LHRjc From Netherlands, joined Apr 2006, 1961 posts, RR: 23 Posted (5 years 5 months 9 hours ago) and read 2085 times:
Unfortunately, our little bus spotting convention was cut short by my posting of a copyrighted picture. So apologies moderators, and apologies to the rest of you minnions for what was turning into a wonderful inisight into the world of buses, and Banco's blatant disregard for all things public transport
So let's start again... JGPH1A, maybe you could start us off?
"Our 319's are very reliable. They get fixed very quickly."
There was a thread started yesterday "Bus Spotters Alight Here", but unforuntately the thread was deleted by a moderator due to copyrighted images being posted. It had got to about 20 replies, you missed a good thread.
"Our 319's are very reliable. They get fixed very quickly."
IH8BY From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2005, 1120 posts, RR: 3 Reply 16, posted (5 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1955 times:
To be fair, I feel bus travel has improved quite a lot since I was small, whatever bus spotters will doubtless say about the "good old days". As I think I remember saying in the other topic, going to town when I was a little one involved folding up the pushchair and either getting on a tiny Ford Transit minibus or - worse - getting on a rickety old double decker with smoking allowed throughout... Now you get on a brightly lit bus and you just wheel the pushchair straight on as the bus lowers itself to kerb level.
Longer distances though are where I've seen the greatest improvement. Coaches used to be awful... stiff seats, bolt upright, no legroom, rattling windows, no air and yet no way of opening the windows, no seatbelts, etc etc...
Now I find going to London by coach from Oxford a far more pleasant way to get there than by train (train used to be comfortable before the introduction of the Diabolical Multiple Unit - the Thames Turbo). Better frequency (every 10 mins vs. every 30), better fares (£14 vs. about £40 peak/£20 off peak), more personal space, smoother ride, reclining seats, free wi-fi, clean facilities, breakfast and a paper (OK, so it's the Independent) on board in the morning, and no standing. Furthermore, there's NO last bus! Unless you need to be there half an hour sooner there's virtually no point taking the train.
Have you ever felt like you could float into the sky / like the laws of physics simply don't apply?
Mhodgson From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2002, 5047 posts, RR: 29 Reply 17, posted (5 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 1947 times:
Worst thing about bus travel is the expense; it is significantly more expensive than the train from my house to Lancaster; particularly for a return journey.
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LHRjc From Netherlands, joined Apr 2006, 1961 posts, RR: 23 Reply 18, posted (5 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 1946 times:
Quoting CupraIbiza (Reply 2): Can anyone point me to a website that will have info/pictures on 1950s 1960s AEC single decker buses? Sorry dont know model number(s)
These were the memorable (for me) government buses of the time run by MMTB (Melbourne Metropolitan Tramways Board)
Have you tried this site... I know nothing about buses really but I think there might be some on there for you if you scroll down.... http://www.mmtbbusnut.fotopic.net/
Quoting CupraIbiza (Reply 15): So is this the "Discuss absolutley everthing except the thread topic" thread?
I apologise on behalf of GKirk, he's not too good at sticking to the right topics these days
"Our 319's are very reliable. They get fixed very quickly."
LHRjc From Netherlands, joined Apr 2006, 1961 posts, RR: 23 Reply 21, posted (5 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 1931 times:
Quoting Banco (Reply 20): Only in the sense that you'd have to pay me to actually make me get on one.
How much? It might be worth it for us all to chip in to see Lord Banco slumming it on the top deck of a Routemaster whilst the chauffeur follows behind, frustrated that the Bentley is unable to use the bus lane
"Our 319's are very reliable. They get fixed very quickly."
IH8BY From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2005, 1120 posts, RR: 3 Reply 22, posted (5 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1928 times:
Quoting LHRjc (Reply 21):
How much? It might be worth it for us all to chip in to see Lord Banco slumming it on the top deck of a Routemaster whilst the chauffeur follows behind, frustrated that the Bentley is unable to use the bus lane biggrin
Not so dignified as a Routemaster. Let him use a bendy-bus! If he's lucky he may escape without catching fire!
