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Title: Delay reason bingo
Post by: JayMac on May 02, 2019, 18:43:17
A friend on Facebook shared this SWR delay mesaage:

"Delayed due to a guard being abusive towards passengers on an earlier train and the police having to be called"

You'd hope that 'guard' and 'passengers' had been transposed in that message. But no, a SWR guard did indeed apparently have a meltdown at Vauxhall.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SW_Help/status/1123977956232237057


Title: Re: Delay reason bingo
Post by: grahame on May 02, 2019, 19:00:17
Looking for a lighter moment, there are of course 6 possibilities:

Delayed due to the police being abusive towards passengers on an earlier train and a guard having to be called
Delayed due to passengers being abusive towards the police on an earlier train and a guard having to be called
Delayed due to the police being abusive towards a guard on an earlier train and passengers having to be called
Delayed due to a guard being abusive towards the police on an earlier train and passengers having to be called
Delayed due to passengers being abusive towards a guard on an earlier train and the police having to be called
Delayed due to a guard being abusive towards passengers on an earlier train and the police having to be called

Code:
words = ["a guard","passengers","the police"]
reason = "Delayed due to {} being abusive towards {} on an earlier train and {} having to be called"
for k in range(len(words)):
for j in range(len(words)):
if j == k: continue
hv = list(range(len(words)))
hv[k]=-1; hv[j]=-1
i = list(filter(lambda x:x>-1,hv))[0]
print(reason.format(words[i],words[j],words[k]))


Title: Re: Delay reason bingo
Post by: stuving on May 02, 2019, 19:17:45
and what about:
Delayed due to passengers being abusive towards a train and a guard having to be called
Delayed due to a guard being abusive towards a train and the police having to be passengers
etc...



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