Liam

Big Jim by any chance!

Jason

Absolutely! You're famous @big jim!

Their Marketing crowd don't have a sense of geography?

Anyhow, wouldn't use either and one of the ads* shows that they run their trains wrong line in the wrong direction....

* I think its the Northern one

Much like we get South Eastern Railway adverts in Norfolk...

Yup, it was even noted over here that it was the anniversary, on the equivalent of the Breakfast Show, on French TV.

Signs of summer!

Who else had a look here thinking someone's account may have been hacked 😃

Only an RMwebber who’s interested in birds and Shakespeare @woodenhead... 😄

Where's Dom Joly when you need him?

"I'm on the train! ... It's rubbish!"

Seriously, it is. Some people might like to be able to hear their ghetto blasters."

OK - perhaps not ... .

Ignorance really. Simple as that.

It's because we fellow passenger's are to polite to tell them how anti-social it is, 

One way for Eon to lighten their energy footprint - don't send their customers socks at Xmas - especially those who are struggling to pay their energy bills (which probably means lots of people these days).

“I’ve got two socks in it and it’s hell in there, sir!”

Combine two energy company tips!

Put a hamster in a sock and cuddle it....

I totally agree - its concerning how much I missed it even for such a short time - well done all.

J 

I was over on Netflix for the evening

We’ll have two minutes’ silence for those members who went ‘over the top’...and were banned too young. 

And those who joined long ago, and are now missing...

Being serious, it would be interesting to know how many core members (those who have been active over the past year) there are.  However, I expect that that sort of info is "commercially" sensitive.

I'm sure it would be possible to work out - if anyone really wanted to know - but it would probably involve a ridiculous amount of work for very little gain.

Would you want to search through every name listed in the "member search" section of this site - noting how many of them have logged in within the last 12 months, followed by how many have actually posted anything in this time?

Neither would I - even without the site's annoying habit of automatically logging me out after a few minutes (even in the middle of typing a post).

It wouldn't surprise me if the site software were to provide this information in summary form - for Admin use - but I'm personally not too worried.

All I know is that I find enough of interest on this site - and in the magazines etc I can access online - to make my "RMweb Gold" membership worthwhile. For this reason, I'm not planning on going anywhere.

I could make similar observations about my membership of DEMU.

And they've just come out of lockdown.....

Why can't we a have a ' save us from this madness Andy Y' button?

Hi SVR Lad. See what I just did?! 

It had to be done Captain 

They've been self-isolating

Some years ago. two of my Met Office colleagues were doing a 'horizon survey' on top of a weather radar tower near Carmarthen. Whilst they were doing it, they kept getting buzzed by Tornados on 150' low flying exercises - the tower was 120' tall!

Afterwards, my colleagues went to the pub, and happened to meet one of the RAF pilots.

"Oh, so you're the guys who were buzzing us on top of the weather radar tower," one of my colleagues said.

"Is that what it is?" asked the pilot. "We've been using it as a target for the last 6 months!"

This Typhoon was probably lower than 200 metres actually, possibly 150. Everyone was speechless for several minutes afterwards! 
 

Just as well none of those pilots ever fired anything at the weather station...

No Tornado's left in RAF anymore, was it a Typhoon?

Shout back “NO IT’S BLOODY NOT, WE CAN ALL HEAR!”

I was tempted to, but when a lady tried to get that message across but in a much more sophisticated manner the loudmouth replied, ‘Yes, I will, ONCE I have finished the PHONE CALL!’ 

I also thought it was very moving. I remember the aftermath of the actual tragedy well, albeit from a distance, helping my father (a Valleys boy himself) raise money as part of the local Round Table group, for those affected by the disaster.

I was still in school in Cardiff when it happened. Apart from the human tragedy of it all, what I took away from it was the terrible decision to use some of the monies collected for the Aberfan fund, to help pay to remove and secure the slag heap! It's not as if the profligate grubbymint of the day couldn't have paid for it anyway being as it was a nationalised industry. Sorry, rant over.

Cheers,

Philip

Have we still got 5 jets?

It's just the one jet probably doing different ILS approaches.

Sure they're not R/C models with TTS?

They can be very loud!

Who did you enjoy today?

"Microsoft" technical support?

Your ISP phoning to say that your internet connection will be discontinued within 24 hours?

or?

The car accident people. I said to the first person yes I did have a car accident. I was put through to ‘Steven’ and after severely irritating him by firstly making out I couldn’t hear and then saying “I know all that, mate!” I told him that the accident occurred when a cow escaped from a field, ran into the front of my car and smashed the windscreen. “Ok, bye!” *beep beep beep* 

Sounds like that one finally decided to get a moo-ve on.

Seriously though, I'm sure the vast majority of people hate those scammers with a vengeance.

Deodorant would be more appropriate....

(Not you personally, you understand, but more a hint for the olefactory obnoxious show attendees!)

I think I got out of that one ok...

Did you get a free packet of throat lozenges?

Cue the jokes about <insert backward part of the country here>

"Local Time" is the Timezone term for the Timezone which applies to a particular area.

eg. If you are in London. Exeter or Glasgow on 5th Jun, your "Local Time" will be BST.  So will Portugal, but Germany will be one hour ahead and USA 5 - 7 hours behind.

Yours 

Julian