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  1. eastwestdivide

    Portillo alert - Great Continental Rail Journeys new series BBC2 9pm Wed 5 Nov (tonight, Russia)

    1. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      He gets to ride the Wolsztyn steam service in one show. Poland I should think :)

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      The Times was very dismissive of tonight's show. "Glib", they said...

  2. eastwestdivide

    there's fifteen feet of snow in the East, and it's colder than a welldigger's ass

    1. PhilEakins

      PhilEakins

      Didn't realise welldiggers use asses - and how do they get then to go down the well?

    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      I could have translated from the American, but the profanity filter might not like it.

  3. eastwestdivide

    Stopping work early due to Xmas songs being blasted out from a street away

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Was it being done by some man down some pub?

    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Something about "Any old iron", I believe!

  4. eastwestdivide

    Rossmore Road

    1. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      Ellesmere Port?

    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      No, Annie Nightingale late night radio, early 80s

  5. eastwestdivide

    the rain it raineth every day

    1. PhilEakins

      PhilEakins

      Not round here it don't. Lovely day.

    2. PhilEakins

      PhilEakins

      It's raining now!

  6. eastwestdivide

    The polar 1960s slide scanning project has reached Hercules planes landing in Antarctica

    1. PhilEakins

      PhilEakins

      I didn't know that Poirot had got that far, nor that he was an airline entrepreneur.

    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      The facial hair in these shots is much more unkempt than Poirot's

  7. eastwestdivide

    Chronicles

    1. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      of Riddick or Narnia?

    2. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Of Mars?

  8. eastwestdivide

    Where's the dialog box "Are you sure? Yes/No"

    1. Ian J.

      Ian J.

      It was pre-ticked with a Yes...

    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      We need an Ummmm box as well!

  9. eastwestdivide

    Reformatting...

    1. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      Reformatting a document, not a disk! My brain hurts

    2. HeeleyBridge

      HeeleyBridge

      reformatting your brain tends to do that.

       

      Pass the Black & Decker and the egg whisk nurse :)

  10. eastwestdivide

    A random, but somehow slightly amusing noun, probably describing a foodstuff

    1. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Tart?

    2. Tim Hall

      Tim Hall

      Melon

  11. eastwestdivide

    ...building a computer from parts ordered on the internet. All fits together, but power-on will have to wait until tomorrow.

    1. steve22

      steve22

      Is that to give you time to find your tin hat and sandbags ready for switch on?

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Should be fun. Self-build PC is only way to get what you really want.

  12. eastwestdivide

    Fenwick's Foaming Bike Chain Cleaner!

    1. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      A jar of rancid old lard

    2. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Threadgold's Thorough-grip Garterettes

  13. eastwestdivide

    tickets for Peggy Seeger!

    1. pH

      pH

      Genuinely surprised she's still performing. I saw her in 1965/66 performing with Ewan MacColl in a folk club in a condemned building in Greenock.

    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      Crikey.

  14. eastwestdivide

    Writing project schedules for my clients, as they don't seem to understand the concept of planning

    1. RedgateModels

      RedgateModels

      not a well known railway infrastructure owner are they?

    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      No, but I guess my problems aren't unique then?

  15. eastwestdivide

    Today's lesson: paying clients are right, even when they're wrong, you've explained how they are wrong, and shown them examples of people doing it right

    1. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Sounds utterly farcical to me...

    2. beast66606

      beast66606

      I know that story - we are using your software which is over 10 years old, and has been updated hundreds of times since, including several very major revisions - why doesn't it work on Windows 8 ?

  16. eastwestdivide

    Bought a new ball for my ballcock without it turning into a Two Ronnies sketch

  17. eastwestdivide

    People paying invoices without me sending a reminder... Nice.

    1. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      End of tax year approaching!!!!!!

    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      blimey - i must look for cows leaping when the moon appears tonight

  18. eastwestdivide

    Interrail ticket delivered... only 2 months to finish my planning

    1. Mickey

      Mickey

      sounds fun !

    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      pencilled in so far: pannekoeken, Schwarzwaldkirschtorte and pizza (not all on the same day)

  19. eastwestdivide

    Too much work, not enough trains

    1. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      Me too too much work not enough brains for trains

    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Too many trains not enough work (work = dosh):)

  20. eastwestdivide

    DB journey planner - nice way to spend a rainy night, planning next summer's jaunt

    1. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Sounds like a good idea! What did you plan thus far?

    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      Alp Gr

  21. eastwestdivide

    Greenhouse glazing clips = sore fingertips

    1. SHMD

      SHMD

      There's a knack to fitting them in easy, but it is definitely beyond my language skills to describe it!

    2. mikes rail

      mikes rail

      Try long nose pliers

  22. eastwestdivide

    50 slides of Powerpoint is 40 too many

    1. Tim V

      Tim V

      I'd suggest 51 too many slides...

    2. Jon020

      Jon020

      "Death by powerpoint"!

  23. eastwestdivide

    feeling nesh

    1. Platform 6

      Platform 6

      Put two vests on then!

    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      Already got two jumpers and longjohns!

  24. eastwestdivide

    7 nights hotel in Switz for

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Erstfeld?

    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      higher up - G

  25. eastwestdivide

    correcting someone else's corrections

    1. bcnPete

      bcnPete

      not mine I hope !-)

    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      no, a rush job on a Sunday - someone else obviously rushed too fast, slowing it all down in the long run.

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