Monday, February 27, 2012
*This* ... Now this is how you launch a rail line
Cheerleaders! And waving 40-feet tall blow up thingeys and flags! People all going bat-shit crazy. In Japan.
Instead, this is what happens ...
"Ooh, look at the river!" In Canada.
Where's the cast from Sons of Anarchy driving in formation alongside the GO train on the highway?
Exactly.
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And then there's the GO bear, who's always showing up to welcome kids aboard his train. Hmmm...
1:59 "I totally paused for that stop sign."
That's what go needs. Characters with tentacles and really big eyes.
I've been on the TGV's in Korea and Japan and they are worth cheering. We once bought SRO tickets on the TGV from Busan to Seoul. My daughters made a nest with their jackets on one of the end of car luggage bay shelves and my wife and I shared a jump seat by the doors that a CSA would normally use (he was in the next car over) and we actually had a more comfortable and enjoyable ride than first class VIA.
Damn, how I miss Japan. I lived there for one year and their trains are definitely worth celebrating. Japanese are far more polite to others around them. No talking on your cell phone while on the train. I kid you not. Texting, emails, games are OK, but no talking. No loud, inconsiderate, inane conversations from others. It's bliss....
Isn't talking on the phone actually illegal on trains in Japan? They were texting way before that caught on in other parts of the world because of that reason! AT least that's what I heard...
@anonymous
No it's not illegal to talk on your phone on trains in Japan. It's just a faux pas. You just don't do it as a courtesy to others (image that!). A friend of mine got caught talking on his phone on the train and got a bunch of scowls from little old Japanese ladies, but they didn't throw him off the train. Thankfully he told me what happened so I didn't make the same mistake.
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