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from London to Totnes (near plymouth).

i got a coach in the morning instead though. Wierd.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

What's so weird about it? Lots of people will have done the same thing; and moreover, lots of people booked to catch trains which *weren't* involved in road accidents will have done the same thing, too.

(I wish someone would actually do some research on this and find if the no-show rate for planes that crash is higher than the no-show rate for planes that don't. It probably won't be, but we may as well get some hard data on the issue. Trains would be too hard to do, because you don't have to advance-book.)

(And, incidentally. Note to the world. Learn how to spell 'weird' properly. It pisses me off. kthxbye.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

foiled again...

― doomie x, Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I doubt he was saying it was supernaturally weird. Just that it felt weird to be so close to having been involved in such a thing. Jeez.

Never go to Plymouth, though.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Fair enough. He should still learn how to spell the word, though :-)

All I know of Plymouth is that it's got a famous Hoe.

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really thinkg about spelling on here, i also just spent a good 7 hours on a coach not spelling things.

It was only wierd because i was in London this morning walking around Victoria and decided on the spot to take the coach because i like long journeys.

I met Dylan Moran last night, also.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I still can't tell from that whether you thought it was supernaturally weird or not.

If you can't be arsed to spell - after you've had it specifically pointed out, too - then you don't really deserve replies to your posts, though.

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think anything is supernaturally weird.

(i didn't spell it 'wierd' wrongly to piss you off the 2nd time by the way, i'm just typing on automatic)

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

See, lots of people - my mother, for example - would be all "Wow! I was going to take the train, but randomly decided not to! It must have been GOD PROTECTING ME."

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

If 'God' felt the need to protect me i'd find that supernaturally weird.

like there was a 2nd God telling the other God what to do.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

oh for God's sake Caitlin you're such an intellectual snob! What does it matter if ppl can spell or not? It's not like hari is writing a book or applying for a job, he's just pissing around on a message board like you and me.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

MarkH: on the moeny :P

― papa november (papa november), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason, the word 'weird' is one that makes me really, really, really annoyed when I see it misspelled. I have no idea why it annoys me more than most, but it does.

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"An Internet Called Child" - Hari Ashurst, 2004, Fourth Estate.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

This topic seems to have been derailed.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

'I' before 'e' except after 'c', and 'w', er, um...

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish someone would actually do some research on this and find if the no-show rate for planes that crash is higher than the no-show rate for planes that don't

Oh, this has been done extensively, initially by folks who were looking for evidence of weak, unfocused precognitive ability in humans. And it's still considered powerful evidence of such precognitive ability by people who don't understand statistics.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Sunday, 7 November 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

ppl are less inclined to travel in adverse weather conditions. Accidents are more likely to happen when the weather's bad and so there will be correlation because of that.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 7 November 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

If you can't be arsed to spell - after you've had it specifically pointed out, too - then you don't really deserve replies to your posts, though.

haha, well, STOP POSTING ON THIS THREAD THEN.

Wierdo!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

This message board is not an Examination Board !

Anyway I sez bring back Starry thee Attomick Brane from Livejournal land with her wacky and entertaining use of WURDS !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

You misspelled "words."

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I was rather hoping that me mentioning extreme weather as a possible cause of correlation between no-shows and transport crashes would lead to ppl suggesting other possible reasons for a +ve correlation but instead we have just gone back to the spelling thang, oh well.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

It's an interesting thought. To what extent are plane crashes caused by extreme weather, anyway? I know that train crashes caused by it are extremely rare nowadays - but as I said, because you don't have to book tickets for trains you can't really research it as easily.

(they weren't always extremely rare - the second-worst train crash in British history, at Harrow and Wealdstone, was partly caused by fog)

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

what was the worst crash out of interest. I had the book on the subject Red for Danger as a teenager and I remember thinking that the incompetence of railway ppl in Victorian times was quite horrendous, but then I realised the sad fact that most safety measures are reactive and aren't put into place until a disaster has been experienced.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The worst crash was at Quintinshill, on the London-Glasgow main line just north of Carlisle, in 1915 - around 215 people killed, the exact number unknown. For some reason, a lot of the victims are buried in Leith.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

wird

― adam... (nordicskilla), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

weierd

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

word

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, fuck off. You think it's funny to take the piss out of me, don't you? You're laughing your heads off at me. Everyone else on ILE right now is on AIM and going to each other: "let's make fun of caitlin! let's see how many of her buttons we can push! let's see if we can make her burst!" IT'S NOT FUCKING FUNNY, YOU CUNTS. IT'S NOT FUNNY TO JUST GO POKING SOMEONE WITH A STICK. GO FUCK YOURSELVES.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

in my experience, ppl who take things very seriously which other ppl regard as trivial do invite a little gentle piss-taking but this is all this is. Your reaction to it is puzzling, to say the least.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Deliberately trying to piss people off like that just isn't funny, though.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

different ppl find different things funny.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

You have to be pretty sick to find that sort of childish needling amusing, though.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a tricky one, i think it's very easy to fall into the trap of thinking there is consensus over humour, when there is very little, if any, actually.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

*likes the wurd "ticked" in thread title*

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

(no, really!)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, yes; there are a lot of people at work who make racist and/or homophobic jokes, and everyone laughs. I try to look at least vaguely amused whilst thinking: "um ... HELLO?" to myself.

*likes the wurd "ticked" in thread title*

I didn't even *notice* that until several posts into the thread, whereas 'wierd' stands out and glares like a big, standing out and glaring thing.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

there are a lot of people at work who make racist and/or homophobic jokes

that admittedly does surprise and disgust me.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i really hate when people use whilst instead of while... it's a made up amalgam and really gets my goat

― trix, Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

This *is* Grimsby, where the population is 98% white, and where the only gay bar shut down after 6 months because they couldn't afford to replace the windows weekly.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i really hate when people use whilst instead of while... it's a made up amalgam and really gets my goat

According to my dictionaries, it originated in the 13th Century, so if it's made up it was made up a lot longer ago than many English words.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a rum thread.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

all that *and* it smells of fish. Why exactly did you move back there again?

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Because I had no job and no money.

Now, I have a job, some money, and I even have a car. However, I also have less friends, no social life, and generally feel like shit.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(oh, and for years I lived here and thought that the "it smells of fish" thing was a bit myth/joke. Now I've got a job on an industrial estate near the docks, between two big frozen-seafood plants, I've found that IT'S TRUE.)

(although it doesn't seem to be the frozen food plants that smell of fish themselves - they smell of frozen food breadcrumb coating every time I drive past.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

if anything this thread is a big egg on my face.

now everybody knows there are at least several words i can't consistantly spell right.

'Ticked'.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"consistantly"

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

that ticked you had booked 'swell 'icked, dude! ;)

('s xposted)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

fewer friends.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

feel like excrement.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

What's wrong with shit?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry. I mean "What's wrong with 'shit'?"

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It'a 14th century colloquialism. It's younger than 'whilst'.

Had to check the spelling of 'colloquialism' there.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

you people are giving me a complex about posting.

everytime i post i spell something incrocettly.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

oi don't you fret, fellah. i'm 'bit unalphab(ath)etic myself :)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

is it too late to pretend engrish is my second language?

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

it is never ever late to pretend (
that your grand-grandparents where on the other side during the october revolution and the civil war)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 8 November 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 November 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

exactly wot i was going to say. might have added a bit more ty ui opüõ, tho.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 8 November 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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