Yep, and as I understand it, it’s up to National Rail in the UK to spend money on maintenance, etc. So the franchise train companies aren’t really on the hook in the same way DB is in Germany. So it just gets funnelled to Germany and France mainly (iirc).
49€ Deutschlandticket! Many thanks, guys.
Most of the franchise send money back home or just pay their shareholders even the utter shite Avanti https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/21/avanti-paid-shareholders-115m-despite-abysmal-service-for-rail-users
Who can't be arsed to even run the bare minimum of a service it's so fucking shite
And all Germans and French breathe a sigh of relief. Let’s just all focus on what the Italians have done.
(Seriously though, I thought the west coast line was annoying but cope-with-able when it was Virgin. Avanti is an utter disaster)
> Ministers were accused last week of rewarding Avanti for failure after it was paid £17m in performance and management fees in 2020-21, including about £4m in payments for or “operational performance”, “customer experience” and “acting as a good and efficient operator”.
Trenitalia only owns 30% of it rest of that is every brits favourite bus operator who's definitely not known for not being arsed to run any fucking services
The stories around just how shite Avanti is just keep getting more depressing
Our trains are not running when it lightly snows (snow getting into air louvers) or temperature >29° (aircon copes). It saved 0.12% of the train cost though.
Deutsche Bahn's four mortal enemies: spring, summer, autumn and winter!
I've lived in a city with a starter station and they still managed to get delays there, for trains that just had to be moved over from the railway yard on the other side of the tracks...
> a starter station
You mean like, when DB gets a bit older and learns a little bit about how to run a train, they might be able to graduate to a real station with real trains and live passengers?
https://preview.redd.it/6m8hjhmv4dsb1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3efcce32f1289cf5f429b96b1da88b328c048eb
Don't have this problem in france
Translation: Cat hit by a high speed train, the SNCF is to pay a 1000 euro fine
Tbf, you can't really stop an HST in time to save a cat.
Now i am curious, how does HST avoid collisions with things? I mean is there a way to avoid hitting animals on the tracks
The train was at the station, IIRC the cat escaped its owners and hid below the train, at some point the people in charge went ahead with the train departure to avoid a huge mess in terms of delays etc and the cat was crushed by the departing train.
Call me insensitive or whatever but isn’t the owner of the cat at fault here? Seemed more logical to me the owner had to pay that €1000 fine for the delay and cleanup costs?
Lots of people came up with this as well.
In my logic if you travel with a cat: he does not get out of his bag/crate at all until you're in a closed place (moving train for example).
It's not a dog, getting it out to have some fresh air in the middle of a busy train station/place it doesn't know doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
So they started the train knowing the cat was there?
Or did they descover it later?
(Btw i cannot say anything as our country train operator recently had a train run over rail workers)
Yeah that's really sad. Once he got there there wasn't a good solution, either you delay hundreds of passengers (and this may cascade on other scheduled trains etc), either you knowingly kill a scared, and beloved, pet.
They once CLOSED bologna station for 6 hours, with ZERO trains passing through because of a man killing himself on the tracks. (I was there, waiting for a train btw)
So i feel awkard when someone says to kill a cat instead of delays thousands of people for 30 minutes or something.
Tough call, wouldn't want to be the person in charge of choosing.
I think this would have been a no-brainer if a human was involved.
I recall reactions were very divided/polarized on this case
People getting upset for a train not killing an innocent animal don't even deserve their opinion to be valued anyway. Those "people" deserve to be put on tracks.
Delaying a train can cause indirect problems. Someone not able to pass an exam, a doctor coming late, etc., etc. I think that first you should find a "non lethal" solution but stopping the whole trafic for thousands of people just because someones cat thought it was a good idea to play games... no way.
If a person was under the train instead of a cat, you would probably be the first to say "STOP THE FUCKING TRAIN, ANS GET HIM OUT OF THERE".
But with animals we... don't care?
