Gareth Ceredig

||: Words-Music :|| Cold Case Crime Cuts / No-Platformed / We Forced A Bot / The Naked Week and so off. Also plays in orchestras in exchange for money.

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@polarbear1066 @JGourd7 @KearnsDiane @CrossCountryUK For what it's worth, @polarbear1066, we kind of moved on from this specific (and completely irrelevant) point. Or at least I tried to. https://t.co/OhWo6c6Jz6

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@JGourd7 @KearnsDiane @CrossCountryUK I don't doubt your knowledge on this subject. All I can tell you is that I can count to two (sometimes more on a good day) and I know where I was travelling to. https://t.co/ffz3xCGvdY

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Hi @CrossCountryUK. I know this is a totally crazy idea, but have you ever thought about buying a few more carriages? I think you can afford it; you charge £150 for a single from Birmingham to Newcastle, and you just left 40 people on the platform for the 11.03 to Bournemouth.

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@aramando @Joleeds79 @JGourd7 @CrossCountryUK Ah, forget it. Clearly we live in a world where a railway network with enough overall capacity to match overall demand is simply inconceivable, and so we should therefore bloody well stop trying to conceive it.

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@JGourd7 @aramando @Joleeds79 @CrossCountryUK You are powerfully funny, but the fundamental issue which you seem reluctant to address is whether trains on major routes that frequently (yes, *frequently* - no, not just on Sundays) look like this ⬇️ are acceptable. If you think they are, then I am overjoyed for you.

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@JGourd7 @aramando @Joleeds79 @CrossCountryUK Yesterday I had booked a seat. Couldn't get anywhere near it; I was lucky to squeeze on the train at all. Like I said, it was so full there were people at New Street and Leamington *with reservations* who couldn't fit on. And the next Bournemouth train was cancelled. 🤷‍♂️

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@JGourd7 @KearnsDiane @CrossCountryUK Likewise. So that future historians may appreciate the full, unabridged majesty of our discourse, here is the post you deleted and my proposed reply.

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@JGourd7 @KearnsDiane @CrossCountryUK "Admit." If you say so. I suppose the point I was trying (and, apparently, failing) to make was that Cross Country services are routinely wildly overstuffed / too small (delete according to viewpoint). Would you like to argue about this as well so I can "admit" something else?

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@JGourd7 @KearnsDiane @CrossCountryUK I don't know what to tell you. Either I really can't count beyond two (in which case I will need to pause this conversation to put my affairs in order) or I am misremembering, which is possible. Would it help if I told you that a) I don't care, and b) that this isn't the point?

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@JGourd7 @KearnsDiane @CrossCountryUK I don't doubt your knowledge on this subject. All I can tell you is that I can count to two (sometimes more on a good day) and I know where I was travelling to. https://t.co/ffz3xCGvdY

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Hi @CrossCountryUK. Ever thought about using the money from those £143 Birmingham - Newcastle tickets to buy more carriages? Just so you don't have blind people & pensioners with walking sticks sitting on the floor by the one (out-of-order) toilet. Because this is a disgrace.

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@JGourd7 @KearnsDiane @CrossCountryUK That may be the case normally (at least in theory), but on this occasion it was most definitely a two-carriage train. I counted them myself several times just to be really, really, really, really sure, and whichever end of the train I started at, it still only came to two.

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@KearnsDiane @CrossCountryUK This was a XC Birmingham-Newcastle service in December 2024 (£143 on the day, a bargain £80 in advance). Only 2 carriages, totally full, 2 hours late, no working toilet. Pictured bottom right: an 85-year old lady sat on the floor with her partially sighted, 88-year old husband.

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@McWhirterAlex @adrianpicton It's been a shambles for a long old time. https://t.co/ffz3xCGvdY

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First time attending Trooping the Colour. Great view. Horse Guards Parade looking magnificent. #blessed #godsavetheking

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he lied to us through song

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FUTURE ADAM CURTIS: This is the last known photograph of HS2. It was taken in May 2026, shortly before Birmingham was submerged beneath a trillion uncollected bin bags. The first train arrived in 2040, coinciding with the extinction of the last surviving German Christmas market.

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And a massive pat on the back to all those musicians and arts administrators enabling him to be "working as hard as ever". You're the real heroes. So brave and principled. Don't forget your gumshields.

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Yes, happy birthday to the esteemed conductor, scholar, landowner, workplace bully and all-England, four-dimensional, tungsten-tipped c**t. Don't you go dying on me just yet, big guy. I'm saving up for a parade float and a skywriter.

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Exclusive: BBC Radio 3 has ended its relationship with Norman Lebrecht following an email to Yuja Wang the pianist described on Instagram as "derogatory misogynistic bullying."

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@carolinefrmus This is much, much, much, much better than the original. Much.

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This ham-fisted fatberg. This shuddering boregasm. This pious tub of twee self-harmony. This knackered deluge of c**trapuntal cack. This uphill trudge through an antique fart. This drooping monument to inept bombasturbation. This Third Republic frumpery. This coma en croûte.