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« Reply #315 on: April 29, 2023, 12:13:49 » |
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... and no definite article. So many media outlets continue to refer to this locomotive as The Flying Scotsman. Really grinds my gears does that.  ...............as do references to "the" HMS ***** or "the" Salisbury Plain (TV weather forecasters are particularly bad on this one). Another more recently arrived annoyance is the addition of an "s" to aircraft - what next, "sheeps" and "mouses" ?? |
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« Reply #316 on: April 29, 2023, 12:28:06 » |
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Providing they stick to aircraft and not airplane I might just forgive them.
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« Reply #317 on: April 29, 2023, 14:14:02 » |
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... and no definite article. So many media outlets continue to refer to this locomotive as The Flying Scotsman. Really grinds my gears does that. ...............as do references to "the" HMS ***** or "the" Salisbury Plain (TV weather forecasters are particularly bad on this one). Another more recently arrived annoyance is the addition of an "s" to aircraft - what next, "sheeps" and "mouses" ?? We all have our bugbears. I wish I'd not been told that Gower has no definite article, as I find myself having to stifle the urge to ask it that's the 'the Gower' in 'the Wales'. As to the inexplicably famous locomotive which, as I understand it, once achieved 98mph: shouldn't its name be in inverted commas? As to sheeps and mouses: I'm sure they're coming. YouTube keeps suggesting, as a category it thinks I may be interested in, 'Aircrafts'... |
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« Reply #318 on: April 29, 2023, 14:18:51 » |
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Providing they stick to aircraft and not airplane I might just forgive them.
Question to me today - "do you know the times for Flying Scotsman" . "No". "What's the point of running a train if no-one can see it?" So that people can travel? The difference between a rail enthusiast and an enthusiast for rail? |
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« Reply #319 on: April 30, 2023, 09:42:08 » |
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RTT» getting the message out too. 
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"A clear conscience laughs at a false accusation."
"Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot."
"Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity."
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« Reply #320 on: April 30, 2023, 11:40:20 » |
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Flying Scotsman crew have reported people inside Gas House Lane level crossing near Yatton. Idiotic muppets |
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"A clear conscience laughs at a false accusation."
"Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot."
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« Reply #321 on: April 30, 2023, 12:25:10 » |
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Screengrab from my video filmed at Totnes. Perfectly timed with a departing GWR▸ .  Edit... and the unedited video. https://youtu.be/fcCJJbwLlpE |
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"A clear conscience laughs at a false accusation."
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« Reply #322 on: April 30, 2023, 14:37:04 » |
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A still from my video of Scotsman heading into Cornwall across the Royal Albert Bridge.  Edit... and the unedited video: https://youtu.be/Yt-MXOpYnqM |
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"A clear conscience laughs at a false accusation."
"Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot."
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« Reply #323 on: April 30, 2023, 15:15:58 » |
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And the obligatory pup shot.  |
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"A clear conscience laughs at a false accusation."
"Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot."
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« Reply #324 on: April 30, 2023, 19:14:48 » |
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Just another kettle working out of it's area... meh...
Well one of us has to be a grump..
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8 Billion people on a wet rock - of course we're not happy
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« Reply #325 on: April 30, 2023, 20:34:51 » |
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Just watched it through Devon on 5 live camersa, technology huh!
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« Reply #326 on: April 30, 2023, 21:23:48 » |
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Just another kettle working out of it's area... meh...
Well one of us has to be a grump..
Oh ... have you taken that role? Is there room for a second person who is less than excited ... but yet many people love it and, putting aside the t**ts who make it dangerous, let them. |
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« Reply #327 on: April 30, 2023, 22:19:55 » |
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All good clean fun. It was great to see today so many children enthused by a piece of 100 year old technology. They're the next generation of rail enthusiasts who will hopefully keep the hobby alive - recording and photographing heritage rolling stock, using trains and advocating for them, volunteering...
Here's to another 100 years of (not The) Flying Scotsman!
...and all the other preserved rolling stock of course. Wherever it may be running. I don't subscribe to this 'out of area' malarkey. I've seen a Bulleid West Country Class climbing Shap. A Deltic trundling through Shropshire. A GWR▸ Large Prairie in Essex. A Stanier Coronation Class in Dorset... All equally at home doing heritage duty.
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« Reply #328 on: April 30, 2023, 22:41:28 » |
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Final post about Flying Scotsman today. I promise! Quite the crowd at St Blazey to see 60103 being turned on the newly restored turntable. https://youtu.be/_wARt-kzgqE |
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"A clear conscience laughs at a false accusation."
"Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot."
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« Reply #329 on: May 01, 2023, 11:43:20 » |
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Here's to another 100 years of (not The) Flying Scotsman!
...and all the other preserved rolling stock of course. Wherever it may be running. I don't subscribe to this 'out of area' malarkey. I've seen a Bulleid West Country Class climbing Shap. A Deltic trundling through Shropshire. A GWR▸ Large Prairie in Essex. A Stanier Coronation Class in Dorset... All equally at home doing heritage duty.
Good job you don't subscribe to this 'out of area' malarkey then. The 'Atlantic Coast Express' running between Waterloo and Exeter via Templecombe on Saturday, 20th May will no longer feature Bulleid Merchant Navy, 35028 'Clan Line', but will be in the charge of ex- LMS▸ Jubilee class, 45596 'Bahamas' |
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