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« Reply #15 on: September 11, 2009, 19:08:30 »

Hmm.  London Midland posters do seem to be something of a law unto themselves, don't they?

Chris.  Wink Cheesy Grin Grin

Don't start...  Tongue Cheesy I am having enough troubles with my "LM (London Midland - recent franchise) Penalty Fares" thread! Roll Eyes Grin
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« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2009, 19:14:46 »

Err..., that's the whole point of the question (the answer of which was got 3 posts into the thread).

Oh dear. Grin I realise that! Roll Eyes It's just that people just brushed off the poster and started discussing headlamps and socks! I won't to knwo what it's doing there....

What it is doing there is telling folks about buying tickets. Why it is not an Arriva poster, I've no idea. All the other rail info posters at Llandrindod were Arriva.
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« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2009, 19:23:42 »

Here's another photo:

http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/tn/News.cfm?id=35868&headline=Rail

Except that the error is pathetically bad!
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« Reply #18 on: September 11, 2009, 19:30:18 »

Here's another photo:

http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/tn/News.cfm?id=35868&headline=Rail

Except that the error is pathetically bad!

I often wonder whether journos just type 'train picture' into Google Images and then just click on a thumbnail at random.
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« Reply #19 on: September 11, 2009, 20:55:26 »

A few years back the MoD produced a wall calendar with a lovely photograph of a US Navy submarine on it !
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« Reply #20 on: September 11, 2009, 20:58:53 »

Here's another photo:

http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/tn/News.cfm?id=35868&headline=Rail

Except that the error is pathetically bad!

I often wonder whether journos just type 'train picture' into Google Images and then just click on a thumbnail at random.

Thing is though - if I were reading the article in a paper rather than looking for somthing wrong in the picture - I would probably just vaguely register "train picture" rather than the details

But then I'm not a visual person (hence the reason I have been cotswolding for years and still would not recognise probably half the major "pictures" if they were taken out of context.

On a journey home, I can look up and pretty much know where I am - but take that snapshot and present it to me.........
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« Reply #21 on: September 11, 2009, 21:08:53 »

Hmm.  London Midland posters do seem to be something of a law unto themselves, don't they?

Chris.  Wink Cheesy Grin Grin

Now, are we talking of printed posters or of forum members who post regularly about London Midland??  Undecided Wink
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« Reply #22 on: September 11, 2009, 21:10:00 »

As we're posting here, in 'The Lighter Side', I think it's fair to point out that some rather odd posters (of the paper kind!) can appear at stations (or on trains) sometimes - and perhaps some rather odd pictures can be used, by hard-pressed journalists, to illustrate their stories.

Hopefully, it shows that we can be amused by such anomolies, without getting over-exercised about them.

By the way, how about the dodgy typo's in this 'official' FGW (First Great Western) poster, at Bristol Temple Meads?



Hmm: 'abandoned' they apparently amended, with correcting fluid - but 'illegaly' ??  Roll Eyes Shocked Grin
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« Reply #23 on: September 11, 2009, 21:11:57 »

Hmm.  London Midland posters do seem to be something of a law unto themselves, don't they?

Chris.  Wink Cheesy Grin Grin

Now, are we talking of printed posters or of forum members who post regularly about London Midland??  Undecided Wink
Grin I hadn't thought of that...
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« Reply #24 on: September 11, 2009, 21:13:48 »

As we're posting here, in 'The Lighter Side', I think it's fair to point out that some rather odd posters (of the paper kind!) can appear at stations (or on trains) sometimes - and perhaps some rather odd pictures can be used, by hard-pressed journalists, to illustrate their stories.

Hopefully, it shows that we can be amused by such anomolies, without getting over-exercised about them.

By the way, how about the dodgy typo's in this 'official' FGW (First Great Western) poster, at Bristol Temple Meads?



Hmm: 'abandoned' they apparently amended, with correcting fluid - but 'illegaly' ??  Roll Eyes Shocked Grin

Actually for me the stand out other than the tippex was not the illegally but the use of "cycles" everywhere except for one use of the word "bike"

Bad, very bad!
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« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2009, 21:16:23 »

Hopefully, it shows that we can be amused by such anomolies, without getting over-exercised about them.

By the way, how about the dodgy typo's in this 'official' FGW (First Great Western) poster, at Bristol Temple Meads?

Yes, I'm always amused by anomolies (sic), and there are a lot in that poster (and by that poster  Grin), aren't there Chris?
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« Reply #26 on: September 11, 2009, 21:33:06 »

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« Reply #27 on: September 11, 2009, 21:37:19 »

Yes, I'm sorry: 'anomalies'.  You aren't an actuary, by any chance, are you, John R?  Wink Cheesy Grin
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Hopefully, it shows that we can be amused by such anomolies, without getting over-exercised about them.

By the way, how about the dodgy typo's in this 'official' FGW (First Great Western) poster, at Bristol Temple Meads?


.....and are you a greengrocer Chris?
"....dodgy typo's...."

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« Reply #29 on: September 11, 2009, 21:53:48 »

Hmm.  "Typographical errors" becomes "typo's", surely?  Wink Cheesy Grin
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