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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Nick on June 04, 2008, 09:10:20 AM
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So I have to got to a funeral in London tomorrow, ironically for the lady who wrote Virgin's ad campaigns. I oonce told her that they are called Virgin Trains becuase they don't go all the way. Her line was "Not as inexperienced as our name suggests."
Anyhow, go on the website which tells me I can do the return trip for £57.Book tickets and I am told I can't. rubschin:
Try again. Refused evil:
Call the Call Centre (Bangalore)
"Yes sir, that will be £57."
Me: So let's do it.
Her: "No, you can't. The website is wrong. The fare is really £140" eeek:
I am driving evil:
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So I have to got to a funeral in London tomorrow, ironically for the lady who wrote Virgin's ad campaigns. I oonce told her that they are called Virgin Trains becuase they don't go all the way. Her line was "Not as inexperienced as our name suggests."
Anyhow, go on the website which tells me I can do the return trip for £57.Book tickets and I am told I can't. rubschin:
Try again. Refused evil:
Call the Call Centre (Bangalore)
"Yes sir, that will be £57."
Me: So let's do it.
Her: "No, you can't. The website is wrong. The fare is really £140" eeek:
I am driving evil:
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cloud9:
I wonder where the subsidy comes from?
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evil:
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Stupid question but how close to Manchester are you. I've just had the Martin's Money email and they are saying about train tickets from Manchester to London for under a tenner.
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It's about an hour away. But thanks, now that I am driving I am giving lifts to various folks around the Golders Green area and to the wake or whatever it is in Barnet.
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The car share scheme might even turn a profit rubschin:
Although that would be in very poor taste noooo:
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evil:
Good plan!
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What a journey!
Left here at 6.30 and got to Golders Green at 10.15.Funeral at 12.
Wake was at MCC Lords and then into the car to head north. Police CLOSED the A41 so the traffic was stationary from Hendon to St John's Wood. 2 hours to go 2 miles.
Escaped via Hampstead Heath, then got stuck on M25. Then got stuck in M1 roadworks, then got stuck on M6, then got stuck on M6 again.
Got home at gone midnight cussing:
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And now you know why I live in North Wales now whistle:
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It was the traffic that finally persuaded me to leave London too evil:
And it was the most stylish funeral I have ever been to!
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What a journey!
Left here at 6.30 and got to Golders Green at 10.15.Funeral at 12.
Wake was at MCC Lords and then into the car to head north. Police CLOSED the A41 so the traffic was stationary from Hendon to St John's Wood. 2 hours to go 2 miles.
Escaped via Hampstead Heath, then got stuck on M25. Then got stuck in M1 roadworks, then got stuck on M6, then got stuck on M6 again.
Got home at gone midnight cussing:
Bloody hell Nick… no wonder the polar ice caps are melting… noooo:
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And it was the most stylish funeral I have ever been to!
And who could ask for anything more when their time comes.
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And it was the most stylish funeral I have ever been to!
And who could ask for anything more when their time comes.
I'll have spent it all by then... pauper's funeral for me... whistle:
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I was intrigued by the Wall of Fame thingy.
Keith Moon, Bolan, Lyttleton, Ronnie Scott, Hughie Green (!), the Parnells, some Grades, Norman Vaughan (!), Havelock Ellis (sexologist) and many more.
Fab music, wonderful funny stories, good singing, packed house, everyone in their finest, lots of enormous blokes (boxing family), a fly past!!! (Cessna). Tissues for all. And a fine spread at Lords afterwards.
Sigh
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Sounds like a magnificent send off.
I was once given the celebrated happy088 from Norman Vaughan for a fine piece of bowling cloud9:
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Ten pin?
Odd thing about funerals is the number of people there that you haven't seen for 30 od years and who you, or I at least, half recognise.
One woman was very familiar looking, but I couldn't place her, so I went and said hello and asked where we had met. She looked a bit weary about this.
"I do TV weather forecasts. This happens a lot." redface:
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And it was the most stylish funeral I have ever been to!
And who could ask for anything more when their time comes.
I'll have spent it all by then... pauper's funeral for me... whistle:
I am sure LL has a place for you marked out under the patio eveilgrin:
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Ten pin?
Odd thing about funerals is the number of people there that you haven't seen for 30 od years and who you, or I at least, half recognise.
One woman was very familiar looking, but I couldn't place her, so I went and said hello and asked where we had met. She looked a bit weary about this.
