Little things that irritate you
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- Bernie Bilic
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Re: Little things that irritate you
Hiccups! Ive got them now, and cant bloody get rid. Ive tried drinking a pint of water from the wrong side of the glass, holding my breath, scaring myself, not sure what else to do
- Philosophical Dan
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- Hammers Dad
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Re: Little things that irritate you
You just need to persevere. Take as much air into your lungs as you can and hold your breath for longer...it's your diaphragm in spasm so you need to "re-set" it.Bernie Bilic wrote:Hiccups! Ive got them now, and cant bloody get rid. Ive tried drinking a pint of water from the wrong side of the glass, holding my breath, scaring myself, not sure what else to do
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Re: Little things that irritate you
Crunch an extra strongmint or two, works for me every timeBernie Bilic wrote:Hiccups! Ive got them now, and cant bloody get rid. Ive tried drinking a pint of water from the wrong side of the glass, holding my breath, scaring myself, not sure what else to do
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Had another go at drinking a pint of water, seems to have worked this time. :raver:Hammers Dad wrote:
You just need to persevere. Take as much air into your lungs as you can and hold your breath for longer...it's your diaphragm in spasm so you need to "re-set" it.
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Re: Little things that irritate you
Trespassers, vandalism, landslip, police or ambulance attending, suicide, lineside fire, passenger alarm activated...Dan1326 wrote: For extortionate prices the railways charge there should never be an excuse for the train to be late.
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Re: Little things that irritate you
I'll give you genuine passenger alarms, lineside fire and vandalism, but they should leave jumpers on the tracks like 'road kill', and let trespassers take their chancer not shut the bloody line for hours'64 '75 '80 wrote:Trespassers, vandalism, landslip, police or ambulance attending, suicide, lineside fire, passenger alarm activated...
Re: Little things that irritate you
Stopped having children so i don't have to do another christening. Last Priest we had had cancer an really milked it. Would spend a day in an Iron Maiden.fjthegrey wrote: I hate weddings also. I don't go to them if it can be helped. Have told engaged friends I wont be going to their weddings. I just cant deal with them.
It's your inner fish trying to breath! Just to make your experience more weird then it already is.Bernie Bilic wrote:Hiccups! Ive got them now, and cant bloody get rid. Ive tried drinking a pint of water from the wrong side of the glass, holding my breath, scaring myself, not sure what else to do
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Re: Little things that irritate you
Train companies take the mick. Every morning I have to stand on my way into work yet are expected to pay the same? If this was genuine rush hour over crowding I'd wear it but the carrier only puts on 4 carriages because the return journey for them isn’t as crowded. Every other carrier at that time runs 8 or 12 carriages so they are blatantly taking the piss.'64 '75 '80 wrote:Heh-heh! Like my industry (the railway).'OMG!!1! MY TRAIN IS LIKE FOUR MINUTES LATE! UR SERVICE IZ SO S***' etc etc. Twitter's full of it. All goes quiet when everything's running fine, though.
In retaliation I occasionally don’t swipe and its not like I’ll get caught because they wouldn’t have the balls (or the space) to stick an inspector on at that time.
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Easy, think about getting older, bills, what the missus will look like in 10 years etc etc.Hammers80 wrote:How exactly would you scare yourself?
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They will say you pay for the journey, not to sit down!Irish Iron wrote: Train companies take the mick. Every morning I have to stand on my way into work yet are expected to pay the same? If this was genuine rush hour over crowding I'd wear it but the carrier only puts on 4 carriages because the return journey for them isn’t as crowded. Every other carrier at that time runs 8 or 12 carriages so they are blatantly taking the piss.
In retaliation I occasionally don’t swipe and its not like I’ll get caught because they wouldn’t have the balls (or the space) to stick an inspector on at that time.
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Re: Little things that irritate you
Fixed it!Philosophical Dan wrote:Get a mini milk up you - that'll sort them hiccups.
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Re: Little things that irritate you
They put on four because they don't have enough stock to run eight or twelve. To make yours eight, they have to scrap another four-car service, which means everyone that has been using that one will now be using your one too.Irish Iron wrote:
Train companies take the mick. Every morning I have to stand on my way into work yet are expected to pay the same? If this was genuine rush hour over crowding I'd wear it but the carrier only puts on 4 carriages because the return journey for them isn’t as crowded. Every other carrier at that time runs 8 or 12 carriages so they are blatantly taking the piss.
In retaliation I occasionally don’t swipe and its not like I’ll get caught because they wouldn’t have the balls (or the space) to stick an inspector on at that time.
And thanks to the utter balls-up that is privatisation, there is no more stock. Train companies don't own stock, they lease it. And they can only lease what the Government agreed they could in their franchise agreement.
What happens is the train co. says 'We want to lease these, so we can run these services'.
Government says 'You can't lease those, but you can lease those other ones'.
'But they aren't really suitable'.
'Well, it's those or nothing'.
If the train co. says 'We don't want them', they don't get the franchise.
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Re: Little things that irritate you
I was getting cash from a ATM at the weekend, I was asked by the machine if I wanted a receipt and if I did I was to press option "Yes". So I decided yes I wanted a receipt and pressed the "Yes" option. Then the machine displayed a notice saying........
"This machine does not have a function to issue receipts."
THEN WHAT THE f*** DID IT ASK ME FOR
"This machine does not have a function to issue receipts."
THEN WHAT THE f*** DID IT ASK ME FOR
- WHU_Del
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Re: Little things that irritate you
You mean for Stansted Express? They didn't order them, the Government did and allowed NX to lease them. They're actually owned by Lloyds TSB. http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/news/s ... wse/1.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Dan1326 wrote:So why did National Express pay for new trains?