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Buses.
The 4am didn't turn up, then the 4:15am didn't come so i had enough and booked an uber and just as the uber arrived the bus turned up.
Wasted a precious hour and a half of my raving night waiting for buses - foolish!...
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The 4am didn't turn up, then the 4:15am didn't come so i had enough and booked an uber and just as the uber arrived the bus turned up.
Wasted a precious hour and a half of my raving night waiting for buses - foolish!...
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I took a bus about a year ago in London as it appeared more convenient than The Tube.
Initially I thought it might be a fun experience, like something on a Carry On film. Within 30 seconds however I realised the bus was not efficient and nor frequently used by life's winners or those free from mental health problems.
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You should have tried a night bus.MyLittleStudPony wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 7:10 amI took a bus about a year ago in London as it appeared more convenient than The Tube.
Initially I thought it might be a fun experience, like something on a Carry On film. Within 30 seconds however I realised the bus was not efficient and nor frequently used by life's winners or those free from mental health problems.
(I assumed your bus wasn't as the Tube was running but it looks like some run at night at weekends. They could be fun).
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I plan to get a bus today I am going to walk into town but it's too far to walk back. I remind myself of my Nan more and more every day - which reminds me not to forget my handkerchief. In my experience the number 1 bus has more nutters on it than the number 5 which is odd as the number 5 stops at the mental hospital.
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So you live in a tourist destination and complain there are tourists?Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 7:55 pm F'ing emmets!
No less than 3 local forecourts are dry of diesel at the moment. It is Friday pm innit, and all those huuuge 4x4s are filling up for the great trek back to Brum/Manchester/wherever. All main roads were rammed earlier today, with the M5 southbound clogged with the next installment.
Oh how we do love holidaymakers down in Cornwall!
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Along with everything else, the road network in this country is no longer fit for purpose. We've got road works, traffic lights and road closures everywhere, but ultimately nothing really improves. It's a bloody nightmare in the car.
Why on earth they don't make it easier for folk to get a bike licence I'll never know.
There's a lot wrong for sure.
Why on earth they don't make it easier for folk to get a bike licence I'll never know.
There's a lot wrong for sure.
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I have a mate who is originally from Cornwall and does a lovely impression of his fellow Cornishmen in his thick West Country burr:weeksy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 8:37 amSo you live in a tourist destination and complain there are tourists?Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 7:55 pm F'ing emmets!
No less than 3 local forecourts are dry of diesel at the moment. It is Friday pm innit, and all those huuuge 4x4s are filling up for the great trek back to Brum/Manchester/wherever. All main roads were rammed earlier today, with the M5 southbound clogged with the next installment.
Oh how we do love holidaymakers down in Cornwall!
"Bloody tourists coming down here, blocking the roads, causing traffic mayhem, parking everywhere, making our lives a misery...
What's that, m'dear? Two creams teas? That'll be £18.95 and can I interest you in some fudge for just £9.99?"
As you can tell, he's quite dismissive of what he calls the 'Kernow mob' and their calls for independence.
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They should try visiting Kent in tourist season, same problems re congestion,parking and house prices sky high from second homes in coastal towns.gremlin wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 9:40 amI have a mate who is originally from Cornwall and does a lovely impression of his fellow Cornishmen in his thick West Country burr:weeksy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 8:37 amSo you live in a tourist destination and complain there are tourists?Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 7:55 pm F'ing emmets!
No less than 3 local forecourts are dry of diesel at the moment. It is Friday pm innit, and all those huuuge 4x4s are filling up for the great trek back to Brum/Manchester/wherever. All main roads were rammed earlier today, with the M5 southbound clogged with the next installment.
Oh how we do love holidaymakers down in Cornwall!
"Bloody tourists coming down here, blocking the roads, causing traffic mayhem, parking everywhere, making our lives a misery...
What's that, m'dear? Two creams teas? That'll be £18.95 and can I interest you in some fudge for just £9.99?"
As you can tell, he's quite dismissive of what he calls the 'Kernow mob' and their calls for independence.
Is there any other region in the UK where they have a derogatory term for visitors ?
The last time we were in Cornwall, the resentment and disdain was pretty off putting.
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That probably was from the wealthy boomers that have retired down there and bought up the houses that the second homers haven't.
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The Welsh-speakers probably do, just that the rest of us have no idea what it is.
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Walked into a shop in mid-Wales where a couple of old biddies were chatting happily in English. They looked at us and switched to Welsh. Quite funny really, I'm half Evans and the wife's half Jones.
Company I worked for shifted from the NE to North Wales and several senior managers signed up for Welsh classes. Never heard it spoken in that area. They even prefer football to rugby.
