Was watching a canny little Video last night about a Bus War in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, filmed in 1987 not long after De-Regulation
Bus Wars (Facing South. 1987)
Just thought people might fancy a butchers
(01 Nov 2014, 8:59 pm)Marcus wrote [ -> ]Thanks Daniel [emoji1]
I forgot I even had that channel
I'll get some videos tomorrow and upload them.
Gateshead Stadium to Monument
Sunderland to Ryhope on the 61
I took this video to test out the camera on the phone I had at the time
(08 Dec 2014, 5:40 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote [ -> ]Whoops! 3789's accident while returning to Murton Depot in August 1986! - love the music! [emoji14]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apQV8luMJnM
Seen that loads of times, always makes me laugh...
How it managed to tip over I do not know, I have come along that road on Deckers in high winds without anything tipping over, must have been some gust of wind
(18 Jan 2015, 5:22 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote [ -> ]Can't keep watching this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj5xHAsjqGc
Words like alluring and object of passion, object of desire sounds so wrong and if I didn't know any better, I would think we were all freaks...
Another thing I hate is the term bus spotter, the word spotter reminds of a.train spotter and people took the piss out of them for years(myself included a few times) I prefer Bus Enthusiast or Public Transport Enthusiast
@Fozz - me too, don't like spotter. If anyone asks, I say 'transport enthusiast'; and everyone assumes anything from cars to boats!
The term "Bus Spotter" was used in Channel 5's "On The Yorkshire Buses". Also included that a driver was "Hull's Best Bus Spotter".
(18 Jan 2015, 5:40 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote [ -> ]@Fozz - me too, don't like spotter. If anyone asks, I say 'transport enthusiast'; and everyone assumes anything from cars to boats!
Just buses for me atm, I may drift into rail enthusiasm sometime, I am interested in trains, but not enough to call myself an enthusiast.
(18 Jan 2015, 5:41 pm)Tommy1581 wrote [ -> ]Does it contain items that aren't true by any chance? Or may cause offence by their lack of understanding?
Makes it sound seedy in my opinion using words like object of desire a d object of passion, to me that makes us sound like freaks
MrFozz (Post 25) - that sounds like that the "bus spotters" go around kissing and loving the buses?
(18 Jan 2015, 5:49 pm)Tommy1581 wrote [ -> ]MrFozz (Post 25) - that sounds like that the "bus spotters" go around kissing and loving the buses?
Exactly, it can be bad enough at times I have had the piss out of me for years, my friends laugh about it, but know when to stop...
The worst reaction to a bus enthusiast was in Peterlee Bus Station, guy was taking photos and some junkie plonky chav started having a go at him, calling him weird, a freak, a daft c***, even a pervert and paedophile(there was no kids in sight, and it is things like the Video marcus posted and tbe wording used that makes us out be freaks and weirdos
(18 Jan 2015, 5:35 pm)MrFozz wrote [ -> ]Words like alluring and object of passion, object of desire sounds so wrong and if I didn't know any better, I would think we were all freaks...
Another thing I hate is the term bus spotter, the word spotter reminds of a.train spotter and people took the piss out of them for years(myself included a few times) I prefer Bus Enthusiast or Public Transport Enthusiast
I'm not keen on being called a "bus spotter" to me "spotter" just implies that all we do is stand around looking at them all day and getting a bit "excited"
Also (to me at least) spotting sort of sounds like when you go to a nightclub and scan round the room at which lasses you'd want to do it with.
(18 Jan 2015, 6:09 pm)Jimmi wrote [ -> ]I'm not keen on being called a "bus spotter" to me "spotter" just implies that all we do is stand around looking at them all day and getting a bit "excited"
Also (to me at least) spotting sort of sounds like when you go to a nightclub and scan round the room at which lasses you'd want to do it with.
I wonder if tbere is anyone out tbere who compares womens looks to buses...
'By she is fit, definately a citaro'
'Look at state of her, she is an MPD if I ever saw one'
'Look at the arse and tits on her, a Scania every day of the week'
Fozz - what would a StreetLite be like???
EDIT: Oh poo, why did I post StreetLite???
