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Actually, I do agree, ChrisB.  It's generally their photo editor who is at fault - just lazily finding 'a picture of a train' and stuffing it into their news item.  It reflects badly on the news publisher, though - hence this whole topic.  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #766 on: November 12, 2024, 21:04:58 » |
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Actually, I do agree, ChrisB. It's generally their photo editor who is at fault - just lazily finding 'a picture of a train' and stuffing it into their news item. It reflects badly on the news publisher, though - hence this whole topic. I publish ... a Melksham blog. 555 articles to date, and each of them has at least one illustrative picture. Sometimes they're darned hard to source and make relevant. Any masochists who want to read the blog can do so at https://grahamellis.uk/blog.html |
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« Reply #768 on: November 17, 2024, 21:28:28 » |
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« Reply #769 on: November 17, 2024, 21:33:25 » |
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That's a mock-up - no Date/time stamp on the screenshot
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« Reply #770 on: November 17, 2024, 21:48:22 » |
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That's a mock-up - no Date/time stamp on the screenshot
sponsored posts don't have a date stamp Edit to add - I am in no way endorsing the product offered by either sponsored post shared belowFares have to go up on the Jacobite to pay for central door locking:  If you want to get someone to believe you who's been a Waitrose Partner, show a Waitrose example  |
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« Reply #771 on: November 17, 2024, 22:32:59 » |
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Thanks for that, from an ex-Waitrose partner - now retired. |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #772 on: November 18, 2024, 08:14:50 » |
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Reference the idyllic "poster" for Fisher Investments: there are half-a-dozen websites I visit daily, including a financial one where , coincidentally, someone asked about this company three days ago. The replies, one referencing comments elsewhere on the Web, advised caution about becoming a customer.
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« Reply #773 on: November 18, 2024, 08:36:32 » |
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Reference the idyllic "poster" for Fisher Investments: there are half-a-dozen websites I visit daily, including a financial one where , coincidentally, someone asked about this company three days ago. The replies, one referencing comments elsewhere on the Web, advised caution about becoming a customer.
I should (will go back) and make it very clear indeed that was not any form of endorsement from me. Personally, being retired we have a provision that has been built up which adds to my basic pension but I would not presume to recommend or suggest other than to recommend that you don't listen to any advice I might give. |
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« Reply #774 on: November 18, 2024, 14:50:45 » |
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Grahame, not for a second did I think that your posting the image was any form of endorsement, rather that you did it only because it was a nice illustration - and one I found evocative. I only made my own post because of the coincidence of the company (of which I hadn't heard before) having just featured in another forum which I frequent.
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« Reply #775 on: December 10, 2024, 16:09:11 » |
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The Reading Chronicle website has excelled itself, with an article about a suicide at a "Berkshire train station" that it doesn't name, with a photograph of a train in New York. |
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« Reply #777 on: January 17, 2025, 17:21:52 » |
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From the MetroThe journey takes 13 hours and 20 minutes, covers a whopping 785 miles, and has been in operation for more than a century  |
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« Reply #778 on: January 17, 2025, 20:04:13 » |
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But it's a marathon, not a Sprint!
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« Reply #779 on: January 17, 2025, 20:43:23 » |
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I rather like one of the comments posted on that Metro article: Well you managed to use a photo of the wrong train, got the journey length wrong and the number of stops wrong. But, apart from all that, it was a quite good factual article. |
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