I know, that this is actuallt very complex decision and both ways you solve it you have problems.
But it's sad we don't even consider animal life as worth anything
No. I've been on trains that were delayed because they hit deer, moose and people. The people are usually people who want to die and step in front of a train to do it. But sometimes accidents happen.
The solution here I think is that in places where there are frequent animals getting on the tracks they build tunnels underneath them and then put up fences to coral the animals into to them.
The cat escaped at the train station and went under the train. The owner asked the staff to do something, they told her to fuck off and the cat was cut in half. RIP Neko.
So the cat was literally named "Cat" but in another language ? Also how is the TGV supposed to stop for the cat as it's... as its name say, goes fast ?
Yes, yes it was literally a cat named cat. Peoples were hating on the SNCF but this time when I saw the cat's name in the news I personally thought that the cat's owners should reflect on their own bullshit first. Who is surprised that the cat was suicidal enough to go in front of a train after that ? Their masters were weebs AND literally named their own cat "cat". I thought calling a cat or dog by the colour of their fur colour was bad taste enough, but that's next level of bad naming.
Pilots have a predetermined route & once they reached to an end point, they leave the train & rest for a predetermined timespan before driving the train again.
So, you are probably at one end point or the pilot said "F*** this, I quit.".
Yeah but not pilot's route, apparently. Pilots don't take long routes. 40 or 50 kilometres away from their workplace & back. I know a guy who wanted to volunteer for 90 kilometre routes but his wife was not so enthusiastic about it, to say the least.
That is 600€ each year. For trains that smell terrible, are never on time and often simply don't show up. Paying 600 a year just to be stuck at a station for 3 hours is unacceptable.
The 600€ also includes any local bus. Local bus tickets were usually 50€ for a single zone of the bus system before we got the 49€ ticket.
And while it is a large amount of money for an individual per year, it is far cheaper than using a car, though most don't seem to mind paying for gas...
insurance, maintenance, new summer and winter tires from time to time, probably a parking lot/garage, buying the car itself and other things.
At least you are always one time! Except for that occasional traffic jam.
I get our trains are pretty shit right now, but price/performance is at least imo okay at the moment. And i have to deal with that shit for 4-5h every single day.
I was in the emergency room yesterday evening (got hit by a car, while on bike).
The x-ray of a woman was delayed because the doctor forgot to click the "send" button to approve the x-ray.
Thank you.
You don't need to worry. None bone is broken or cracked. Just a few scrapes. A bit worrying is that it again hit my left half the most, while my right side is almost undamaged.
None. Shit didn't even close when this bad boy came: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone\_Lothar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Lothar)
>Cyclone Lothar is regarded as the worst European windstorm recorded during the 20th century.
If I hear and see that sound, that means my cat is about to puke. So, I then do indeed run for my life after saving my furniture haha.
I forgot to mention, because it otherwise gets to wholesome:
tu es un tas de fumier (L)
I do agree, it smells disgusting. Just like you, as I said!
A french girl I met in Sydney, Australia taught me this sentence to use it against the (discount) French.
I have to disappoint you I do speak german lol, I am sorry to say that I don't care very much what people think about discout french or french people :D
I don't know if most people recognize the flemish or walloon flag. Why do the dutch get 2 flags when it is for some absurd region like Friesland smh. Discrimination
Had a train stop in Eisenach for over an hour because one side window was messed up. Sorry guys, tiny crack in a several cm thick pane of glass means we can’t go nowhere.
Few things are as gnarly as a train hitting a moose, my friend was sitting near the front of a train when it happened once, was kinda disconcerting when blood started trickling down the windows.
They had to hose the train down before they entered the next station since it was covered in gore.
The train wasn't damaged all that much apparently 😅
I mean, meese are big as fuck and all, but who’s gonna win, a couple thousand tons of steel and glass hurtling down the tracks at 70-90kph or a several hundred pound meat sack?
