TOT as usual: train spotters
 

On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:15:37 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

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

I'm a bit like that. Why on Earth does she need such a huge array next
door but two? I think it was the digital aerial rip off!

Steve
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TOT as usual: train spotters
 

In article , Brian Gaff,
probably.. scribeth thus
I used to take pictures of tv masts and even foreign test cards as well.
Still have the latter actually.
What kind of spotter does that make me?

Boringly normal;!....


Brian


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Doctor D wrote:


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

Aren't we all?

I think all males are to a degree. Of course the most popular male obsession
is football.



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"Martin" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:28:40 +0000, Alan
wrote:

In message , 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.


And there are the beer tickers who have an obsession with "ticking off"
all the real ales brewed in the UK despite some breweries cynically
renaming their beers each week just for those who want something
different each time they visit a pub.

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.

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

It must have been a very large meat pie.

--
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:29:16 +0000, Mark Carver
wrote:

Doctor D wrote:


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

Aren't we all?

I think all males are to a degree. Of course the most popular male obsession
is football.

Joking aside, one of my young relatives suffered from a quite serious
form of autism but was an ace footballer.

Steve

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Martin wrote:

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.

Us too. At the Yorkshire Air Museum he wanted to spend all his time in
the simulator.

We have to remember that the child's idea of what is great fun often
doesn't fit in with what we have provided, at great expense and
inconvenience! You know the situation. You take then 100 miles to see
something fantastic and when you ask them about the trip afterwards all
they say is, "We played hide and seek in the bushes behind the toilets."

Bill

TOT as usual: train spotters
 

Bill Wright wrote:

Martin wrote:

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.

Us too. At the Yorkshire Air Museum he wanted to spend all his time
in the simulator.

We have to remember that the child's idea of what is great fun often
doesn't fit in with what we have provided, at great expense and
inconvenience! You know the situation. You take then 100 miles to see
something fantastic and when you ask them about the trip afterwards
all they say is, "We played hide and seek in the bushes behind the
toilets."

... in the same way they prefer to make dens from the carboard boxes at
christmas rather than play with what they contained!

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TOT as usual: train spotters
 

"Paul - xxx" wrote in message
...
Bill Wright wrote:

Martin wrote:

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.

Us too. At the Yorkshire Air Museum he wanted to spend all
his time
in the simulator.

We have to remember that the child's idea of what is great fun
often
doesn't fit in with what we have provided, at great expense
and
inconvenience! You know the situation. You take then 100 miles
to see
something fantastic and when you ask them about the trip
afterwards
all they say is, "We played hide and seek in the bushes behind
the
toilets."

.. in the same way they prefer to make dens from the carboard
boxes at
christmas rather than play with what they contained!

--


Oh how true that was!


--
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harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

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On 10/12/2011 09:36, Martin wrote:
You appear to have missed small kids screaming "I want I want" Thomas
the Tank Engine stuff in the souvenir shop

Been there.

My wife went off somewhere and left me with the kids by the model set.
Came back a bit later to find them screaming. What's the matter? What
had I done? I'd taken them away from the nice trains, that was what...

Better trained (!) than to do it in the shop though.

Andy

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Paul - xxx wrote:


.. in the same way they prefer to make dens from the carboard boxes at
christmas rather than play with what they contained!

That's called 'found toys' I think.

Bill