What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Mr H Sceptre]

Train journeys. I needed to collect a shitter from Scunthorpe, so went by train. Got to my local station one down from Nottingham. Train arrived bang on time, Robin Hood line run this one and it's nice and clean. Arrived at Worksop bang on time, nice old fashioned station in nice nick. Got off, went into the cafe which was excellent and pretty cheap. next train arrived a minute early, got on it and off it went to Retford station which was nothing short of immaculate. The train arrived on time, off I hopped and went into the well heated waiting room. Next train was to Scunny, again bang on time.The whole thing took about 90 mins and cost £19. Train travel is a bit pricey at times but 19 quid to get there was fuck all in the great scheme of things - and it's come a long way since the bad old days of British Rail.

God, that takes me back. I grew up 5mins walk from Worksop station. Used to go down there & watch all of the Class 47 & 56 locos pulling coal trains fly through. I took a train from Leicester to Newark last Saturday. £10.10 return, which I thought was quite reasonable.

[brammy777]

I used to love getting trains to places, but then used to get a train from Basingstoke to Luton everyweek, which sort of puts you off.See i dont understand this massive fuss about train travel costs, i got a ticket from Perth to Kings Cross last year and i booked it at the station two days beforehand and it cost £37. Thats the cheapest way!

[Tayne]

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[Pillock]

Got to my local station one down from Nottingham.

Bulwell? I quite like train journeys, I used to do Norwich - Nottingham regularly when I was at uni and for the cost (I could get it for £15 by being schneaky - a £5 return Norwich to Peteboghorror, and then another return to cover the rest to Nottingham. One ticket straight through was £34!) it was a nice way to spend a few hours. Could stick my music on, gaze out of the window at cows and even drift off to sleep if I wanted to, which is something frowned upon in cars.It's also a brilliant opportunity to people-watch on stations, everyone's in so much of a rush doing their thang.I gotta say though, and I hope this doesn't taint my cheery post, the Robin Hood Line doesn't rate highly on my enjoyment scale. Too often the trains are filled with idiots and mouthbreathers, and at peak times two carriage trains just get absolutely rammed.

[Richard]

The trains are a lot better than they were in the early days of privatisation but NOT better than British Rail days.

[STUNO]

Trains, I remember a trip in about 1975Friday night London to LiverpoolBus to Isle of Man ferryFerry to Island.Sat afternoon Ferry back to L/poolSat night in the Adelphi HotelSunday return to LondonCost 12 pounds And it was a great weekend

[Gompo]

Train journeys. Arrived at Worksop bang on time, nice old fashioned station in nice nick. Got off, went into the cafe which was excellent and pretty cheap.

The pub at Worksop station, The Mallard, is good too - although I expect you were a bit early for that.I've not been on the Robin Hood Line for a couple of years but Worksop to Nottingham seemed to take an age. So many different stops around Mansfield.

[pogweasel]

Trains? Piss off. I quite like travelling by train, reading a book, staring aimlessley out of the window (south yourkshire cooling towers are particularly fun), farting about on your laptop/ipod/psp etc. But the cost sucks ass. £104 to go to Edinburgh from Poggleswade (or £105 return), and as for the 'commuter' run, obscene: It's now £33.50 for a peak time travelcard, and for that you get standing room only as the likely outcome. When I started working in 'the smoke' about 9 year ago it was £15. Ridiculous.

[Mike D]

Kettle crisps make me grin, and Asahi lager.And Olives, pork pies, and cheese that smells of feet!

[pogweasel]

Proper pork pies are manna from heaven. And I don't mean that shit you get in Asda with stale pastry and dyed-pink meat.

[Mike D]

My local butchers makes a mean one. See also Haslet. The best 'meat' ever!

[Guest]

Proper pork pies are manna from heaven. And I don't mean that shit you get in Asda with stale pastry and dyed-pink meat.

If it isn't good value, it isn't good eating, that's what I say.

[Richard]

Can you still get pork pies with half an inch of jelly in them? They are no good otherwise.

[Milford Cubicle]

[Mike D]

HERETIC! Stone Him!!!!!!

[pogweasel]

Quorn???? BOO, HISS (etc)

[Guest]

That's funny, the last time I bought a pie from a petrol station it was called a "pork style pie" and it definitely contained meat.

[Mike D]

Plus, WTF is with that description, pork style and herb filling, Yo man, I gots me pork style on!

[Polystratus]

Train journeys. I needed to collect a shitter from Scunthorpe, so went by train. Got to my local station one down from Nottingham. Train arrived bang on time, Robin Hood line run this one and it's nice and clean. Arrived at Worksop bang on time, nice old fashioned station in nice nick. Got off, went into the cafe which was excellent and pretty cheap. next train arrived a minute early, got on it and off it went to Retford station which was nothing short of immaculate. The train arrived on time, off I hopped and went into the well heated waiting room. Next train was to Scunny, again bang on time.

Done the exact run, the cafe is a recent addition, and it is really nice. Had to change Doncaster when I did my journey, and on the way to Scunthorpe passed a working coal mine - don't see many of them these days.

[RedSparrow]

Walls pork pies are the good shit.Pack of 2 for £1 at Tescos.

[Guest]

Pack of 2 for £1? Is that like 2 packs of 4 or something?

[Milford Cubicle]

You should try some of the Quorn efforts, they do cocktail sausages and everything now. They taste really good but are a bit expensive - the price you pay for not eating something containing mechanically recovered meat which has to be boiled to extraordinary temperatures to burn off the bacteria contained in the faeces included in it I suppose.Having said that, I haven't eaten meat in about 10 years, so what would I know?

[pogweasel]

Exactly. Meat is Murder. Murder is GOOD.

[Mike D]

Actually, MC has a point, My wife isn't vegetarian, but doesnt eat a lot of meat (fnar fnar) anywhoo, spag bol with quorn mince takes on the flavour a lot better than actual mince

[RedSparrow]

Pack of 2 for £1? Is that like 2 packs of 4 or something?

Nah, sorry. These are quite posh pork pies. Only 2 bits of gristle that make you retch in each, on average.

[Guest]

If you don't want mechanically-recovered meat which has been boiled to burn off the bacteria caused by the faeces in it, just get it from a petrol station shop - they forego the boiling to save you money. Value!

[myglaren]

If you don't want mechanically-recovered meat which has been boiled to burn off the bacteria caused by the faeces in it, just get it from a petrol station shop - they forego the boiling to save you money. Value!

One of the reasons my wife is vegetarian.

Also actually seeing them mechanically recovering meat, that did it for her.

I missed that bit.

[Mr Lobster]

In Manchester city centre today. Underneath the big wheel, a stall selling 'Hot Roast Pork Sandwiches'Laid on the counter (behind glass and in a tray of its own juice) was a pig - head, trotters, curly tail the lot which had spent quite some time being cooked. Looking at it as I ordered did make me feel I tiny bit guilty.But only a tiny bit.It was delicious.

[The Liberator]

The only good pork pies are those long 'gala' pork pies with a boiled egg running through the middle.

 

 

Although Scotch eggs do much the same thing, better.

[pogweasel]

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