Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Trains [was Re: Independence Day] Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:20:45 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <71ae8jdih7c3s6j4psqvm7jr9aumir7hl8@4ax.com> <8ee16417-f7ce-4a9e-cae0-e53ac5edea7e@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 02:20:45 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c84714726793da6432abeed2f001a647"; logging-data="3379525"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+LM1qorA4c/u92bKXImOOF" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:PzBmrcckrWzGq0+ORSHRegjnIjw= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2251 On 7/19/24 3:22 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote: > Evelyn C. Leeper wrote: >> I've traveled on trains in many different countries, and I can tell you >> that a train in India is very different from a train in Japan. But each >> is interesting in its own way. Japanese rail travel is usually fast, >> frequent, clean, comfortable, and often very expensive. In India, >> on the other hand, it is usually slow, infrequent, dirty, uncomfortable, >> and often very cheap. > > But in both cases the food is very good, though in the latter you may > have to wait for a stop for the chapatti vendors by the tracks. > --scott And eat it served on a leaf. You know, I ate all sorts of food for a month in India and never got sick. From the food on the Lufthansa flight that was loaded in Germany--that I got sick on! -- I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. -J. D. Vance