high quality modes of transport. The main companies you’ll see are Pullman and Turbus but depending on the destination you’ll encounter the likes of JAC, Jet Sur, Nilahue, Cruz Del Sur, Gama Bus and more.

The buses in Chile are what we would describe as coaches in the UK, and many are double decker."

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[Rufio]

Friday before a bank holiday weekend really do drag in work... looking forward to sitting out the back garden later, wonder just how well i'll be able to hear Kodaline in St Annes park...
I'm far enough away that I wont have any young ones puking or sh!tting in my front garden, but I think still close enough to get a decent listen.

[Denny Crane]

The long distance buses in SA aren't really comparable to city double-deckers.

[Denny Crane]

[Guest]

You know he's looking at all the females and thinking

[AndyFatBastard]

Leave double deckers alone

[DeadParrot]

[Tar.Aldarion]

They're fans of each other...

Love this guys earlier work

[Mellor]

The trains in Sydney are double deckers. The buses aren't.
Ireland needs to up its train game before we start overhauling bus fleets.

[newbie2]

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[Emmet]

Bus Wankers the lot of ye

[hotspur]

Is this what we're down to? Relying on Chile?

Maybe that's what is attracting Mocata?

[Raoul Duke III]

this day 6 years ago RDIII and I set sail for Epsom. One hell of a day that started with a 6am trek to the airport and ended with a 6am finish in the sporting emporium after a monster cash session. A lot of drink was consumed and a lot of fun was had.

That was some day. I even took the dog for a walk the night before with a twenty in my pocket and came home with a grand.

Highlights were ordering gin with breakfast, the waitress wondering did we want tonic with that: "of course, do we look like alcoholics?". Cleaning an uppity bookie out of his supply of Euros. Eating a fine platter of seafood in Gatwick and (I think) introducing GAB to oysters. Sweating like French rapists in our suits on a sweltering day. GAB falling asleep in every hand in the Aquarium, yet still managing to be awake enough to clean out several geniuses. Poor V trying to chaperone us.

Today I went to Ikea, built some furniture and saw Kodaline doing their warm-up in St Annes. Whiny wank-pop.

[Lao Lao]

In work earlier talking to somebody on the phone (landline) when my Dad rings my mobile. I can't get the other person off the phone so call the aul lad back a few minutes later. Conversation goes like this

Me : Howya, everything ok?
Dad : Yeah, grand, I was just ringing you to get your mobile number off you
Me : You rang me on my mobile?!?!?
Dad : I know yeah but your number is in the phone, I don't have it
Me : *In my head* sweet mother of Jebus
Me : ok, yeah, no problem, it's.....

[Raoul Duke III]

Friday before a bank holiday weekend really do drag in work... looking forward to sitting out the back garden later, wonder just how well i'll be able to hear Kodaline in St Annes park...
I'm far enough away that I wont have any young ones puking or sh!tting in my front garden, but I think still close enough to get a decent listen.

It's a 72 second journey for us. Quite a few walking past the front garden earlier.

Can't hear anything yet.

[Theresa]

Calgary has been smothered by wildfire smoke from the north. Its pretty suffocating. Like the end of the world out there.

Early start to all this malarky this year too which does not bode well for the summer.

Still playing 72 holes this weekend mind.

[Guest]

Calgary has been smothered by wildfire smoke from the north. Its pretty suffocating. Like the end of the world out there.

Early start to all this malarky this year too which does not bode well for the summer.

Still playing 72 holes this weekend mind.

Any Raptor buzz there? Went to so many games in the late 90s and early 2000s, even before they had a stadium but haven't followed in a while. Happy to see em finally get there.

[Lazare]

This tweet has taken over my life for the last few hours, why is it so familiar to so many people yet nobody can figure it out?

[Wesley Harms]

This tweet has taken over my life for the last few hours, why is it so familiar to so many people yet nobody can figure it out?

Looks like the Saved by the bell intro

[Lazare]

Looks like the Saved by the bell intro

That's suggested most, it's not though.

I'm thinking a black British female from the 80s but can't find it in my brain

[elbows]

That's suggested most, it's not though.

