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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
LTK:
--- Quote from: Oilman on 29 Jan 2015, 11:01 ---How does smoking on US trains work? I don't smoke so I don't care, but most (though not all) British trains have smoking areas.
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Wow, really? I would not have expected UK legislation to be so tolerant to smoking because I have not seen a smoking area on a train, ever. Not in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Denmark, or Sweden. The very notion seems absurd.
Random832:
--- Quote from: Oilman on 28 Jan 2015, 00:15 ---It's like another issue I saw somewhere recently, about a character visiting another in their apartment and having a conversation about "parking in the next street, so the Superintendent won't charge you for me". That is pretty much meaningless to a British or European reader, because the tenancy lease practices differ - you might need to notify your landlord for insurance reasons if someone moves in, but you can have all the house guests you like and it's no-one's business but yours
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Is it possible they were talking about charging for the use of the parking space in particular?
mountain_ash:
Smoking carriages used to be quite frequent on trains in the UK, but there haven't been any since the ban on smoking in workplaces which took effect in 2007, and according to my observations at least were becoming less common in the years leading up to that.
questionablydiscontent:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 29 Jan 2015, 08:37 ---I renamed the thread to maintain a pretence that's it's still on track... :psyduck:
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I'm taking that to be a pun :clairedoge: regardless of whether that was the intent.
Carl-E:
Oh no, that's standard terminology. Threads get derailed all the time... :/
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