The sooner i learn to drive the bloody better, i'm sick of buses and taxi's, i spend almost 20 quid a week on transport, not getting to work, i walk there.

Saturday - £2.90 to pick up the youngun then come back.

Sunday - taxi to the old girls to mind the youngun whilst i'm at football, bus over to pick her up, bus back.

Bus again to drop her off at home, bus back.

Tuesday - Bus to pick the youngun up, bus back. £2.90

Wednesday - Bus to drop her off at nursery, bus back home or to work. £2.90

SICK OF IT!!!!

Wednesday-free lift to the Headland to play 5 aside off TPP. £0.00

It's good too see you never throw it back in my face either

I am fookin sick of hearing about climate warming/global change.

Sick sick sick.

Can all of those on here worried, or preaching, please, pretty please, kindly welcome to the board, and go and live in a twatting cave, and donate 90% of your pointless salaries to the government in the fight against this world ending problem.

Instead of preaching to the average Joe, who is not responsible for the imminent death of the planet, and promising to tax the working class person more to pay for delaying it (yeh right ), why dont the government actually just come out and say what they really mean?

If they tax the average person more, it will just mean they live an even poorer life, whilst the greedy rich few, who can afford substantially more tax, still get to enjoy their lives. And who causes the most pollution?

The working class family driving around in their 4 door fiesta? Or the rich bitch in her BMW X5?

Yeh, lets put more tax on flights to Benidorm.

And lets tax long haul flights to the far east, and the USA. And who does the majority of these long haul flights? The already greedy rich.

And so the average person can no longer afford his two weeks package holiday to the costa del sol, but the governemnt dont care. They have done their bit for climate change.

Lets take it all further. Lets tell everyone they are going to die from smoking. And to stop them we will tax them more. But what happens to this tax? is that used to counter the effects of Global warming? Is it fook.

Is it used to help those smoking to get off the fags? Is it fook.

Infact, do the government actually want people to stop smoking? I doubt it, with the amount they rake in in tax.

Fookin hypocrites.

And so they want us to drive less. It will save the planet. They want us all to reduce our carbon footprints. So we cant fly anywhere anymore. Great.

What would they rather we do? So there wont be those thousands of flights taking 300 people at a time for a two week break, they desperately deserve, after they have survived another 12 months without redundancy, and getting their homes repossessed.

Oh no.......its only fair these people save the planet. The rich can still fly though, all round the world.

So those in Scotland and the North, all take their cars to Cornwall for a fortnight, and all those in the south drive up to Scotland and the lake district. 50 million peope doing a 500 mile round trip two weeks in July.

But no, they dont want us to do that either. Or if we do they will tax us to death with fuel tax. So the working man cant afford to drive either.

No. What the government want us to do is this:

Instead of two weeks in a spanish resort, they want us all to climb on board the Bee-line Bus and have two weeks at the spanish city in Whitley Bay.

Only the working class folks though. Thus leaving the foreign trips for the MP's and the Bankers, who can travel the world any time they want, no matter how much tax they have to pay.

But for gods sake dont let the working man have any fun. They can all have a week in Butlins.

But dont drink when you are there. You will be taxed if you do.

Expensive scotch is rarely taxed, but cheap beer and wine, is hammered.

But its whats needed to control the mass binge drinking we all do, to ease the pressure of another working week and the threat of redundancy. But whats this tax used for?

Is it given to war against Climate change?

Or to hospitals to help the alcoholics?

Is it fook.

It is used to pay the billions in bonuses for our poor impoverished bankers.

So, we cant fly, we cant drink, we cant smoke, and we cant drive.

Infact, if the climate change lobby had their way, we wouldnt have electricity in our homes either.

Britain in the 21st century. Its fookin great innit?

Of course, the americans dont care, neither do the French or the germans.

Its just the British.

All the scruffy c*** that will not wash, go marching round trafalger square, blaming US for the death of the planet. Most of the stupid scuffy c u n ts got to London via their jags mind, and probably paid the congestion charge, to park somewhere close.

Ha. Congestion charges eh? Whats that all about then?

The stinking rich love it, cos it means they have more room on the roads around Pall Mall, to get to their private clubs. Does that money go the fight against Climate change? Of course it fookin doesnt.

This country is mad. Stark raving fookin lunatic mad.

And even on this here board, many cant see it.

The rest of the world will be laughing at little old England.

We have a national debt greater than the rest of the world put together. So what do we do?

We get taxed more. Hang on though

Isnt the extra tax to stop the planet dying? Oh no. Of course not. Only the gullible will believe that.

Instead of stopping aid for a couple of years, and bringing our troops home, and suspending more procurement of new nuclear weapons, we just get taxed more.

If this country, kept all of its aid money for two years, and used our troops as a home guard, and let some other suckers fight unwinnable wars, we would be debt free in three years.