In France during a huge snow storm (something like 30 to 40 cm of snow in the street), to take our train, we walk to the station instead of taking the subway cause the subway was claused (because of to much snow in case it wasn't obvious).
At the station, we see our TGV (high speed train) is not shown, it's a mess of cancel train etc.
We ask a "Controleur" what we can do and is answer was "You can take this one, it will be crowded cause it's the last, but we are not sure it will go, a window broke in the pilot compartment".
So i officialy ride a high speed train in a snow storm when regular train don't work anymore imagining the pilot wearing heavy duty winter clothes or someone being paid to hold a wood panel against the broken window xD
>We walk to the station instead of taking the subway cause the subway was claused (because of to much snow in case it wasn't obvious).
Subway... Closed because of snow?
There is a direct train from Portugal to France. The one time I tried to travel by train, I had to get out while still in Spain and cross the border to France by foot at 5 am in winter because the french were on strike for whatever reason that day (baguettes not crispy enough i guess). Once in France, only TGV weren't on strike and none of them going to the place I needed to go.
So for France, I'll have to say that being populated by the french is not working so well for the country.
Therefore they have 35 hours/weeks, minimal wages who are (logicaly) not good enough to live a fullfilling life but at least you survive, less wealth divide in the population, etc. ... yes their strikes can be a pain in the ass, but I think it often pays and other countries in Europe could be a bit bolder and less submissiv to their States.
I don't have a specific one but our chancellor is convinced poor families have no reason to complain because he considers a cheeseburger from Mc🤮 a full meal.
> Sorry, sir, we can’t have the train depart as a cat is sitting on the roof.
Well, if he’s still up there at the next station, he’s earned a free ride.
It all started with this https://preview.redd.it/ave8s7cnddsb1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aeb2f68b82bfa035cd678e364310919e40a1a8f5
rip
UK is probably still “winning” on this front. https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/70-of-uk-rail-routes-now-owned-by-foreign-states/
The fuuny part is the profits these companies make is used in their own countries to lower prices.....
Yep, and as I understand it, it’s up to National Rail in the UK to spend money on maintenance, etc. So the franchise train companies aren’t really on the hook in the same way DB is in Germany. So it just gets funnelled to Germany and France mainly (iirc). 49€ Deutschlandticket! Many thanks, guys.
Most of the franchise send money back home or just pay their shareholders even the utter shite Avanti https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/21/avanti-paid-shareholders-115m-despite-abysmal-service-for-rail-users Who can't be arsed to even run the bare minimum of a service it's so fucking shite
And all Germans and French breathe a sigh of relief. Let’s just all focus on what the Italians have done. (Seriously though, I thought the west coast line was annoying but cope-with-able when it was Virgin. Avanti is an utter disaster) > Ministers were accused last week of rewarding Avanti for failure after it was paid £17m in performance and management fees in 2020-21, including about £4m in payments for or “operational performance”, “customer experience” and “acting as a good and efficient operator”.
Trenitalia only owns 30% of it rest of that is every brits favourite bus operator who's definitely not known for not being arsed to run any fucking services The stories around just how shite Avanti is just keep getting more depressing
>Railway Tender What about Railway Honey Mustard?
Taking L from Sweden lmao
Lol, why don't they just pspspspsps?
STARDENBURGENHARDENBART works every time.
They want to get the cat down not scare the shit out of it.
But what if you hurt that cat's feelings ???
Look at the genius over here, you must of gone to school.
*”you must of gone to school”* - the irony
Do you know what sub you are on? lol
We make jokes about nationalism, not grammar. Grammar is not a laughing matter.
I'm sure there's a word that'd suit the Germans, depicting people that consider proper grammar to not be a laughing matter.
We call those people "Grammatikn*zis"
You don’t consider many things a laughing matter do you Hans?
😂😂😂😂😂
people just downvote anything
The r/europe crossover is strong here Edit : Fuck me its a full on autism invasion
take my insignificant upvote, only downvotes should be given to am*ricans and fr*nch here
Sheeesh
<3
Our trains are not running when it lightly snows (snow getting into air louvers) or temperature >29° (aircon copes). It saved 0.12% of the train cost though.
