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CaptainHaddock replied to the thread Big cats in the UK.Are you sure it wasn't Black Shuck? -
CaptainHaddock replied to the thread Products and services where the new version is not as good or has significant disadvantages as the old.On a similar note free email accounts that make you jump through several hoops just to log in. I’ve had the same Hotmail account for...
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CaptainHaddock replied to the thread £2 Fare Cap from January - Time for nationwide contactless/tap & go?.Why shouldn't passengers be allowed to pay by cash? Surely pne of the big advantages of £2 being a nice round figure is that you only...
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CaptainHaddock replied to the thread Big cats in the UK.Whilst cryptzoology is a fascinating subject, the case against the existence of big cats in the UK is similar to the case against UFOs...
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CaptainHaddock replied to the thread Products and services where the new version is not as good or has significant disadvantages as the old.I thought of your post yesterday when I ordered a pint of Landlord in the Cross Daggers in Coal Aston and am pleased to report that in...
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CaptainHaddock replied to the thread Products and services where the new version is not as good or has significant disadvantages as the old.Those ridiculous caps on plastic drink bottles which have a strand of plastic to attach the top to the bottle. If you keep it on it gets...
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CaptainHaddock replied to the thread Products and services where the new version is not as good or has significant disadvantages as the old.When Mars Inc withdrew Marathon bars and replaced them with the tasteless sugary American rubbish they call Snickers. It's not even a...
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CaptainHaddock replied to the thread Products and services where the new version is not as good or has significant disadvantages as the old.Men's underwear. Why is it so difficult to find what we used to call "Underpants" which for some reason are now called "Briefs"? Instead...
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CaptainHaddock replied to the thread Transpenine Express new onboard announcements.All information that the average passenger either knows already or doesn't need to know. I heard the new TPE announcement on a...
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CaptainHaddock replied to the thread Football.In the Champions League maybe but in the 2023 play offs Sheffield Wednesday lost the first leg at Peterborough 4-0 but won the second...
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CaptainHaddock replied to the thread All cross country services suspended 23/08/26.XC don't need any help to cause disruption , they can manage it perfectly well on their own!
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CaptainHaddock replied to the thread Getting passengers to spread out along the platform.Personally I don't want other passengers spreading out along the platform. If they're all stood at one end, I can happily board at the...
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CaptainHaddock replied to the thread Made up excuses for lateness."To the Traffic Manager. British Rail, Southern Region. Dear sir, Every morning my train is 11 minutes late. This is infuriating. This...
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CaptainHaddock replied to the thread Heat Related Disruption - 13 Aug 2026.Would this be a suitable point in the thread to post the usual "how do they manage to run trains in much hotter countries than ours?"...
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CaptainHaddock replied to the thread Heat Related Disruption - 13 Aug 2026.We don't get temperatures of nearly 40 degrees now, not in the North West where EMR and Northern have given up the ghost again. Even at...