I know what you're going to say, so you needn't bother - you come to Indexing to get away from all the crass, rampant commercialism which so blights the World Wide Web, and even (perhaps especially) blogs. You take solace in a world free of banners, 'buy here' links and (whisper it) pop-up adds, and you are reduced to a quivering wreck at the mere thought of this last bastion of the Marxist dream (without the enforced atheism) selling out to the moguls. Hear me out, though - this is a money-saving tale worth telling.
Maybe you've already heard of it, but I doubt it - the marketing policy is a strange one it seems, strange as in 'let's not tell anyone about this, or we'll go bust'. I hadn't until the other day, and no one I know had either, but that's all about to change. I'm talking about Megatrain. You'll have heard of Megabus probably - the company which allows you to sit on horrible old buses for ages so you can get somewhere cheap - well this is its sister company, and it works by exactly the same principles, except excitingly (albeit somewhat predictably) it uses trains. And not just crummy horrible megatrain trains, oh no - crummy horrible proper Virgin trains. Have a look for yourself: Edinburgh to Manchester return? That'll be £2 please, if you book at least a couple of days in advance (£25 tops). There's no Edinburgh-Glasgow or Edinburgh-London admittedly, but who cares when the home of our very own Barnesy Boy Kwant (Carlisle) is within reach for the price of a Whopper Junior (that's right, not even a real one)? Anyway, we'd better exploit this lunacy as soon as possible, cause someone's bound to try and get it shut down sooner or later, and my (metaphorical, of course) bet is on sooner.
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Is that the topic Andrw picked for you to talk about?? Im thinking not although you can never be sure with Andrew... And does cheap travel to Carlisle mean that the Kwant household wants/deserves a visit from the Index team, girls included this time!??
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