(21 Mar 2020, 4:35 pm)streetdeckfan wrote Then obviously everyone is just going to starve since we won't be able to buy food

I'm sure you can still buy food, if you're in a lockdown, sure they're doing in Spain/Italy etc....

(21 Mar 2020, 3:50 pm)streetdeckfan wrote What's really annoying me recently is the fact that NHS staff are getting basically everything for free. Free coffee, free transport, free food etc. yet other 'key workers' are getting absolutely nothing.

I'd argue that supermarket workers are a heck of a lot more important than a lot of NHS staff, plus they come in contact with many more people who are potentially infected. 

I'm not trying to downplay the importance of NHS staff, but it all seems a bit unfair to me

This trolling is beyond annoying. Give your head a wobble.

(21 Mar 2020, 5:05 pm)Michael wrote I'm sure you can still buy food, if you're in a lockdown, sure they're doing in Spain/Italy etc....

Exactly, but people still need to work there! As far as I'm aware key stores are still open in Italy (such as DIY, grocery stores etc.)

(21 Mar 2020, 5:09 pm)BusLoverMum wrote This trolling is beyond annoying. Give your head a wobble.

I'm not trolling for once! As far as I'm concerned anybody designated as a 'key worker' should be treated the same. That includes teachers, bus drivers, supermarket workers, and NHS staff.
If you're going to be giving stuff away, give it to everybody not just one sector

I would say NHS doctors and nurses should be given priority at the monument.

Charles

(21 Mar 2020, 7:18 pm)Charles41 wrote I would say NHS doctors and nurses should be given priority at the monument.

Charles

What about Haymarket?

Seriously though, whilst not taking anything away from retail workers and the like. I agree that NHS staff are a priority. 
Theyre putting their lives on the line, working all sorts of hours and spending time away from their families - so they don't infect them with owt they may have caught.

(21 Mar 2020, 3:50 pm)streetdeckfan wrote What's really annoying me recently is the fact that NHS staff are getting basically everything for free. Free coffee, free transport, free food etc. yet other 'key workers' are getting absolutely nothing.

I'd argue that supermarket workers are a heck of a lot more important than a lot of NHS staff, plus they come in contact with many more people who are potentially infected. 

I'm not trying to downplay the importance of NHS staff, but it all seems a bit unfair to me

Unsure whether you're deliberately trying to troll the forum or you just have fresh air between your ears, but you want to start reading back some your garbage before considering posting on here.

An already overstretched NHS is on the front line in this. They are risking their own health through merely operating with the same professionalism as they do day in day out, due to the lack of PPE that is available. On top of this, many NHS staff are working an exhausting amount of hours, with limited time to even think about the things we take for granted; food, transport, etc. 

Of course there are other key workers. I am one too, but peoples lives do not depend on my work. Very few in society have that level of responsibility. As for supermarket workers, they're doing an absolutely brilliant job right now, but its out of necessity following the sheer greed of others.

(22 Mar 2020, 9:53 pm)Adrian wrote Unsure whether you're deliberately trying to troll the forum or you just have fresh air between your ears, but you want to start reading back some your garbage before considering posting on here.

An already overstretched NHS is on the front line in this. They are risking their own health through merely operating with the same professionalism as they do day in day out, due to the lack of PPE that is available. On top of this, many NHS staff are working an exhausting amount of hours, with limited time to even think about the things we take for granted; food, transport, etc. 

Of course there are other key workers. I am one too, but peoples lives do not depend on my work. Very few in society have that level of responsibility. As for supermarket workers, they're doing an absolutely brilliant job right now, but its out of necessity following the sheer greed of others.

2nd that to being a keyworker

I'm actually dreading work this week, i don't know what its going to be like, how many kids will we have in, or anything....

Its gonna be a few long weeks/months.

Oooh, I forgot about what I said further up, and frankly I have even worse things to say now so I think I'll swiftly move on to another thing that's annoying me!