Have you ever felt like you could float into the sky / like the laws of physics simply don't apply?
Banco From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 14752 posts, RR: 55 Reply 24, posted (5 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1920 times:
Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 23): Everyone knows he's an unemployed double-glazing salesman from East Croydon.
Oh, how ghastly! I mean Surrey for heaven's sake. That's where Cornish goes every day. I would never stoop so low...
She's as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot.
25 IH8BY: Croydon? Don't they have trams? Would explain how Banco claims he never needs to take the bus!
26 JGPH1A: Abandon this vain pretence - we all know you and your faux-Victorian conservatoire are based in Surrey (snigger). That would be it. Trams remind Banc
28 CupraIbiza: Thats OK, you have been very helpful. I will let you all get back to your little banter
29 Banco: Never. I would rather borrow one of LHRjc's Burberry outfits than live there...
30 LHRjc: Speaking of these damn things I'm at my Yorkshire treehouse residence today. I wondered what all the racket was outside just now and went upstairs to
31 JGPH1A: Checks ? With hips like yours ? You'll look like a Terence Conran sofa.
32 LHRjc: Oh come on now Banco.. Surrey's not THAT bad surely... Kent, Sussex, Surrey, I mean, they're all the same really.. I mean us affluent souls should be
34 CaptOveur: Been there done that.. Nothing brightened the ride to school like a drunken bum puking in the back of the bus. I kind of wish the bus ran where I liv
35 Skidmarks: And what's wrong with Surrey, oik? Getting illusions of grandeur I fear, living in rural Sussex and inbreeding! Andy
36 Banco: It's filled with wannabees in their mock Tudor mansions, trying to pretend that they live in the countryside rather than just another suburb of Londo
37 JGPH1A: Surbiton is so much better, eh Margot ?
38 Banco: Surbiton IS Surrey, you silly boy! Honestly, take him away from his favourite dockyard and he's completely lost...
39 JGPH1A: Is it ? I thought it was Middlesex. Never having ventured forth to such a benighted locale, how should I know ?
40 Fiatstilojtd: Haven't you been found there as a lost baby, back then, I think Skidmarks mentioned something like this a few days ago. ?
41 Banco: Middlesex doesn't exist as a county any more; just a cricket team and addresses of people who don't want to be associated with London. I wonder if we
42 Banco: Unfortunately, someone, not in full possession of that facts, dug him up again.
44 JGPH1A: But we'd have to give them a cricket team. Do you want to be the one responsible for giving 11 Scotsmen heavy wooden clubs and spherical leather-boun
45 LHRjc: Sounds like a typical Friday night down Kirkie's local
46 Nighthawk: Scotland already has a cricket team... they play in the county league I believe for some strange reason if you had ever graced kirkies local, you wou
47 JGPH1A: That is because Scotland isn't a proper country - it's only a province
48 Nighthawk: neither is england yet they still play internationally.
49 Skidmarks: England is a country, Scotland is a mistake - get over it! Andy
50 LHRjc: I think the word you're looking for is "colony"?
52 PlymSpotter: Well it's still better than the occupants of that petulant country across the Channel, what do they call it again? Paupers republic of France I think
54 Banco: It's no coincidence that they allied themselves together for several centuries, is it? And still lost, by the way.
