Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Tal]

...and a florist for overblown, romantic (last minute) gestures.

[david3103]

Darlington retains it's charm because it's too small to be turned into a shopping mall/food court, yet big enough to have the flow of trains that makes it feel like a railway station.

Edinburgh Waverley has been ruined by the commercialisation, as has St Pancras I believe?

I think they did a wonderful job with St Pancras even if it did take almost ten years.

Why do you say ruined?

It has a shopping centre in it!

I go to Meadowhall, Fosse Park, or Bentalls in Kingston when I want to shop. I go to St Pancras to perve the locomotives, rolling stock, Permanent Way, signalling, & the wonderful catenary.

To be fair, the exterior of the building (the extension excepted) is truly magnificent, might just be my favourite building in the UK.

But shops? In a Railway Station?

That is just so wrong.

Bugger. You got me on the coffee.

ALL Railway Stations & Termini should, of course, have a good coffee shop, & a newspaper & book shop. That's it, nothing else.

no more needs to be said

[bobby1]

BBC1 tonight Tony has a doc on Rory  McIlroy that should whet the appetite for the golf year that starts 2morrow.

[kinboshi]

Bugger. You got me on the coffee.

ALL Railway Stations & Termini should, of course, have a good coffee shop, & a newspaper & book shop. That's it, nothing else.

St Pancras should have a pub inside the building, nearer the actual platforms.

[stumpythefish]

Are there any others, Tikay?

My fav is  The next train to darlington is cancelled because the driver cant reach the pedals

The announcements by people who work there are a different kettle of fish entirely. I once heard "We apologise for the late running of the next service. This is due to...er...a delay"

yes my colleagues come up with some pearlers

[AndrewT]

Many of us have burning questions that keep us awake at night.

Well, very good news for anyone whose question was 'What ever happened to Howard Plant?' as he's on BBC1 right now in a programme about Blackpool.

The answer heavily involves car parks.

[Junior Senior]

Many of us have burning questions that keep us awake at night.

Well, very good news for anyone whose question was 'What ever happened to Howard Plant?' as he's on BBC1 right now in a programme about Blackpool.

The answer heavily involves car parks.

And Dave Gardner is right behind him in his trusty tracksuit and shoes combo.

Just waiting for the classic "my name is Howard Plant and I dont lend money"!

[bobby1]

I think we might have to start the death march for journalism Tony.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/article4724439.ece

[tikay]

I think we might have to start the death march for journalism Tony.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/article4724439.ece

The mind truly boggles, Phil. And she Tweeted that? The nation must have been enthralled.

Jeez, Twitter is some reflection on how we spend our time, eh?.

[tikay]

Many of us have burning questions that keep us awake at night.

Well, very good news for anyone whose question was 'What ever happened to Howard Plant?' as he's on BBC1 right now in a programme about Blackpool.

The answer heavily involves car parks.

For all his corny stuff, I actually loved listening to Howard Plant storiers about his car parks. What a business!

He once told me that he employed his brother in the business, but never paid him a penny. The deal was he gave his Bro a tow-truck & a ton of wheel clamps, so his Bro was incentivised to clamp & tow away as many illegally parked cars as possible, as he got to keep the fines.

Which was interesting, because, as the story goes, Howard started the business by commandeering Office Car Parks near Old Trafford on match Days & charging folks to park in other people's property.

Howard's only role in the business when it grew to 10 or 20 Car Parks was to visit each one daily & empty the pay-machines.

"Must be nice, Howard?"

"What, it takes me hours, & I have to lug around a bloody great wheelbarrow to carry all the £1 coins".

Weird how the poker economy works, to, because all that money worked its way into the Blackpool poker economy, & in those days the Blackpool game was huge, especially when Shaf had his betting boots on.

[tikay]

Are there any others, Tikay?

My fav is  The next train to darlington is cancelled because the driver cant reach the pedals

The announcements by people who work there are a different kettle of fish entirely. I once heard "We apologise for the late running of the next service. This is due to...er...a delay"

 yes my colleagues come up with some pearlers

What exactly do you do, Stumpy? You work for the railway, I assume?

We need detailllllllllllll

[rfgqqabc]

...and a florist for overblown, romantic (last minute) gestures.

After a romantic mishap i sent a girl some flowers. She didn't ring me to say thank you, i got a nothing text. Several months later i see she tweeted a picture of them. Charming. Young 'uns eh?


"but I think the Boeing factory in Seattle is the world's largest covered manufacturing building. Some factory that. They don't make many products, but they don't half cost a lot."

You were almost right, Washington has the worlds largest building by volume, A Boeing factory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Everett_Factory





However, my curiosity was initially perked by your use of the word covered. The only example i can think of "factories" being made that wouldn't have cover were the Russian tank building factories in WW2, that lacked walls and a roof. I searched google for twenty mins or so, and couldn't find a link that provided proof of this, but it does seem like a rather strange lie for my history teacher to make. What factories were you referring to Mr TK?

[Rod Paradise]

Harsh on the old boy, rfgqqabc, the factory is only 25 miles from Seattle - we can give him that one surely. 

[Tal]

So it's not all coffee, Frasier and grunge, then?

[Tal]

Oh and isn't Wikipedia based there?