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HS1 Domestic trains are a bit busy
On Jul 12, 11:51*am, "Recliner" wrote: "Willms" wrote: Am Thu, 9 Jul 2009 23:57:05 UTC, *schrieb Tony Polson *auf uk.railway : You have made some very good points regarding the (un)acceptability of using colossal sums of taxpayers' money - vastly greater sums than the already huge amounts spent on rail - to subsidise professional people's long distance daily commute. *You think that only unprofessional people should commute to work? In the UK, "professional" implies reasonably or very well-off people, such as lawyers and accountants. Which is pretty stupid usage, as my plumber is genuinely a professional (unlike many!). It's perhaps something of a foil for talking about class, which we're still to obsessed by. |
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