The hardest people i’ve found to educate are the “but government is bad” type of libertarians who will actively learn everything I give them but still somehow get hung up on “government bad we need small government”. Been working on one for a while trying to find a way to break it but I am failing. They can give you a full marxist breakdown of capitalism though.

Lmao this is fantastically silly and precisely what I mean about not taking yourself too seriously being a cornerstone of british culture. Brits love this attitude, it projects a real inner-strength and confidence to be able to be this silly and authentically not have a problem with it. Super healthy behaviour.

Uhh.

It’s a day out? Lol. I don’t know tbh I’ve never thought about it that much. I guess there is one thing that British people like and that’s British things, anything historic is legitimately liked and supported here. Whether that’s things like industrial revolution era stuff or whether it’s more historic.

I’d say that the train stuff comes down to Britain being perceived by the British as the origin of the industrial revolution, which is a pretty fair argument. Practically everything from that era has been very deeply engrained into British culture and identity.

Americans like American revolution and civil war stuff right? I imagine that there is a similar reason.

Also the small trains are a bit silly and British do really like silly things.

It was such a bullshit hard game lol

I dunno, depends on the location? For some it’s definitely part of life like ones that post up near workers where your only alternative is driving. The streetfood in some cases becomes your regular lunch.

Like maybe that’s quite a “treat” lunch but the convenience of closer means they get to go sit around more rather than spend their break travelling to and from their alternative lunch options. Sure bringing lunch from home is the cheapest but I know I’ve been in that situation before and not everyone is making particularly sensible spending habit choices at all times.

The problem probably lies with the fact that if there’s a soup and a hotdog or burger side by side people don’t buy the soup. Or that they’re willing to walk 200meters to get the hotdog/burger instead of the soup.

The vendors are just trying to maximise and getting whatever the audience is more likely to buy.

I am not a train nerd but it’s true that we have them everywhere.

This is one of the things that RMT has been fighting to keep actually. The “modernisation” that they want to do is partly a reduction in maintenance staff using drones to inspect the lines instead of humans that walk them, this would very likely reduce many small lines that end up not getting the maintenance they need.

I think we should change the term patsoc to pazi

Say nazi. The only people that say it this way are people who sincerely and very wrongly think it’s an own to say the socialist part when they very clearly were not.

I always said there’s no fucking way he’s losing that constituency. Never doubted for a second.