55 Glid4500: the SUV driver was charged in the accident. he ran a red light at a high rate of speed. the teen was driving with a permit but didn't have adult supe
56 ThePRGuy: The best bus operations are on Gozo, some quality old busses kept in perfect condition. Alex
57 LHRjc: Unlike the old buses in South Croydon Bus Garage
58 LTU932: No, Scotland is MY land. Signed, Edward the Longshanks
59 ThePRGuy: You should see the state of the Wycombe busses round here. Just the other day, one of them plowed into a railway bridge. http://www.maidenhead-advert
61 ThePRGuy: Bit of a local scandal at the moment, and I think he was very experienced! Hes out on bail at the mo. Alex
62 IH8BY: three cheers for WorstGreatWesternLink!!! Horrible trains. Oh and I love the comments on the story: yes, that's right... it happened because Arriva e
63 Skidmarks: Wow, either you are very seriously cynical or your sarcasm gland is working overtime - I LIKE it!! Andy
64 PlymSpotter: Indeed... such a shame that my family originates from there
65 Fiatstilojtd: Seriously have you ever read the requirements to become a Dublin-Bus Driver....they only request that you have passed the theoretical test, you can m
66 ThePRGuy: Given that I am not from Dublin I have to say no! Alex
67 JGPH1A: You live in Wycombe ? Whereabouts ? Alex will be along in a minute (or two of them, if he's a bus) No, he's just your average Daily Mail reader
68 PlymSpotter: I thought the average reader was 90 and on their third hip replacement?
69 Banco: France? You live in the West country and you're ancestry is French? What were you, Francis Drake's prisoner or something?
70 ThePRGuy: I live in Maidenhead, a wonderful hamlet just 5 miles from Wycombe. You may know the area. The Silicon Valley (thames valley) of the UK. Alex
71 PlymSpotter: Escaped for our lives to Britain after some nasty peasants decided they wanted to chop our heads off
72 Banco: That's no reason why we should have let you in, now is it?
73 JGPH1A: I am familiar with the concept - before we moved to SA we lived in Marlow, then Medmenham (on the way to Henley) and then Lane End (other side of Wyc
74 Fiatstilojtd: read: before we were forced to go to the exile in SA
75 PlymSpotter: Well if they hadn't done so I guess I wouldn't be here to complain about the French and Scottish - so be thankful for small mercies! Hmm, that's worr
76 JGPH1A: That trip takes about 2 weeks each way - did they not have jobs to go to ? P.S. Does this mean we should start a ship thread too ?
77 Banco: It explains his name though. In true South African tradition, JGPH1A are the initials for his given names...
79 Fiatstilojtd: Yeah, if I remember correctly a few months ago you had the "Borg-Sentence" from Star Trek as your signature....that explains the 1A then.....
80 PlymSpotter: We're not in overly frequent comunicado any more, due to a combination of forgetfulness and people moving about and losing addresses, but I believe t
81 JGPH1A: You're not a Goth - Goth's can't be ginger, it's written into their Charter.
82 LHRjc: Do you know, that could catch on, leading one's girlfriend round on a leash. I mean, much as I despise Yorkshire, the lad's not got a bad idea. If th
83 JGPH1A: Here's a tip. Don't tell her about the dog-collar thing until AFTER you're hooked up. Not that I think that's possible, but you never know, there's a
84 LHRjc: Oh what a wonderful idea. I'll start researching now.... www.oceanliners.net? www.shipspotters.com? hmm there must be "enthusiasts" website somewhere
85 JGPH1A: Instead of bobble-hats, they wear sou'westers Nobody would DARE speak such treason ! Off with their heads ! It was probably Skidmarks. He has no resp
86 PlymSpotter: You forgot the 'signed, 99% of A.net' Actually it's a sort of black/dark brown and the slightest touch of ginger highlights currently. I dyed it blac
87 JGPH1A: Like this ? Yersss. Well it's got to be an improvement...
88 PlymSpotter: Perhaps the age is getting to you - unable to distinguish purple from blue *writes note to local doctors to get an eye test carried out on JGP* Just
89 Skidmarks: There is no one superior to me on this infantile, peurile Forum!! Especially rejects from Berkshire and South Africa - no wonder your so twisted and
90 IH8BY: Does having both make me talented? It's bizarre you should say that, but I have read a lot of the Daily Mail. I was analysing it for a research proje
91 JGPH1A: I'm colour-blind ! I googled "blue rinse" and that's what I got. The glasses would suit you, anyway. Although EVERYONE is your superior at spelling i
92 IH8BY: Caesar adsum iam forte... Hahaha... if only you knew how well you'd really just described me!
93 JGPH1A: ...Pompey aderat. Caesar sic in omnibus, Pompey inisat. So the Daily Mail is just your guilty little pleasure ? For shame ! Next you'll be joining th
94 IH8BY: Ah! The first sign of a sound education. Maybe all is not lost then! Naturally, though one has to have the appropriate accessories first. It's like b
95 PlymSpotter: *Thinks up evil tricks one can play next time I see JGPH1A* Are you sure you're real name isn't Jeremy Clarkson?
