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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Engineering works in the Edinburgh area I think. It wouldn’t even let me book an open return in November though.
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Comrade Fakename posted:I've been trying to book a train up to Edinburgh for my annual journey to visit family friends over Christmas - usually I get an open return so I have some flexibility getting back but it seems that it is now impossible to get open returns there any more? Any day or time I try come up blank. Anyone know what's going on with this?
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Comrade Fakename posted:It wouldn’t even let me book an open return in November though. What train operator(s) do you use, maybe there's other works going on affecting part of the route? Aargh why can't I stop myself from going on Twitter. My blood pressure is sky high reading the hasbara bollox. Writing (and NOT pressing send) on so many tweets.
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Comrade Fakename posted:It wouldn’t even let me book an open return in November though. This website seems to let you choose an open return? I havent seen it through to completion mind. https://www.mytrainpal.com/train-ti...%3A25%3A07.975Z
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I'm using the LNER site - unfortunately that mytrainpal site doesn't include the specific train I need to take out. E: tbh I'm not really expecting a solution to this, I just wondered if this was just a weird one-off thing or if as an artifact of our collapsing infrastructure you now permanently couldn't get open returns there.
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Tesseraction posted:This is ranging dangerously close to Gundam 00 territory. Iron Blooded Orphans surely?
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serious gaylord posted:Iron Blooded Orphans surely? The protagonist is a Kurdish child soldier and the primary antagonist is a (cynical) Islamist.
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But yes I got your joke about primarily targeting of children.
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I'm a bit of a whisk(e)y snob but i loving love Jameson. You can get it in any bar and in most of them it doesn't break the bank. You can drink it neat like it's beer and on ice like it's Ribena, because it has just enough flavour for you to realize that it's whiskey. My favourite Christmas Day drink is an Irish Carbomb (shot glass filled half and half with Jameson and Bailey's and depth charged into just-less-than-a-pint of Guinness). Every time I've been blackout, Withnail and I-style drunk it's been on Jameson. I'm 2 doubles deep in a freshly-cracked litre of Jameson as I write this post. When I die they'll probably find Jameson on my tox report
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Wachter posted:My favourite Christmas Day drink is an Irish Carbomb 
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Nov 29, 2023 20:53
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Caol Isla, cask strength where possible, or Ardbeg. I am no longer into the things that try to throw peat at you like it's a competition - basic Laphroaig or Quarter Cask, basic Bowmore.
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Nov 29, 2023 20:57
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Jack Daniels is probably the best wiski
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Wachter posted:My favourite Christmas Day drink is an Irish Carbomb jesus christ i'm going to be generous and assume you're american
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Tesseraction posted:The protagonist is a Kurdish child soldier and the primary antagonist is a (cynical) Islamist. Well, more precisely, he's a career mercenary who did contract work with an Islamist faction during a very traumatic period of the protagonist's life. No ideology or long-term affiliation of his own beyond 'killing people for money is cool and fun'.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:wiski
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TACD posted:Honestly if I were you I'd just fly, it's bound to be cheaper, quicker, and less likely to get cancelled. Yeah, if you have to get there and back, you're honestly safer flying. Keeping the air open is taken seriously in a way that keeping the trains running just isn't. Getting a train over Xmas is just asking for an 8 hour, unexplained delay, while you sit in some lovely situation with the worst hangover ever, just waiting for the train to move.
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Wachter posted:My favourite Christmas Day drink is an Irish Carbomb Given we have lots of Irish posters ITT I would request not calling it something you wouldn't call it actually in Ireland, please.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, if you have to get there and back, you're honestly safer flying.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, if you have to get there and back, you're honestly safer flying. Keeping the air open is taken seriously in a way that keeping the trains running just isn't. Getting a train over Xmas is just asking for an 8 hour, unexplained delay, while you sit in some lovely situation with the worst hangover ever, just waiting for the train to move. Flying is also cheaper lol
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I would drive Actually I wouldn't go.
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Wachter posted:My favourite Christmas Day drink is an Irish Carbomb Who the gently caress called it that, when Buda’s (Paddy) Wagon was right there. Yes I know, just as offensive.