Then we would have the money to fight the international terror that is global warming.

But no tw@t has the balls to do it. No one wants to upset the bleeding heart brigade.

Or the climate change lobby.

No one has the power of their own convictions.

Since I started this rant, how many of you have left home and gone to live in a cave? how many of you have given up your cars, Turned off your power supply? Eh?

I bet none of you have even turned your central heating down.

Long live the hypocrites.

And stick your global warming up your arse.

Spanish City shut in 1999.

The sooner i learn to drive the bloody better, i'm sick of buses and taxi's, i spend almost 20 quid a week on transport, not getting to work, i walk there.

Saturday - £2.90 to pick up the youngun then come back.

Sunday - taxi to the old girls to mind the youngun whilst i'm at football, bus over to pick her up, bus back.

Bus again to drop her off at home, bus back.

Tuesday - Bus to pick the youngun up, bus back. £2.90

Wednesday - Bus to drop her off at nursery, bus back home or to work. £2.90

SICK OF IT!!!!

Why not purchase a weekly ticket on the bus, it gives you unlimited travel for about £8:50, I'm sure No6 bus can confirm this, you could also then use it to go to work as well, really get the use out of it. As long as your workplace is within Hartlepool boundaries, and as you walk I'm presuming it is. There's no photo required and I think you can buy it from a driver when you board the bus.

I am fookin sick of hearing about climate warming/global change.

Sick sick sick.

Can all of those on here worried, or preaching, please, pretty please, kindly welcome to the board, and go and live in a twatting cave, and donate 90% of your pointless salaries to the government in the fight against this world ending problem.

Instead of preaching to the average Joe, who is not responsible for the imminent death of the planet, and promising to tax the working class person more to pay for delaying it (yeh right ), why dont the government actually just come out and say what they really mean?

If they tax the average person more, it will just mean they live an even poorer life, whilst the greedy rich few, who can afford substantially more tax, still get to enjoy their lives. And who causes the most pollution?

The working class family driving around in their 4 door fiesta? Or the rich bitch in her BMW X5?

Yeh, lets put more tax on flights to Benidorm.

And lets tax long haul flights to the far east, and the USA. And who does the majority of these long haul flights? The already greedy rich.

And so the average person can no longer afford his two weeks package holiday to the costa del sol, but the governemnt dont care. They have done their bit for climate change.

Lets take it all further. Lets tell everyone they are going to die from smoking. And to stop them we will tax them more. But what happens to this tax? is that used to counter the effects of Global warming? Is it fook.

Is it used to help those smoking to get off the fags? Is it fook.

Infact, do the government actually want people to stop smoking? I doubt it, with the amount they rake in in tax.

Fookin hypocrites.

And so they want us to drive less. It will save the planet. They want us all to reduce our carbon footprints. So we cant fly anywhere anymore. Great.

What would they rather we do? So there wont be those thousands of flights taking 300 people at a time for a two week break, they desperately deserve, after they have survived another 12 months without redundancy, and getting their homes repossessed.

Oh no.......its only fair these people save the planet. The rich can still fly though, all round the world.

So those in Scotland and the North, all take their cars to Cornwall for a fortnight, and all those in the south drive up to Scotland and the lake district. 50 million peope doing a 500 mile round trip two weeks in July.

But no, they dont want us to do that either. Or if we do they will tax us to death with fuel tax. So the working man cant afford to drive either.

No. What the government want us to do is this:

Instead of two weeks in a spanish resort, they want us all to climb on board the Bee-line Bus and have two weeks at the spanish city in Whitley Bay.

Only the working class folks though. Thus leaving the foreign trips for the MP's and the Bankers, who can travel the world any time they want, no matter how much tax they have to pay.

But for gods sake dont let the working man have any fun. They can all have a week in Butlins.

But dont drink when you are there. You will be taxed if you do.

Expensive scotch is rarely taxed, but cheap beer and wine, is hammered.

But its whats needed to control the mass binge drinking we all do, to ease the pressure of another working week and the threat of redundancy. But whats this tax used for?

Is it given to war against Climate change?

Or to hospitals to help the alcoholics?

Is it fook.

It is used to pay the billions in bonuses for our poor impoverished bankers.

So, we cant fly, we cant drink, we cant smoke, and we cant drive.

Infact, if the climate change lobby had their way, we wouldnt have electricity in our homes either.

Britain in the 21st century. Its fookin great innit?

Of course, the americans dont care, neither do the French or the germans.

Its just the British.

All the scruffy c*** that will not wash, go marching round trafalger square, blaming US for the death of the planet. Most of the stupid scuffy c u n ts got to London via their jags mind, and probably paid the congestion charge, to park somewhere close.

Ha. Congestion charges eh? Whats that all about then?

