{"id":461,"date":"2011-12-26T13:23:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T13:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2011-12-26T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T13:23:01","slug":"let-monkeys-drive-the-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/12\/let-monkeys-drive-the-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Monkeys Drive the Trains"},"content":{"rendered":"

London Tube drivers are on strike again for the 300th or so time this year. They say they are not paid enough at about \u00a355000 each (really) and deserve more holidays because their finger ache with all the buttons they have to press.<\/p>\n

Those tube drivers are small brained idiots who do a monkey’s job, stopping and starting their train like a golf cart. In an age when we need to cut costs, this is where we can start. Let the monkeys out of the zoos and let them drive trains for which they can be paid some nuts and bananas.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the traindrivers can move into the monkeypen, amusing visitors by holding strike ballots and refusing to come out unless people at least double the number of bricks thown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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