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Quite. It is steep, and offensive even when you consider that people who WANT to get the train over driving are being priced out.

London to Glasgow - 4 hours 30 minutes, £104 (booked two months in advanced).

Not too bad for a fast journey (roll on high speed 2), price seemed fair considering petrol would cost £120 to get there.

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lottery winner

the amount is so large that they don't even mention the loose change of £656,000 which in itself is a lottery win for 99% of the popularion

They look like lottery winners.

At least it went to big fans of the lottery. Look at their wallpaper.

Guaranteed exorbitant spending on terrible taste.

Scum obv.

I'd rather they fed the local economy than squirrel it away.

lottery winner

the amount is so large that they don't even mention the loose change of £656,000 which in itself is a lottery win for 99% of the popularion

He's not kissing her. He's sucking the tongue from her head as a light snack. Compare the size of his head to hers. It's fucking massive.

I bet his local Gregg's are chuffed to fuck to hear about his win.

According to The Sunday Times Rich List, they now have a fortune to rival Jamie and Jools Oliver (£150m), Sir Tom Jones (£140m) and Eric Clapton (£130m).

outrageous

If they have a molecule of decency between them they will give most of that to charities/good causes. They have to, that is just too much money for two people to have!

^ Does that apply to people mentioned earlier (i.e. Clapton/Jones et al.)? Obviously they shouldn't have any money anyway being absolute tits - but the point is, should people who accrue fortunes over decades be capped? Or just "new money"?

Anyway - more of a worthwhile topic for the news thread than some dull but probably perfectly decent couple who lucked out:

The train fares mentioned earlier.

Just came across this and my jaw dropped:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19217111

Insane.

They also don't allow cheap tickets on some journeys- book 2 years in advance and London-Winchester will be the same price as tomorrow.

But what you can do (although technically not allowed) is to buy a ticket to (say) Brockenhurst, which can be discounted, then get off at Winchester.

It's a lottery as to whether the guard lets you through the barriers though

Easier to bum a ride from you.

#euph?

He's not kissing her. He's sucking the tongue from her head as a light snack. Compare the size of his head to hers. It's fucking massive.

I bet his local Gregg's are chuffed to fuck to hear about his win.

His actual name is Jeff Wode.

AFAIK, this is effectively what the trainline and other ticket resale companies do. its a load of shit really.

I didn't know that. I wondered how they made a profit.

His actual name is Jeff Wode.

His head must weigh 50 pounds on its own.

Jeff Wode is feeling better.

For the train ticket stuff, moneysavingexpert.com (mentioned in the BBC article) is the dogs balls. In fact, it's the dogs balls for pretty much anything to do with personal finance. Personally, I think you should be done for negligence if you aren't aware of the information they cover!

^ Does that apply to people mentioned earlier (i.e. Clapton/Jones et al.)? Obviously they shouldn't have any money anyway being absolute tits - but the point is, should people who accrue fortunes over decades be capped? Or just "new money"?

Ooooh, I don't know really. I think the main difference is that having a long, successful career means that the money you've earned isn't all in one chunk but spread over lots of different projects/investments gathered over time, so it's not really like they've got 150mil cash in the bank to donate but various assets that are worth that much. They would also be putting their money towards their own careers too like Jamie Oliver setting up restaurant chains and stuff.

Then again, I'm making a crass and unfair assumption that this couple don't have anything worthwhile to pursue with this money other than buying nice houses and things for themselves and their friends, and leaving a handsome inheritance for their family. Maybe now they can follow their dreams of being fine artists who make sculptures exclusively out of platinum? Maybe they will buy all the abandoned housing in London, do them up and rent them as affordable housing, making a successful Channel 4 television series in the process? Who knows?

Channel 4 News did a nice comparison of what they could buy with their money. One of the options was to pay off 0.05% of Greece's debt, another was to fund the NHS for around an hour and a half.

Ha, wow.

Frightening.

Some stupid bint gets told that she can only have 1 seat with her wheelchair space at the Paralympics, and gets completely the wrong end of the stick. No, love it means you only get one FREE seat. You have to buy the seats for your kids, but because you left it till two weeks before they have sold out of ones near the wheelchair spaces.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/14/disabled-mothers-anger-paralympics-wheelchair_n_1775536.html?utm_hp_ref=uk
Still, let's kick up a fuss, insist the man from LOCOG is lying and start an Internet petition, so that 10,000 angry but stupid sheep can highlight your idiocy.

If they have a molecule of decency between them they will give most of that to charities/good causes. They have to, that is just too much money for two people to have!

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