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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
Kugai:
And it fell to Paul to change tracks with the title.
Is it cold in here?:
As long as nobody got distrackted.
Neko_Ali:
If you keep this up, someone's going to get run out of town on a rail.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: mountain_ash on 29 Jan 2015, 13:16 ---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.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, it was torture. When I lived in Scotland, it was before that, but, essentially, smokers and people who wanted to talk on their mobile phones were confined together in certain carriages. Us smokers had to suffer their noise pollution, they had to suffer our air pollution. A fitting mix, actually.
Oilman:
I can't believe anyone actually ANSWERED the question about the platforms on carriages.....
I looked up the smoking on trains thing, because of a couple of recent experiences. I find that Scottish law differs from English law, as it often does, and it is legal to smoke if the platform isn't an enclosed area and doesn't otherwise specifucally prohibit it.
The Dutch have a complex range of unenforceable laws which are widely disregarded and result in smoking being legal, or sort-of legal, or done anyway in various areas. FRANCE appears to be similar.
Does an American train conductor actually have the authority to put someone off the train? I've never known a British or European conductor even attempt it, although you might get away with it in Germany I suppose. Usually they call the police (civil or railway depending on the circumstances)
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