Comments on: Perspective

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:05:03 +0000

As long as he confines himself to philosophical utterances and keeps his hands well away from any of the levers of power…

By: Dom

Dom — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:46:09 +0000

So what you’re saying is there are planned planned works and unplanned planned events. Does this mean we also have unplanned unplanned events – or even planned unplanned events? We need Donald Rumsfeld

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:49:09 +0000

Paperboy – I’ve wondered that too
Dom – yeah but they still have to plan how to do it. They don’t just chuck rivets at it until it works. Or maybe they do?

By: Dom

Dom — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:29:32 +0000

Unplanned engineering works are when they scramble to fix the failed points/broken signals/downed overhead power lines/broken rails that happens on a pretty much daily basis. Has it been so long since you commuted that you forget?

By: PaperBoy

PaperBoy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:48:29 +0000

If Annan is on the right track for England, why are they discriminating against Gretna Green station? (which is still in Scotland last time I looked)

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:22:19 +0000

curiously enough ‘personal belongings’ never bothered me in all my commuting days (although it will now). ‘Planned engineering works’ used to get me wondering what unplanned ones would be like though.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:58:28 +0000

Of course. Quite right.
My morning commute used to be punctuated by a train guard asking me to make sure I had my ‘personal belongings’ with me when I left the train. I always wondered what impersonal belongings were.

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:48:04 +0000

Ah, but crossing the bridge doesn’t bring you any closer to Annan (or even England) per se – just to the trains that take you there. So the ‘stations’ was put there to pander to the same literalist mind that has introduced ‘next station stop’ to the train lexicon.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:40:36 +0000

You’re being a bit harsh methinks. But why is stations capitalised? And why does it say stations at all. Think of the ink that could have been saved by simply saying over the bridge for Annan and England? Or maybe to pander to Anglocentricity it could have said “Over the bridge for Annan and the UK” !!