Train travel.

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retiredsparks said:
You can cut the atmosphere of humiliation and embarrassment with a knife..........
Not that I am one to gloat..(yes i am...lol)

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:):D:):D My ribs are aching RS that crowed are so funny and don’t realise it, laugh I nearly got a round in :eek:, in the words of that famous entertainer who until recently was a guest of HM” “can you guess who they are yet”
 
Steady on facs........you might upset someone....I hope.
You getting a round in ?
you were in your demob suit last time that happened.
:rolleyes:
RS
 
goldenboy said:
Every now and then it impossible to not say something.

I think it is most difficult when there is a thread that has zero ill feeling and is just unrelated to anything controversial and someone decides to put a snarky comment up, just to be unpleasant.

Anyway back to train travel.

The splitting thing does seem to work better closer to the date of travel.

I think it will be a good resource.

I was impressed by a) the price and b) how idiot proof the instructions are.

On a separate not. When I was a kid and short on funds I worked out a totally legal way to travel the length of the country for virtually nothing.

Permit to travel machines. Not sure if stations still have them but years ago every station had them. Usually hidden away in a stairwell or by the toilets

All you had to do was put 5p in and get a permit to travel ticket out. That would allow you to travel for 2 hrs without penalty fare.

I went absolutely hundreds of miles stopping in little stations to get a new one.
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I used that a lot too.
 

Thank you, Facs. I really did think “If she's as bright as a button, I guess it won't be long before she sits on your knee and asks "Tell me, granddad - why did some people take away my European citizenship? Why do they hate people who aren't like themselves? Why do they want other people strung up with piano wire? Granddad - why is your mind like a cesspit?"

Bless”

was one of my finest. And, like all good satire, it made a very valid point.
 
goldenboy said:
Every now and then it impossible to not say something.

I think it is most difficult when there is a thread that has zero ill feeling and is just unrelated to anything controversial and someone decides to put a snarky comment up, just to be unpleasant.
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RS's jibe was hardly snarky. In fact it was hardly anything; he'd arrange a whip-round to send some of us up to remote Scotland. Lol, hold me up, man.

And it did set up our slightly sloshed colleague's unforgettable retort.

More, please. :)
 
goldenboy said:
On a separate not. When I was a kid and short on funds I worked out a totally legal way to travel the length of the country for virtually nothing.

Permit to travel machines. Not sure if stations still have them but years ago every station had them. Usually hidden away in a stairwell or by the toilets

All you had to do was put 5p in and get a permit to travel ticket out. That would allow you to travel for 2 hrs without penalty fare.

I went absolutely hundreds of miles stopping in little stations to get a new one.
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No intention of paying the actual fare then,unless a ticket inspector boarded the train and asked for payment.
A permit to travel was only meant for use when the station ticket office was shut,not for fare dodging.
 
Deleted member 11267 said:
No intention of paying the actual fare then,unless a ticket inspector boarded the train and asked for payment.
A permit to travel was only meant for use when the station ticket office was shut,not for fare dodging.
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So?

I don't really suffer from sleepless nights over it.

It was a great way as a kid to travel the country.
 
Deleted member 11267 said:
No intention of paying the actual fare then,unless a ticket inspector boarded the train and asked for payment.
A permit to travel was only meant for use when the station ticket office was shut,not for fare dodging.
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So as a kid, you never,ever, ever so slightly ever shafted the 'system', nicked a bottle of milk off someone's doorstep, pinched apples from someone's tree, built a den from materials swiped from a local building site, or even dared to travel on a bus or train and jump the fare? (an Americanism for you there, I know how much you like them :)) Whilst not morally correct, I'd think most people would agree pretty harmless actions by and large for a kid in the grand scheme of things. Or not, do you think?
 
Deleted member 11267 said:
No intention of paying the actual fare then,unless a ticket inspector boarded the train and asked for payment.
A permit to travel was only meant for use when the station ticket office was shut,not for fare dodging.
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Of course it was. But in my mid teens i used to live in Biggleswade in bedfordshire, and regularly used the permits to get the train into Kings Cross around tea time. There was never a ticket inspector on board (they were all on the trains outbound from Kings Cross that time of day). Always did buy a ticket to get back home though :D
 
Jord86 said:
So as a kid, you never,ever, ever so slightly ever shafted the 'system', nicked a bottle of milk off someone's doorstep, pinched apples from someone's tree, built a den from materials swiped from a local building site, or even dared to travel on a bus or train and jump the fare? (an Americanism for you there, I know how much you like them :)) Whilst not morally correct, I'd think most people would agree pretty harmless actions by and large for a kid in the grand scheme of things. Or not, do you think?
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The point of the matter is,he boasts that he wants to pay more taxes for it to be sent abroad,then has the audacity to brag about defrauding British Rail.
 
Jord86 said:
So as a kid, you never,ever, ever so slightly ever shafted the 'system', nicked a bottle of milk off someone's doorstep, pinched apples from someone's tree, built a den from materials swiped from a local building site, or even dared to travel on a bus or train and jump the fare? (an Americanism for you there, I know how much you like them :)) Whilst not morally correct, I'd think most people would agree pretty harmless actions by and large for a kid in the grand scheme of things. Or not, do you think?
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Don't mention apple scrumping. Lets not forget there were a sizeable band advocating Tony Martin's right to shoot those picking fruit without permission.

God knows what they would advocate for a 15yr old exploiting the Permit To Travel system(legally)

One of them is probably googling Albert Pierrepoint's number as we speak.
 
Deleted member 11267 said:
The point of the matter is,he boasts that he wants to pay more taxes for it to be sent abroad,then has the audacity to brag about defrauding British Rail.
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I get that, but my point is, he was a kid when he was 'defrauding' British Rail. You can't surely judge someone on their actions decades ago compared to their beliefs and morals present day, otherwise we'd be vying for the death penalty for 55year old men who once pilfered lemon sherberts from the corner shop 45years ago. Be fair, mate.
 
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The point of the matter is,he boasts that he wants to pay more taxes for it to be sent abroad,then has the audacity to brag about defrauding British Rail.
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This is a a joke right?

Sadly I think you are actually serious.

Bet you are fun when it comes to divvying up the bill in a restaurant.

"But I only had 2 poppadoms and you guys had 3 each"
 
goldenboy said:
Don't mention apple scrumping. Lets not forget there were a sizeable band advocating Tony Martin's right to shoot those picking fruit without permission.

No only their vans, but if they come back all bets are off

God knows what they would advocate for a 15yr old exploiting the Permit To Travel system(legally)

One of them is probably googling Albert Pierrepoint's number as we speak.
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