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  1. Can whoever it is who is sending those RAF jets over please stop - that must be five different aircraft that’s flown over in the last 20 minutes at not too high an altitude! 

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Have we still got 5 jets?

    2. woodenhead

      woodenhead

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

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

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

       

      They can be very loud!

  2. I can’t believe I’ve only just discovered where the status updates had ended up at. Did they disappear for a while? 

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      They've been self-isolating

  3. I do find it a real nuisance when I’m copied into emails totally unnecessarily several times in one morning...

  4. I really do enjoy winding up phone scammers....

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      Who did you enjoy today?

       

      "Microsoft" technical support?

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

       

      or?

    2. Liam

      Liam

      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* 

    3. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      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.

  5. I see that the layout Alloa, Andy Y and newbryford have made BBC News:

     

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-47163833

     

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      I had a look, there isn't any direct mention of AY, but it might be that one or more photos are directly attributable to his Y'ness?

    3. Liam

      Liam

      It was one of Andy's photos CK; they credited him for a photo of New Bryford.

    4. Crisis Rail

      Crisis Rail

      And Great Endon

  6. I suppose there will be no more questions of ‘where’s the groan button’ seeing as we now have one... :D

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    2. toboldlygo

      toboldlygo

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

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Hi SVR Lad. See what I just did?! ;)

    4. woodenhead

      woodenhead

      It had to be done Captain :D

  7. I've just watched the Aberfan scene of a recent episode of The Crown. What a very moving, poignant and well-executed scene of a TV drama. The producers got the rain and slag heaps to a tee, and I was speechless for several minutes after the heap had roared into the village and very sadly destroyed the school. It certainly raises awareness internationally of what was perhaps Britain's worst ever civilian tragic accident.

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      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.

       

    2. Philou

      Philou

      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

  8. I’ll return here covered in dust later, as I’m off to the Great Dorset Steam Fair.

  9. It’s not everyday a Tornado jet roars over you at only 200 metres...

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    2. RJS1977

      RJS1977

      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!"

    3. Liam

      Liam

      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...

    4. KDG

      KDG

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

  10. Just applied for my provisional driving license - won’t be long before I’m behind the wheel!

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      Have fun with the theory test...

    2. Tim Hall

      Tim Hall

      Mind the Audis, BMWs, cyclists with no lights etc

  11. Looks like everyone's made it through. We'll have fun over the next few days exploring everything! :)

  12. Merry Christmas RMwebbers!

  13. Watching BBC News earlier - at the small banner at the top it said ‘Local time’ and then what the time was. Strange, as far as I know London doesn’t have a different time zone to the rest of the UK.... :D

    1. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

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

    2. jcredfer

      jcredfer

      "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

  14. Well I’d never thought that on this forum a banner would pop up asking me about perfume brands!

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      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...

  15. Went to see the film Fisherman’s Friends last night. A brilliant film, thoroughly recommend it to everyone. :)

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      Did you get a free packet of throat lozenges?

  16. You know you’re in for a long journey when someone feels the need to broadcast his entire phone conversation to everyone in a carriage of a Crosscountry Voyager, even shouting ‘it’s a private matter’! 

    1. truffy

      truffy

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

    2. Liam

      Liam

      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!’ 

  17. “This guest of summer, the temple-haunting martlet, does approve, by his loved mansionry, that the heaven’s breath smells wooingly here.”

    1. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      Signs of summer!

    2. woodenhead

      woodenhead

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

    3. Liam

      Liam

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

  18. 60 years ago this morning, a class 40 hauled mail train heading south along the WCML was the target of one of the most infamous crimes in modern British history.

    1. Philou

      Philou

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

  19. Am I the only one who gets irritated by people who hold phone or FaceTime conversations on full loudspeaker while on a train or bus, broadcasting their conversation to everyone else present? Seems to be all too common today. 

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    2. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      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 ... .

       

       

    3. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Ignorance really. Simple as that.

    4. Mulderspants

      Mulderspants

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

  20. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much passion and enthusiasm for our hobby as I did earlier today stood a few places away from Pete Waterman holding up his Guinness World Record certificate for the world’s largest portable model railway. Truly heartwarming stuff.

  21. I see we’re close to welcoming our 40,000th member. Will we be marking the occasion? 

    1. truffy

      truffy

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

    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      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.

    3. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      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.

       

  22. If anyone else wants to escape the football, currently on Channel 4 is Scotland’s Coastal Railways with Julie Walters. 

    1. woodenhead

      woodenhead

      I was over on Netflix for the evening

  23. Interesting to see who and what comes up after the search term of ‘RMweb’ on Bing! 
     

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    1. Steamport Southport

      Steamport Southport

      Big Jim by any chance!

       

       

       

      Jason

    2. Liam

      Liam

      Absolutely! You're famous @big jim!

  24. Listened to a fantastic dawn chorus this morning. I suspect this is a very good time of the year for them as we approach the breeding season. 

    1. snitchthebudgie

      snitchthebudgie

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

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