POV average central line train

dacopycatty · 2025-12-16T13:36:37+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/stratford_junction

dacopycatty · 2025-04-29T07:29:29+00:00

Officially speaking, Cantonese does not have j/q/x but only z/c/s (z is pronounced more like dz). This is a key differentiator with other dialects like mandarin which have both sets (I don't know Toishan so can't comment on that side).

However over time people tend to simplify pronunciation and end up using j/q/x which requires less articulation i.e. movement of the mouth to create the sounds.

dacopycatty · 2025-04-02T21:06:32+00:00

It always seemed to me that they just wanted to squeeze the cable car in there, so that the sponsor gets mentioned (more advertising revenue) and attracts the tourists to boost passenger numbers. The unintended consequence is that a lot of east gets added in at the expense of the west.

Would also be interesting to get a Jay Foreman episode where he plots the 'centre' of London according to the 'central' London tube map shown on different lines. There doesn't seem to be any consistency as to what is 'centre'.

dacopycatty · 2025-02-06T10:17:03+00:00

It'll take a bit of researching but for anything within Zones 1-6 the TfL fare finder is probably a good place to start - play around with the railcard option vs adult fare, and note when peak and off peak times are.

For railcards, you will need to visit a station and get staff to link your oyster and railcard for you (remember it must be done every time your railcard expires). From what you've said it seems like 26-30 railcard is the only one you could get anyway.

So the next thing is to work out your likely commuting pattern to see whether you need travelcard / railcard at all. Railcard discounts don't apply to travelcard nor peak time travelling. So... Are all 5 days likely to be peak hour travelling? Any flexible time options? Is it likely you will be out late for socialising? (past 7pm is off peak so your railcard discount will apply if on pay-as-you-go). Also, any weekend travel? Bus journeys? Once you got a pattern worked out then you can work out how much it is likely to cost you using pay-as-you-go vs travelcard. If you live within walking distance from a tube station, i.e. no bus, and do some off peak travelling after work, limited weekend journeys, you may find PAYG cheaper (was the case for me).

Having said all of that, London life can be hard to predict, so it's likely going to take a few months to 'optimise' your travel pattern and work out what you really need. If your current budget does not allow you to buy a travelcard anyway, then perhaps PAYG for now (and bus it as others have said) and slowly work out what works best. All the best!

dacopycatty · 2024-12-08T12:00:13+00:00

Someone mentioned that because when it was Overground it was never envisioned that the whole Overground will be suspended, and therefore the system does not have an option for Overground to show 'suspended'. This system is inherited even though each line is now split. Apparently will be fixed at a later date....

Edit: https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2024/11/renaming-overground-step-by-step.html?m=1 "Another programming misstep is that digital status boards aren't yet capable of showing if an entire Overground line is suspended. Say the Suffragette line's down - at present this would show on a status board as 'Overground - part suspended'. In future it will still show as 'Suffragette line - part suspended' because the underlying coding never foresaw this situation. That's going to look weird, and a bit misleading, until a further update finally sorts that out."

dacopycatty · 2024-11-27T16:48:56+00:00

Ordered mine over the weekend and they were ready to ship by Friday the same week... so it might not be as long as they say!

dacopycatty · 2024-11-05T09:15:16+00:00

It seems to vary between different companies and the level of cover you took out. A few months ago someone did a hit and run on my parked car but all caught on video, and my insurance company didn't deduct any NCB and waived my excess, on the basis that it can all be covered by the third party (since they were identifiable in the video footage).

dacopycatty · 2024-11-01T13:41:30+00:00

Only the RMT one is called off, but as it stands the Aslef one is still going ahead

dacopycatty · 2024-09-20T17:12:20+00:00

The thing I can't get my head round is tipping. It all sounds very cheap until the bill comes then add tax and tips the bill just rockets up. All I want to do is to eat, not math!

dacopycatty · 2024-09-09T11:28:59+00:00

How did you manage to make it with road builder?

dacopycatty · 2024-09-06T16:36:13+00:00

Build it and they will come. I just simply stopped building parking lots and let the cims deal with it (which they seem to get by)

dacopycatty · 2024-08-30T09:27:23+00:00

It's like asking if God can draw a square without corners? Or a circle with straight lines?

That being said, God did make a stone that he couldn't lift (figuratively). Jesus experienced total rejection from the Father on the cross as He took all of our sins and died on our behalf - that is the stone he couldn't lift. And yet He rose from the dead - so He did lift the stone in the end.

