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Background: First Great Western apologises for 'shocking' death announcement - BBC News

I was, as you might expect, on board, and the train manager did indeed twice announce that the three hour delay was down to a suicide at Twyford, and she did indeed use the language ascribed to her in the article. She emphasized the additional degree of inconvenience this would cause people taking a Bank Holiday break, especially the eight hundred of us crammed into the eight coaches she had charge of who were consequently obliged to listen to the nonsense she was spouting. Even in the Quiet Carriage, which is something I've never quite fathomed. We ought to be excused.

Inexplicably, our tactless train manager failed to explain how blackmailing her employer with a threat of strike action over the Bank Holiday Monday was laudable, honorable, or in any way different to "head-butting an Intercity 125" - which was also part of the announcement though the BBC didn't catch that bit - other than the rail staff strike threat would have disrupted the transport system for forty hours instead of a mere three, and closed all UK stations instead of just Paddington, and took a lot more deliberate cold-blooded planning.

spot;1479621 wrote: Background: First Great Western apologises for 'shocking' death announcement - BBC News

I was, as you might expect, on board, and the train manager did indeed twice announce that the three hour delay was down to a suicide at Twyford, and she did indeed use the language ascribed to her in the article. She emphasized the additional degree of inconvenience this would cause people taking a Bank Holiday break, especially the eight hundred of us crammed into the eight coaches she had charge of who were consequently obliged to listen to the nonsense she was spouting. Even in the Quiet Carriage, which is something I've never quite fathomed. We ought to be excused.

Inexplicably, our tactless train manager failed to explain how blackmailing her employer with a threat of strike action over the Bank Holiday Monday was laudable, honorable, or in any way different to "head-butting an Intercity 125" - which was also part of the announcement though the BBC didn't catch that bit - other than the rail staff strike threat would have disrupted the transport system for forty hours instead of a mere three, and closed all UK stations instead of just Paddington, and took a lot more deliberate cold-blooded planning.


You must have felt a bit like hostages. And what a dreadful harridan of a train manager! I won't travel by rail if I can avoid it, I prefer the car, especially if I can plan a route that only uses the quieter roads, or leave early in the morning. Travelling by night can be quite good too; not much to look at, but you get a nice, quiet, quick-ish journey.

My fundamental problem with traveling by car is quite probably Pirate Radio FM.

spot;1479649 wrote: My fundamental problem with traveling by car is quite probably Pirate Radio FM.


What a bizarre answer.

spot;1479649 wrote: My fundamental problem with traveling by car is quite probably Pirate Radio FM.


I take it that you always end up being inflicted with Pirate radio if you get offered a lift? What about trying motorcycling? Mind you, with some of the morons on the road, make sure you've got good life insurance....

Bruv;1479650 wrote: What a bizarre answer.


Suitable for such a bizarre radio channel perhaps. I have never yet understood why one sentence follows another in their broadcasts.

Why do you keep repeating yourself ?

Is this another of your tests ?

Am I a guinea pig ?

Bruv;1479655 wrote: Why do you keep repeating yourself ?

Is this another of your tests ?

Am I a guinea pig ?
It's all down to the utter incompetence of British Bloody Telecom, may they rot.

BT have disconnected my Internet because I'd asked to be upgraded to Infinity - it's only taken them a month so far but they've finally done something. Not a helpful thing but it's the first they've managed, I've had no phone calls or emails or letters from the sods. I detest BT. I'm running my desktop through my cellphone to get to the Internet and will be for the next month at this rate. I'm sure BT's systems are perfect but their staff are untrained, uneducated and unhelpful. Meanwhile, running my desktop through my cellphone is resulting in doubled postings onto FG and, for all I know, most other page requests I'm making elsewhere. It's a combination of very slow access through an iffy 3G signal and retries.

It's certainly not intentional on my part.

Don't worry about me.....

Can you not get Virgin ? You appear to have problems with large corporations, first the BBC now it's BT. I would recommend Virgin cable every time.

Lets hope we don't get a crisis where your expertise is required.

I had BT up until the 90s and detested them for every good reason under the sun, the profiteering unhelpful reactionary stick-in-the-mud vipers that they were and are.

Bristol then invented Telewest (which eventually merged with not so much as a hiccup into Virgin) and provided me with a cable all the way into to the study and I had unimpeachable broadband for the next twenty years.

Where I have moved to in Penzance is a BT fibre monopoly zone. I have no idea how good their blighted service is, I've had to wait a twelvemonth already to find out and I'm still not connected. My stop-gap ADSL2 from fuel broadband was fine if slow, but I appear to have had to be disconnected from that before BT will condescend to allow me Infinity. Why that is I have no idea, but I strongly suspect it's incompetence on the part of the sales team, bugger them all with long blunt artifacts.

spot;1479661 wrote: I had BT up until the 90s and detested them for every good reason under the sun, the profiteering unhelpful reactionary stick-in-the-mud vipers that they were and are.

Bristol then invented Telewest (which eventually merged with not so much as a hiccup into Virgin) and provided me with a cable all the way into to the study and I had unimpeachable broadband for the next twenty years.

Where I have moved to in Penzance is a BT fibre monopoly zone. I have no idea how good their blighted service is, I've had to wait a twelvemonth already to find out and I'm still not connected. My stop-gap ADSL2 from fuel broadband was fine if slow, but I appear to have had to be disconnected from that before BT will condescend to allow me Infinity. Why that is I have no idea, but I strongly suspect it's incompetence on the part of the sales team, bugger them all with long blunt artifacts.


Found this on my travels. Any use?

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays ... seball.jpg

Wow this thread has gone off topic!! tut tut :wah:



Perils of living in Cornwall! We are the last to have everything. Including decent trains and buses - we get all the ones that 'up country' don't want any more!

For the last four years or more we have put up with all our main roads being dug up causing endless chaos throughout the silly season (summer tourist season) apparently preparing to lay cable. Yet we still have no cable available here. It's bizarre and frustrating.

I have BT infinity it took them an age too, when I moved in I had rung up to request a standard move my broadband etc. They offered me fibre for for £2/month more than I was paying so I went for it. Had to wait about six weeks though and then they didn't turn up on the day they said they would. Once the men had been, one to deal with the telegraph pole and another to drill holes and attach the box to the back of the house it still took a while to actually get connected. No more spinny wheels on on live stream videos they told me. Pah! I still get poor speed now and again. But, I do recognise I have better internet connection than a lot of people around here.

Went out for tea tonight, daughter is now a teen, we went to a place called Trewellard and into the Meadery. No lights, just candles, no windows either, tis very dark. Food is served on wooden plates and you eat with your fingers. A bowl with a lemon is provided for cleaning your fingers after.

See, no electric and no cutlery up Trewellard, always the last to get anything around these parts :wah:

Well.......all you people living on the English Riviera always sunshine and blue skies..........you can't have it all.

Bruv;1479667 wrote: Well.......all you people living on the English Riviera always sunshine and blue skies..........you can't have it all.


I suppose so... when it's not foggy!! :wah:

Betty Boop;1479668 wrote: I suppose so... when it's not foggy!! :wah:


Yes, but at least it's WARMER fog than we get in the Midlands....