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A mate went to meet GF's family, Sunday tea. Granny was there too, she spend the whole afternoon muttering in Welsh.Count Steer wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 10:10 amWalked into a shop in mid-Wales where a couple of old biddies were chatting happily in English. They looked at us and switched to Welsh. Quite funny really, I'm half Evans and the wife's half Jones.
As mate was leaving, he turned at the door and said "It's been a pleasure meeting you" - in fluent Welsh.
She'd been saying he wasn't good enough, etc. Don't know whether she was invited to the wedding.
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Had a similar thing with a meeting with IBM in Brussels. The French speaking Belgians kept chuntering to each other in rapid French, in a not very complimentary fashion, about how we were the little guys and must accept their TS&Cs and couldn't possibly insist on our own contractual terms.
At the end, my English colleague who had lived in Brussels for umpteen years but hadn't let on said, in perfect (Belgian) French. 'You do know that not all English people are monoglots don't you?' (He could probably have done the same in Dutch too).
At the end, my English colleague who had lived in Brussels for umpteen years but hadn't let on said, in perfect (Belgian) French. 'You do know that not all English people are monoglots don't you?' (He could probably have done the same in Dutch too).
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Cornish 'independence' is a joke, but the current situation is not funny at all.gremlin wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 9:40 amI have a mate who is originally from Cornwall and does a lovely impression of his fellow Cornishmen in his thick West Country burr:weeksy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 8:37 amSo you live in a tourist destination and complain there are tourists?Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 7:55 pm F'ing emmets!
No less than 3 local forecourts are dry of diesel at the moment. It is Friday pm innit, and all those huuuge 4x4s are filling up for the great trek back to Brum/Manchester/wherever. All main roads were rammed earlier today, with the M5 southbound clogged with the next installment.
Oh how we do love holidaymakers down in Cornwall!
"Bloody tourists coming down here, blocking the roads, causing traffic mayhem, parking everywhere, making our lives a misery...
What's that, m'dear? Two creams teas? That'll be £18.95 and can I interest you in some fudge for just £9.99?"
As you can tell, he's quite dismissive of what he calls the 'Kernow mob' and their calls for independence.
Governments of all flavours are pretty well dominated by big city thinking. It is all about London and to a lesser extent Birmingham and Manchester. All rural areas get the shitty end of the stick, and the further away you are the shittier it is. Add in a pandemic, lots of social media exposure, and we get burried every summer by visitors without the infrastructure to cope. In summer it can take an hour or more for an ambulance under blue lights to get to hospital, never mind the wait for it to arrive and than the handover delay because the hospital is full. Can you wonder that most of the Cornish who are not tied to hospitality get a bit short with visitors?
Add in the buy to let AirBNBs, and the 2nd homes and we have a serious housing problem. The village where I live has multiple £1M new builds available, but the chance of them being bought by a local is miniscule. Big housebuilders plaster the place with horrible little boxes, but very few end up housing real locals, some of the developers market their estates in Surrey rather than Cornwall.
I don't have a solution, but we do have a problem, so don't expect every Cornishman to welcome you with open arms when you turn up in your massive Chelsea Tractor, park in stupid places, and expect us fawn over your every whim. If you try to fit in you will have a better chance, but moaning because you have to walk 400 yards to the beach is not going to win you any favours.
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Without tourism, there would be minimal income. So the locals wouldn't be able to afford the [empty] housing.
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Well, the house prices would crash as the second home owners sold their empty places, so you never know!!
I'm 50/50 in that I do love tourists because that's what makes the two seasons here fun.
But some of them are absolute sodding teddy bears and shouldn't be allowed to leave their village, let alone have a passport - and that isn't limited to Brits! Although as an ex Brit, fuckwit Brit tourists are far more embarrassing
However, I do so love the interseasons too because there is no one up here!
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Horse Flies. Evil bastards. This one was on gate, just waiting to pounce on a walker.
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I trust you did stwike it wuffly to the gwound.MingtheMerciless wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 1:19 pm IMG_0132.jpeg
Horse Flies. Evil bastards. This one was on gate, just waiting to pounce on a walker.
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Yup, then the absentee landlords would buy then rent out. Almost full circle
We've just returned from a couple of weeks down there*. Apart from the scenery and 'seaside' aspects, it doesn't have a lot in its favour - depending on what is important to you, and you want.
House prices have been dropping for some time, as many covid escapee comeovers have faced reality that a week summer holiday doesn't give a true indication of living there all year round.
* mainly visiting friends and rellies. Some content and happy, some not.
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