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Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Unique words - "You have said ziss only once"
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on: November 02, 2020, 19:01:56
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There are hundreds ... thousands ... of unique "words" on the forum - though most are either single spelling errors, or muliple words run together. Mind - with the number of times I post, that's not unexpected ... brreakfast sprinkimg brigdes twotunnelsfestival waliking badgeline puuuuuurfect helicapters northener shirtmodel requets traffiti bakeloo swandea bitterwallet chippenhammrs ....
Just picking up some of those grahame-words: helicapters ? should of course be heliCAPters shirtmodel ? those lucky GWR▸ staff who were chose to show the green shirts on the catwalk bitterwallet ? how you feel after buying a walk-up anytime from Penzance to London chippenhammrs ? who are they playing this weekend? Come on you Chippenhammrs! |
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All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Aurora, Paragon, Azuma, IET, Nova 1, Javelin
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on: October 31, 2020, 14:56:04
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If the rail industry as a whole really wanted to use the new generation of trains to leverage a further increase in rail travel they should have got together and had a combined their resources to promote the new generation of trains - HST2 might not have been a bad start but for the fact it may now be associated with the controversial new HS2▸ project. Travel on GWR▸ /LNER» / whatever on our new HST2 trains seems to me more likely to have an impact if it was linked to an RDG‡ campaign promoting a new generation of sustainable high speed express trains throughout the country.
Probably a good idea overall. Crucial difference: promoting rail travel rather than promoting the operator. |
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All across the Great Western territory / Your rights and redress / Re: Should we be encouraging mask use where possible even for the legally exempt?
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on: October 30, 2020, 20:39:37
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In a healthcare setting, medical professionals choose the appropriate type of mask as you say. But the general public are wearing all sorts of things, often with big holes in or worn under the nose, rendering them ineffective.
Good point about fighting the last war, especially given the amount of talk (mostly in media) about the 1918 flu and the 1968 "Hong Kong flu" (which I'd never heard of before). In 1918 the existence of viruses was still disputed and even in 1968 I wonder how many of the public really knew what they were?
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All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Aurora, Paragon, Azuma, IET, Nova 1, Javelin
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on: October 30, 2020, 20:22:49
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That is totally the difference that publicity departments are about! "Travel in speed and comfort on an LNER» Azuma▸ " no need to mention GWR▸ or any other operators or trains. Similarly, it's well known that VW, Skoda and Seat, or Renault and Nissan, or various other alliances, are basically the same cars with an array of different features. This is common enough knowledge that people talk of "VAG cars" but the advertisements don't say "This VW is just like a Skoda but made with teutonic precision" or "This Seat is just like a VW but cheaper and jollier". Instead they talk about the VW, the Seat, and its features.
So it is with these trains. When the publicity people talk of a "Paragon" they don't mean "an IET▸ in different colours", they mean "our wonderful train, which we call Paragon". Ask an engineer "Isn't that the same as an IET?" and they'll say yes (unless they've been primed for interview!) but the marketing bods will reply along the lines of "It carries this many people in comfort from Trumpton to Chumpton in 1 hour 35 minutes, that's 16 minutes faster than the old train, we give you the newest, most up to date trains because we really want all our passengers to be the happiest".
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All across the Great Western territory / Your rights and redress / Re: Should we be encouraging mask use where possible even for the legally exempt?
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on: October 30, 2020, 17:21:59
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Back in the spring, it was all about contaminated surfaces. Virtually no one was wearing a mask but there was heavy emphasis on hand washing and surface cleaning. When mask rules came in a few months ago, it was still considered that the main infection method was droplets, with limited distance of spread, hence all the emphasis on keeping a certain distance apart. Distance seems to be less protection against aerosols, as they don't settle but build up in the atmosphere, but ventilation can reduce their concentration (as it can for droplets to an extent, it seems). Considering aerosols not droplets to be the main vector does seem to be a new approach. But is it correct?
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