Is the 'New European' a contemptible rag?

[Capetonian]

Wigan has two stations !...and, being the Mail, it doesn't specify which one is the departure point. Have you ever tried to get from one to the other in rush hour

You are wrong on just about everything you've excreted, as usual.

Given your somewhat less than successful encounters with rail travel, although as a self proclaimed travel agency ticket clerk

Your source for such an inane statement?

You need to go to Specsavers, or learn to read properly. Or maybe you could have your final encounter with an HST by walking in front of one.

[Krystal n Chips]

Wigan has two stations !...and, being the Mail, it doesn't specify which one is the departure point. Have you ever tried to get from one to the other in rush hour

You are wrong on just about everything you've excreted, as usual.

Given your somewhat less than successful encounters with rail travel, although as a self proclaimed travel agency ticket clerk

Your source for such an inane statement?

You need to go to Specsavers, or learn to read properly. Or maybe you could have your final encounter with an HST by walking in front of one.

Ah, you may recall I commented about your self proclaimed expertise.... and rail travel ?.....alas, as one said Wigan does have two stations...Same as Birmingham has New Street and Moore street for example, both locations offering services to London...... if passengers read the timetable first. Us thickos can read timetables you may be intrigued to learn .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigan_Nor ... ay_station

My source for such an inane statement ?.....no less than yourself over on TOP !.....straight from the horses orifice you might say...

[Capetonian]

My source for such an inane statement ?.....no less than yourself over on TOP !.....straight from the horses orifice you might say...

Then find it and quote it, you bumptious fool, instead of making your usual vague and unfounded accusations.

As for the rest of your excreta, it's not worthy of riposte.

[AtomKraft]

Nice post Plum, and a good point is made re France.

Two invasions.
One dreadful, by an army intended on occupation.
The second by an army intended on liberation.

Only, would every case be as clear.

[AtomKraft]

Krystal.
You're not by chance in Almaty are you?

[John Hill]

You are of course correct,. JH, which is why I remain at the front.

That is intriguing to hear as your show all the characteristics of someone at the other end.

[John Hill]

A travel company has launched a £3,195-month-long rail tour that takes tourists from the Greater Manchester town to North Korea's capital.

There is no surprise in that such a trip has long been possible. Of course you could continue on to Seoul if the US would allow it.

[Capetonian]

Krystal n Chips
My source for such an inane statement ?.....no less than yourself over on TOP !.....straight from the horses orifice you might say...

Then find it and quote it, you bumptious fool, instead of making your usual vague and unfounded accusations.

I note that the Gob of the North, as always when confronted, has gone quiet and not come up with a response. No surprise that the bully has crawled back under his stone.

[Krystal n Chips]

Krystal n Chips
My source for such an inane statement ?.....no less than yourself over on TOP !.....straight from the horses orifice you might say...

Then find it and quote it, you bumptious fool, instead of making your usual vague and unfounded accusations.

I note that the Gob of the North, as always when confronted, has gone quiet and not come up with a response. No surprise that the bully has crawled back under his stone.

Ah, well, since you decided to massage your ego, allow me to respond.

First, there are some 444 threads on TOP with your name on them. I am not inclined to sit all day and night trawling through them, I have what is known as a life away from a website plus, our dog would be very unimpressed if she wasn't taken for walks. You really don't want to get on the wrong side of madam I assure you !

What I do have, is a factual memory however.

Your tale of woe began at Gods Chosen Railway Terminus, Manchester Piccadilly, when you purchased a standard class ticket for a Cross-Country service.

Having done so, you then decided to try for a free upgrade to First, rather than buy a First class ticket initially. Alas, your pleas fell on deaf ears when you encountered a good Mancunian lad who wasn't impressed with your scrounging . Undeterred you boarded the train and tried again. Sadly, for an international travel consultant, you were amazed to get the same response from the train manager. Surely, with your expertise, you would have been aware upgrades to First require payment other than at the discretion of the train manager when overcrowding reaches a critical point.

You then regaled us with your letter of complaint. Quite heart rending it was as well, combining as it did ethos and pathos, mentions of women and children suffering, overcrowding ( well your idea of overcrowding that is) lack of air cond and your own lamentable treatment. I suggested, that, had I been the recipient, after convulsing with vomiting, I would have filed it in the nearest shredder and you never did post about the response...strangely.

Sometime later, another thread and ?....exactly the same experience and letter posted by you !.....nothing unique here because you had a similar experience with a car park ticket machine, different location, but, by an amazing coincidence , the times and situation that incurred your angst were identical !..who would have thunk history could repeat it self with such accuracy !

