Today I'm happy about......

[bwfcdan94]

It's where they make Mars bars, of course it's a strange place.

[bwfcdan94]

I am happy today that a fellow forum member has had the misfortune to be moving to Bracknell, a mere 5 minutes on the train from where I live.

[Dujon]

Ah, winter has arrived. Snow on the hills above me. Wentworth Falls to Katoomba is classed as extremely icy, the road from Lithgow to Bathurst is closed but, best of all, it doesn't affect me.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Ah, winter has arrived. Snow on the hills above me. Wentworth Falls to Katoomba is classed as extremely icy, the road from Lithgow to Bathurst is closed but, best of all, it doesn't affect me.

Winter in July, Christmas in summer: you Aussies are a perverse lot.
If I'd have been the 'governor' of Botany Bay prison colony exclave all those years ago, I'd have renamed the months so that July was January, August was February and so on, and that way you could enjoy proper seasonable months. (Mind you, that was probably why transportation was so feared - being forced to celebrate Christmas in a heatwave: proper punishment!)

[Bruce Rioja]

Ah, winter has arrived. Snow on the hills above me. Wentworth Falls to Katoomba is classed as extremely icy, the road from Lithgow to Bathurst is closed but, best of all, it doesn't affect me.

Nicked this off of 'In and Around Bolton', but this was my daily winter grind just to get to school and back.

[Dujon]

I remember it only too well, Bruce. Whilst that image is impressive it's nice to see something like this on the odd occasion:

Snow Boomers!

[Prufrock]

^ Love that picture, Dujon.

[Prufrock]

I sent a ranty e-mail to Virgin Trains about they're fecking new toilets, and they're stupid website, and how they're wasting money on gimmicks instead of acting like a proper business and making savings which are passed on to the customer which was the whole point of privatisation in the first place.

They've sent me a voucher for £20 .

I'm tempted to send it back pointing out that it's an example of exactly the sort of stupid fecking shit that I was on about. Stop trying to make me like you; be better at trains.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Yup.
Branson is a tit.

[Worthy4England]

I sent a ranty e-mail to Virgin Trains about they're fecking new toilets, and they're stupid website, and how they're wasting money on gimmicks instead of acting like a proper business and making savings which are passed on to the customer which was the whole point of privatisation in the first place.

They've sent me a voucher for £20 .

I'm tempted to send it back pointing out that it's an example of exactly the sort of stupid fecking shit that I was on about. Stop trying to make me like you; be better at trains.

I'm a bit lost about all this. I've never really had any problem with Virgin trains on the London route. Sometimes they're a bit full, but I can't recall the last time one I was on, was late, other than on one occasion when the poor train driver died of a heart attack, which I can forgive them for.

And I always snigger when I see the train they have called Virgin Invader....coz I'm a bit crass like that!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Just the post, and can't be arsed but basically I remember sitting in airplane seats listening on proper headphones to first release by Roxy Misic and being given tea and biscuits and free tickets to Gong concerts and thinking this guys got it sussed he knows what he's doing.
Trouble was he did it fir himself and nit for all of us, the cxnt.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Fxckin hell. Bobo phone syndrome. Oh well.

[Worthy4England]

Riiiiight, so business should be there for you, not them?

I'll bear that in mind.

[Prufrock]

I sent a ranty e-mail to Virgin Trains about they're fecking new toilets, and they're stupid website, and how they're wasting money on gimmicks instead of acting like a proper business and making savings which are passed on to the customer which was the whole point of privatisation in the first place.

They've sent me a voucher for £20 .

I'm tempted to send it back pointing out that it's an example of exactly the sort of stupid fecking shit that I was on about. Stop trying to make me like you; be better at trains.

I'm a bit lost about all this. I've never really had any problem with Virgin trains on the London route. Sometimes they're a bit full, but I can't recall the last time one I was on, was late, other than on one occasion when the poor train driver died of a heart attack, which I can forgive them for.

And I always snigger when I see the train they have called Virgin Invader....coz I'm a bit crass like that!

I've never noticed that.

Either you're very lucky, or I'm unlucky. About 50% of my trips with them go wrong in some way. From overcrowded trains where there isn't room to even sit on the floor, to trains running late, being cancelled. And it's not even cheap.

What's worth, having spent a year traveling London-Cheltenham once a month, Virgin aren't even the worst.

[Burnden Paddock]

I sent a ranty e-mail to Virgin Trains about they're fecking new toilets, and they're stupid website, and how they're wasting money on gimmicks instead of acting like a proper business and making savings which are passed on to the customer which was the whole point of privatisation in the first place.

They've sent me a voucher for £20 .

I'm tempted to send it back pointing out that it's an example of exactly the sort of stupid fecking shit that I was on about. Stop trying to make me like you; be better at trains.

I'm a bit lost about all this. I've never really had any problem with Virgin trains on the London route. Sometimes they're a bit full, but I can't recall the last time one I was on, was late, other than on one occasion when the poor train driver died of a heart attack, which I can forgive them for.

And I always snigger when I see the train they have called Virgin Invader....coz I'm a bit crass like that!

I've never noticed that.

Either you're very lucky, or I'm unlucky. About 50% of my trips with them go wrong in some way. From overcrowded trains where there isn't room to even sit on the floor, to trains running late, being cancelled. And it's not even cheap.

What's worth, having spent a year traveling London-Cheltenham once a month, Virgin aren't even the worst.

Whenever I travel the Manc-London route (which isn't loads tbf) it's always on time. I've never encountered people sitting on the floor and the prices are dirt cheap if booked far enough in advance. Cost me £86 return for 4 the last time I travelled with them.

I can cope with the 'wacky' toilet messages in that case, and any other corporate shite that they want to throw my way.

[Prufrock]

Rubbish TV subtitles.

News was doing an article about the 2006 polonium poisoning in the sushi of the Russian spy Alexander Little-Known-Mango.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Rubbish TV subtitles.

News was doing an article about the 2006 polonium poisoning in the sushi of the Russian spy Alexander Little-Known-Mango.

Why are you happy about this?

[bobo the clown]

↑↑↑ Interesting that they sort of decided to drop that .... & now we're falling out with Russia that it maybe needs dusting down again.

Real politik in action.

[Prufrock]

Rubbish TV subtitles.

News was doing an article about the 2006 polonium poisoning in the sushi of the Russian spy Alexander Little-Known-Mango.

Why are you happy about this?

Coz it's funny!

[Prufrock]

↑↑↑ Interesting that they sort of decided to drop that .... & now we're falling out with Russia that it maybe needs dusting down again.

Real politik in action.

I was too busy being a child to pay attention. What's going on? Yeah, happy to let them get away with an assassination on British soil whilst we wanted to be friends. Now, not so much.