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French rail company orders 2,000 trains too wide for platforms
Reuters ^
| 5-20-14
| Gerard Bon and Elizabeth Pineau,
Posted on 05/20/2014 6:44:29 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: ClearCase_guy
I blame the metric system. That's why a Quarter Pounder in France is called a "Royale With Cheese."
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05/20/2014 7:32:14 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: driftdiver
The French version of Amtrak?
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posted on
05/20/2014 7:34:09 PM PDT
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Fungi
To: MeshugeMikey
Snicker.
These are some real shovel ready projects!
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posted on
05/20/2014 7:37:39 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(#BringTheAdultsBackToDC)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
05/20/2014 7:39:21 PM PDT
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ClearCase_guy
(Fegelein! Fegelein! Fegelein!)
To: Gamecock
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posted on
05/20/2014 7:40:51 PM PDT
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MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: dfwgator
And the whole thing is run by Italians. Or an Omugabe clone...
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05/20/2014 7:51:55 PM PDT
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publius911
( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
To: dynachrome
"We discovered the problem a bit late, we recognise that and we accept responsibility on that score," You'll never hear that from an American official. "It's a conservative's fault," would be closer to the mark.
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05/20/2014 7:56:06 PM PDT
by
eldoradude
(How many democrats does it take to change a light bulb?)
To: ClearCase_guy
When it comes to engineering, the French copy nobody. And nobody copies the French.
To: ClearCase_guy
The RFF only gave the dimensions of platforms built less than 30 years ago, but most of France’s 1,200 platforms were built more than 50 years ago. Repair work has already cost 80 million euros ($110 million).
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05/20/2014 8:40:12 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
To: dynachrome
A few years ago, I recall the French built an aircraft carrier that was too short for the jets they wanted to fly off it.
Should not laugh at them too much... our bureaucrats as every bit as incompetent as the French bureaucrats.
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05/20/2014 9:12:16 PM PDT
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Ditto
To: Army Air Corps
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05/21/2014 8:59:44 AM PDT
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GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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