Finally, and I know it's complex and you have my understanding here, but, on the delicate subject of lack of response, there's still one teensy question for you to answer...is there not ?

[Capetonian]

Let me correct some facts, having glanced through your rambling diatribe of drivelling bilge above.

What causes you to twist and dramatise everything that others have allegedly said? You are, as always, unable to respond with fact or a direct quote, just your inane twisted projections and flights of fancy. I challenged you to come up with the facts and you have been unable to do so, substituting facts for sly, deceitful, and evasive comments.

You certainly don't have a 'factual' memory. You may have missed an opportunity as a dramatist, although I doubt if you would have been much of a success at anything, least of all concerning English comprehension or precis.

Let me make a point.

I normally travel First Class so as not to have to mix with rabble such as yourself. By default, I buy a F ticket, but when I suspect that a service does not offer F, rather than waste money, I buy a Pleb class ticket. Should there be F on the service, I will travel F and pay the difference. Why would I attempt to blag a 'free upgrade'? The rest of your paragraph is pure conjecture on your part and I am not going to indulge you by further comment other than to say that you need to grow out of your bilious socialist envy and stop publicly maligning and libelling people who have done better in life than you.

there's still one teensy question for you to answer...is there not ?

And that is?

P.S.
Quote from another post directed at you :

I have come to the conclusion that you are a troll as there is no way that anybody on God's earth could be as stupid as you constantly appear to be.

I disagree, you are not quite as stupid as you appear to be, you are sick.

[Krystal n Chips]

Let me correct some facts, having glanced through your rambling diatribe of drivelling bilge above.

What causes you to twist and dramatise everything that others have allegedly said? You are, as always, unable to respond with fact or a direct quote, just your inane twisted projections and flights of fancy. I challenged you to come up with the facts and you have been unable to do so, substituting facts for sly, deceitful, and evasive comments.

You certainly don't have a 'factual' memory. You may have missed an opportunity as a dramatist, although I doubt if you would have been much of a success at anything, least of all concerning English comprehension or precis.

Let me make a point.

I normally travel First Class so as not to have to mix with rabble such as yourself. By default, I buy a F ticket, but when I suspect that a service does not offer F, rather than waste money, I buy a Pleb class ticket. Should there be F on the service, I will travel F and pay the difference. Why would I attempt to blag a 'free upgrade'? The rest of your paragraph is pure conjecture on your part and I am not going to indulge you by further comment other than to say that you need to grow out of your bilious socialist envy and stop publicly maligning and libelling people who have done better in life than you.

there's still one teensy question for you to answer...is there not ?

And that is?

P.S.
Quote from another post directed at you :

I have come to the conclusion that you are a troll as there is no way that anybody on God's earth could be as stupid as you constantly appear to be.

I disagree, you are not quite as stupid as you appear to be, you are sick.

A truly emotional response. Alas, in doing to, you confirm the veracity of my statements. However, we won't dwell on your forte for self incrimination.

As I said, there are 444 threads involving you as Capetonian and another 434 as Tableview. That's an awful lot of time to waste when you have, as I say, confirmed the content of my statement.

However, you commented about being a dramatist. So what better time than to refresh your memory than with, as I said at the time when I commented TOP had been treated to an unprecedented preview of a Booker prize contender, the story of.....Sally and the red Samsonite suitcase !.

Said suitcase had previously featured in your life as you said you had picked the lock "signs of a mis-spent youth " was mentioned, and then, one day, wandering lonely as a cloud around a carousel was ?.....a red Samsonite suitcase and your reuniting with?...Sally !.....we never did get to hear if this had a happy ending, because, sadly, your favourite mod on TOP pulled the plug and stated your fantasies had now become too outlandish......your subsequent posts said how beastly this was, cos you had been so helpful to many, but, it was TOP's loss you were going and you bid a fond farewell to everybody......apart from me.... wot you mentioned at the very end.

Train travel and your assessment of my English language ability. You kindly included the word "suspect " in your reply, which, unfortunately demonstrates your fallibility because it's like this..factual content follows please note.

When you book a ticket, you have the option, either at a manned ticket office , or online, as to which class you wish to travel in . There's no "suspicion " involved, other than, possibly, with Chiltern Railways who have only one class. Of course, if you don't have any financial constraints, you can just buy a ticket on the day, some of us prefer to book in advance of course, and spend a fortune such are the extortionate rip off prices levied by the TOC's and certainly for First class.

