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Making the red lights turn green...
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It was a short day to be fair (2030-0300), but Saturday was challenging.
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I knew a guy who wore makeup in his teens and early 20s, to cover up his acne.
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Ah, you too.
Thankfully I was provided accommodation to be near the control centre, to which I finally returned at 0315.
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Charlemont as in the West Bromwich one?
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I think the difference between Scotland and Germany is that not every station in Scotland has a ticket machine and if you board without a ticket you can buy one on the train. In Germany there is a machine and a line on the ground - pass that without a ticket and expect to pay around €100
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Berlin is I think both time and distance or zone. Other smaller cities it’s just time.
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Yes. You expect to be checked and they do it regularly - on my last visit they got on the first train I went on (from the airport).
I can’t recall any visit to Germany I have made in almost twenty years when I didn’t have my ticket checked at least once.
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It’s quite a sad contrast that we can’t have it like the German method - open barriers, but if you’re caught without a ticket (and a you will get your ticket checked), a hefty fine.
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I’m glad I went by train last time I was there.
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My grandfather went to Laurence Sherriff and we still had relatives there until recently.
I went for the first time since the early 90s a couple of years back, there were more Crames in the graveyard than I’d ever seen in real life.
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DO IT. Went for the second time last year and didn’t regret it, now I find out that several colleagues have work connections there.
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Clearly aiming at a certain age range there 😉
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Wait until you turn up to work with only one safety boot…
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True, but if the aim is to hinder a future Russian invasion, the first lines to be converted would be on the east of the country across and alongside the border - not the lines to/from a NATO ally.
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The report from YLE in Finnish was a little less bold. This was an ‘in principle’ decision which will be reviewed and confirmed in 2027.
Construction could start in 2030 with a handful of lines to the Swedish border - but there’s nothing very concrete here.
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Hyvä.
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Oh no your lot have taken over the whole of 3G. It’s our lot from 3B (all of 3B) that have moved in to 3R1
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Don’t go there. All of ‘the project’ has been relocated to 3R1 and we have to share 23 desks.
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In my case the digestive system bits should have been titled “How your body doesn’t work” as it didn’t cater for those of us who had been surgically enhanced in that area.
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It’s scarily catchy and tbf going for Sauna does make you feel amazing (unless it was the last one I had in Finland which ended badly).
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Can you unlock them from the outside? As one SAS cabin crew decided to do to me a few months ago while I was sitting there minding my own business...
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Seriously, I think I’m going to have to wear dark glasses.
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I’ve recently had to write a document where “plate rack insertion” was abbreviated to P/R ins and I winced every time I wrote it.
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Two were signalling terms and the third medical. And Public Relations didn’t even come into it!
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I was about to suggest it was an axle counter area.
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Unfortunately the way my mind works a PR means one of about three things and I’m sure this is none of them…
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I ran to the Victoria line once.
In my defence, I was called to attend a signal failure at Green Park.
I never ran to a failure again. Walked purposefully, yes, but never ran.
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I actually contemplated drawing up the espresso in the Imodium syringe. I still detest the taste of coffee.
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Sam Bowman can, quite frankly, get to fuck.
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I thought that at first but it can be very hit and miss - sometimes even more greasy than KFC used to be.
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I think I’ll stick to p*rkele, s*atana, and f*n lite dj*vlar från h*lvete.