Showing posts with label king. Show all posts
Showing posts with label king. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 April 2023

Coronation thought

For a short time I thought of king Charles as the  king of spades because I always saw him planting trees when he was the prince of Wales; he would be digging a hole in the ground and putting a small tree there. The emblem of the king of spades is shaped like a leaf as well. 
Imagine having a conjoined twin like that. He would say "One must do a poop" and the one guy would say no "two must do a poop". The conjoined twin would be like a special adviser to the king. How's it hanging special adviser? I haven't played any card games for a long time, except on my phone. I have solitaire type games on there. 

The other thought I had was if I would want to go on a space X rocket if I was an astronaut. Those things seem to explode all the time. I would say no for now. 

Tuesday, 18 April 2023

Coronation day plan

The Coronation of King Charles the 3rd will be on Saturday the 6th of April I believe. It will be in London. If I was visiting London from another city or country, I would consider all the things I could do during my stay. If I lived in a city is that was far from the ocean, I would consider taking a day trip to Southend on sea, it is the closest coastal town to London and takes about 1 hour from 'West Ham' train station on the C2c train network.  There is lots of things to do there, there is the largest pleasure pier in the world, adventure golf, an amusement park, sea front cafès, arcades and even an aquarium. Did I mention the pleasure pier is so long, it has its own railway, that's not a joke. 
The other coastal town you could visit could be Brighton, it is further away but it takes about the same time to get there because the Thameslink railway have class 700 type trains. I'm a fan of the Thameslink railway, they pushed the limited infrastructure as far as it would go and made sure all their trains could trump the speed caps on all the rails. They must have poured a lot of investment into the franchise because they have a huge operation zone, you need a lot of rollstock to pull that off, all their trains are overhead power high speed electric class 700 type trains, robust and reliable and fast. There are several stations you can get a Thameslink from, Farringdon, London Bridge, Black friars. 
If you just want to enjoy London then I would recommend walking along the Thames (🗣️Tems) river. Most the important places are around there. There are also two large amusement parks in London 'Chessington world of Adventures' in the south and 'Thorpe park' on the western edge, they're not straightforward to get to without a car unfortunately. I think there is a shuttle bus from 'Stains' train station to Thorpe Park. You could get an Uber from Chessington South train station or walk it from there. 

Thursday, 27 June 2019

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King was a political activist at a time when African Americans were treated as second class citizens. I believe that his vision was to liberate African American people like himself from Prejudice. He wanted to see an American society that treated all people fairly and judged people by their personality.

He succeeded where others had failed. He made the United States of America a more fair place. I think the reason he succeeded was because he used a passive approach. He would organise mass boycotts instead of riots.

Black people weren't allowed to sit at the front of the bus and had to give up their seat for a white man if the bus was full. Matin organized a mass boycott. They said we will have the same rights on the bus as the white people or we won't use the bus at all. So... Many thousands of black people stopped using the bus and the bus companies faced huge losses.  They found another way to get to their jobs such as walking or cycling. I learned from that and adapted it to my life. If I am not treated with respect then I will avoid the place all together and they loose out more than me. If a company cheats me then I won't come back to that company to buy any things.

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