I'm thinking a black British female from the 80s but can't find it in my brain

I thought it was Belinda Carlisle or the B52’s but it’s not and GFYL

[ComradeCollie]

This tweet has taken over my life for the last few hours, why is it so familiar to so many people yet nobody can figure it out?

Might be bus seat upholstery from the 80's

[Lazare]

Might be bus seat upholstery from the 80's

Ha! Thought you were right there, but alas, no.

Bet it's something like that and everyone is thrown thinking of album covers.

[White Knight]

Definitely twigs something for me that it was a school book cover from late 80's or early 90's.

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[White Knight]

ah what about that English poetry school book? It is crazily familiar, but what...!

Was leaning towards Irish subject in secondary myself. But my googlefu is letting me down at the moment

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[Guest]

Fuck sake..Friday ruined by this...Its so familiar.

[White Knight]

Was leaning towards Irish subject in secondary myself. But my googlefu is letting me down at the moment

Actually Junior Cert French comes to mind now. No idea what the book was though.

[Guest]

Finishing a paper on Islamic finance today, a subject which, unlike double-decker buses, I know very little about. One thing that came up was the concept of zakat - charitable giving. It is the idea that every Muslim person must give 1/40th of their disposable wealth to charity, normally during ramadan.

Seemed extraordinarily generous, so was asking a buddy at work from Pakistan about whether it was really a thing.

He was saying that yep, absolutely everyone does this. So I was asking exactly how it works and he goes well you just add up your wealth take out 1/40th of it and then you identify someone in your wider social circle who needs help and send it off to them. This year his money went to someone very poor who helps out in his mosque back in Pakistan whose daughter is hoping to get married this year. So his whole family chose this person as who they were giving to. Its the same across all the Muslim-majority countries.

Social-network-charitable-giving. What a lovely idea. Those folks have a few things worked out, even if theres other things left to work on.

If there's one thing that stuck with me from fixed income it's the idea of Sukuks.

The lecturer, French guy actually was a huge fan of this. None have ever defaulted apparently and have been sold very quickly in the UK. 5 or 6 banks in the UK are Shariah Law compliant, crazy how much has gone in to make them a feasible vehicle.

He spoke of plans to make the UK the hub of Islamic finance in the Western world which makes sense tbf

https://www.reuters.com/article/islamic-finance-britain/britain-plans-new-sukuk-deal-brexit-may-boost-islamic-finance-idUSL5N1M10AQ

[ComradeCollie]

It is the idea that every Muslim person must give 1/40th of their disposable wealth to charity, normally during ramadan.

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Think it was more like 10% with the Hare Krishnas Though by 'charity' They'd mean the organisation.. Remember the head honcho in Dublin, Trabunava Das, used to head over to the mainland to drum up finances from people with money.

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[Guest]

Was that Thomas Segot who taught you?

Francois Aubert was the guy, maybe he was Swiss, I thought he was French though, nice guy tbf.

Fundamentally it's the idea of not seeking a return on your loan/investment via an interest rate from what I recall so you have to manipulate the rules of normal financial arrangements to make them Sharia compliant.

As you say morally sound but seems to add a chunk of unnecessary details but perhaps that is decent trade off.

[Lazare]

Might be bus seat upholstery from the 80's

Thinking it might be the seat back design from early nineties Dublin busses.

Has to be something like that for it not to be googleable yet so familiar.

[Strewelpeter]

It's not a Stray Cats album is it?

[oleras]

I love when a politician gets really angry at not being elected, in a 'I did so much for them, the shower of bastards', Henry Sellersesque way.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-new...-38165998.html

They knocked at my door on the champions league semi final night, the night liverpool did what they did, one of the "men" canvasing on his behalf asked me if i wanted a word with cian lynches father, he was next door chatting to a neignbour....FF says i ? your grand...

[CHDad]

It's generic printing printing. I had some kind of fil o fax or sticker book, with that kinda thing with it on it.

[Guest]

It's not a Stray Cats album is it?

I had it as an 80's synth pop/funk piece that was everywhere

Went looking for it, came across ones that sound like it and now the tune is gone

GFYSL

[Emmet]

It's from Saved By the Bell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59GESf2Rhyc

[hotspur]

It doesn't strike me as being hugely familiar but for some reason I had the thought of the plastic card holder for USI card or maybe more likely the holder for the travel card you had for Dublin Bus as a student.