So for the past month and a bit I've been working on a new website for one of our businesses, one of the other partners is a professional copywriter so he was tasked with creating all the written content for the site. Now, bearing in mind the new site was originally supposed to be launched at the beginning of last week, I only got the content late Sunday night, and it was still missing a few pages.
I was promised the rest of the content Tuesday morning, that deadline has passed now. 

The site was basically done, minus the couple pages that still need the written content, so me being me, got sick and tired of waiting and just set the new site live. 

Like I said, he's a professional copywriter, and it's only a simple site. The writing that I received was fairly shoddy, didn't fit with the design of the website so I had to change a lot of it around anyway, and was full of spelling errors. We set a conservative deadline, and he assured me that it was more than enough time to get the content written, clearly it wasn't!

Anyway, moral of the story, if you want something doing, do it yourself!

(31 Jan 2020, 7:23 pm)solsburian wrote Back in December I was traveling with my county councillor friend/colleague on the 57a to Ashington. She uses an electric wheelchair and managed to dislodge the pole in the wheelchair bay (not surprising given how cramped it is in a MPD). The driver was great about it and she wrote in aboot his good deed.

Well I read what she wrote in the other day and she thought the driver took a shine to me and thought it would be an excellent idea to "extoll the virtues" of myself. I could have killed her.

Well I had the same driver on the the 57a today and the best I could manage was "don't worry I'm not stalking you". I do know how to land myself in it.

An update: I finally plucked up the courage to ask the driver if he had received the letter. He said no. On one hand I'm pleased it saved me from more embarrassment, but on the other hand IMHO it doesn't reflect well on Arriva if they don't let their staff know if they have received praise .

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Boris again, Tier 3 is he having a laugh when he puts London into T2


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Went out today to photograph the new Quaycity brand. I got a couple of them and then the lens suddenly wouldn’t focus on my DSLR and then it got jammed between the 18-24mm position on the zoom so had to abandon this and go to Durham CeX (the nearest one that had one) for a new lens. Luckily I only paid £19 as I had a game to trade in I was finished with.


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(14 Dec 2020, 7:19 pm)TEN 6083 wrote Went out today to photograph the new Quaycity brand. I got a couple of them and then the lens suddenly wouldn’t focus on my DSLR and then it got jammed between the 18-24mm position on the zoom so had to abandon this and go to Durham CeX (the nearest one that had one) for a new lens. Luckily I only paid £19 as I had a game to trade in I was finished with.


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I haven't been in for a while, but Cash Converters in Gateshead always seemed to have a decent selection of lenses for good prices. I got a couple variable ND filters there for like £1.50 each last year

Getting a bit sick of the constant posts on here and on faceache about this livery looks like someone elses livery.

It has been going on for the last 70 years, get over it.

Honestly is getting dull and tedious seeing the same posts everytime there's a repaint.

(04 Aug 2021, 2:19 pm)Rapidsnap wrote Getting a bit sick of the constant posts on here and on faceache about this livery looks like someone elses livery.

It has been going on for the last 70 years, get over it.

Honestly is getting dull and tedious seeing the same posts everytime there's a repaint.

About as dull and tedious as seeing Copying Desire liveries popping up all over the shop? 

I'm sick of seeing buses repainted.

Just let the paintwork age disgracefully then flog them onto an independent like the good 'ol days.

(Or currently in the case of Arriva North East)

(04 Aug 2021, 2:19 pm)Rapidsnap wrote Getting a bit sick of the constant posts on here and on faceache about this livery looks like someone elses livery.

It has been going on for the last 70 years, get over it.

Honestly is getting dull and tedious seeing the same posts everytime there's a repaint.

See, I am quite amazed that in this day and age (with all the technology and software available), that operators pay someone good money to create a livery which looks very like a competitors livery. Particularly when they want to stand out, be unique, different and shout out that they are different to another company operating a similar network. 

Back when operators had nothing more than a small selection of paint tins, a ladder, couple of brushes and masking tape - then, yeah I could see why one operator looked like another.
Ditto when things were nationalised.