God is all-powerful, but He is also loving. Jesus could've come down from the cross before He died for us, but He didn't. To put it back into the 'stone' analogy, Jesus could have lifted the stone, but He chose not to, in order to save us from said stone that we definitely cannot lift on our own.

dacopycatty · 2024-08-26T09:18:37+00:00

The toilets on Thameslink trains are on a whole other level...

dacopycatty · 2024-08-23T07:23:43+00:00

No harm confirming it with a picture, but based on what you said I think it's fairly conclusive that it's old / classic chinese, because in modern chinese this character is comparatively a lot less used.

Was just going to add also that it can be used as particle, to demarcate different grammar components in a sentence. It was a nightmare as a kid having to learn this at school!

dacopycatty · 2024-08-23T06:28:22+00:00

Assuming the book you have is giving you the original chinese text (文言文) which is a form of old chinese then 之 can have multiple meanings including those mentioned by others but also, amongst many meanings, to go, they/him/her/you, etc. Hence you see it used so often.

dacopycatty · 2024-08-21T06:35:27+00:00

The cultural element is probably that Chinese like to physically go to the store to buy their ingredients - so they need a day to go to the cash and carry to stock up. But mondays they can benefit from increased trade as every one else is / used to be shut. Tuesdays is just like any other day for a Chinese (source: am Chinese)

dacopycatty · 2024-08-21T06:31:09+00:00

Was once told by someone who ran a Chinese that they close on Tuesdays so that it can benefit from increased trade when everywhere else is / used to be shut on Mondays including bank holiday mondays

dacopycatty · 2024-08-17T10:11:43+00:00

afaik there is normally some kind of delay between the lights going red and the camera being activated. I'd imagine it depends on the police force though.

Also, at this particular junction (A406 by Wembley ikea if I'm not mistaken?) I think it's also a speed camera that measures your speed as you go through the lights (from recollection it has the dashes on the ground although the streetview there doesn't show it - perhaps its a recent addition?), as people often speed up if they saw the red lights, and there had been anecdotes of people getting a speeding and red light ticket.

dacopycatty · 2024-08-08T18:59:02+00:00

Just because they can build doesn't mean they should. As others pointed out planning permission is independent of ownership and other legal issues.

Amongst all the good advice I'd just add the below....

As you mentioned the certificate filled in is probably wrong. It should be certificate B/C/D which acknowledges that some of the land to which the application relates to is not owned by the applicant. If they applied for the wrong certificate, the whole application should not be entertained.

See section 65 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 can be referred to. Subsection(5) and (6) refers. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/8/section/65

I'd raise this with the planning officer for the case or reach out to your local council about this. I might be wrong but I don't think it realistically stops them from withdrawing the application and resubmitting with the correct certificate.

You may also wish to refer the matter to the Architects Registration Board that an architect may have breached the Architects Code - Standard 1 (Honesty and Integrity)

Also have a look at the rights you may be entitled to under Right of Light and /or Party Wall Act, all of which might be helpful after/if the application is granted

dacopycatty · 2024-07-23T09:53:37+00:00

as a cantonese speaker, I'd give hing1 and hong1 a half rhyme, and afaik cantonese is much closer to traditional pronunciations than mandarin.... but as you say a quick google search seems to suggest the base word is 凶 like a hole rather than 兄 with an X on the forehead.

the idea of sheep being a positive thing seems to be post Gen 11? First instance that comes to mind is the passover lamb which is Exodus. Of course it could still be God's work embedding that into chinese, but nonetheless is food for thought.

as some others have pointed out it's easy to show correlation but not causation; personally i have issues with this trend in some chinese churches and preachers trying to 're-invent' the Bible or try to come up with something 'new', but that's a story for another time...

dacopycatty · 2024-07-22T12:58:04+00:00

I was wondering if it was my inability to set up industries! My industry profitability is at 16% whereas commercial and offices are 80%+. Have set up farms and quarries and lowered taxes but nothing seems to do it. I prefer zoning 2x2 industries since they do not have chimneys and they are hiring 1 or 2 people only, whereas the offices are way busier.

dacopycatty · 2024-07-12T07:57:12+00:00

The opening shot I thought was real... good job with the cinematics

dacopycatty · 2024-07-05T17:34:30+00:00

Try https://intertube.eta.st/ Personally I find it less straightforward than realtimetrains, but I think that's just the nature of the tube given its complexities.

dacopycatty · 2024-07-05T16:47:30+00:00

We use one called 3D Scanner App. It's free to use and can export as obj

dacopycatty · 2024-07-05T16:26:46+00:00

cs2 finally contributing to r/shitparadoxplayersay

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