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« Reply #30 on: July 08, 2018, 14:23:38 »

Too many years ago I remember asking my Mum what a sign meant on a Portsmouth Corporation Bus (Heavens light our guide, did that stop them getting lost?).  The sign was No expectorating on the upper deck. After being told it meant spitting, the innocent youth asked does that mean it's ok downstairs (some mothers do have them). I wonder how many Portsmouth dockers understood the sign.
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« Reply #31 on: August 09, 2018, 22:56:46 »

I think antimassicars should be standard on all trains, the refurbished GWR (Great Western Railway) HST (High Speed Train) and IETS all have peoples hairs and goodness knows what else on the seats, not hygenic!
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« Reply #32 on: July 06, 2019, 14:42:55 »

As a child, I used to visit a relation who had her front parlour festooned with the fings. Chair backs , chair arms , you name it the little lacy things were everywhere, dropping off, getting creased and they almost literally got up everyone's nose. I always called it going to Aunty Massacres...somehow the name stuck in the family for years......
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