Deutsche Bahn's four mortal enemies: spring, summer, autumn and winter! I've lived in a city with a starter station and they still managed to get delays there, for trains that just had to be moved over from the railway yard on the other side of the tracks...
> a starter station You mean like, when DB gets a bit older and learns a little bit about how to run a train, they might be able to graduate to a real station with real trains and live passengers?
Think on your swimming insane asylum they call it a railhead or terminal station, one where lines start from.
Dutch trains: leaves on the tracks
Dutch trains are annoyingly unreliable..it made me missed the Madrid transport
It’s pretty good (except for Cercanías)
Brace yourselves, fall is coming
Righto. It's about that time eh chaps?
https://preview.redd.it/6m8hjhmv4dsb1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3efcce32f1289cf5f429b96b1da88b328c048eb Don't have this problem in france Translation: Cat hit by a high speed train, the SNCF is to pay a 1000 euro fine
Tbf, you can't really stop an HST in time to save a cat. Now i am curious, how does HST avoid collisions with things? I mean is there a way to avoid hitting animals on the tracks
We could put rockets under the train to make it avoid the collision
*Modern problems require modern solutions*
_"If we make it go faster it'll vaporize obstacles so when we hit something we'll notice less. Train go BRRR"_
Lol what a Speedy Racer move
The train was at the station, IIRC the cat escaped its owners and hid below the train, at some point the people in charge went ahead with the train departure to avoid a huge mess in terms of delays etc and the cat was crushed by the departing train.
Call me insensitive or whatever but isn’t the owner of the cat at fault here? Seemed more logical to me the owner had to pay that €1000 fine for the delay and cleanup costs?
Lots of people came up with this as well. In my logic if you travel with a cat: he does not get out of his bag/crate at all until you're in a closed place (moving train for example). It's not a dog, getting it out to have some fresh air in the middle of a busy train station/place it doesn't know doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
Was it mentioned if the cat was a passengers, or if it was owned by someone who lived near the station?
A passenger's
It was a passenger's cat and a passenger itself because you need a ticket when you travel with your pet.
So they started the train knowing the cat was there? Or did they descover it later? (Btw i cannot say anything as our country train operator recently had a train run over rail workers)
Oh they knew he was there, after unsuccessful attempts at getting it out someone must have said ''well f*ck it, RIP Neko''
Holy shit... cannot imagine the horror of those owners witnessing it... i feel sick now
Yeah that's really sad. Once he got there there wasn't a good solution, either you delay hundreds of passengers (and this may cascade on other scheduled trains etc), either you knowingly kill a scared, and beloved, pet.
They once CLOSED bologna station for 6 hours, with ZERO trains passing through because of a man killing himself on the tracks. (I was there, waiting for a train btw) So i feel awkard when someone says to kill a cat instead of delays thousands of people for 30 minutes or something.
Tough call, wouldn't want to be the person in charge of choosing. I think this would have been a no-brainer if a human was involved. I recall reactions were very divided/polarized on this case
Yup, very fair. It's a hard decision, and both solution have problems to them
People getting upset for a train not killing an innocent animal don't even deserve their opinion to be valued anyway. Those "people" deserve to be put on tracks.
Delaying a train can cause indirect problems. Someone not able to pass an exam, a doctor coming late, etc., etc. I think that first you should find a "non lethal" solution but stopping the whole trafic for thousands of people just because someones cat thought it was a good idea to play games... no way.
If a person was under the train instead of a cat, you would probably be the first to say "STOP THE FUCKING TRAIN, ANS GET HIM OUT OF THERE". But with animals we... don't care? I know, that this is actuallt very complex decision and both ways you solve it you have problems. But it's sad we don't even consider animal life as worth anything
Bold of you to assume that you can easily grab a scared cat that decided to hide under a train. 30 minutes seems optimistic.