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crispix posted:jesus christ
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Wachter posted:I'm a bit of a whisk(e)y snob but i loving love Jameson. You can get it in any bar and in most of them it doesn't break the bank. You can drink it neat like it's beer and on ice like it's Ribena, because it has just enough flavour for you to realize that it's whiskey. My favourite Christmas Day drink is an Irish Carbomb (shot glass filled half and half with Jameson and Bailey's and depth charged into just-less-than-a-pint of Guinness). Every time I've been blackout, Withnail and I-style drunk it's been on Jameson. I'm 2 doubles deep in a freshly-cracked litre of Jameson as I write this post. When I die they'll probably find Jameson on my tox report Sounds like you have a healthy relationship with alcohol and also with the Irish
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Wachter posted:... an Irish Carbomb ... And then i punched him your Honour... 
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Caol Isla, cask strength where possible, or Ardbeg. Laphroaig is what I referred to in my drinking days as a "punishment whisky".
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frytechnician posted:Laphroaig is what I referred to in my drinking days as a "punishment whisky".  There's dumb meme peat whiskys, but Laphroaig is one of my favorites. My favorite Scotches, though, have been from this place (since closed) that I happened upon a number of years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ewe_distillery The guy that ran it was a real one.
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frytechnician posted:Laphroaig is what I referred to in my drinking days as a "punishment whisky". It's an acquired taste but if you do acquire it then it is delicious, especially for a bottle you can find almost everywhere that doesn't break the bank
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what's the cheapest whisky that's my favourite, or well, would be if i drank whisky
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it all tastes nice with coke coca cola that is you reprobates
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Wachter posted:My favourite Christmas Day drink is an Irish Carbomb  I've never actually seen anyone call it that in non-American spaces before.
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my favourite drink is called the columbine but it's just a bunch of shots
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OwlFancier posted:Given we have lots of Irish posters ITT I would request not calling it something you wouldn't call it actually in Ireland, please. down our way we call it a Mountbatten's Surprise
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Comrade Fakename posted:I'm using the LNER site - unfortunately that mytrainpal site doesn't include the specific train I need to take out. Seems it may be implementing something they talked about in February. I haven't dug further than this, but I had a look at a return fare from Newport to London but no returns available. https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/rail-fares-return-train-ticket-b2276510.html quote:At last: some good news on the railway. According to a briefing provided by the Department for Transport to the Telegraph, return train fares are to be scrapped in favour of simplified “single-leg” pricing. And this one specifically mentions LNER https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/return-train-tickets-to-be-scrapped-on-some-routes-will-it-save-you-money-asVBC1d2k7Pn
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Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, if you have to get there and back, you're honestly safer flying. Keeping the air open is taken seriously in a way that keeping the trains running just isn't. Getting a train over Xmas is just asking for an 8 hour, unexplained delay, while you sit in some lovely situation with the worst hangover ever, just waiting for the train to move. And this is why plane prices should be raised to subsidise lower train prices.
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Wachter posted:I'm a bit of a whisk(e)y snob but i loving love Jameson. You can get it in any bar and in most of them it doesn't break the bank. You can drink it neat like it's beer and on ice like it's Ribena, because it has just enough flavour for you to realize that it's whiskey. My favourite Christmas Day drink is an Irish Carbomb (shot glass filled half and half with Jameson and Bailey's and depth charged into just-less-than-a-pint of Guinness). Every time I've been blackout, Withnail and I-style drunk it's been on Jameson. I'm 2 doubles deep in a freshly-cracked litre of Jameson as I write this post. When I die they'll probably find Jameson on my tox report This was a terrible, dogshit post. No excuse. Sorry everyone.
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OwlFancier posted:Given we have lots of Irish posters ITT I would request not calling it something you wouldn't call it actually in Ireland, please. Amazingly enough* I have heard of this cocktail before. I have even seen pubs have it on their list of drinks. I mean, humour wise it's dark as gently caress**, and there is an edge to it, but I think you would be able to order one of these in Ireland and not immediately get the crap kicked out of you by the locals. Now this has come in a week where a retro Podcast by two English hosts I quite like dropped a real clanger by using the phrase "throwing a Paddy" in reference to someone having a sulk. That one, I'd feel offended by more than the edgy name of a drink. But different horses*** and all that. * = Amazing since I'm a non drinker. **= Much like this drink. Hi-oh! ***= Now I'm off to invent my own cocktail. I'm going to call it Shergar's Last Drink.
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Wachter posted:This was a terrible, dogshit post. No excuse. Sorry everyone. Its easily done. Theres a lot going on and stuff you don't consider the significance of until someone points it out. And you've handled it in exactly the right way. imho its a shame though, a doubling down no holds barred slap out fight would be more fun.
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My whole family used to say that growing up and I still have to occasionally bite it back after learning what it actually meant.
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