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  1. Just got to the equality monitoring section of a survey. It asked if I am Straight / Gay / Bidi / other. Anyone know what the "other" is please?

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    2. coachmann

      coachmann

      Wots a bidi miss?

    3. sixteen 12by 10s

      sixteen 12by 10s

      chap with a light things …... Oh that’s a Jedi

    4. Jim49

      Jim49

      Richbrummit suggested "indifferent" Was that one word or two?

  2. Just had one of those annoying instances when someone used the disagree button on my post but doesn't say why he thinks I'm wrong

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    2. BoD

      BoD

      But if it's a misplaced finger there's an Undo Rating button.

    3. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      I think the point at issue BoD is that some people don't even know they've done it? Feel free to disagree....

    4. Bon Accord

      Bon Accord

      Perhaps you should only be permitted to disagree if you submit a post to the thread concerned explaining why.

  3. After reading another 20 posts of whingers on RTR models I feel like setting up a forum called "Modellers Disenchanted"

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    2. Tim V

      Tim V

      It is difficult to think of them as Modellers...

    3. 3 link

      3 link

      Totally agree Tim.

    4. Pete 75C

      Pete 75C

      *Sigh*. The new Dapol 73 looks like a 73 but apparently it's all wrong. Oh dear. I'll have a couple.

  4. Is thinking that daytime TV is The Establishment's way of encouraging the masses out to work

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    2. 46444

      46444

      Cash in the attic...

    3. Huw Griffiths
    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      If it is, it's not working terribly well, is it?

  5. Come on George Osborne. Don't let your Northern Powerhouse become the Northern Powercut.

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    2. trisonic

      trisonic

      Actually there were/are 6 south of the Wash and three north of the Wash in England.

    3. AndyB

      AndyB

      ...but none in my back garden; I blame the lack of a large river.

    4. trisonic

      trisonic

      True, dat...

  6. Flatpacking - 136 pieces for an IKEA bathroom cabinet. How many in an average wagon kit?

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    2. 46444

      46444

      Don't tell bcnpete. There'll be a layout in it before you can say Lack shelf! :-)

    3. beast66606

      beast66606

      You've told him 3 times now !

    4. 46444

      46444

      Whoops! Deleted!

       

  7. Amazon please note that although the bush in the plant pot outside the front door may belong there it does not constitute "Handed to Resident" on your delivery status. You have the soggy evidence at your returns warehouse.

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    2. Peter Kazmierczak

      Peter Kazmierczak

      My wife actually found a courier inside our house. They thought our hall was the porch.....

    3. TheSignalEngineer

      TheSignalEngineer

      I'm surprised he fitted through the letterbox.

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      Yes, for some reason the bu@@ers think that a bin is a "safe place". Its a pity you're not allowed to wire the back gate to the mains anymore (though I'd put an overhead warning flash on it)...

  8. Message to Amazon. I willnot be orderng anything from you until you employ a couier who does not think taht throwing a parcel containing a glass item over a six foot fence onto a concrete path during a snowstorm constitutes a 'Safe Place'

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    2. RJS1977

      RJS1977

      So that's what became of the porters from Titfield....

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      Update. They arrived in a hailstorm after 8pm and got confused between the front and back doors. Par for the course!

    4. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      Or did the drone's altimeter malfunction?

  9. Would like to go to Peterborough but don't know if I can put up with 3 hours by class 158 each way. Must check alternatives.

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    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      I prefer the P4 ones!

    3. TheSignalEngineer

      TheSignalEngineer

      To do it by bus and coach would take three days

    4. TheSignalEngineer

      TheSignalEngineer

      28xx - my 'everywhere and branches' cab pass expired long ago

  10. Mountain Bike is poorly bad sick again. Do I try to fix it or start looking for a replacement?

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    2. bgman

      bgman

      Buy another !!!! Have more fun

    3. TheSignalEngineer

      TheSignalEngineer

      Steve, brakes probably neat end of useful life, as are front and rear mechs and shifters. Frame??

      BonB, I had that thought as well, probably a well-balanced fleet of around 20.

    4. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      ebay for replacement parts, assuming you are cool with the frame? Last I looked, with a bit of patience there was some nice Avid hydraulics knocking about. Cycling has a lot of magpies who always have to have the latest shiny stuff and have to get rid of the old and dowdy. Alternatively if you use a small frame I can sell you mine :D

  11. My Building Society told me they are cutting my savings interest yet again, so i took some out and ordered a couple of locos.

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      My money seems to be heading in the direction of the Eurozone at the moment..... #teichmann

    3. bgman

      bgman

      I'm moving mine to the Bank of Bugg€r All much safer and I can watch with very little or no interest whatsoever !

    4. Poggy1165

      Poggy1165

      Pretty much what the authorities want you to do.

