What kind of hats? Fedoras? Stetsons?
In fairness, this kind of "cognitive dissonance" was known -- although no doubt less often met with -- before the days of the Internet and ubiquitous "devices". I recall from a brake-van trip on a freight-only line, decades ago -- talking with the guard, concerning a railtour organised by some society, over choice rarely accessible freight-only routes; on which he had happened to be working in his professional capacity. He noticed that some of the presumedly-enthusiast, paying participants: spent much of the travelling time absorbed in playing cards with each other; apparently oblivious to what was being travelled through -- a thing which he found rather bemusing. There's nowt so funny as folk...
Cowboy hats, homburgs, etc.
My italics and "snipping": I confess that "clothes stuff" generally, is one of the rather numerous subjects concerning which my ignorance, and lack of interest, are almost total: had come across "the italicised" (or almost) in another context ("see further"), but never before in its primary one -- Googling re same has left me, frankly, very little the wiser (no doubt thanks to my cluelessness and non-interest). "Where heard of", as above: the Dinorwic Quarry "2ft." system had a Hunslet 0-4-0T (now preserved, currently on the Launceston Steam Railway) -- named by the Dinorwic outfit, Covertcoat (which I'd thought a wonderfully meaningless name dreamed up by some bard -- in fact, after a racehorse, as were a number of Dinorwic 2ft. locos -- anything on rails, less racehorse-like
...) we live and learn...
I'm as ignorant as you on the subject. I was going to say 'the sort of coat often worn by Nigel Farage' and then tried Googling that, hence 'covert coat', the antidote to an overt coat I'm guessing.My italics and "snipping": I confess that "clothes stuff" generally, is one of the rather numerous subjects concerning which my ignorance, and lack of interest, are almost total: had come across "the italicised" (or almost) in another context ("see further"), but never before in its primary one -- Googling re same has left me, frankly, very little the wiser (no doubt thanks to my cluelessness and non-interest). "Where heard of", as above: the Dinorwic Quarry "2ft." system had a Hunslet 0-4-0T (now preserved, currently on the Launceston Steam Railway) -- named by the Dinorwic outfit, Covertcoat (which I'd thought a wonderfully meaningless name dreamed up by some bard -- in fact, after a racehorse, as were a number of Dinorwic 2ft. locos -- anything on rails, less racehorse-like
Coach parties that seem to disgorge everyone into one long queue outside the only available service-station toilet...
I don't have a problem with block bookings provided the booked space is actually used.
As long as the seats are paid for and there’s people sitting in them I don’t see a problem. However if not all the seats are taken they should become available for other passengers.
There may of course be reasons why allowing random passengers to sit amongst the group would not be a good idea.
School groups etc yes, but when I get on a train I haven’t a clue who I’m sitting near or next to.
That is a particular problem on the Settle-Carlisle, where one half of a two car 158 can be routinely booked by a coach party between Settle and Appleby or Carlisle....leaving local passengers having to stand.
More importantly for some groups, nor do they have a clue who anybody wanting to sit in amongst an organised group is either.
I use Firefox browser and uBlock Origin addon and I see no advert on YouTube at all!
Whenever I have used an ad blocker to block YouTube ads YouTube quickly displays a message along the lines of this voilates our service agreements, and I am forced to disable the blocker if I want to continue watching videos. That means having to deal with an ad break two minutes into a 15 minute video which I find excessive.
I didn't think Northern provided Seat Reservations
If you use Chrome, Google are rolling out changes that will degrade the performance of ad blockers, particularly on Google/Youtube adverts.
www.computing.co.uk
Yes I was using Chrome with an addon, although YouTube gave me the same warning when using Adblock+ with Firefox. I'll try the uBlock Origin addon and see what happens.If you use Chrome, Google are rolling out changes that will degrade the performance of ad blockers, particularly on Google/Youtube adverts.
"Manifest v3" means that Chrome plugins like ad blockers need to submit changes to Google for review. There is more detail at:
Ad blockers face hurdle as Google Chrome starts rolling out Manifest V3
Google Chrome is rolling out Manifest V3, its latest extension specification, starting 3rd June on the Beta, Dev and Canary channels, which could impact how effectively ad blockers work in the Chrome browser.
Ah yes I tried using an ad blocker on Chrome a while back, but then it stopped working for some reason and I've just not got around to replacing it. I use YouTube on my phone mostly and I've not seen an ad blocker for that I don't think?
Or on the Kyle train I got on this morning, where both coaches have been hogged by separate coach parties.
It's good to see decent tourist patronage keeping these lines open for the residents.
My wife and I are irked that southeast Hampshire councils can't find budget to repair our atrocious road surfaces - yet magically found funds to clean and spruce up Southsea for Royals and Rushi today...
