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Bill Wright wrote:

They were largely dishevelled, unshaven, spotty, and dressed the way
people in the fifties used to dress their adult mentally-handicapped
sons.

Autism, they call it. I think trainspotters are all some way along the
autistic spectrum.

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SteveT

TOT as usual: train spotters
 

On 10/12/2011 15:14, Brian Gaff, probably.. wrote:

Surely this has to be some kind of illness?

Mind you I think most people do go through a phase like that. Its just
unfortunate if they alight on something a bit strange to categorise and
study.

With me when I was young it was radio valves and later on transistors.
Brian


With me, it was searching for line-input/output sockets on the back of
music centres, or finding Dolby, and expressing dismay if either had
been missed. I don't know what that was about - but I still have the
occasional peek nowadays...

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Adrian C

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In message , Stephen
Wolstenholme wrote
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:28:40 +0000, Alan
wrote:

The real sad cases are those who turn up with plastic funnels and empty
pop bottles at beer festivals and those who post endlessly to virtually
dead Usenet groups and mailing lists documenting all the beers they've
"tasted" in previous week.

How can a group be virtually dead if some people are posting endlessly
to them?


Groups that used to have many people posting to them but now are the
sole preserve of one or two beer tickers who just posts lists of beer
and scores.

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Alan
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On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:14:12 -0000, Brian Gaff, probably..
wrote:

Do you know there are even people who look at rotting wrecks of trans, or
locomotives and look carefully at rivets, apparently enthralled by the
different types?
Surely this has to be some kind of illness?

Mind you I think most people do go through a phase like that. Its just
unfortunate if they alight on something a bit strange to categorise and
study.

With me when I was young it was radio valves and later on transistors.

And now it's developed into posting pointless boring messages on Usenet.

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Martin wrote:

If you arrive by car there are lifts that avoid you having to use the
stairs.

Oh yes the problem was the stairs at the station.


You appear to have missed small kids screaming "I want I want" Thomas
the Tank Engine stuff in the souvenir shop

There are two Thomas the Money Grabber rides. I put coins into both.

Bill

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Brian Gaff wrote:
I've never seen them myself but I do recall some years back a Police
spokesperson for a very nasty set of attacks on trains thanking the
trainspotting fraternity for being so observant and these reports of a
person being instrumental in catching a very elusive individual so they are
not totally useless, just perhaps a little bit odd.
There are unfortunately similar people about who spot aircraft you know.

Brian

There are even some sad *******s who go round aerial spotting.

Bill

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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
...
I've never seen them myself but I do recall some years back a Police
spokesperson for a very nasty set of attacks on trains thanking the
trainspotting fraternity for being so observant and these reports of a
person being instrumental in catching a very elusive individual so they
are not totally useless, just perhaps a little bit odd.
There are unfortunately similar people about who spot aircraft you know.

Yes they hang around airports with binoculars, cameras, airband radios etc.

Every so often the Special Branch or Anti-Terrorist section get an alert
that Al Qeda are spying on airports and / or have a SAM-7 missile and all
these suckers get arrested and spend a few days in the nick explaining what
they were doing.

Sometimes they fly abroad and do the same thing, but the results can be much
worse: -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/.../...ace-jail-india
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...reek-jail.html
etc.

OTOH if this your bag then at least in Manchester you can do it in some
comfort
http://www.theairporthotel.com/
which has a beer garden with an unobstructed view of the touchdown zone on
the right runway (used for landing).


Brian

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"Steve Thackery" wrote in message
...

Bill Wright wrote:

They were largely dishevelled, unshaven, spotty, and dressed the way
people in the fifties used to dress their adult mentally-handicapped sons.

Autism, they call it. I think trainspotters are all some way along the
autistic spectrum.

--
SteveT


Aren't we all?

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The problem with dolby was its non linearity, dbx was far better but of
course the raw recordings played without it sounded a lot worse.
Brian

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"Adrian C" wrote in message
...
On 10/12/2011 15:14, Brian Gaff, probably.. wrote:

Surely this has to be some kind of illness?

Mind you I think most people do go through a phase like that. Its just
unfortunate if they alight on something a bit strange to categorise and
study.

With me when I was young it was radio valves and later on transistors.
Brian


With me, it was searching for line-input/output sockets on the back of
music centres, or finding Dolby, and expressing dismay if either had been
missed. I don't know what that was about - but I still have the
occasional peek nowadays...

--
Adrian C

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On 11/12/2011 09:56, Martin wrote:

and the guy on TV on The One Show this week who had eaten a meat pie
in 96 football grounds in one year.

There are folk who do the ground hopping and deem a ground to be visited
if a match is watched. The pie and tea/bovil are additions to the
match-day experience. By just nabbing a quick pie and scarpering you
could do more grounds in a day...

--
Phil Cook