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I'm 54 in a fortnight and grew up in the 70s. When some kids started doing the original version of "Eeney-meeny-miney-mo" in the playground and I brought it home with me around 1972 or so, my parents told me not to use that word as it wasn't a nice word. (I'm not even sure I knew what it...

Yup. If I were him I'd just pay the £20 and be grateful that I wasn't being PF'd all the way from Paddington. (It may even be that the inspector was showing him some unofficial kindness & leniency, their reward for which is now to get appealed against for incompetence.)

or "Racist Time Fonz" as another forum I frequent have christened him. :-)

Indeed. I didn't put that very well. Perhaps it would have been better to say that "...the show might end up being let down..." or "...her tenure as The Doctor might end up being let down..." :-)

Yes there was, you just beat me to it! It was actually in the Series 9 closer, "Hell Bent". However it was far from the first reference to it (Missy aside), as this rather nice summary (that Google just found for me while I was checking which episode it was) lists...

Ah I see, so too long ago even for me! Apologies for the OT-ness.

I wonder when they brought that warning in, because although I've heard people mention it before, I watched Captain Scarlet religiously throughout my early 70s childhood (would have been on LWT) and never heard it once.

I was actually referring to the Electric Dreams story ("The Commuter") that was being discussed, rather than the new Doctor Who story, but yes that was good too, apart from the pointless death and subsequent funeral scene, which quite upset me. Not what I want from my favourite brand of...

Yes, they definitely did. After the previous thread on here about it I went back and checked it against the trailer. Actually most of the CGI was fine, except that IIRC they missed a door in the distance during one frame. I assume it was absent from the trailer as the latter was probably cut...

I was also thinking this very same thing. Their attitude is understandable following the Zee case, though.

Thanks for the ramp info. Not sure if that makes me more worried or less! I didn't exactly post it twice, I decided to swap it around with the trivial windscreen wipers post as I didn't want the more serious post languishing at the bottom of the previous page; if you look it's now no longer...

Ah ok. Thanks.

Well quite, mine for one! The ironic thing is, I'm an inveterate manual reader myself... EDIT: I suppose the point he could be (badly) making is that he knows people who've bought new cars with rain sensitivity, who haven't read their manuals, and assumed that the first position up is...

This is all very timely. Earlier this week I was on an eight-car Class 700 in the early evening at a well-lit mainline Great Northern commuter station. A young lady in an electric wheelchair and her companion were wishing to alight. Assistance had turned up and seemed extremely helpful...

Have you now? Well I can tell you that in my car it's indeed a timer setting; there is a little switch on the wiper stalk that allows you to select which of five(?) time intervals that setting can be. If you really insist, I have the manual somewhere to prove it... On another car I used to...

Poor bloke, I hope he's been able to drive again since.

Cockfosters is excellent news. A friend gets the 298 bus from Potters Bar which stops at Cockfosters, Southgate and Arnos Grove... bypassing Oakwood (understandably so when you look at a road map) which is the only step-free station in the area! So at present she has to stagger out of her...

Quite! I was about to say the same thing. Arlesey fair enough, and I do take The Box Photter's general point, but from Elstree you can take the 107 bus to High Barnet tube station (or to New Barnet on the ECML if you're feeling particularly deranged) and looking at the map I'm sure something...

Oh I'm sure. I can totally understand the distinction; there's no way some of those huge scooters would make it onto a bus. Just found it interesting that the RSSB document didn't even mention the different classes. I guess strictly speaking it doesn't need to, given it's making them ALL...

I find this fascinating, given that a similar distinction apparently DOES apply for buses, where electric wheelchairs and small mobility scooters limited to 4mph categorised as "Class 2" devices are allowed, but larger mobility scooters limited to 8mph categorised as "Class 3" are not. It's...