The Daily Blog Open Mic – 14th February 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.
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What do we think of this? Had KiwiRail gone for state-of-the-art too expensive ferries, or reliable ones with mechanicals/technologies that we can/could maintain safely, with practical interiors suitable for the task and easy to keep clean? And able to withstand foul weather enough to daunt seagulls?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/509154/kiwirail-in-talks-to-cancel-contracts-for-new-interislander-ferries
Another what do we think of this –
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/509142/another-day-of-cancellations-and-delays-hits-auckland-trains
Another day, another reason, it is the rail-buckling season…
I’ll leave it to you to build onto the pome.
I remember a facetious, sardonic UK line from a play – Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
Stream of (someone’s) consciousness. ‘They are stylish trains. As good as other advanced countries in the world. And so sensitive, this modern technology. Got to expect that they need special care – we’re not dealing with a farm tractor here.!!’
However there is a saying ‘Beauty is only skin deep’. Let’s have ugly plain things that work and get the young ones to paint them up with murals and so on – a real people’s chug-fest and get us to work on time, at a price we can afford, using a mixture of real money and cards, whatever you’ve got available today, to pay for travel!!.