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it was, whenever I'm told that the west isn't in decline and that I only think so because I'm a friendless virgin loser who never goes outside I recall how the AEC Routemaster and Austin FX4 were designed promptly on a modest budget and fulfilled their roles perfectly for 50 years, withstanding the strain of london traffic for all that time and an ever-flowing torrent of urine, semen and AIDS blood for the second half of it, were only ever sought to be replaced because of ecohomo concerns about the emissions of old diesel engines, outlived about five consecutive attempted replacements each which either didn't work or simply weren't as good, and are now supplanted only by a patchwork of expensive and overcomplicated designs from all over the world, all of which are unsatisfactory in one way or another
