Damn. I haven’t caught one of those new Intercity trains yet. These trains were the cause of many strikes before they even started operating. They should have been striking about the flip flop!

And why is there trackwork one or two weekends per month? Are the contractors maybe corruptly milking the government? And yet breakdowns seem to be more frequent than ever.

“All highways are called autobahns”

Does Germany not distinguish between highway and freeway?

In Australia a highway has traffic lights while a freeway does not.

Do rich people in Greece import sandstone?

In Sydney most trains…

(a) Are double decker

(b) Have seats which flip to face the opposite direction.

Australian pedestrian crossing lights cater for the blind and the deaf-and-blind. Billie Eilish’s brother/producer sampled the sound, when he visited, for her smash hit.

If you are talking of NL then we are also fascinated with how large the ships are in such a narrow canal.

Oz Magazine (the authors of this) fought very high profile court cases regarding accusations of obscenity. Some of the zine staff went on to have very successful careers: Richard Neville and Geoffrey Robertson in particular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(magazine)

https://web.archive.org/web/19980505180543/http://prop.taz.net.au/Journalism/Necrophilia/.html

Ashes don’t burn any further. That is why they are ashes.