Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:25:13 -0000 (UTC), Muttley@dastardlyhq.com
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 08:37:52 -0000 (UTC)
>> Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Quite a few WCR Mk 1 carriages now have chemical toilets with an electric
>>>> flush button. I'd imagine those would be the ones they'd use on these
>>>> trains (I think two rakes are in use today). In any case, WCR trains
>>>> frequently run along that route. As far as they're concerned it's just
>>>> another charter, organised by a new customer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Just on the subject of the disabled, and also toilets, I note that aircraft
>>> are not required to have accessible toilets. In fact many of the ones they
>>> do have are barely useable by the able bodied.
>>
>> I wouldn't be surprised if thats by design - make sure fewer people use the
>> bog and making having a dump an unpleasent experience. That way you can have
>> a smaller retention tank plus smaller toilets = more space for other stuff.
>
> Is it not true then that the turds are dropped from the aircraft?
> That's another illusion gone then :-(

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(aviation)>

Sam

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Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 10:17:22 -0000 (UTC), Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 10:42:16 +0100
>> Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On 17/09/2022 10:22, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 07:55:04 +0100
>>>> Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
>>>>> In message <tg1v9i$ucd$1@gioia.aioe.org>, at 13:56:02 on Fri, 16 Sep
>>>>> 2022, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com remarked:
>>>>>> On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:38:03 +0100
>>>>>> Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>> In message <tg1som$1lis$1@gioia.aioe.org>, at 14:12:54 on Fri, 16 Sep
>>>>>>> 2022, "hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk" <hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk> remarked:
>>>>>>>> https://uk.yahoo.com/news/government-steps-charter-old-fashioned-19452
>>>>>>>> 0535.htm
>>>>>>> l
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just shows that one can disregard decades of accessibility regulations
>>>>>>> for public service trains at the stroke of a pen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ITYM it disregards decades of nonsense wokery. Anyone in a wheelchair needs
>>>
>>>>>> assistance anyway to navigate PT so one more person required to put them on
>>>
>>>>>> and get them off a train is hardly going to make much difference.
>>>>>
>>>>> Apart from the fact that wheelchair users are not the main target for
>>>>> most of the features (they just get most of the publicity) they are
>>>>> pretty much self-sufficient on buses these days, and can be on trains
>>>>> designed to be level alongside platforms.
>>>>
>>>> If access was REALLY important this country would ditch its obsession with
>>>> bloody double decker buses and use bendy buses or long single deckers as in
>>>> europe instead which provide far more space for not only wheelchairs but also
>>>
>>>> buggies. But road space is clearly more important.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Several operators have tied introducing bendy-buses to screams of
>>> outrage from the potato-heads who moaned about how un-British they were
>>> and not suitable for our towns and cities.
>>
>> Yes , I know, the chief one being a certain Mr B Johnson. Whatever happened to
>> that idiot....
>
> He got on his bike...

Sorry I’m late to this, but being on his bike he was probably sideswiped by
a bendy-bus.

Sam

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<Muttley@dastardlyhq.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 11:32:15 +0100
> Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 17/09/2022 11:17, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>>>> Several operators have tied introducing bendy-buses to screams of
>>>> outrage from the potato-heads who moaned about how un-British they were
>>>> and not suitable for our towns and cities.
>>>
>>> Yes , I know, the chief one being a certain Mr B Johnson. Whatever happened
>> to
>>> that idiot....
>>>
>>
>> you should know, you voted for him.
>
> Hobsons choice given who was in charge of Labour at the time. I'd have voted
> for a donkey in a blue rosette while Corbyn was leader.

So that’s what you did…

Sam

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Sam Wilson <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 10:17:22 -0000 (UTC), Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 10:42:16 +0100
>>> Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> On 17/09/2022 10:22, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 07:55:04 +0100
>>>>> Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
>>>>>> In message <tg1v9i$ucd$1@gioia.aioe.org>, at 13:56:02 on Fri, 16 Sep
>>>>>> 2022, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com remarked:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:38:03 +0100
>>>>>>> Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>> In message <tg1som$1lis$1@gioia.aioe.org>, at 14:12:54 on Fri, 16 Sep
>>>>>>>> 2022, "hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk" <hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk> remarked:
>>>>>>>>> https://uk.yahoo.com/news/government-steps-charter-old-fashioned-19452
>>>>>>>>> 0535.htm
>>>>>>>> l
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just shows that one can disregard decades of accessibility regulations
>>>>>>>> for public service trains at the stroke of a pen.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ITYM it disregards decades of nonsense wokery. Anyone in a wheelchair needs
>>>>
>>>>>>> assistance anyway to navigate PT so one more person required to put them on
>>>>
>>>>>>> and get them off a train is hardly going to make much difference.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Apart from the fact that wheelchair users are not the main target for
>>>>>> most of the features (they just get most of the publicity) they are
>>>>>> pretty much self-sufficient on buses these days, and can be on trains
>>>>>> designed to be level alongside platforms.
>>>>>
>>>>> If access was REALLY important this country would ditch its obsession with
>>>>> bloody double decker buses and use bendy buses or long single deckers as in
>>>>> europe instead which provide far more space for not only wheelchairs but also
>>>>
>>>>> buggies. But road space is clearly more important.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Several operators have tied introducing bendy-buses to screams of
>>>> outrage from the potato-heads who moaned about how un-British they were
>>>> and not suitable for our towns and cities.
>>>
>>> Yes , I know, the chief one being a certain Mr B Johnson. Whatever happened to
>>> that idiot....
>>
>> He got on his bike...
>
> Sorry I’m late to this, but being on his bike he was probably sideswiped by
> a bendy-bus.

No, he'd got rid of them.