Basil Jet wrote:
On 2017\11\14 23:21, Recliner wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:44:35 +0000
" wrote:
On 14.11.17 3:54, Recliner wrote:
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...run-under-camb
idge-centre-s29mmk858?shareToken=0fdf69714488066c31bc93f5152
e2fd0

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.

I hear that Vientiane has some impressive French colonial architecture,
though narcotics abuse there is more obvious.

Last month central america, this month is east asia.

You need to learn some geography, even if your fear of flying and
xenophobia stop you actually seeing the world. I've not been to Central
America for several years, and have yet to visit most of the Central
American countries.

So you're on the run from the Central Americans as well... ;-)


It turns out there's a global beauty contest in my hotel. The contestants
were at breakfast this morning (who knew that beauty queens eat?):
http://m.phnompenhpost.com/national/...ss-global-2017