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  1. When it was first put up it didn't have an HST / 125 on it, I am fairly sure of that, in fact it could not have as they hadn't started running on that route yet. I seem to remember looking out for it each time I went past on the SYPTE busses, I generally sat downstairs at the back, certainly in the winter as it was warmer by the engine ! I think, certainly when first put up, the sign was white lettering on a light blue background ( ? ) with a BR "double arrow" on there somewhere. Was that house Peter Fox's ? He was an ex BR employee who lived near there somewhere and set up Platform 5 publishing specialising in Railway books. Happy days :
  2. I agree with you about the view, but when the house was first named "Inter City Glimpse" they weren't HST's, they were 15 year old 90mph class 45s !
  3. I did report these lights as being faulty, specifically the lights phasing is now "sub optimal" shortly after this thread started but the fault still present. Unusually for me I drove into town past these lights in rush hour this morning and the traffic queue which used to be caused by the (equally bad timing of the) Park & Ride lights was actually caused by the Middlewood drive lights. There was no queue at the P&R lights ! Outbound I drove past at about quarter to five and there was, again, a huge queue for the Middlewood drive lights. There never used to be, as mentioned before once past the Catchbar junction it was pretty much a free run till you got to Deepcar ! I was watching and there were only 2 or 3 cars coming out of Middlewood drive each time and the lights stayed on green (for them) far too long, they also swapped back onto green (for Middlewood Drive) far too quickly, hence the big queue on Middlewood Rd. Nobody likes being stuck in queues, but its; even more frustrating when it's for no good reason.
  4. In your opinion. In my opinion, and racism is a subjective matter, they were not. But it is all irrelevant anyway because they were made in a private meeting. Or do you think people's private meetings should also be censored ? Along with their very thoughts one presumes. "Sheffield Forum"', should he be up before Ofcom for bias ?
  5. Give me strength..... Is there nothing these woke virtue signallers won't get upset about ? Apparently there has been a furore about white saviours going out to Africa spreading aid about : Comic Relief to stop sending celebrities to Africa following 'white saviour' criticism https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/comic-relief-drops-white-savior-trips-africa-stacey-dooley-lenny-henry-a4573203.html Do they want white people to give to these charities at all ? Surely that's just as "bad" ?
  6. Did you no read my post ? This "impartiality" sham is all cobblers anyway :
  7. Impartiality breeches are cobblers, no media outlet is impartial. Even the Beeb is far from impartial, two examples if I may : Here are the 7 points from their page "Inflation: Seven reasons the cost of living is going up around the world" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59982702 1. Rising energy and petrol prices 2. Goods shortages 3. Shipping costs 4. Rising wages 5. Climate impact 6. Trade barriers 7. The end of pandemic support Most laughably "Climate impact" is, they say, one of the main drivers of inflation. Is that some kind of joke ? Having said that they are right in a way, we have pretty much stopped generating energy from coal, banned fracking and cut right back on oil investment, so that is actually one of the reasons energy prices are sky rocketing, but is that angle mentioned by the Beeb ? No, apparently a poor coffee harvest in Brazil is more significant..... But surely at number 1 should be shutting down much of the economy for months on end whilst at the same time pumping billions of pounds into it....... But no, in actual fact the Pandemic is only mentioned in passing within other sub headings, and, most incredibly, they say that withdrawl of Pandemic support is causing inflation, the very opposite of the case as it was all those billions paid to people for being unproductive that is the main driver of all this ! and I can remember hearing an interview on R4's Today (my old car only got FM so I had to listen to the Beeb when in there...) where a French politician from Macron's ruling party was being asked about vaccine passports. She said "we need them to protect people if, for example, they are visiting a museum". The BBC interviewer just accepted that and never asked her any questions, such as how do vaccine passports protect people if the vaccines do not actually stop transmission of Covid ? Nor did she ask her why vaccinated people should be concerned about catching Covid if the vaccines work ? Which, by definition, you must think or you would not have introduced vaccine passports. etc etc It was absolutely pathetic and I was shouting at the radio..... It was typical of the Beeb and much MSM, all that subliminal "information" they're putting over without doing so openly. It's no wonder so many people actually wanted, for example, vaccine passports despite the fact they were obviously a useless idea from the very start. Sarah Hartley Brewer would have had her (the French Politician) for breakfast.
  8. I was not just me who was having problems with the awful QANTAS check ins at Sydney airport (the worst I have ever experienced anywhere in the world), did you not read my post ? Even the guy in front of us in the queue for the luggage self check in was having issues, and he'd used them a few times before (and he still hated them).
  9. That's completely different. That's about the convenience of not having to go out to a shop for stuff that one does not have to see before one buys it, I would never, for instance, buy a carpet Online. It is also that Online one obviously has a far greater choice. It is not that people use online shopping because they would rather not deal with a human being. In fact, if one has to contact these online retailers most people would FAR rather get straight through to a real human being on the phone.
  10. There is obviously a breakdown ion communication here, I thought you were arguing that some people preferred dealing with a machine than a human, happy to see you do not actually think that.
  11. You don't have to, others want to, including many business owners. Just because you find it more convenient does not mean everyone else does. Personally if I am buying anything over about £10 I'll usually pay by card, but if it's under £10 then I prefer to pay with cash, partly because : I am shocked people do not check their bank statements, they cannot do because if they did they would not want them spammed with loads of poxy £1 transactions.
  12. That's a disgrace. And a Tory government, supposedly standing up for freedoms, makes it even worse.
  13. Remember what happened with the Canadian truckers when they were protesting against vaccine passports ? (15 February 2022) Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters' bank accounts Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said at Monday's news conference that banks would be able freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests without any need for a court order. Vehicle insurance of anyone involved with the demonstrations can also be suspended, she added. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60383385 Two points : 1 - It really is incredible that a so called free democratic country (ironically led by "the Liberal Party"........) could even consider such an action. 2 - We must make sure it can never happen here, and if it does, people can get round it.
  14. Interesting sidelight on this. On the way to AUS and NZ we stopped off in Korea of a couple of days. We thought everything would be aimed at cashless card use in a country that, in some technological ways, is more "advanced" than the UK. So we did not bother getting any Korean money. However, at the airport we were unable to buy our train tickets into Seoul as the machine only accepted the Seoul travel card or cash...... Fortunately I still had about £30 in pounds in my wallet so we had to change that for South Korean won and used that no problem ! !
  15. Of course normal people would rather deal with a human being. In fact I cannot remember ever having talked to anyone (face to face...) who says "I prefer dealing with a machine". Even those who do actually use the automated outlets generally only do so because there is a queue for the manned checkout. The best proof is this..... We used the QANTAS check in at Sydney airport few weeks ago. The check in had to be done at a machine, there was no option to use a desk. A good proportion of the passengers did not know how to use the machines and thus there were queues at all of them. We needed to get one of the harassed QANTAS staff to help us, as did many other people. But that was not the end of the purgatory, for the first time ever we were forced to use an automated luggage check in. An even higher proportion of passengers were having problems with that, including some regular QANTAS fliers. The whole thing took far longer than it should have done and was FAR more stressful. But here's the thing, over on Business class the passengers were being checked in by real people...... Thus proving beyond any doubt, that people (normal people at any rate) want to deal with people not machines
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