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Modern Day Problems
24.6.2025 (Tuesday) 09:19 - All running AOK
 
Modern Day Problems
Posted by grahame at 14:25, 23rd June 2025
 
Windows that reflect what's inside the carriage when you want to take a photo of the passing scenery - and don't open!


Re: Modern Day Problems
Posted by broadgage at 21:15, 23rd June 2025
 
It is uncouth to wear a sleeveless vest on it own (i.e. not under a shirt) indoors including on public transport.
An exception could reasonably be made in  truly exceptional heat, but normally JUST DONT !

Re: Modern Day Problems
Posted by grahame at 00:31, 24th June 2025
 
2. Strong trackside growth that means pictures taken from trains get blocked by foliage ...



That's a lovely little church overlooking a lake with beautiful hills all around

But then the modern day does allow up to take hundreds of pictures at a sensible price in the hope that some may come out OK ... and I am not averse to selecting the odd frame from a video occasionally.

Re: Modern Day Problems
Posted by grahame at 00:42, 24th June 2025
 
It is uncouth to wear a sleeveless vest on it own (i.e. not under a shirt) indoors including on public transport.
An exception could reasonably be made in  truly exceptional heat, but normally JUST DONT !

The weather was exceptionally hot yesterday ... but, yes, people's personal habits can be inconsiderate!  Unbuttoning your shirt and spraying de-odourant into your armpits is another "please don't" for me; I was not quite so unhappy with the young lady who laid out a box of false nails on the Paris express the other week and proceeded to glue them all onto her finger nails.   Using your phone as a makeup mirror has become commonplace - I'm sure some of our members do that, and there may be some things I do thoughtlessly that irritate others.

Also yesterday - a young lady who was quite pretty (am I allowed to say that?) when she arrived proceeded to "enhance" her lips with some sort of paint-on sickly looking layer that reflected light and left her looking very false indeed and far less pretty in my personal view.   She the proceeded to break pieces off a chocolate wafer biscuit and had to open her mouth wide to stuff the pieces in without damaging the work she had done to her lips.

Re: Modern Day Problems
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 01:16, 24th June 2025
 
Using your phone as a makeup mirror has become commonplace - I'm sure some of our members do that ...

Gosh - how can I do that? 

CfN. 

 
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