The Eternal Thread: TET's More Like It!

[Hetalia Dakota 2 II]

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I know you are but what am I?

[Kannap]

I ate a really hot sausage and now I can't taste with the tip of my tongue

Katy *hug* long time no see!

RIP in peace your tongue.

[USS Monitor]

Exactly. The commuter rail works, but you can spend a lot of money if you use it regularly.

We should plan it more like London. So people would use it. And it would look nice, and not like grandma's basement.

Massachusetts people plan stuff so it doesn't look like grandma's basement?

Yeah, that doesn't happen very often. Everything is always improvised to work around whatever we already have in place, so things that are laid out stupidly will stay where they are because that's where somebody put them 400 years ago. In some cases, it wasn't even humans that designed the roads. It's wherever the cows 400 years ago trampled the ground flat. People would just follow the cows cos it was less trouble than clearing another path, and as things got more built up a lot of them were turned into roads.

[Katyuscha]

I ate a really hot sausage and now I can't taste with the tip of my tongue

You have sassage disease. You will sass, but with a very noticeable speech impediment.
I'm sorry.

Dammit, not another speech impediment. I already have enough of them

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I know you are but what am I?

Really funny

[USS Monitor]

We should plan it more like London. So people would use it. And it would look nice, and not like grandma's basement.I'm aware. Long range trams and medium range commuter trains are hardly a comprehensive system. You need underground (or if an emergency, unfavourable terrain, or existing trackage which is economical and sensible to reuse, elevated) heavy rail (subways are heavy rail, large locomotive and car style trains are referred to as intercity rail) and comprehensive coverage. But not so much as Paris (though that was more due to racism/classism in France in the early 20th century) for example where the concentration of stations causes lower travel speeds.

I mean, you're right it's not a comprehensive system, but at the same time, DART's pretty young still when it comes to public transport and rail.

Boston's problem is the system is old and people didn't know what they were doing back then.

[Katyuscha]

I ate a really hot sausage and now I can't taste with the tip of my tongue

Katy *hug* long time no see!

RIP in peace your tongue.

Yo, dawg. Whattup?

[Kannap]

Katy *hug* long time no see!

RIP in peace your tongue.

Yo, dawg. Whattup?

Real answer: Life
Joke answer: The sky

[Arkinesia]

Already depressed today and then a friend canceled some time out together that we planned almost a week ago just so he could work extra hours at his job.

Not feeling very good right now.

[USS Monitor]

It depends which stations you are using. It's $10 one-way for me to take the train to Boston. Or $318 for a monthly pass if I was actually commuting.

Jesus. 318 dollars a month?

Yes. But I live all the way at the end of the commuter rail line. It is less if you live closer to the city like Medford or Winchester. But then it's more if you live out near the end of the line on one of the longer commuter rail lines. Like if you are commuting from Providence or something, I think that would be more.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

Already depressed today and then a friend canceled some time out together that we planned almost a week ago just so he could work extra hours at his job.

Not feeling very good right now.

That sucks Ark I'm sorry you had a rough day.

[USS Monitor]

It depends which stations you are using. It's $10 one-way for me to take the train to Boston. Or $318 for a monthly pass if I was actually commuting.

I could have sworn Lowell was only zone 6, but maybe the prices increased when they put the subway up 10 cents and Providence (in zone is more than $10.50 now.

It is zone 6, but they raised all the prices for the whole system recently. It was $9.75 under the old fares.

[USS Monitor]

Already depressed today and then a friend canceled some time out together that we planned almost a week ago just so he could work extra hours at his job.

Not feeling very good right now.

Maybe he just needs the money?

[Luziyca]

I could have sworn Lowell was only zone 6, but maybe the prices increased when they put the subway up 10 cents and Providence (in zone is more than $10.50 now.

It is zone 6, but they raised all the prices for the whole system recently. It was $9.75 under the old fares.

Dang.

Anyways, my transit system might go on strike soon.

[Katyuscha]

Yo, dawg. Whattup?

Real answer: Life
Joke answer: The sky

Real response: Yeah, same
Joke response: Fuck that joke. I hate it

How's school/work?

[Auremena]

Jesus. 318 dollars a month?

Yes. But I live all the way at the end of the commuter rail line. It is less if you live closer to the city like Medford or Winchester. But then it's more if you live out near the end of the line on one of the longer commuter rail lines. Like if you are commuting from Providence or something, I think that would be more.

Medford and Winchester are within 95. They deserve better service than a train that passes every couple of hours and is clunky to use.
Granted I did exclude them from subway service in my MBTA 2024 plan, they only received an upgraded rail service, somewhat of a cross between what there is today and the Berlin S Bahn (that went all the way to Lowell, though standard rail service would still be available, just make less stops, and continue on to Nashua and Manchester) but what have you.

[USS Monitor]

It is zone 6, but they raised all the prices for the whole system recently. It was $9.75 under the old fares.

Dang.

It's about a 30 mile trip, and everything in Massachusetts just always costs lots of money for some reason.

Anyways, my transit system might go on strike soon.

Like a long strike or like in Italy where it just shuts down for half the day and then is back the next day?

[Kannap]

Real answer: Life
Joke answer: The sky

Real response: Yeah, same
Joke response: Fuck that joke. I hate it

How's school/work?

School is going alright. Work is good, trying to net a second part time job as well.

How's your life going?

[USS Monitor]

Yes. But I live all the way at the end of the commuter rail line. It is less if you live closer to the city like Medford or Winchester. But then it's more if you live out near the end of the line on one of the longer commuter rail lines. Like if you are commuting from Providence or something, I think that would be more.

Medford and Winchester are within 95. They deserve better service than a train that passes every couple of hours and is clunky to use.
Granted I did exclude them from subway service in my MBTA 2024 plan, they only received an upgraded rail service, somewhat of a cross between what there is today and the Berlin S Bahn (that went all the way to Lowell, though standard rail service would still be available, just make less stops, and continue on to Nashua and Manchester) but what have you.

I would love to have S-Bahn.

[Luziyca]

Dang.

It's about a 30 mile trip, and everything in Massachusetts just always costs lots of money for some reason.

Anyways, my transit system might go on strike soon.

Like a long strike or like in Italy where it just shuts down for half the day and then is back the next day?

I don't know.

Then again, in 2014, we had a lockout from Sept. 20th to Oct. 18th.

[Katyuscha]

Real response: Yeah, same
Joke response: Fuck that joke. I hate it

How's school/work?

School is going alright. Work is good, trying to net a second part time job as well.

How's your life going?

Eh, trying to find a new job. This place I'm working at is falling fast and I don't know how much longer I'll be able to stay before I'm the only employee left. There's a post office near my new house, so I'm going to try applying for that. As for school, I'd really like to start community college sometime within the next semester or so, but I'm so overwhelmed with the process and work and home that it's been a really slow process

[USS Monitor]

It's about a 30 mile trip, and everything in Massachusetts just always costs lots of money for some reason.



Like a long strike or like in Italy where it just shuts down for half the day and then is back the next day?

I don't know.

Then again, in 2014, we had a lockout from Sept. 20th to Oct. 18th.

That's a big deal if it turns into a month-long thing.

[Pootinstein]

Arrgghh, TET's too fast for me.

[Katyuscha]

Arrgghh, TET's too fast for me.

To be quite honest, the thread is dragging its feet right now, compared to how it used to be

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Rides at the fair, like Pharaoh's Fury, give me a fit of the giggles when I ride them.

[Drown]

Hello.