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    Normal People with Celebrity Names

    I have regular work meetings and correspondence with David Bowie. He's looking surprisingly well nowadays and has a pronounced north-eastern accent. Tends to be stronger on technical analysis of highways and traffic engineering than song writing or singing. My old schoolfriend John Robinson has...
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    Bell Cheeses at work

    I suggest a query relating to the possibility of bringing in hot drinks in thermos flasks and re-attaching the screw on top between taking sips to mitigate the risk would be a positive and constructive move.
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    Country Pub recommendation for great food

    I've had some very good meals in the Abergavenny Arms at Rodmell, decent beers too.
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    What Beatle are you?

    Same!
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    English History Quiz.

    25/30 Was also wrongfooted by Black Death and bubonic plague being apparently different answers. Some lucky, some unlucky guesses. I'm pretty sure question 17 is wrong and the answer I gave was 200 years before the answer they give as correct?
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    Abba Quiz.

    I think they are talking about the original studio albums released at the time. If your copy of Arrival is a CD issued from the mid 90's on it will have one or more extra tracks on it which weren't on the 70's vinyl or cassette releases, notably including the answer they are looking for, which...
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    Abba Quiz.

    24/30 Better than I did on geography. Lyrics were straightforward then they got into some more obscure things, like the jogging and which was first to chart in US, followed after getting the answer wrong by the revelation that the song they wanted 'charted' at some ridiculous low number that I...
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    Currently NO TRAINS for the Colchester or Forest games

    I find the easiest thing is just to put the bike lock through an air vent at the front of the helmet before locking the bike up. That way you lock both the helmet and the bike frame to the bike stand at the same time.
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    Currently NO TRAINS for the Colchester or Forest games

    On the previous strike days, I recall the strike service on conductor-worked lines was: 1 train per hour Brighton to Bognor, 1 train per hour Three Bridges to Chichester (connections between the two at Barnham), 1 train per hour Brighton to Eastbourne. All as daytime only. Brighton Mainline ran...
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    Foyles War actress reported missing.

    From the link in post #5 from Thunder Bolt, she was in "The Chichester Centre" which is a modern mental health facility on Graylingwell Drive at the southern end end of the Graylingwell site next to the Uni. Most of the - sprawling -Graylingwell site is being redeveloped for housing.
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    Southern Rail STRIKE details

    You seem to have confused two separate things here; London Bridge reconstruction is strictly a Network Rail project. As are all other station, track and signalling infrastructure projects on the railways. GTR's only involvement in the London Bridge project is to (attempt to) operate a train...
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    Southern Rail STRIKE details

    Looks like the plan has changed: http://m.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/southern-rail-to-replace-timetable-with-avant-garde-poem-20160704110166 :):eek:
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    Getting the words mixed up

    One that's come up again on the Farage thread is "prey tell me" for "pray, tell me". Makes no sense at all.
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    Getting the words mixed up

    "Shoe in" when people mean "shoo in" "here here" for "hear hear" "free reign" for "free rein" "dam" when they mean "damn" / "dammed" for "damned" "opps!" for "oops!" I have even seen at least twice "kerching" for "Kerr-ching!" OK, so the last two are just misspellings rather than substitute...
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    Train tickets

    To be sure your ticket will be accepted on the later train to Liverpool you should get it endorsed by the ticket office at Euston before boarding, although queues may make you even later. I had to do that at St Pancras on a journey from Chichester to Leicester a while back, before the East...
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    Sadly, I don't care any more.......

    Shocking. Did they inform the conductor/"train manager" as to what happened? He/she could get the racists thrown off the train - after confirming the incident with the trolley attendant - and even arrange for them to be met by BTP at the next station if available.
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    **** Official middle-aged man's Craft Beer thread ****

    Beavertown Neck Oil Beavertown Gamma Ray Dark Star APA Dark Star Revelation Magic Rock High Wire Magic Rock High Wire Grapefruit all available in cans also: http://tinyurl.com/Mikkeller-Cans-are-here
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    Southern Rail STRIKE details

    I'll have a go at this, as others haven't directly although some of the issue have been addressed so also read the posts about OBS, but be aware I am not a railway employee although I do work in the transport field, so anything I say is second hand knowledge, but I have been following this...
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    Southern Rail STRIKE details

    SN = Southern GN = Great Northern TL = Thameslink SN Mainline will cover all Southern branded trains which use the fast lines through East Croydon. So comparing it to the "Service Update" box on the homepage of the Southern site, it will cover everything listed as Brighton Mainline, Redhill...
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    Southern Rail STRIKE details

    Yes, this has always been the case, if you turn up in time for the last train and you already have a ticket, or missed connection on a through ticket due to the Railway's fault, they have to get you home same night. SASTA didn't seem to be making an effort to do at Havant a few weeks ago when I...

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