The stinking rich love it, cos it means they have more room on the roads around Pall Mall, to get to their private clubs. Does that money go the fight against Climate change? Of course it fookin doesnt.

This country is mad. Stark raving fookin lunatic mad.

And even on this here board, many cant see it.

The rest of the world will be laughing at little old England.

We have a national debt greater than the rest of the world put together. So what do we do?

We get taxed more. Hang on though

Isnt the extra tax to stop the planet dying? Oh no. Of course not. Only the gullible will believe that.

Instead of stopping aid for a couple of years, and bringing our troops home, and suspending more procurement of new nuclear weapons, we just get taxed more.

If this country, kept all of its aid money for two years, and used our troops as a home guard, and let some other suckers fight unwinnable wars, we would be debt free in three years.

Then we would have the money to fight the international terror that is global warming.

But no tw@t has the balls to do it. No one wants to upset the bleeding heart brigade.

Or the climate change lobby.

No one has the power of their own convictions.

Since I started this rant, how many of you have left home and gone to live in a cave? how many of you have given up your cars, Turned off your power supply? Eh?

I bet none of you have even turned your central heating down.

Long live the hypocrites.

And stick your global warming up your arse.

I heard one of the biggest loads of bollocks in a long time today.

When you travel to watch the World Cup in South Africa when you land you can pay a £50 'carbon footprint supplement' to clear your conscience. Oh course that will save the planet, apparently the £50 flies back up into the jet stream and clears all of the pollution that your flight across made. Either it does or it's a completely pointless waste of money that serves no purpose whatsoever....

I'm going to make an effort to increase my carbon footprint.

you off the world cup like?

Yes it's the latest advert from the Beardies on the box last nigh, cue picture of polluted world with suitable funereal music to make the kids hide behind the couch and the advice we are given is .... drive five miles less a week to save the planet ... a bit simplistic, as anyone who's ever driven realises, you don't drive for the fun of it unless you're a spotty corsa driver trying to impress your spotty mates. So it's really all bollox innit?
That said, as we now have a public transport system whose aim is profit and not service, a car has become a necessity. When buses were frequent , reliable and cheap, you didn't need a car. Then the tories privatised the buses and the Labour party changed nowt when they came to power, so we can safely say that there's too many cars because of stupid politicians. And then they lecture us.

im going but no way they getting£50 out of me feck global warming

I am fookin sick of hearing about climate warming/global change.

Sick sick sick.

Can all of those on here worried, or preaching, please, pretty please, kindly welcome to the board, and go and live in a twatting cave, and donate 90% of your pointless salaries to the government in the fight against this world ending problem.

Instead of preaching to the average Joe, who is not responsible for the imminent death of the planet, and promising to tax the working class person more to pay for delaying it (yeh right ), why dont the government actually just come out and say what they really mean?

If they tax the average person more, it will just mean they live an even poorer life, whilst the greedy rich few, who can afford substantially more tax, still get to enjoy their lives. And who causes the most pollution?

The working class family driving around in their 4 door fiesta? Or the rich bitch in her BMW X5?

Yeh, lets put more tax on flights to Benidorm.

And lets tax long haul flights to the far east, and the USA. And who does the majority of these long haul flights? The already greedy rich.

And so the average person can no longer afford his two weeks package holiday to the costa del sol, but the governemnt dont care. They have done their bit for climate change.

Lets take it all further. Lets tell everyone they are going to die from smoking. And to stop them we will tax them more. But what happens to this tax? is that used to counter the effects of Global warming? Is it fook.

Is it used to help those smoking to get off the fags? Is it fook.

Infact, do the government actually want people to stop smoking? I doubt it, with the amount they rake in in tax.

Fookin hypocrites.

And so they want us to drive less. It will save the planet. They want us all to reduce our carbon footprints. So we cant fly anywhere anymore. Great.

What would they rather we do? So there wont be those thousands of flights taking 300 people at a time for a two week break, they desperately deserve, after they have survived another 12 months without redundancy, and getting their homes repossessed.

Oh no.......its only fair these people save the planet. The rich can still fly though, all round the world.

So those in Scotland and the North, all take their cars to Cornwall for a fortnight, and all those in the south drive up to Scotland and the lake district. 50 million peope doing a 500 mile round trip two weeks in July.

But no, they dont want us to do that either. Or if we do they will tax us to death with fuel tax. So the working man cant afford to drive either.

No. What the government want us to do is this:

Instead of two weeks in a spanish resort, they want us all to climb on board the Bee-line Bus and have two weeks at the spanish city in Whitley Bay.

Only the working class folks though. Thus leaving the foreign trips for the MP's and the Bankers, who can travel the world any time they want, no matter how much tax they have to pay.

But for gods sake dont let the working man have any fun. They can all have a week in Butlins.

