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I think this is brilliant, because it shows just how insanely expensive travel is within the UK if you do not own a car.
[edit - Oops, replying to wrong post]
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This is really Soapbox material.
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It is funny how cultural differences show up for things like that.
I was listening to a radio show on the French CBC (Canada public Radio) and there was a lot of expletive language that was not censored or bleeped out.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Nothing to do with cultural differences, and I have no big problem with it. However, the rules of the Lounge should prevail.
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Maximilien wrote: I was listening to a radio show on the French CBC (Canada public Radio) and there was a lot of expletive language that was not censored or bleeped out.
There's plenty of that on Radio-Canada (the TV network) at all hours of the day, even during prime-time when the kids are watching, and even during commercials promoting some of their own shows. And lets not even bring up the so-called stand-up comics.
Frankly, I think it makes the whole lot of them look like a bunch of tactless rednecks incapable of expressing themselves without reverting to profanity. And I say this as someone who's not afraid of making liberal use of all the French swear words.
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You're right - my bad. Will know in the future.
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I don't know if it's very creative, but I've noticed that it's usually cheaper to book train trips all the way between the start and end stations, than just a part of the distance.
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Cheaper still to pre-book train tickets for the entire journey.
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Having to regularly spend approximately £100 to travel anywhere from 100 to 300 miles I can very much believe this. They try and price us off the roads and into public transport that is even more expensive than our cars and is 1000 times more unreliable.
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I know it's stupid money to travel, at the job I have at the moment I checked public transport just before I started.
A rail ticket and Bus ticket would cost me £500 per calendar month (the journey times were stupid leave home at 5 am to get to work at 9 and return home after 10pm).
But if I drive it costs me £55 a week to drive 80 miles a day.
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Simon_Whale wrote: But if I drive it costs me £55 a week to drive 80 miles a day.
Discounting road tax, insurance, servicing, incidentals (anti-freeze, windscreen fluid etc.), MoT, and maintenance presumably (on the basis that the AA says it's pretty much impossible to run a car for less than 18p a mile)?
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9082365 wrote: the AA says it's pretty much impossible to run a car for less than 18p a mile
Nah - just make sure you steal one that's full of fuel! 
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for the pedantic 
with road tax, car insurance and maintenance (which includes MOT)
£71.15 per week to go to work..
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How is "road tax" calculated / collected in the UK?
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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With newer cars it is dependent on your emmissions see Road tax bands[^]
but prior to 2001 it was based on your engine size.
Now somehow the government went all electronic and you can pay either in full, every six months or monthly via your bank account.
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So it's an annual tax based on vehicle ownership not "miles driven" or "fuel usage"...
When you called it a "road tax" versus a "vehicle tax" I wondered if it was a progressive tax based on miles driven.
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Sorry, it's commonly called road tax in the UK. But it's official name is Vehicle Tax
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There's of course a tax on fuel usage aswell. 
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Top Gear did a feature where they tried to buy a car, drive it from London to Edinburgh then sell it there to see if that was cheaper than taking the train 
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Years ago a mate of mine working in Derby had to have a meeting with someone in Edinburgh. He worked out it was cheaper to fly them both to Barcelona and hire a room for the meeting.
So that is what he did.
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Now that's "out of the box" thinking. Looks ridiculous in paper but it saves money
cheers,
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Cannabis !
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I think this is brilliant, because it shows just how insanely expensive travel is within the UK if you do not own a car.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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To save 8£, he wasted 9 extra-hours on a not to environmentally friendly voyage.
So what was his point ? 
I'd rather be phishing!
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