First Aspect
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It's a tribute to Eric.
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briantrumpet
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It's all the right ideas, but not necessarily in the right place.
Was that not Les Dawson?
Beebo
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No. It was in the Andre Previn sketch.
But Dawson did play the piano badly for comedy effect.
midlandsgrimpeur
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Random story, my mom's sister lived in St John's Wood in the 1970's in a flat above Mia Farrow's sister, Tisa. One day Mia Farrow and Andre Previn turned up to see Tisa but she wasn't in so my aunt invited them in for tea and cake. The same aunt was also friends with Peter Cook for a short time, but that is a different story altogether!
PurplePenguin
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Copilot said this which seems sensible to me.
"Sure! The number 99 in French is quatre-vingt-dix-neuf.
If you translate it back into English literally, it means "four-twenty-ten-nine"—which might sound a bit odd! But of course, the correct English equivalent remains 99."
"Sure! The number 99 in French is quatre-vingt-dix-neuf.
If you translate it back into English literally, it means "four-twenty-ten-nine"—which might sound a bit odd! But of course, the correct English equivalent remains 99."
PurplePenguin
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I'm increasingly finding that using Copilot is vastly superior, and more reliable, than Googling something. It even provides its sources, so you can check.
First Aspect
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Most of the time it's output is plausible. The other half it isn't.
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briantrumpet
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Interesting ride back on a Crosscountry train from Leeds to Exeter yesterday... cheap as chips (£35) and bang on time, to the minute at every stop. But...
Wildly overcrowded (the coaches were 'numbered' A, C, D & F, so two carriages short of a picnic, I guess), only one toilet working, and someone who routinely uses the service told me that this was normal, and sometimes the service gets cancelled at the last minute. It's no wonderr they have such a shocking reputation.
On the plus side, the staff were as helpful as could be - the 'imposing' male ticket man had to sell a penalty ticket to one person who had a split ticket but was on the wrong train, dealt firmly and fairly with a rude man who didn't want to show his over-60s railcard, but then spent about 20 minutes with an Italian lady who had only printed out one of her QR codes, but had the receipt for both tickets... he helped her find the email on her phone despite a poor signal, and all was well in the end. Which, of course, wound up the rude man even more. Splendid. I hate it when rude people take it out on staff doing their jobs in difficult circumstances.
Wildly overcrowded (the coaches were 'numbered' A, C, D & F, so two carriages short of a picnic, I guess), only one toilet working, and someone who routinely uses the service told me that this was normal, and sometimes the service gets cancelled at the last minute. It's no wonderr they have such a shocking reputation.
On the plus side, the staff were as helpful as could be - the 'imposing' male ticket man had to sell a penalty ticket to one person who had a split ticket but was on the wrong train, dealt firmly and fairly with a rude man who didn't want to show his over-60s railcard, but then spent about 20 minutes with an Italian lady who had only printed out one of her QR codes, but had the receipt for both tickets... he helped her find the email on her phone despite a poor signal, and all was well in the end. Which, of course, wound up the rude man even more. Splendid. I hate it when rude people take it out on staff doing their jobs in difficult circumstances.
First Aspect
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Crosscountry are terrible. No worse for punctuality than anyone else, but the carriages are ancient, dirty and uncomfortable. And good luck with the toilets. They are the poster child for denationalisation.
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briantrumpet
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I'm a generally infrequent rail traveller, but a few days with my brother (an addicted train nut) was filled with lots of journeys on Northern Rail and LNER, and each one was pleasant, on smart rolling stock. Crosscountry was in a different league entirely. Sardines in a rusty tin.
Side note: Trainline & Google Wallet both worked flawlessly.
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How old do you think those 'ancient' coaches are?
For someome who seems such a 'know all', I'd have though you knew!
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First Aspect
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How old do you think those 'ancient' coaches are?
For someome who seems such a 'know all', I'd have though you knew!
You could fcuk off if you wanted to, petal.
