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Here be tales of strange things...[Inspiration]

Started by GTX, August 27, 2010, 10:05:58 PM

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McColm

The only trams I've been on are the ones run by Tramlink, serving Wimbledon and Croydon.
I have been to the London Transport Museum and found trolley buses to be fascinating.

Mossie

You need a trip to Blackpool!  During the Iluminations, it's not much less hairy than DF's backstory! :lol:
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

McColm

It's also alot cheaper to buy clothes up north, in merry Blackpool, so I've been told. Only a stones throw away from Southport, where the aircraft land on the beach in September for the Military Air Show.

NARSES2

Quote from: McColm on October 16, 2010, 01:02:13 AM
The only trams I've been on are the ones run by Tramlink, serving Wimbledon and Croydon.
I have been to the London Transport Museum and found trolley buses to be fascinating.

Now I'm a Croydon lad so know "Tramlink" very well  :thumbsup: As for trolley buses they were fantastic, especially the 6 wheelers. used to love it when the clippie had to turn the pick up arms around at the end of the journey so the bus could go back the other way  :thumbsup: Sometimes took them ages to hook them up and us kids would all be jeering and hooting encouragement  :rolleyes:

Quote from: Mossie on October 16, 2010, 04:17:13 AM
You need a trip to Blackpool!  During the Iluminations, it's not much less hairy than DF's backstory! :lol:

To right Mossie, I've seen the excepionally strange things in Blackpool and Radish wasn't there at the time  ;D Seriously the condition of the trams there are so bad that if it wasn't for the fact they were part of the "tourist trade" they wouldn't be allowed...that and the fact they mainly carry Northerners  :wacko:
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Mossie

They're fine, a few sharp edges didn't hurt anyone! :blink:  It's just southern cissies are so used to their silk padded toilet seats that a tram seat is a little shock to the system.....
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

NARSES2

Quote from: Mossie on October 18, 2010, 09:14:25 AM
They're fine, a few sharp edges didn't hurt anyone! :blink:  It's just southern cissies are so used to their silk padded toilet seats that a tram seat is a little shock to the system.....

I didn't get as far as the seat, it looked that unsafe I walked  ;D
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Weaver

Quote from: NARSES2 on October 17, 2010, 02:16:47 AM
Now I'm a Croydon lad so know "Tramlink" very well  :thumbsup: As for trolley buses they were fantastic, especially the 6 wheelers. used to love it when the clippie had to turn the pick up arms around at the end of the journey so the bus could go back the other way  :thumbsup: Sometimes took them ages to hook them up and us kids would all be jeering and hooting encouragement  :rolleyes:

Same with some kinds of tram. My Mum and Dad worked on Stockport trams and buses: they used to call it "swinging the duck", and one measure of a good clippie was whether they could get it on in one go. An extra lovely little bonus of getting it wrong was a shower of steel splinters from the wire coming down into your unprotected eyes. There was none of this modern Health-and-Safety-and-Sue-Everyone stuff though: you went to the company first-aider who puleed them out with thumping great magnet, gave you a cup of tea and then sent you out to finish your shift! (happened to my Mum) :o
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