I love the comment about the trainspotters, they always get called, but so what? I say each to their own @ least they are different & have an identity & aren't egotistical & macho.I love old trains particularly steam which came about through my dad having been born in the steam age.I can imagine it will be harder for them to spot on the platforms; I bet you need a permit to film now bcos of the terrorism bs laws.It'll make all the snobby trainspotter haters happy but not for everyone's freedoms.
The lack of freedom or romance is in the trains themselves.Why do modern trains have to be built like a prison with automatic doors?As though someones gonna try & open & jump off lol.When I look @ old romance films with the guy carrying the lady on the train by opening the door & walkin to her cabin I think thats nice.we used to live like that.If you tried open a train door today you'd be arrested under the terrorism act.Again, this is all about our freedoms & NOT about health & safety or crime.
Looks like they want to phase out conductors for automated fare payment. Nonetheless I hate turnstiles, they are in alot of office buildings now, here in NYC you cant get into any of them. Sucks if you like to ride elevators like me.
Thanks, TAM. Actually when they activate the turnstile cordon I'm going to ask the station staff if Bardotbardot can accompany me to the platform and if they say "No" I'll say everything I've said here. I wonder how trainspotters are coping! Just typical that they'd pick on trainspotters because they're not Conformist macho-men!
Exactly. And also making cards that swipe to gain entry through doors so commonplace that we think nothing of them and get used to it as 'security'. An old people's home that's just been renovated has this, co-incidently, it's new 'chic' style is accompanied with a new name - Eton, named after a notorious elite-run boys school
They're renaming an old folks home after a male paedophile brothel where the next generation of Elite are raped into submission for the New World Order! Terrible! It's the same at my hospital. When I started there in 1989 there were few locked doors and I just had a name badge and no ID card. Today I have an ID swipe card which I can't work without. I need it to cross the various security zones of the hospital and I can be arrested by security if I'm not wearing it. How times have changed!
Bravo ben! One of many facets of authoritarian public control, it upsets me too, and I don't like my life being hindered and monitored. The hotel just across the road from there, The Bentinck, asked me for my passport to just spend a night. Sod that
They asked you because they're softening us up for the ID cards and subcutaneous biometric microchips! They're getting us acustomed to the culture of constantly having to prove our identity so that we won't get stroppy when it comes to chipmobile-time. The way we're being stirred up about terrorists, illegal immigration and paedophiles is a classic Problem-Reaction-Solution.
I love the comment about the trainspotters, they always get called, but so what? I say each to their own @ least they are different & have an identity & aren't egotistical & macho.I love old trains particularly steam which came about through my dad having been born in the steam age.I can imagine it will be harder for them to spot on the platforms; I bet you need a permit to film now bcos of the terrorism bs laws.It'll make all the snobby trainspotter haters happy but not for everyone's freedoms.
systemanic 4 days ago
The lack of freedom or romance is in the trains themselves.Why do modern trains have to be built like a prison with automatic doors?As though someones gonna try & open & jump off lol.When I look @ old romance films with the guy carrying the lady on the train by opening the door & walkin to her cabin I think thats nice.we used to live like that.If you tried open a train door today you'd be arrested under the terrorism act.Again, this is all about our freedoms & NOT about health & safety or crime.
systemanic 4 days ago
Looks like they want to phase out conductors for automated fare payment. Nonetheless I hate turnstiles, they are in alot of office buildings now, here in NYC you cant get into any of them. Sucks if you like to ride elevators like me.
PinePowerLI 9 months ago
@PinePowerLI I feel like when I only see machines around me I'm made to think I'm just a machine!
benthejrporter 9 months ago
They are turnstiles to a station, that is it.
beetzart77 1 year ago
@beetzart77 They're attacks on our freedom to travel and movement.
benthejrporter 1 year ago
Comment: "What noice does the steam train make?
Thats right woo woo. "
Very drole! Pull the cord and stop this train because I think my sides have split (Yawn emoticon)
benthejrporter 2 years ago
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zombified1914 2 years ago
Another excellent video, Ben. I should have viewed your new ones sooner, but I have been away and LAZY.
You were spot on when you said it takes away the romance of the railways. Wonderfully put, and it shows your way with words.
In London they seem to be everywhere, in Paris too, but I didn't see any in Berlin, which shocked and pleased me.
thealternatemedia 2 years ago
Thanks, TAM. Actually when they activate the turnstile cordon I'm going to ask the station staff if Bardotbardot can accompany me to the platform and if they say "No" I'll say everything I've said here. I wonder how trainspotters are coping! Just typical that they'd pick on trainspotters because they're not Conformist macho-men!
benthejrporter 2 years ago
Exactly. And also making cards that swipe to gain entry through doors so commonplace that we think nothing of them and get used to it as 'security'. An old people's home that's just been renovated has this, co-incidently, it's new 'chic' style is accompanied with a new name - Eton, named after a notorious elite-run boys school
Bardotbardot 2 years ago
They're renaming an old folks home after a male paedophile brothel where the next generation of Elite are raped into submission for the New World Order! Terrible! It's the same at my hospital. When I started there in 1989 there were few locked doors and I just had a name badge and no ID card. Today I have an ID swipe card which I can't work without. I need it to cross the various security zones of the hospital and I can be arrested by security if I'm not wearing it. How times have changed!
benthejrporter 2 years ago
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slaxxxer 2 years ago
Bravo ben! One of many facets of authoritarian public control, it upsets me too, and I don't like my life being hindered and monitored. The hotel just across the road from there, The Bentinck, asked me for my passport to just spend a night. Sod that
Bardotbardot 2 years ago
They asked you because they're softening us up for the ID cards and subcutaneous biometric microchips! They're getting us acustomed to the culture of constantly having to prove our identity so that we won't get stroppy when it comes to chipmobile-time. The way we're being stirred up about terrorists, illegal immigration and paedophiles is a classic Problem-Reaction-Solution.
benthejrporter 2 years ago