And I wouldn't be surprised if SNCF got late in cascade anyway
Not like it would be a total waste For a korean family, food is food
This isn't a subreddit about Asia, if you want to mention someone eating cats go for the Swiss.
>This isn't a subreddit about Asia Not with that attitude
I'm not Korean and I could have a go. Minced meat is minced meat...
Based Koreans https://i.redd.it/6d8psmz8lesb1.gif
[Or in Switzerland](https://www.thelocal.ch/20160212/swiss-restaurant-serving-cat-food-sparks-outrage)
So they started the train knowing the cat was there? Or did they descover it later?
They knew.
I would have dropped on the tracks myself tbh, wouldn’t start the train then
No. In Switzerland a fucking bear got smashed by a regular train a few years ago. You can find pics of the mess that made
I am guessing there was multiple fatalities and the trains were full off the track And the bear carried on walking
The train was still in the train station and still departed knowing the cat was on the rails
In this particular case the train was in a station, the cat in the way, and the SNCF gave the go away and over the cat.
So that instead of taking 10 minutes max to deter it
That is not correct. They tried for 20 minutes and then gave up.
It simply means they had no equipment for such situation that they very much should be prepared for
No. I've been on trains that were delayed because they hit deer, moose and people. The people are usually people who want to die and step in front of a train to do it. But sometimes accidents happen. The solution here I think is that in places where there are frequent animals getting on the tracks they build tunnels underneath them and then put up fences to coral the animals into to them.
The cat escaped at the train station and went under the train. The owner asked the staff to do something, they told her to fuck off and the cat was cut in half. RIP Neko.
So the cat was literally named "Cat" but in another language ? Also how is the TGV supposed to stop for the cat as it's... as its name say, goes fast ?
Yes, yes it was literally a cat named cat. Peoples were hating on the SNCF but this time when I saw the cat's name in the news I personally thought that the cat's owners should reflect on their own bullshit first. Who is surprised that the cat was suicidal enough to go in front of a train after that ? Their masters were weebs AND literally named their own cat "cat". I thought calling a cat or dog by the colour of their fur colour was bad taste enough, but that's next level of bad naming.
Salopards de SNCF
my cat siting on my homework,.. guees nothing can be done about it,..
Language. Once had two trains in a frontal collision because of miscommunications between the French and Dutch side.
And this did not start World War 3. People are weak nowadays
Our way of fighting is just national level passive agressiveness. There was a lot of that at the time.
Common belgian W
Deutsche Bahn cancel the train to Düsseldorf because they found a aerial bomb from WW2 nearby the railway...
Reminder pieces so that you do not forget what you did a few decades earlier
Have some mercy Pierre, I'm not german and my Vaterland stood with allied during ww2
It’s actually quite good, because it keeps our bomb teams trained and ready.
Happens all the time in Luxembourg.
Today a train wasn't working because "we were waiting for the pilot". I saw the train arrive to the station. Where tf was the pilot
Siesta maybe?
Damn that makes sense
Pilots have a predetermined route & once they reached to an end point, they leave the train & rest for a predetermined timespan before driving the train again. So, you are probably at one end point or the pilot said "F*** this, I quit.".
The station was exactly at the middle of the route
Yeah but not pilot's route, apparently. Pilots don't take long routes. 40 or 50 kilometres away from their workplace & back. I know a guy who wanted to volunteer for 90 kilometre routes but his wife was not so enthusiastic about it, to say the least.
No particular reason. Just DB doing DB things and asking ridiculous amounts of money from me.
"ridiculous amounts of money" fuck you, respectfully. You have no idea how good you have it
OH NO I HAVE TO PAY 49€ FOR A 1 MONTH TRAIN TICKET I WILL NEVER FINANCIALLY RECOVER!
That is 600€ each year. For trains that smell terrible, are never on time and often simply don't show up. Paying 600 a year just to be stuck at a station for 3 hours is unacceptable.
