Further adventures of The Very Naughty Alfa, as it is now known

[djoptix]

I broke it into bits. Peanut for scale. 

It looks uniform throughout so I don't think it's a mouse. 

[Skizzer]

39 minutes ago, PhilA said:

Eth eth eth awrchhhCCHHHARCCCH tele-vis-ee-on.

 

Anything that was designed, built or conceived after 1850 in Wales just has its name in pidgin-English. Particularly anything high technology.

I do like "microwave oven".

Popty-ping. Oven that goes ping.

 

" Magical witchcraft box that does not heat forks up without lightning and smoke" was probably the alternative.

Phil

The old 'popty ping' chestnut is an urban myth.

Also, I'm not sure it's so very different from English, in which anything designed after 1850 just has its name in pidgin-Greek or dog-Latin (or worse, an ill-educated mash-up of both).  

 

Have you got the car yet?

 

[gadgetgricey]

14 minutes ago, djoptix said:

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT

 

Poo count 3 by the look of it

[PhilA]

Just now, Skizzer said:

The old 'popty ping' chestnut is an urban myth.

Also, I'm not sure it's so very different from English, in which anything designed after 1850 just has its name in pidgin-Greek or dog-Latin (or worse, an ill-educated mash-up of both).  

 

Have you got the car yet?

 

I'm half Welsh. I feel the pain.

[djoptix]

1 minute ago, gadgetgricey said:

Poo count 3 by the look of it

🤮

[Crackers]

Serves you right for liking peanuts. 

[djoptix]

4 minutes ago, Skizzer said:

Have you got the car yet?

Not yet! Ages to go. According to the bleeding-edge eyes-in-the-sky Transport For Wales track-o-matic®, I am here:

 

This is about to become a familiar bit of the journey for me - having gone to college in Hereford and then university in Manchester, I used to get this train all the time.

[Wack]

1 hour ago, djoptix said:

Minutes I have been gone for: 29

Estuaries I am now on the other side of: 1

Calls from Mrs Optix letting me know she has ALREADY FUCKING LOCKED HERSELF AND THE KIDS OUT OF THE HOUSE: 1

I locked myself out of the house last summer, went out with the wrong keys , got into the garden with 2 hours to kill and 4 bottles of cider , by the time mrs wack got back I was pretty pissed, as was she when I went to bed scuppering her afternoon plans

 

Looked at the bottles when I woke 7.5%

[tooSavvy]

1 hour ago, djoptix said:

I can't understand a word of this. It's like those Welsh have a different word for everything. 

I remember a sit-com, sure it was, where our heroes arrived in some godforsaken Welsh spot.....

"Jezze... They cant even put X in 'tacsi'!"

I was wrecked.... LMFAO

GodSpeed my son..   

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, djoptix said:

I can't understand a word of this. It's like those Welsh have a different word for everything. 

I wonder if Aberdaugieddau is any relation to Snoopdaugieddau?

[R1152]

43 minutes ago, Skizzer said:

Also, I'm not sure it's so very different from English, in which anything designed after 1850 just has its name in pidgin-Greek or dog-Latin (or worse, an ill-educated mash-up of both).  

Like "television", of which the legendary Guardian editor C. P. Scott said:

"The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good will come of it."

[djoptix]

Currently wending my way up through Shropshire. Bloody lovely round here. 

Station full of chavs though. 

[Sh'Eds]

1 hour ago, djoptix said:

I broke it into bits. Peanut for scale.

But have you tasted it yet?

[djoptix]

Shrewsbury achieved. Castle marked in magenta.

 

[angle]

1 hour ago, djoptix said:

There's a surprise.

 

Since I'm on this train for two hours I thought I'd watch Netflix  Nettfflix. But TFW Rail Services Wifi can't even load Speedtest.

 

Ha! Someone I work with has spent literally months making sure that everything that previously said 'Transport for Wales Rail Services' now says 'Transport for Wales Rail Limited' because nationalisation (never let it be said that transport planning is dull). I'm actually really looking forward to Monday now so I can tell him he's missed one. 

[djoptix]

18 minutes ago, Sh'Eds said:

But have you tasted it yet?

Yes. Not mouse, but not that nice either. 

[hairnet]

skizzer lives in mumbles

so he cant say it either

 

 

[djoptix]

Crewe achieved! 

Palatial. 

 

Half hour wait here... 

[djoptix]

It's turned into quite a nice day. Next train is nearly here... 

[djoptix]

Onwards on the swanky Avanti West Coast service. Top notch train, spoiled by non-working power outlets. 

[djoptix]

I'm going to attempt a wee on the train. Wish me luck. If it all goes quiet, I've died of The Rona. 

[djoptix]

Eh up. We're in t'north now. 

[djoptix]

I sampled some of the fine eateries since I had time to kill. 

£1.80 for excellent chips, would visit again. I miss the North. 

[djoptix]

Final train of the day. Bus seats, prison lighting. 

 

But - working USB power outlets!! 

[djoptix]

The sun sets over Wigan - very close now.

[sutty2006]

Wow this is one hell of a train ride! Brave soul. 
 

what was that in the peanuts bag? Was it supposed to be there? 
 

chodspeed, still. 

[Jazoli]

Is it an Alfa you are picking up?

[Crackers]

Surely it can't take this long to get from Brizzle to Wigin. 

Or are you secretly a train crank trying to red-pen as much mileage as possible in one day? 

[djoptix]

This happened!! 

 

[Wack]

2 hours ago, djoptix said:

Currently wending my way up through Shropshire. Bloody lovely round here. 

Station full of chavs though. 

2019 we had a week away in Shropshire , it really is a beautiful county with a lot of history and some lovely old towns