I quite enjoy comparing the livery of one operator to several other operators of a totally different company.
Passes the time when I'm bored.

(04 Aug 2021, 4:43 pm)Andreos1 wrote See, I am quite amazed that in this day and age (with all the technology and software available), that operators pay someone good money to create a livery which looks very like a competitors livery. Particularly when they want to stand out, be unique, different and shout out that they are different to another company operating a similar network. 

Back when operators had nothing more than a small selection of paint tins, a ladder, couple of brushes and masking tape - then, yeah I could see why one operator looked like another.
Ditto when things were nationalised.

I quite enjoy comparing the livery of one operator to several other operators of a totally different company.
Passes the time when I'm bored.

I do find it strange that in the past couple of weeks we've seen two liveries that could easily be mistaken for Arriva

Face it. Your average bus passenger in Stanley will have no idea that there's a similar looking one pootling through Slough or Salford (or wherever)

What passage is gonna care the way there bus looks. As long as it gets to there destination.

(05 Aug 2021, 8:44 am)Train8261 wrote What passage is gonna care the way there bus looks. As long as it gets to there destination.

The operators must think it matters, or they wouldn't spend fortunes doing it. 

The "any bus will do" attitude over decades has probably been one of the reasons why people don't see bus travel as a viable alternative.

Yea granted some of them won't care.

My nana and grandad are both 70 years old. They are never into buses. But when the Coaches entered service on the X9/X10.

They happily said its a lot more of a better ride to Peterlee then the deckers. So maybe in some eye (new buses) and liverys are better to catch the eye of some people

(05 Aug 2021, 8:58 am)Train8261 wrote Yea granted some of them won't care.

My nana and grandad are both 70 years old. They are never into buses. But when the Coaches entered service on the X9/X10.

They happily said its a lot more of a better ride to Peterlee then the deckers. So maybe in some eye (new buses) and liverys are better to catch the eye of some people

They probably don't care if it's. A carbon copy of one 300 miles away, though.

(05 Aug 2021, 11:44 pm)BusLoverMum wrote They probably don't care if it's. A carbon copy of one 300 miles away, though.

I don't necessarily think it's that big of a deal that it's a copy, but I honestly dread to think how much they're paying to Stenning for a copy and paste job, I can't imagine he's cheap.

Coming soon....

The Original Bus company launches the Donut Steel express.

Well, after 10 months of waiting I finally got my Steam Deck delivered today... and it's bloody faulty!
How am I supposed to look like an idiot playing games on the bus now!

I was on the top deck of the 308 from Blyth earlier and there were three gobshite teenagers, probably about my age, sitting behind me shouting at each other, playing shitty rap "music" at full blast and squirting juice or something everywhere. Seriously, some parents should never leave their kids unattended.

(18 Jun 2022, 2:40 pm)wibblejunior wrote Seriously, some parents should never have kids.

Fixed that for you.


Always something going on around these parts, if its not a group of lassies screaming their lungs out on the last X21 to Ashington, it'll be kids vandalising stuff or just being vile.

Used the bus around 3 times in the past year and I think I'll suck up the £2 per litre from now on...

(18 Jun 2022, 7:57 pm)omnicity4659 wrote Fixed that for you.


Always something going on around these parts, if its not a group of lassies screaming their lungs out on the last X21 to Ashington, it'll be kids vandalising stuff or just being vile.

Used the bus around 3 times in the past year and I think I'll suck up the £2 per litre from now on...

GNE network, I know a Deptford driver and he said they have been getting hammered with windows knocked out

(18 Jun 2022, 9:18 pm)Unber43 wrote GNE network, I know a Deptford driver and he said they have been getting hammered with windows knocked out

It's not just buses either. It's bus stops having windows put out, street furniture set on fire and teenagers basically running a mock. There's no deterrent to any of it, other than the couple of nights in a row the local MP, councillors and police turn up for a photo shoot.