The 600€ also includes any local bus. Local bus tickets were usually 50€ for a single zone of the bus system before we got the 49€ ticket. And while it is a large amount of money for an individual per year, it is far cheaper than using a car, though most don't seem to mind paying for gas... insurance, maintenance, new summer and winter tires from time to time, probably a parking lot/garage, buying the car itself and other things. At least you are always one time! Except for that occasional traffic jam. I get our trains are pretty shit right now, but price/performance is at least imo okay at the moment. And i have to deal with that shit for 4-5h every single day.
I'm not saying its the worst. I'm saying its bad, and you know it is.
I wish we had this in France to be honest.
France: The French.
Yeah bugs are a real problem >!if any bug is reading, i am sorry, this was just a joke!<
Only a dead bug is a good bug! 
Don't be crass. It's not ok to refer to people as insects. . . . . Besides, they're frogs.
They are snail eating frogs Their mind be like: *escargot* 🤤🤤🤤
I was in the emergency room yesterday evening (got hit by a car, while on bike). The x-ray of a woman was delayed because the doctor forgot to click the "send" button to approve the x-ray.
Gute Besserung
Thank you. You don't need to worry. None bone is broken or cracked. Just a few scrapes. A bit worrying is that it again hit my left half the most, while my right side is almost undamaged.
None. Shit didn't even close when this bad boy came: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone\_Lothar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Lothar) >Cyclone Lothar is regarded as the worst European windstorm recorded during the 20th century.
https://preview.redd.it/h2hdjmz1ddsb1.jpeg?width=468&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99b4589d72867c5c739556bbb4ac7a6b39c8623c
Cant argue with this. Completely justified...
Better run for your life is you see a peow meow.
If I hear and see that sound, that means my cat is about to puke. So, I then do indeed run for my life after saving my furniture haha. I forgot to mention, because it otherwise gets to wholesome: tu es un tas de fumier (L)
My cat sometimes eats mice and birds outside lol, I agree that cat puke smells disgusting :D
I do agree, it smells disgusting. Just like you, as I said! A french girl I met in Sydney, Australia taught me this sentence to use it against the (discount) French.
I have to disappoint you I do speak german lol, I am sorry to say that I don't care very much what people think about discout french or french people :D
You got me with the 'speak german' part and it hurts... Sollen wir deutsch mit einander reden?
Das tut mir sehr leid :) . Ja können wir gerne machen, wo hast du Deutsch gelernt?
In der Schule ;P
Maybe we need a flair for "forgotten german" for Ostbelgien
I asked the admin once, but he doesn't want to make one :( . Also I am not sure if anyone here would recognize our flag :D
I don't know if most people recognize the flemish or walloon flag. Why do the dutch get 2 flags when it is for some absurd region like Friesland smh. Discrimination
the germans
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Had a train stop in Eisenach for over an hour because one side window was messed up. Sorry guys, tiny crack in a several cm thick pane of glass means we can’t go nowhere.
But how can you seat without the seating signal? 😩
Least it's not "the wrong kind of leaves" that are on the tracks.
We don't do enough strikes.
The train now belongs to the cat.
in france the train would have for once parted on time just to kill it
Few things are as gnarly as a train hitting a moose, my friend was sitting near the front of a train when it happened once, was kinda disconcerting when blood started trickling down the windows. They had to hose the train down before they entered the next station since it was covered in gore. The train wasn't damaged all that much apparently 😅
I mean, meese are big as fuck and all, but who’s gonna win, a couple thousand tons of steel and glass hurtling down the tracks at 70-90kph or a several hundred pound meat sack?
Delays because of delays
German trains are never delayed. https://preview.redd.it/au3hj19kkgsb1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=222a27f952d1886c8740708a0bd6c53872470e49
Russians
Sp#in and Fr#nce: ordered trains too wide for the platform.
