Roland Perry wrote:
In message
-septe
mber.org, at 15:28:49 on Mon, 13 Nov 2017, Recliner
remarked:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/p...66c31bc93f5152
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That's going to make Edinburgh Council look like a paragon of
financial prudence. Especially as it'll be "Britain’s first new
underground railway in decades", so there are no workers available with
recent experience of tunnelling in, say, London.

Huh? Crossrail, HS2 and the Northern line extension all have significant
London tunnels.

Is this national "fail to spot sarcasm day", or what?

For you, vigorously participating in usenet threads is a full-time
occupation, as a substitute for the paid work which you'd much rather be
doing. For most of the rest of us, uk.r is something we dip into in idle
moments, and we don't carefully analyse every post for sarcasm. For
example, I'm currently sitting in the lounge in Vientiane airport, sipping
an early beer, and will soon be taking off. I won't be checking uk.r until
at least tonight.

Curiously, the flight I'm on is the modern version of the old Ho Chi Minh
trail: it's a Vietnam Airlines flight that starts in Hanoi, then flies on
to Vientiane and Phnom Penh and finally to Saigon, now rebranded Ho Chi
Minh City. Now, of course, it's a comfortable Airbus A321, not a battered
truck sheltering on a jungle trail. You get free beers, not free bombs,
while you're waiting.