The "rabble like me "..yep, got it in one !....16 cans of Boddy's, three triple Big Mac's n fries !, copy of the Sun and Star !..four packets of crisps....rap music blaring from me headphones and "C'mon you Reds / Glory!, glory! Man United!.... as the Reds go marchin on,on on ! " at the first opportunity when football gets mentioned !

And thus to that little question, the one that is proving soooo elusive to answer.....what could this be ?.....possibly the one posed, perfectly reasonably about your nationality and hence country of birth perhaps ?

Anyway, lest one be accused of being churlish, dullard, simpleton , thicko having long since become established definitions, saw this....and thought of you !

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/ ... -abolished

[Capetonian]

KaknKrap :
Are you a frigging nutter or what? You can't be as stupid as a glance at the above rambling makes you appear.
In case you're wondering, I haven't read it. If you'd care to precis it into 5 lines, I will do so.

Having read the last lines and seeing : "about your nationality and hence country of birth perhaps ?" Maybe you are a congenital idiot after all.

[FD2]

K&C - you really must see someone about your problem.

Isn't stalking an offence in the U.K?

You are becoming more and more irrational.

[Krystal n Chips]

KaknKrap :
Are you a frigging nutter or what? You can't be as stupid as a glance at the above rambling makes you appear.
In case you're wondering, I haven't read it. If you'd care to precis it into 5 lines, I will do so.

Having read the last lines and seeing : "about your nationality and hence country of birth perhaps ?" Maybe you are a congenital idiot after all.

" You are becoming more and more irrational"



Please explain way you consider asking somebody where they were born, several times, and with a very notable reluctance to answer....most of us could respond instantly could we not..to be irrational ?

Anyway, one wishes to respond to the underlined above ....

" Well lovely boy, hits like this see...hew is wot we calls hay fibba !....and hew has been indulgin in porky pies, hand not the sort wot you gets in the Occifers Mess wot is all posh grub hand comes from Melting Mowberay.....cos if you was hay real South Hafferican, you could say I was born in Capertown or Pret a manger, or Johanisburg now couldn't you, but as you hasn't, then you hisn't, now his you " ...that's me Windsor Davies impression...."Ruff, ruff...ruff, ruff, ruff !" that's my Oddball impression

[Capetonian]

your nationality and hence country of birth perhaps?

So having nationality 'A' automatically means someone was born in country 'A'?
You really are an idiot, although I doubt if your village is missing you.
Why are you so obsessed with my nationality, and with things that you allege I have said, that you have to weave it into a thread of fantasy and rambling nonsense. What on earth is that last diatribe about?

You need to see a psychiatrist. Urgently

[Krystal n Chips]

your nationality and hence country of birth perhaps?

So having nationality 'A' automatically means someone was born in country 'A'?
You really are an idiot, although I doubt if your village is missing you.
Why are you so obsessed with my nationality, and with things that you allege I have said, that you have to weave it into a thread of fantasy and rambling nonsense. What on earth is that last diatribe about?

You need to see a psychiatrist. Urgently

OK, so where were you born and what is the nationality on your birth certificate?.....afterthought..please ?

Oh, and I haven't made one false allegation .....when it comes to fantasy and self-aggrandizement, you are a veritable infinite source.

Off to walk madam !

[ian16th]

Different countries have different rules. Some offer citizenship to anyone born on their territory (ius soli), while others generally require that one or both parents already have citizenship (ius sanguinis). The rules for dual citizenship, whether at birth or later, also vary greatly.

My 2 grandchildren qualify for 4 passports each!

They were only born in one country.

[Sisemen]

FFS this is getting very tiring. Alison, cooee!

[FD2]

Being naive about these matters, I thought that it was up to each of us to reveal as much or as little of ourselves, our backgrounds etc as we pleased. Why are you so obsessed with this nationality matter K&C?

It seems to me that most of the time all you do is try and get a rise from the usual suspects by including links to left wing papers and TV programs, without trying to put forward arguments or evidence to support your own views. This is a pity because input from the left is really needed to counter a strong right wing bias, so that there might be more balance in these political 'discussions'. If someone on the left is wrong, in your opinion, just say so. There are plenty on here not afraid to point out the failings of those on the right even though their views are right wing. I think it's just sensible judgement.

I completely agree with Sisemen's last comment. This is getting very tiring.

[John Hill]

I find these complaints quite amusing as I recall the same sort of badgering when the topic was North Korea. Capetonian were you not running with the pack in those days?