  12. Winter is coming, the House Martins are on the move.

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    2. darren01

      darren01

      still got some nesting

       

    3. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      That's about the right time but earlier than last year.

    4. Pete Harvey

      Pete Harvey

      I thought the House Martins Broke up years ago I'm supprised they are still doing gigs :lol:

  13. Wolverhampton PSB 1965-2015. Goodbye old friend. RIP.

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    2. beast66606

      beast66606

      Didn't quite make 50 years

    3. LNERGE

      LNERGE

      A product of 1966? twas a very good year that.

    4. TheSignalEngineer

      TheSignalEngineer

      Commissioned 16th August 1965

  14. First lying snow of the season.

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    2. TheSignalEngineer

      TheSignalEngineer

      Cleared at town level, but from my window I would guess it starts at about 1100ft on Bleaklow.

    3. Judge Dread

      Judge Dread

      Snow should only be seen on Christmas cards. Bah Humbug!

    4. 3 link

      3 link

      Lovely and sunny and quite warm on the south coast...

  15. Just been told there is some spare money in the pot, is there anything I want for the railway? Don't need to be told twice,

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    2. davefrk

      davefrk

      Oh! now that hurt - in more ways than one.

    3. TheSignalEngineer

      TheSignalEngineer

      Dave, will need three at some time soon but they are easy enough to slip under the radar.

    4. locoholic

      locoholic

      Too good to be true - it's a trap!

  16. New grandson 4 hours old - Sammy aged 22 months trying to teach it the difference between tank and tender locos

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    2. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Congratulations! :-)

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      He's not going to like you for referring to him as "it"!

    4. TheSignalEngineer

      TheSignalEngineer

      Now named Thomas Edward. Tank engine piloting Tender engine?

  17. Why, when were are in the middle of trying to have a reasoned discussion, do two people have to start a personal and private slanging match in mid-thread?

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    2. Boris

      Boris

      Oh no it isn't I can't believe you said that, I am so mortally offended I'm going to go and sulk for a month.

    3. Coombe Barton

      Coombe Barton

      Is this the five minute argument or the full half hour?

    4. hornbyandbf3fan

      hornbyandbf3fan

      Let's push for an hour

  18. seem to have mislaid a Conflat and a cattle wagon. Don't think I can blame the Carpet Fairy this time.

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    2. TheSignalEngineer

      TheSignalEngineer

      Conflat located but cattle wagon still missing

    3. DonB

      DonB

      Locate it by the smell?

    4. 69843

      69843

      It'll be where the mooing sound is coming from

  19. If you always have to think outside the box was it the right shape and size in the first place?

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    2. 69843

      69843

      I don't just think outside the box. I think perpendicular to the space next to outside the box.

    3. Jon Fitness

      Jon Fitness

      Throw the contents of the box away, get in it and pretend you're in a train cab!??...Er just me then....

    4. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      I thought it was a sludgemarine

  20. OMG, almost bought something from G*st*de.

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    2. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      There are support groups available. You are not alone.

    3. TheSignalEngineer

      TheSignalEngineer

      Not the Lotto, but apparently I have been awarded 3m euros by the UN. All I have to do is send my bank details to a Nigerian email address.

    4. CovDriver

      CovDriver

      Hey it looks like we've got to share the money I've had the same email!!

       

  21. OMG! Gostude undercuts Rails price on Ebay.

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Well knock me down with a feather. Has Hell frozen over!?

    3. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      This is momentous!

      What's the item?

    4. Crisis Rail

      Crisis Rail

      Still after those DRS 37's must be about 2 years now.

  22. BT Mobile? Complete shower of SH! you know what.

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    2. Boris

      Boris

      #SHITE!!!!!

    3. bgman

      bgman

      Two tin cans and a ball of string !

    4. MiDAS

      MiDAS

      BT anything comes in that catagory

  23. Went to look at some new vehicles and found out that my bike is now worth more than my car.

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    2. DonB

      DonB

      Yes.mine too! SWMBO is not amused!

    3. 28XX

      28XX

      Trade the bike in and keep the car until it becomes a 'classic'.

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      I already have. Mind you, it helped not having a bike in the first place.

  24. Grandson Sam, 23 months, keeps chattering on about Deltics

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    2. Mattmaz

      Mattmaz

      lol My youngest daughter (2) keeps going on about "Grumpy Growlers" (37s) which come past here on the flasks lol

    3. Mallard60022
    4. beast66606

      beast66606

      60054 on the Tunsteads today.

  25. Why is it that in the throne room there always seems to be a bit of skirting board you can't paint without putting your head in the bowl?

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    2. beast66606

      beast66606

      Far too much info. Can you paint it whilst using said throne ? - on second thoughts, don't answer.

    3. BoD

      BoD

      And when you have finished painting you will be flushed with success

    4. Tony_S

      Tony_S

      or completely round the bend.

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