96 LASOctoberB6: I ride 4 buses a day, so no, I still don't know why you don't like them.
97 LHRjc: I was thinking the exact same thing! Because our UK buses don't have any suspension, air conditioning, heating or drivers who know anything about cus
98 JGPH1A: Haha - so true. Especially about the Aga, it is the sine qua non of genteel rural living (at least according to my mother). Oh and the dogs have to b
99 ThePRGuy: We have family in Lane End - very nice. Small world eh! Alex
100 PlymSpotter: Especially when you're as large as JGPH1A!
101 JGPH1A: It is nice - my sister moved back there for many years, was in the local am/dram group. Many a year I helped paint the pantomime scenery (just call m
102 ThePRGuy: Surely he isn't that fat! Are you sure you weren't just in one of "your" special clubs? Alex
103 JGPH1A: Clubs ? Never. I'm far to exclusive. Private yachts or villas only (nothing under EUR20,000,000).
104 LHRjc: I think you're getting confused. EUR isn't the code for Zimbabwean Dollar
105 ThePRGuy: It would have to be a big yacht from what I've heard... We're talking Odyssey 65 AT LEAST if your sailing and bigger if not!
106 PlymSpotter: Oh I don't think so, you must be mistaking me for Cornish or Myt332 - I'm not that easy to get out on a date! Although if the restaurant is reeeealy
107 JGPH1A: I don't get out of bed for anything under 65 meters (and it has to have a helicopter).
108 LHRjc: McDonalds? Wimpy? Or is that MYT332... I can never remember
109 ThePRGuy: I'm talking FEET. In that case, sailing isn't for you! Better get yourself an Abromavich stylie 300m motoryacht. Alex
110 PlymSpotter: That's Alex, a complete pushover at the merest sight of a big mac or bargain bucket Just what most women in high society seem to say about getting in
111 JGPH1A: I think I have actually sailed an Odyssey 65 - it sounds familiar (maybe it was a 35, can't remember). I took a sailing course on Sydney Harbour (see
112 Skidmarks: By your pitch at the docks, dearie, then you wouldn't have so far to go for trade! Andy
113 Nighthawk: I shall take a look at that - quite like me ships i do! arr! I hope he cleaned it up himself - theres a £50 fine for that!
114 LHRjc: Then start the "Ahoy Ship Spotters" Thread then.. This thread is for bus fans
115 IH8BY: Not specific enough really; why don't you narrow it down to one type of ship - even one company; I suggest you take a peek at the forums over at Brit
118 MadameConcorde: Why are there so few pictures on this thread? This is a Monaco bus !
119 IH8BY: Nobody wants to link copyrighted images I suppose... and the bus spotters amongst us are too closeted to go out with their cameras...
120 MadameConcorde: I took my picture myself, was on Monaco National Day, Nov. 19 2007. This is why the bus has got the flags on it.
121 IH8BY: Ah yes, I was just about to ask that! I did wonder whether maybe Monaco buses did that all the time!
122 LHRjc: MYT332, I command you to go out and take pictures of buses
123 PlymSpotter: Oh my, I've rolled my way across the channel a couple of times onboard them - and I remember a few years ago they managed to beach their brand new to
124 ThePRGuy: They are good boats. Typical charter ones, but fun, so we regularly charter Sun Odyssey 43s around the Solent. Alex
125 JGPH1A: I went sailing on the Solent once, it was great. A family friend had a yacht based in Yarmouth, we spent a weekend aboard and went sailing down to th
126 ThePRGuy: Yarmouth is lovely. Past the needles and it turns choppy to say the least, the Solent is lovely. Alex
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