Tube Drivers are at it again.

matbe

Dan: wrote: »

You thought wrong. The training course is very techincal and demanding. If you pass the course you will then need to spend 6 weeks on further theroy, followed by 6 months stock training - learning about each type of train, every switch, every mechanism, so you can fix a train when it breaks down in a tunnel. Next you have to learn the signals and all the possable shunting positions. Finally you get to learn to drive the trains in a simulator. The whole thing takes about a year.

Sure, the physical moving the trains through the tunnels is probarly the easy part, but there is a lot more knowledge required for when things go wrong.

12 months to be fully skilled?

Its a semi skilled occupation then.

Doesn't warrant 50k a year

The_White_Horse

actually the new training lasts only 3 months. i guess that makes them like surgeons, barristers and accountants.

torontoboy45

Ionkontrol wrote: »

What a despicable excuse for a human being you are. Crawl back under you right wing rock.

welcome to the world of whitehorse, where everything - absolutely everything -is a left-wing conspiracy.

petrol prices up? that'll be the lefties.

council tax up? that'll be the loony left wing councils.

y'see the lefties are a cancer, just waiting to be cut out by whitehorse and his full-of-commonsense invective.

is he bnp? no, just borderline. is he a tory? nope, because cameron isn't thatcher. is he UKIP? could be. maybe he's just an embittered, twisted bedsit depressive who wakes up each morning to his copy of the daily mail, believes everything he reads and comes on here to vent his bile and hatred at the wrongs of the world - real or imagined.

he's not alone though. take a look at the daily mail online version, then study the comments sections.

there are plenty of seriously sad people out there.

The_White_Horse

torontoboy45 wrote: »

welcome to the world of whitehorse, where everything - absolutely everything -is a left-wing conspiracy.

petrol prices up? that'll be the lefties.

council tax up? that'll be the loony left wing councils.

y'see the lefties are a cancer, just waiting to be cut out by whitehorse and his full-of-commonsense invective.

is he bnp? no, just borderline. is he a tory? nope, because cameron isn't thatcher. is he UKIP? could be. maybe he's just an embittered, twisted bedsit depressive who wakes up each morning to his copy of the daily mail, believes everything he reads and comes on here to vent his bile and hatred at the wrongs of the world - real or imagined.

he's not alone though. take a look at the daily mail online version, then study the comments sections.

there are plenty of seriously sad people out there.

i think you confuse "sad" with enlightened. the thing you lefties have to remember is your ideas are all very nice in the playground and in the coffee shops, to be discussed whilst you wear your cardigan and eat lentils. BUT - they do not work in the real world where they have to be paid for!

free health care for all - great idea. who pays for it?

free education for all - great idea. who pays for it?

tea parties for lesbian dwarfs - not such a great idea - who pays for it?

as a sensible person once said - the trouble with the left is sooner or later they run out of other people's money. this is what is now happening. your nice ideas, that we all have everything for free, retire on full salaries at 50 is great - but there is no money to pay for it!!!

stupid lefties.

torontoboy45

The_White_Horse wrote: »

i think you confuse "sad" with enlightened. the thing you lefties have to remember is your ideas are all very nice in the playground and in the coffee shops, to be discussed whilst you wear your cardigan and eat lentils. BUT - they do not work in the real world where they have to be paid for!

free health care for all - great idea. who pays for it?

free education for all - great idea. who pays for it?

tea parties for lesbian dwarfs - not such a great idea - who pays for it?

as a sensible person once said - the trouble with the left is sooner or later they run out of other people's money. this is what is now happening. your nice ideas, that we all have everything for free, retire on full salaries at 50 is great - but there is no money to pay for it!!!

stupid lefties.

no, no. I'm quite sure: sad.

tea parties for lesbian dwarves? !!!!!!?

you're richard littlejohn and I claim my £10.

StevieJ

torontoboy45 wrote: »

no, no. I'm quite sure: sad.

tea parties for lesbian dwarves? !!!!!!?

you're richard littlejohn and I claim my £10.

I think he/she is a Lefty who is bullied and always loses the argument, he/she spouts his/her bile on here to find some winning lines with which to retaliate

purch

Horsey is back on form, anyway.

After it got turned down for the overdraft due to it's inability to sort out it's finances it went a bit quiet :eek:

It's difficult peddling such bile against socialism when you are spending more than you earn too

ILW

The basic point is sound though.
All the people demanding free this that and everything else do tend to be a little vague on where the money is supposed to come from.
I suppose we could just borrow it, but that has been tried and seems to have gone a little wrong

Joe_Bloggs

AS Christmas and New Year are spread over the weekend the chances are that substantial parts of the tube and rail network will be closed for 'improvement work'.
J_B.

Dan:_4

matbe wrote: »

12 months to be fully skilled?

Its a semi skilled occupation then.

Doesn't warrant 50k a year

Well it does really - 50k is f.uck all in London