RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2012 Just keep calm and carry on. Keeping Calm and Carrying On is how we demonstrate panic in the UK! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2012 It looks like I'll be attending a linguistics seminar led by a Japanese lecturer this summer. I wonder if it would be a problem to be wearing my shirt which has "densha otaku" written on it in Japanese to that seminar? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I had to google "pluviomania"...... Virga is such a nice sounding word. I'm not going to google Japanese, Dom... I spent quite a bit of time in Japan in the 80's. yeah kind of nice, like being on a different planet. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I googled the Japanese. Apt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I've just cancelled my online order for "virga". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2012 Keeping Calm and Carrying On is how we demonstrate panic in the UK! And you really know we're panicking when we start queueing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2012 Good day all - well good apart from grotty Thames Valley weather and 'super-wrinklies' day in the supermarket - not just OFs like me but the real anciens/anciennes who take nearly 10 minutes to unload a small trolley into the car, then get themselves into the car then start to think about starting the engine - if they can remember how to do it. I thought our local Tesco was bad for it but in Waitrose in the Oxford Road in Reading they seem to have developed it, and 'aisleblockingitis', into a highly refined art. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2012 Good day all - well good apart from grotty Thames Valley weather and 'super-wrinklies' day in the supermarket - not just OFs like me but the real anciens/anciennes who take nearly 10 minutes to unload a small trolley into the car, then get themselves into the car then start to think about starting the engine - if they can remember how to do it. I thought our local Tesco was bad for it but in Waitrose in the Oxford Road in Reading they seem to have developed it, and 'aisleblockingitis', into a highly refined art. Bit like that in our local Tesco six adult relatives stop for a chat each complete with baby in buggy and assorted other children the main drag is blocked so you end up going for bread via the cat litter! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 but in Waitrose in the Oxford Road in Reading they seem to have developed it, and 'aisleblockingitis', into a highly refined art. Don't get me started. Our Morrison's is bad for aisle blockers. It should be made into an olympic sport. England would win hands down. My fave is the massive chavette with her 12 children that parks her trolly at a 45 degree angle in the aisle then wanders off to another aisle leaving the trolly and demonic sprogs to ensure total blockage. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2012 Andrew I jave cracked the supermarket bit - I let the other half do the supermarket challenge and now she is being made redundant she will be able to go all day!! Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2012 I jave cracked the supermarket bit - I let the other half do the supermarket challenge and now she is being made redundant she will be able to go all day!! Ian And have her own money to spend perhaps? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2012 Luckily we dont have joint accounts!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 45156 Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2012 Afternoon All At the risk of repeating myself Dreich, dreich again - been out for logs, just to top up supplies - all four bags that we got are soaking wet, so there could be a lot of wet wood stacked at the side of the stove. Also had to do the supermarket run this morning. I do love going with 30747 to see how much things have gone up in the last few weeks. I also did something that I never thought I would do - I bought a photo album on diesels - but it was on Cromptons which I used to enjoy greatly when I lived on the Southern. I have had some amazing experiences with these locos over the years, including some very interesting cab trips (best was over Wimbledon - West Croydon hauling W&C stock to Selhurst for maintenance, and the driver had seen me and camera elsewhere and invited me up). Must shoot, 30747's home from art group and looking like a drookit hen. Regards to All Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) Quick railway quiz... What exactly does this plaque indicate? Edited January 20, 2012 by 1216 025 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2012 It has something to do with the World Trade centre attacks?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2012 It has something to do with the World Trade centre attacks?? No, not at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 81.81 recurring %? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Two footballers sent off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelintrev Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 9 &1/2 mile? [9,5] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2012 No - this is the 11th catenary mast within the 9 kilometre mark on this particular stretch of railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2012 No - this is the 11th catenary mast within the 9 kilometre mark on this particular stretch of railway. That is what "they" want you to think! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2012 I'm not a number..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 "No - this is the 11th catenary mast within the 9 kilometre mark on this particular stretch of railway." Who is this Mark? Can't he speak English? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 20, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2012 Is it 'within' the 9km mark or 'following' the 9 km mark? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 And that, I think, is a further education in off-beat British humour for poor Dominik! Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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