In the Moscow metro, the announcement "Dear passengers, please give up your seats to the disabled, the elderly, passengers with children and pregnant women" has been replaced with "Be courteous, give up your seats to those for whom standing is harder"

In the Moscow metro, the announcement "Dear passengers, please give up your seats to the disabled, the elderly, passengers with children and pregnant women" has been replaced with "Be courteous, give up your seats to those for whom standing is harder". I am not sure whether it has reached every line; I heard it on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya. Sensible, to my mind

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

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In the Moscow metro, the announcement "Dear passengers, please give up your seats to the disabled, the elderly, passengers with children and pregnant women" has been replaced with "Be courteous, give up your seats to those for whom standing is harder"

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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