BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Ian H]

"Do you think I look slimmer in black?"

And now for my next song: A Boy Named Sue (Cashing in).

 

[briantrumpet]

In other news, 'Okehampton Interchange' (a parkway-type one out of town to the east) opens on Friday to serve that part of Devon without having to crawl into central Okey, and for the new builds going on in that general direction. As is typical, a Facebook post about it gets all the grumps about all the other lines/stations that haven't been built, the nimbys who are against any new housing, and any other general grumble about 2026. NFFB.

 

[First Aspect]

In other news, 'Okehampton Interchange' (a parkway-type one out of town to the east) opens on Friday to serve that part of Devon without having to crawl into central Okey, and for the new builds going on in that general direction. As is typical, a Facebook post about it gets all the grumps about all the other lines/stations that haven't been built, the nimbys who are against any new housing, and any other general grumble about 2026. NFFB.

I am very unhappy that I still cannot get a train to Princetown.

 

[Ian H]

I am very unhappy that I still cannot get a train to Princetown.

I just looked at the route the line took. Talk about convoluted!

 

[First Aspect]

I just looked at the route the line took. Talk about convoluted!

And it was still too steep. The route makes more sense when you are there and you can see the paucity of other options.

 

[Ian H]

And it was still too steep. The route makes more sense when you are there and you can see the paucity of other options.

I can see the contours.
The line from Axminster to Lyme Regis was similarly convoluted, even including a substantial viaduct. The train could only stop at Combpyne on the return journey because of the gradient.

 

[briantrumpet]

I just looked at the route the line took. Talk about convoluted!

Ha, I almost did that too. I think it might be quicker to cycle. Or even to row there.

 

[briantrumpet]

Oh no! What's to be done? Man the barricades!!

 

[Badger_Boom]

Oh no! What's to be done? Man the barricades!!

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Pay some poor people to man them surely?

 

[briantrumpet]

Pay some poor people to man them surely?

As long as they'm not immigrants, obvs.

 

[Badger_Boom]

As long as they'm not immigrants, obvs.

Immigrant multi-millionaires excepted.

 

[briantrumpet]

A very good de-bunking of the Telegraph artticle that claimed that reducing pollution has made the planet hotter.

https://skywriter.blue/@monkemma.bsky.social/3mrs3wngx5r2u

The warming of the planet is not caused by a fall in the air pollutants that humans added to the atmosphere in the first place! It is caused by greenhouse gas emissions Air pollution has simply protected us from the worst impacts of global warming. And paradoxically, had we NOT implemented policies to reduce air pollution, greenhouse emissions would also have been far higher, which would have led to EVEN HIGHER temperatures

 

[BoldonLad]

As long as they'm not immigrants, obvs.

Why not, Immigrants are good enough to wash their cars, why not to man (or woman) their barricades?

 

[First Aspect]

Not sure where to put this. Maybe we should have an "I told you so" thread.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/othe...d=6a6afd545caf410ea0d132cfac3f3a13&ocid=hpmsn

 

[FishFright]

Pay some poor people to man them surely?

You don't need to pay them, just say that those poorer people over there are looking at your gruel and you'll find enough people ready man them for free.