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Have had over £100k through my account, which is verified, as was the person giving the refund, this was a non eBay transaction. It’ll be interesting to see when Dave does all the refunds - hopefully they’ll all be instant, for his sake and for everyone else’s! Reinforces his decision to use a different payment provider too.

As long as you lived in the right part of suburbia. If you live in Milton Keynes a City office is great. Move that office even to Clapham and it’s a pain, move it to Guildford and it’s wholly untenable. Gold star for your “immigrants steal all our jobs” comment though.

Definitely see-ee-ex to avoid any awkward silences after you talk about your latest purchase from “that sex shop”...

Yes I conceptually like the 'load indicators' on the 700s, but it adds insult to injury when it tells you that coach 3 (or whichever coach I'm actually in) is standing room only, whilst coach 9 (or whichever would be hardest to get to!) has plenty of empty seats! Sorry to hear service is degrading again, luckily I cycled in yesterday and WFH'd today, and like your wife had found the first part of the week acceptable, if not yet good!

Seems there's plenty of uproar already...!

Isn't that Cif now?! But is it 'siff' or 'kiff'?! I say 'jay-peg' even when discussing the three letter extension, and I'd definitely say 'giff'.

W3!?

It's actually the website, rather than the browser, but yes website.com will nearly always work exactly the same as www.website.com becuase people are lazy and why would you bother to type www?! Theoretically you could define the domain to redirect from wwwwwwww.website.com if you wanted too - the server will just have predefined rules on how it handles different URLs, with a "master" (canonical) domain, which the website owner can define (ie either with or without www). In most browsers pressing ctrl+enter adds "www" and ".com" to whatever is in the address bar anyway, although not much use when you want a .co.uk site.

Why is it that we say W-W-W instead of "world wide web", we've taken a three syllable phrase and turned it into a nine-syllable initialism!

Interesting! I say O-L-E-D, but definitely open for interpretation, I know people who say "Oh-led". I guess e-mail is still a hangover from it being an abbreviation of electronic mail, there is a precedent for other words with a similar structure still having a 'hard' e sound: enunciate, elongate etc, but perhaps in years to come folk will be saying 'em-ale'!

Agreed, would be good if Dapol re-ran a batch. As you say, they matched them superbly to the Farish locos, simply by buying one and sending it to the factory! I think the Farish mk3s would grate horribly with the new mk2s, but I'm sure Electra will sell a few vinyls!

All coaches necessary for what? For the Scotrail offering you ideally want mk3s, which aren't by Farish anyway.

It's a difficult thing isn't it, because you do need rules to explain these things, there are just then lots of exceptions! I imagine even 10 year olds would subconsciously break the rules they're told are there. Tell him to stick with it - I did an A-level in English Language and really enjoyed it, I'm only 30 so it wasn't all that long ago! It gets less prescriptive and more fun.

It'll be removable, same reason they include them on DVTs and what not I presume... someone will want one.

No apostrophe. LEDs. Being a huge pedant here... it's only an acronym if you pronounce the word: NATO, NASA, SCUBA. If you simply say the letters: BBC, NFL, USA then it's initialism. That is a total red herring in whether it's a or an though, it's all about the sound of the opening letter rather than the letter itself, as has been said several times, and that in turn is because of the way the sound is produced in your mouth as NearHolmer said - it's replicated more elegantly in other languages too, see French and l'hôtel rather than "le (or la...!?) hôtel". Ergo there will be dozens of examples that don't confirm with the "normal" rule that you think you know, like all these things. To that end, just remember... i before e except when your weird foreign neighbour Keith receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters. And then there are rules that you've never been taught in any capacity, but you just know, like the order of adjectives, which usually goes: Quantity or number Quality or opinion Size Age Shape Colour Proper adjective (often nationality, other place of origin, or material) Purpose or qualifier So you have a scruffy, blue, American wagon on your layout. Because an American, blue, scruffy wagon just sounds wrong! It's actually all pretty interesting IMO.

You’ve got years to save up!

If you want to use inverted syntax to try and sound more intelligent maybe Now... “hence why”. Hanging offense. Disinterested is not the opposite of interested, that’s uninterested; disinterested means ‘has no vested interest’. And breathe.

That’s still just SWIFT payments, which are not the normal way of paying money, virtually unheard of for domestic currency payments and are still not how PayPal works. PayPal don’t use direct debits either, and their transactions are nearly always instant even if not taken from a balance they’re holding. Some of their payments are Continuous Payment Authorities - mainly subscription payments. No need to get more technical, as you say it’s totally OT, so we can leave it there. I work for a lending company, so pretty au fait with how money is transferred. Dragging us back on topic... Dave - you said above about the n gauge 3D models, have you had any feedback about the ‘simpler’ model from the factory? Feel free to answer in the n gauge thread, this is just far more active!

But some PayPal refunds are instant, others are held for a period before being released (often 7 days) and it’s not simply a delay in posting the transaction. SWIFT payments are for international transactions, and aren’t how PayPal transfer payments.

That’s helpful Chris, thanks. Unsurprisingly I’ve made no further progress, admittedly in part because I’ve not moved house yet!

The wagons produced by Bachmann are FIAs (although they just call them "intermodals" unhelpfully), which according to gingespotting's page have numbers: Number range 31 70 4908 654 through to 749. Number range 31 70 4938 000 through to 224. Number range 31 70 4938 300 through to 743. Part of the confusion seems to be the use of "Megafret". I've not heard of FIAs being called Megafrets (except by gingespotting), they're normally "Multifrets". The Thrall built Megafrets are the FKAs, they're EWS maroon and aren't available RTR in model form. The AAE built Megafrets are IKAs, they're blue and are available from Dapol. The EWS spine wagons the OP mentions above are FCAs and are effectively the EWS equivalent of the FEAs used by GBRF and Freightliner. The answer to the OPs question on the FIA is that they are still operating, most are still green, probably, but they're so dirty it's hard to tell. I don't believe any are EWS maroon although it appears some are DBC red.

I'll wager 99.99% of people do, it's curiously instinctive. There are loads of exceptions to the rule you've never thought about, you just assume that: begins with vowel = an, begins with consonant = a. - Euro - unique - any initialism starting with F/M/N/L, but not any acronyms: "an NFL player", "a NASA astronaut". Stupid English language!

It's more about the pronunciation of the word and whether it starts with a vowel sound, rather than explicitly whether it's a vowel or consonant. So... an apple/elephant/injury/orange/urangutan, but also an hour (because the h is silent). Conversely you say "a one off", not "an one off", because phonetically "one" is 'wun'. Phonetically "L" in LED would be 'ell', so it effectively starts with a vowel. See also 'eff' 'em' 'en' for F/M/N. However when not used as initialism "light" is not a vowel sound. Then you've got hangover from when more H's were silent - "an hotel", "an historic" which is archaic and less widely used than it was. Edit: I say so, yes, to me language matters. "I should of did what you done" is perfectly easy to understand, but it's wrong, and it grates. But that is in itself a divisive topic which we need not stray into!

Whilst I'm sure there's an element of investment income from interest it's obviously not PayPal's primary source of income (that being transaction fees), and I'm not sure it really holds here because PayPal don't have your money, it's been transferred to another party and is then going back, it's effectively just another transaction, simply the reverse of a pre-existing one.

I was just thinking of EWS maroon flats that looked roughly like the FIAs (as something which could have been mistaken for an FIA painted maroon), I was aware of the FKAs which look a lot more like the IKA Megafrets than the FIA Multifrets. I wasn't aware of IFAs though, so I've learned something!