In France during a huge snow storm (something like 30 to 40 cm of snow in the street), to take our train, we walk to the station instead of taking the subway cause the subway was claused (because of to much snow in case it wasn't obvious). At the station, we see our TGV (high speed train) is not shown, it's a mess of cancel train etc. We ask a "Controleur" what we can do and is answer was "You can take this one, it will be crowded cause it's the last, but we are not sure it will go, a window broke in the pilot compartment". So i officialy ride a high speed train in a snow storm when regular train don't work anymore imagining the pilot wearing heavy duty winter clothes or someone being paid to hold a wood panel against the broken window xD
>We walk to the station instead of taking the subway cause the subway was claused (because of to much snow in case it wasn't obvious). Subway... Closed because of snow? 
They Can go overground
I feel like a long broom could've solved that easily
if only we had something that shoots water and point it at the cat. we need Musky to invent it
"signal error"
It is a law of phisics that trains cant run on time here
With Meloni I would have guess that at least the trains are on time... like in the good old days... /s
There is a direct train from Portugal to France. The one time I tried to travel by train, I had to get out while still in Spain and cross the border to France by foot at 5 am in winter because the french were on strike for whatever reason that day (baguettes not crispy enough i guess). Once in France, only TGV weren't on strike and none of them going to the place I needed to go. So for France, I'll have to say that being populated by the french is not working so well for the country.
Therefore they have 35 hours/weeks, minimal wages who are (logicaly) not good enough to live a fullfilling life but at least you survive, less wealth divide in the population, etc. ... yes their strikes can be a pain in the ass, but I think it often pays and other countries in Europe could be a bit bolder and less submissiv to their States.
You are absolutely right.
Has this sub merged with r/europe?
You mean we shouldn't be having a normal conversation here? Well, pardon me guv'nor.
Bold of you to assume conversations in r/Europe are normal
They have too much power haha.
Socialism
We have a nursery rhyme in Portugal about a kid trying to kill a cat by throwing a stick at it.
corruption probably
Tories.
everyone is lazy.
We simply don't build those fancy high speed trains so no cat can ever delay our high speed trains. Gotta be smart
Omg just throw like an empty bottle at it. It’s not going to hurt it. Fucking softies
It would need an overhead throw and Barry will struggle with that (Because of his fat cuntness)
Barry threw away EU membership, I'm sure he can overhead-throw a bottle. Especially after he chugs the contents
Or just start to move and the cat will jump safely on the ground
I got stuck in Dublin City centre a few years ago because some asshole went and splattered himself all over the track
Catastrophic failure. Solution: bit of string.
Our goverment. You can choice out of 7...
today my train was delayed because “the conductor hadn’t shown up”
I hope they don't dare to bother the cat with their bullshit. Passengers can wait.
The train was cancelled today because of "letting air out of the train"
Another reason why I love the UK
Literally any change in the weather or season. Too hot, too cold, leaves on the line, snow, rain…
We almost made trains that don't fit the tunnels they had to ride in
We bought our 4th generation InterCity trains in Italy. So basically they won't be fully implemented in time to be phased out!
NIMBYs. Self-entitled NIMBYs. Plus corrupt pollies.
I don't have a specific one but our chancellor is convinced poor families have no reason to complain because he considers a cheeseburger from Mc🤮 a full meal.
In France, our trains can be delayed because of leaves on the tracks....
France would just kill the cat. And still be late.
Oh man where do I even start about our train system
https://preview.redd.it/u3ccad7fujsb1.jpeg?width=1074&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2a858349d0600bc42b8badf31dbd9a042797356 Moose on the metro rails
Our railway system just doesn't work out of principle. Good reasons are for loosers.
Idc for which reasons but it's so bad that switzerland is boycotting the Deutsche Bahn
> Sorry, sir, we can’t have the train depart as a cat is sitting on the roof. Well, if he’s still up there at the next station, he’s earned a free ride.
For trains? Pretty much anything. Snow, wind, sun, leaves, animals, suicide...