Heard a thing where the UK is gonna start handing out fines for playing music on the train without headphones and like, There's always a contingent of people who'll say about anything, ah this is tyranny, this is a slippery slope or whatever, but who'll also agree that this thing is a pain in the arse and everybody wants it to stop and they don't have any better ideas on how to stop it and like, whatever, I was more agog at the AMOUNT of the fine and what it says about how nobody knows what's a reasonable amount of money anymore 'cause I heard at first that it was gonna be a fucking GRAND. And like... no working person is gonna enforce that. That's completely out the window. If I'm a train conductor and some lad's blasting music on his phone and I've got the option to make him pay a grand, I'm not gonna do it, because the point of a fine is to fuck your day up enough that you stop doing the thing, and a grand won't just fuck up your day, it can fuck up your whole life. Like fucking hell you might as well throw them in prison. Then I read that it was gonna be more like a hundred quid, the make-them-pay-a-grand idea was just some dipshit politician mouthing off, and I'm like... yeah that's still too much.