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Europe is doomed! Special Decline and Defeatism edition | 26 comments (26 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Aristocrats condemning feckless peasants... (4.00 / 4)

In which fictional alternative universe are electric trains unaffordably expensive?

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Dec 14th, 2009 at 08:48:37 PM EST
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Re: Aristocrats condemning feckless peasants... (4.00 / 5)

In the Ryanair world of exploiting workers, gaining market share and delaying price hikes until you have gained a near monopoly of key routes.

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Tue Dec 15th, 2009 at 06:57:46 AM EST
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Re: Aristocrats condemning feckless peasants... (none / 1)

I should add, exploiting children. The last time I flew Ryanair, I thought the personnel was made up of school children.

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)

by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Tue Dec 15th, 2009 at 03:18:12 PM EST
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You must be getting old! (none / 0)

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Thu Dec 17th, 2009 at 03:13:29 PM EST
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Re: Aristocrats condemning feckless peasants... (4.00 / 3)

In the fictional alternative universe in which airports don't receive public subsidies. (Incidentally, the Spanish Government just declared that only the airports at Madrid and Barcelona are profitable)

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Dec 15th, 2009 at 07:19:33 AM EST
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Re: Aristocrats condemning feckless peasants... (none / 0)

I did say TGV, did I not.

By the way, I like clean seats, but I hardly ever need all that sophisticated lighting, the air conditioning, or the bar wagon. That looks more and more like a train for those Serious People swissshhhing from Paris to Brussels to London - or off to the Côte d'Azur.

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)

by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Tue Dec 15th, 2009 at 03:24:28 PM EST
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