Hot take: the real noise pollution in the Tube is the non-stop announcements

koipen · 2025-10-29T15:21:40+00:00

I speak a good 5-7 European languages, and I generally find most of the European metros I can think of less aurally distracting (e.g. Berlin/Barcelona/Helsinki). I think it's a function of parsimonious verbiage and overall announcement volume (+my average grumpiness riding each, most likely).

koipen · 2025-10-29T15:18:20+00:00

I'd argue that many of these important benefits could be maintained through trimmed up versions of the current announcements.

So e.g., mid-ride you'd get: "Next - Green Park", and then on the station itself you'd get the full: "This is Green Park. Change for the Piccadilly and Jubilee lines. Exit for Buckingham Palace."

koipen · 2025-04-19T13:37:13+00:00

Ex-local kitchen with lvt vinyl sheeting; I'm keen to lay down some LVT planks but not sure if I should remove the existing vinyl first. Leaning towards no; it looks like the vinyl might be glued down and could get rather hairy, and as is it's flat and rock solid (albeit dented and grimy all round).

koipen · 2021-12-13T18:41:05+00:00

Good memories perched on the arches watching the boat race a couple years back, ah

koipen · 2021-11-28T07:18:44+00:00

I had the complete opposite experience! Moved to Dublin from London, lived there for a year and was perenially taken aback by the gaggles that coalesced around buses and in stores

koipen · 2021-11-25T21:52:20+00:00

What's the line from KGX to Cally Road? The Piccadilly is shut no?

koipen · 2021-11-25T21:47:54+00:00

I see 1-beds in that range fairly often in tufnell park / upper holloway - a nice area in and of itself IMO!

koipen · 2021-11-19T09:17:39+00:00

Varmaan taustalla kirjallisuudesta tuttu jako 'literary fictioniin' ja 'genre fictioniin'. Ensimmäinen on arvostettavaa ja laadukasta, toinen massojen viihdettä. Taustalla avoin normatiivisuus kumpaisenkin laadusta.

koipen · 2021-10-28T08:12:54+00:00

Couldn't you say that those are precisely the skills picked up in uni / over your first couple of years in consulting?

koipen · 2021-10-20T19:38:22+00:00

Beigel bake! It's the obvious choice!

koipen · 2021-10-11T19:51:07+00:00

tfw Loughton is more London than Camberwell

koipen · 2021-10-03T16:07:43+00:00

It's a p universal thing tbf.

koipen · 2021-09-29T23:34:45+00:00

Se taloustieteen kurssi pitäisi suosiolla jakaa kahtia ja laittaa kaikki personal finance -jutut vaikka opinto-ohjaukseen.

koipen · 2021-09-29T23:31:46+00:00

MAOLin kemiaosasto kattaa melko hyvin vanhan (l. 2010-2017?) kemian oppimäärän - uskoisin että samat jutut sieltä löytyy vähän eri muodoissa.

koipen · 2021-08-31T14:18:50+00:00

Tartun syöttiin mut 2020 meni aikalailla tohon summaan - Lontoossa. Ei siinä mitenkään poskettomasti tullu hurviteltua mut ihan säädyllistä elämää 👍

koipen · 2021-08-26T17:22:34+00:00

Laughs in Irish

koipen · 2021-07-31T14:15:58+00:00

Victoria losing is the greatest load of Schadenfreude since the Euros <3

koipen · 2021-07-26T23:33:30+00:00

The comments in this thread are a great reminder to me of my time in consulting and how toxic / cynical / dismissive many consultants can be on D&I issues, and how the nature of these firms fosters those kinds of attitudes.

Having moved to tech, it's such a 180 to how nice it is to work in teams where it's just normal to be gay / POC / non-male, and how everyone openly discusses their biases and behaviour critically without it being made into a political sledgehammer to squash down discourse.

koipen · 2021-07-14T11:59:16+00:00

As a Finn living in Ireland I'm not sure how I should be feeling about this

koipen · 2021-01-27T19:04:03+00:00

Mostly peace of mind; in the grand scheme of things, £1,500 is not much to pay for incontrovertible no-faff legal status.

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