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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    When you work in a shop, you realise many people don't realise what's even in a Meal Deal and are often grateful for you pointing it out.
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    LNER to offer free period products on trains

    Because they will all get taken by someone selfish or flushed down the loo all at once or you risk someone urinating all over them to fulfill some sexual urge (as has happened at a previous workplace, albeit with sinks/dryers and not sanitary products).
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    Royal Photo Controversy

    I assumed they were calling for Kate to be sacked!
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    Supermarkets discussion

    The Sainsbury's Archive has a rather marvellous image of an annotated daily stock control routine from the 1970s. Very inefficient, lots of room for human error, difficult to scale up as the range of products increase, and still ultimately reliant on systems not failing (telephones, postal...
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    Supermarkets discussion

    I believe that's something that began in the Walmart days, as Sam Walton's powerhouse has had a live radio station since the 1990s. Co-Op had their own radio station at some point, although I've not been in one that has played music in years, but it must still be running as their shows are...
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    Supermarkets discussion

    Most supermarket music is provided by a company called Mood Media who advertise 'lyric checking' as one of their services, so I'm surprised that slipped through the net. Using there's an expurgated version of a track for store use with the offending lyric either removed in favour of the...
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    Train driver and guard attacked at Moss Side station near Lytham

    Hope the driver and guard are doing well. I've been assaulted at work before, and it can stay with you. I suppose he could have been naked, but his genitalia might have been conveniently masked by a prudish privet or a bashful branch?
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    World Book Day - who would you have gone as?

    It's a bit of fun for the kiddywinks, lighten up chaps. They still give out the £1 World Book Day vouchers for one of their special £1 books, so there's plenty of reading happening. I was in primary school in the early 2000s and recall the school turned into a period event and booked the...
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    People who spam eBay categories with irrelevant rubbish - i.e. Reform UK stickers keep popping up in Railwayana. Reported it to eBay, but they don't give a figgy pudding.
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    Worcester - van on track 4 March 2024

    You can't park there, mate. Pause for raucous laughter. How does this even happen? It's a fair way to the bridge from the nearest level crossing, isn't it? Surely at some point you'd realise you were no longer on the King's highway.
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    How the term "rail replacement bus" is viewed.

    The term 'bustitution' seems to be preferred in other English-speaking countries. The popular image of a rail replacement experience is waiting in the cold, or wet, or dark, for a bus that might or might not come and staff just shrug when asked. When it finally does arrive it's a clapped out...
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    What software internet forums use

    SkyscraperPage still uses vBulletin, although it's a fairly old build, I believe.
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    Fleet names that weren't widely adopted

    460s as 8-GAT as well, but everyone seemed to just refer to them as 460s or 'Darth Vaders' or just 'Vaders'.
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    "I'm a Signalman, not a Signaller!"

    It might be how language begun, but it wasn't how it was used contemporarily. If that was the case, we would have called female posties 'postman' too instead of 'postwoman'. See also 'postmaster' and 'postmistress', 'conductor' and 'conductress'. A Interestingly, the term DEI isn't used much in...

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