HS3: Leeds to Manchester

The struggle is real

By Cronan ParryPublished 5 years ago • 4 min read

Currently, we can get between the two cities in under an hour. In the future we'll have spent billions on improvements to transport for a dying planet.

Boris Johnson

Before we get into trains. Why did we let this happen. Why is this man running anything. Isn't the world as wild as always.

HS3

Read my other article on HS2 for jokes about High School Musical.

While it would be nice to get around quicker, I think it's more beneficial to reduce ticket prices first. Try not to go over budget when it starts, but I don't particularly give a fuck about budgets.

Oh hey also remember how we have minimal time to stop irreversible (almost certainly bad) changes to the planet. Ok, just checking.

State of the world

I don't have the energy to go off right now. But America is arguably making its way through the stages of genocide, and a man who I can't tell if he's a fool or a genius, but is definitely a bad play, is running England. Also, regardless of which group's rights are being threatened or ignored right now, the whole ass Earth is slowly burning up. Like why are we putting billions into trains. YouTubers, you know, those people that old-fashioned media and some people over a certain age view as trash, are raising more and more money for all these causes, including saving the planet. Boris is doing what? Being a bit of a prick. It's just so exhausting being angry all the time about all of these things that are happening simply because some people don't like some other people. More than that, some people don't seem to like the planet they live on? What.

This isn't even a structured article in any form, and I don't even have anything to say about some fucking potential railway.

'You Me Her'

There's this show on Netflix called You Me Her and it's about a couple and this other lady and turns out they're polyamorous and some of them are LGBT and not everyone is white and like it's good. But some people aren't going to even think about it because "Oh it's so SJW." What kind of mad bastard think social justice and representation is bad? We have films about fucking Nazis and serial killers and all kinds of shit. But that girl wants to love some other girl and not have it be about how a guy wants to watch them bang, can't have that.

Educate Yourselves

I found this channel on YouTube which is a trans guy talking about their experiences and stuff like that. It's interesting. I'm learning. I'm not trans. Doesn't mean I should ignore his existence. You watch films about slaves and suddenly you're down for dark-skinned black people being the lead roles in a film. I don't want to watch another version of "Hey remember when we had slaves and we got to hang all the blacks." I dunno, I could go on about all kinds of shit for a while, but it ain't gonna be about some fucking railway.

This article is short on the 600 word limit, but I just don't want to write anymore.

Exhausted

I know that I'm white and privileged and that everyday for years has had this inner rage and sadness and so on for POC. I know that the level I experience that at now is just a tiny drop of water in the fucking ocean of bullshit people have to deal with. But I'm exhausted. Aren't you exhausted? Wouldn't it be easier to just chill the fuck out and let people be who they are. It doesn't affect me that you're white. It doesn't affect that you're a man. It doesn't affect me that you're straight. Why does it affect you when people aren't that. No, I'm not saying that the problem is all straight white men. But that specific demographic of people clearly causes the most issues for everyone else. Racism, sexism and LGBT issues in general are all rooted in not being straight white men in positions of power. Sure, some issues come from within those groups. Some white women have a different idea of feminism to POC women. Some cis women have a different idea of feminism to trans women. Some gays don't believe in bisexuals. It goes on. Constantly. All I wanna do is have fun and do dumb shit. But instead, I have to spend time doing stuff like this. Not that anyone reads these, but y'know calling out people in my personal life and such and such.

This is easily the most rambly and not funny one of these has been, but I'm just tired and sad so I don't have anything to give you. Just be nice and look after each other.