Suggestions please...
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A friend is bored on a long train journey, what can he do to entertain himself? Ali
Last week I went back to Europe for business and then had to travel with a train from Sofia to the sea cost to visit my grandparents (aged 90 and 92). The summary was four airplanes – 20 hours in the air 30 with the connection stops and security and 18 hours with a train. 48 hours on a small seats and I’m 185 sm tall. How I handle to keep my sanity and live through all this? The answer is Kindle!
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A friend is bored on a long train journey, what can he do to entertain himself? Ali
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There was an April Fools joke in Derby a number of years ago that they were going to replace train numbers with barcodes, and platforms would have readers mounted on their ends, or train spotters could buy their own handheld units. There was concern that it would interfere with the tills in the nearby Asda.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
LOL!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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A friend is bored on a long train journey, what can he do to entertain himself? Ali
I think that Deyan might have hit on the solution. Your 'friend' should convert all the wooden parts of the train into kindling. This has the benefit of potentially filling their spare hours for several months/years to come in addition to the current journey.
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A friend is bored on a long train journey, what can he do to entertain himself? Ali
Invite you to join him. :)
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A friend is bored on a long train journey, what can he do to entertain himself? Ali
Audio books, that's what I generally use to keep my mind busy. If your friend is like me, I get headaches when reading while in a moving vehicle. People watching is always good, but only for so ling. :zzz:
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I think that Deyan might have hit on the solution. Your 'friend' should convert all the wooden parts of the train into kindling. This has the benefit of potentially filling their spare hours for several months/years to come in addition to the current journey.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
If I quote myself from a last week thread: “this one goes with a stripe suit, a lot of free meals and a horny cell mate who is taking Viagra and doesn’t have a serious relationship at the moment.”
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Tell your friend to alert the conductor of a strange unattended package... when the conductor tells your friend it is another passenger, your friend should reply with one of the following remarks... 1. I think your job has started to effect your judgement. 2. So if I poke it then it won't blow up? 3. Why are there other people on my train? 4. Why are there other people on my plane???
My opinions are right, and yours are wrong! (or at least that is my opinion)
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A friend is bored on a long train journey, what can he do to entertain himself? Ali
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A friend is bored on a long train journey, what can he do to entertain himself? Ali
Years ago I took a train from Boston MA to Orlando FL. My seat was in the last car with the grandmothers and the screaming babies. 1 bottle of Jack Daniels 1 deck of cards Diner car 24 hours later => me => pissed in Florida! :-D Worked a treat!
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Invite you to join him. :)
Will Rogers never met me.
Well we have “one mile high” club, why not also “on the rails” club or “the shaky train” club? Or “My first name is London and my middle name is To my family name is Paris because my parents find the love in the train’s lav…"
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The only problem with that is when you get the answer "Yes! I've been collecting them for years! I've got some from ..."
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
Yeah, it could definitely create some problems if they are crazier than you are... but if you are able to stick with it without breaking character, you could probably have a pretty awesome conversation.
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There was an April Fools joke in Derby a number of years ago that they were going to replace train numbers with barcodes, and platforms would have readers mounted on their ends, or train spotters could buy their own handheld units. There was concern that it would interfere with the tills in the nearby Asda.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Sounds like a perfectly reasonable idea to me... :laugh: :laugh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Well we have “one mile high” club, why not also “on the rails” club or “the shaky train” club? Or “My first name is London and my middle name is To my family name is Paris because my parents find the love in the train’s lav…"
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I once made a bid for the mile under club in the channel tunnel (I know it isn't that deep really), but my girlfriend at the time declined the offer.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
ChrisElston wrote:
my girlfriend at the time declined the offer.
... as she was home in Burnley at the time. :laugh:
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ChrisElston wrote:
my girlfriend at the time declined the offer.
... as she was home in Burnley at the time. :laugh:
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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For people from Burnley the idea of a train under the channel tunnel is one of a far off future time.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
For the people of Burnley fire is modern and the wheel is freekin bleeding edge.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Not exactly a challenge, from the inside. How about Zebra spotting instead? Ok, it's going to be difficult to read the serial number as the train speeds along, but you could always take a picture and scan the barcode later...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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It's quite a challenge ... you can't see any of the numbers from inside, and the trains you pass are going fast enough relative to you that you can't get theirs either!
A long time ago, I was on a train and there was a pair of anoraks [train spotters] in the carriage. They didn't speak for the first hour or two until we went through a giant junction. Animated, they called out numbers and types for the five minutes passing through the area. They checked each others list and the STFU for the rest of the journey. IIRC, I just drank. Heavily.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Tell your friend to alert the conductor of a strange unattended package... when the conductor tells your friend it is another passenger, your friend should reply with one of the following remarks... 1. I think your job has started to effect your judgement. 2. So if I poke it then it won't blow up? 3. Why are there other people on my train? 4. Why are there other people on my plane???
My opinions are right, and yours are wrong! (or at least that is my opinion)
musefan wrote:
I think your job has started to effect your judgement.
And your post has effected my reply.
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