But dont drink when you are there. You will be taxed if you do.

Expensive scotch is rarely taxed, but cheap beer and wine, is hammered.

But its whats needed to control the mass binge drinking we all do, to ease the pressure of another working week and the threat of redundancy. But whats this tax used for?

Is it given to war against Climate change?

Or to hospitals to help the alcoholics?

Is it fook.

It is used to pay the billions in bonuses for our poor impoverished bankers.

So, we cant fly, we cant drink, we cant smoke, and we cant drive.

Infact, if the climate change lobby had their way, we wouldnt have electricity in our homes either.

Britain in the 21st century. Its fookin great innit?

Of course, the americans dont care, neither do the French or the germans.

Its just the British.

All the scruffy c*** that will not wash, go marching round trafalger square, blaming US for the death of the planet. Most of the stupid scuffy c u n ts got to London via their jags mind, and probably paid the congestion charge, to park somewhere close.

Ha. Congestion charges eh? Whats that all about then?

The stinking rich love it, cos it means they have more room on the roads around Pall Mall, to get to their private clubs. Does that money go the fight against Climate change? Of course it fookin doesnt.

This country is mad. Stark raving fookin lunatic mad.

And even on this here board, many cant see it.

The rest of the world will be laughing at little old England.

We have a national debt greater than the rest of the world put together. So what do we do?

We get taxed more. Hang on though

Isnt the extra tax to stop the planet dying? Oh no. Of course not. Only the gullible will believe that.

Instead of stopping aid for a couple of years, and bringing our troops home, and suspending more procurement of new nuclear weapons, we just get taxed more.

If this country, kept all of its aid money for two years, and used our troops as a home guard, and let some other suckers fight unwinnable wars, we would be debt free in three years.

Then we would have the money to fight the international terror that is global warming.

But no tw@t has the balls to do it. No one wants to upset the bleeding heart brigade.

Or the climate change lobby.

No one has the power of their own convictions.

Since I started this rant, how many of you have left home and gone to live in a cave? how many of you have given up your cars, Turned off your power supply? Eh?

I bet none of you have even turned your central heating down.

Long live the hypocrites.

And stick your global warming up your arse.

it is complete bull that our public transport is wnak, usualy an excuse used by those of you that are lazy and making themselves feel better about using your car for a short journey, ''because they is no alternative'.
Cue the other folk who love to moan about everyting in this country so will shout about how our transport system is sadly lacking compared to that in any other european country or something

How many Pools away games can you get a direct train back to Hartlepool from?

Brentford, Milwall, Orient, Charlton and Carlisle I reckon can all be done direct.

Southend, Norwich, Colchester, Swindon, Leeds and Huddersfield can all be done with one change in normal circumstances.

Ok, seeing as though I only generally go to the closer ones nowadays lets use Leeds and Huddersfield as examples.

Bearing in mind neither of them has their ground right next to the station, what time would you reasonably expect to get back to Hartlepool from either of them after a 3pm Saturday game?

By the way, the London ones that you mention, can you get a direct back to Hartlepool that late at night?

And Carlisle, I didn't know that we had a direct train from Hartlepool?

You'd be back about half 7 to quarter to 8. Approximately an hour after if you'd take the car.

That sounds like it'd be touch and go to get to the station in time from the ground, in fact it sounds nearly impossible. And even if you did then getting into Hartlepool station at about 8 would then mean (following the public transport line) getting a bus home which as they only run about one an hour might mean getting home around 9ish. As opposed to being home before 7 by going in the car. Much more than an hour difference! Surely that confirms how wank public transport is?

And of course the other problem with public transport, especially trains, is that you dont get to choose who you sit next to.

On the early train to London I usually get some daft fooker tping away on their laptop for 2 hours or like this week, two arseholes talking business vey loudly. Or the last time I got an owld bloke eating a Tuna sandwich which he took over an hour to it. Iam sure it had gone off by the time he had finished.

I want to sit on my own. Not next to people I despise.

Yes, that's the ultimate argument against public transport...other people use it.
Trains used to be fun. In the old days.....

I agree public transport is bad, but I wouldn't really expect to be able to get a direct train to everywhere in the country.

The train leaves at 17.28. If you can't walk from their ground to the train station in 35-40 minutes then you have problems.

Most places in the town would take about half an hour door to door from the station so on average you could expect to be home about 8.20 if you relied purely on public transport. I'd personally be home for 8 which is an hour later than the 7 going by car you mention and not at all bad.

Of course public transport takes longer and of course it's better to take the car if time is your biggest concern but the system is nowhere near as bad as people make out.

I went to London in October for £34 return. It took 3 hours direct on a Friday afternoon. If I'd have taken the car it would have cost me about £65-£70 quid and I expect it to take me over 5 hours.

But I would like to see all of the climate change protestors crushed under a train.