"I do TV weather forecasts. This happens a lot." redface:
Ten pin? And you were at Lords? eeek:
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Oh that sort of bowling. I know nothing of sport.
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Clearly ::)
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I was once given the celebrated happy088 from Norman Vaughan for a fine piece of bowling cloud9:
I was once given the celebrated "V" up from Norman Wisdom for a fine piece of parking. whistle:
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Princess Margaret once stood on my left foot. evil:
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Princess Margaret once stood on my left foot. evil:
I'd heard she was never much of a dancer.
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Princess Margaret once stood on my left foot. evil:
I'd heard she was never much of a dancer.
She was heavier than she looked back in 1965
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This almost calls for a Celebrity Close Shaves thread ... rubschin:
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I could tell my Paul McCartney and the biscuits story! lol:
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Vanessa Redgrave threw a Kit-Kat (4 fingers) at me. noooo:
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And it was the most stylish funeral I have ever been to!
And who could ask for anything more when their time comes.
I'll have spent it all by then... pauper's funeral for me... whistle:
I am sure LL has a place for you marked out under the patio eveilgrin:
That'll do...
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Princess Margaret once stood on my left foot. evil:
I'd heard she was never much of a dancer.
She was heavier than she looked back in 1965
Hmmm....
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Princess Margaret.....RAF chappie.....Snoopy. rubschin:
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Not so grand I'm afraid.
Guard of Honour. Half way along the front rank (of three) the rain started and HRH broke into a sort of regal trot, closely followed by sundry Officers and WOs. No-one had an umbrella. I was last in line on the front rank as HRH tried to cut the corner and trampled my left foot. I winced but stood still. As the Station Warrant Officer (RAF equivilant to an RSM) passed me he muttered "Well done lad", following him the Flight Sergeant made me feel much better by muttering "Fucking Royals"
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And it was the most stylish funeral I have ever been to!
And who could ask for anything more when their time comes.
I'll have spent it all by then... pauper's funeral for me... whistle:
me too, i got sod all, might as well enjoy it all in life, my lovely family an friends can dispose of me ! scared2:
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And it was the most stylish funeral I have ever been to!
And who could ask for anything more when their time comes.
I'll have spent it all by then... pauper's funeral for me... whistle:
me too, i got sod all, might as well enjoy it all in life, my lovely family an friends can dispose of me ! scared2:
Yep... carboard coffin... pauper's grave... that'll do me... I'll enjoy spending it more now than having an oak coffin, brass handles and loads of flowers... whistle:
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Maybe the pub needs a bigger patio spider:
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Maybe the pub needs a bigger patio spider:
patios R us... rubschin:
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We could book places. More money for the pub funds!
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We could book places. More money for the pub funds!
I like it... razz:
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No goats mind. I have my standards 8)
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No goats mind. I have my standards 8)
Indeed... a strange shape to dig out... noooo:
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Anyhooo.... back on topic if I may?
Anger at rail chiefs' bonuses
I see Railtrack Network Rail made a huge 'profit' last year... how they actually do that quite escapes me... noooo:
So what do they do with the profit - why pay out £55 million in bonuses of course with the Chief Executive getting over £500,000
Uncle Mort will be livid... noooo:
Click 'n Scream (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7441326.stm)
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It's the same the whole world over,
It's the poor what gets the blame,
Its the rich that gets the pleasure,
Ain't it all a bleeding shame.
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Uncle Mort will be livid... noooo:
Click 'n Scream (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7441326.stm)
Indeed, as should we all:
About half of Network Rail's income comes from government
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Uncle Mort will be livid... noooo:
Click 'n Scream (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7441326.stm)
Indeed, as should we all:
About half of Network Rail's income comes from government
And 100% of Government income comes from us evil:
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Indeed. Yet another gold standard screwing us over evil:
I'm not against a bonus, for immaculate performance, but their's has been spectacularly less than great... ::)
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One wonders just how much they would have been given if they had actually done a good job, exceeded expectations and made the railways work, efficiently, cheaply and effectively. We will never know.
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I'd like a system whereby the CEO's etc salaries were directly linked to performance; anything less than 100% results would incur a comensurate reduction... bugger a bonus evil:
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But, But, But ......... Gordon Brown says we have to pay these
deadbeats executives top dollar or they will go and work somewhere else and we'll be left with only the also-rans to run our infrastructure.
I wonder if he has considered that maybe the also-rans could do a better job, or at least as good a job, for a lot less money.
Come to think of it who, in industry, would dream of employing them anyway?