Why the trains are late in England...

[Sibling Chatty]

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23378371-details/The+boss+who+fell+asleep+on+a+railway+track/article.do

Go to date 15/12/06

The company director caused four hours of delays

A drunk company director was in court today after passing out on a railway track in the afternoon rush hour.

[goat starer]

the trains are late and slow in Britain because we invented them and we are no good at anything we invented....

cricket
football
trains


etc etc

(actually it is because we chose a guage that was too narrow, let them be an effective monopoly (state or private) and have ludicrous levels of vandalism)

[beagle]

Did we invent the strike? Or was that Lysistrata?

[Griffin NoName]

If we'd used a bigger guage would the man have failed to fall asleep on the rails?

[goat starer]

Did we invent the strike? Or was that Lysistrata?

I believe the strike was invented by the Israelites in Egypt. Withdrawal of labour and the formation of a picket line that exists to this day.

If we'd used a bigger guage would the man have failed to fall asleep on the rails?

well he might have been between the rails and then services could have simply gone over him. Also if we had a bigger guage his journey would have been quicker leaving less time to get plastered.