Saftey First

F R E A K ! !

 

That wouldn't happen with the old style gates.

 

They do sing but long welded doesn't do it as much as 60' jointed.

 

Ha. Incidentally, are "up" and "down" used in the same sense as, towards the
capital is "up" and away is "down", or is it all a bit more arbitrary?

 

I think anyone who had experienced the Somme or Verdun might disagree. And
dying in a ditch is dying in a ditch, whether you've got a gutful of
shrapnel or are having a stupid argument by the coffee machine.

 

Really? Try telling that to the smartarse lad I went to school
with..he died, btw.

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Remember being in scouts where we were managing ourselves with points to
reach, crossing a railway track after the farmer said repeatedly it was
no longer in use. Intercity 125 came round the corner and by the time we
saw it half went over the bridge to the right into the sludge below, I
went to the left and one guy got caught in the rails, or basically fell
and then panicked at the weight of his rucksack. They really do come out
of fucking nowhere with no noise, took the driver about a 600 yards to
slow down whilst blearing his horn after he had passed us. Then we
fucked off. The guy who got trapped on the rails got a boner when we
were treating his leg as it swelled up and left the course early when
the ambulance arrived later.

Fucking farmers are cunts was my mental state from then on, imagine
"Stand by Me" but over 5 minutes on British railways and an evil farmer.

 

Yes. As detailed in Ramachandran's Phantom's in the brain.

http://www.thymos.com/mind/ramachan.html

 

I laughed so much it brought tears to my eyes you utter idiot, that really
hurt. Thanks Ginge.

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Agreed, could we also consider cruisers?

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It all depends on how long it takes my nervous systems to readjust. I walk
about five miles a day and just try to switch off the pain. Despite having
packs of Tramol and something that looks like "Idasiqe" *1 as well as the
option of abdomen shots of morphine I have decided against it. My thinking
is that if I can bear the pain my body will adjust more quickly. It seems to
be working, I am now feeling bits where they should be and the sick dull
ache is fading. When I do get severe pain I just lie down and breathe
deeply, it seems to work, however, I do admit to taking two paracetamol
tablets sometimes though.







*1 a derivative of morphine apparently?


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I'll take a picture for you if you like.
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~18 and very drunk I decided not to wait at the flashing lights and
vaulted the barrier. The train horn certainly sobered me up, not sure
how close the miss was but closer than I'd have liked.

 

So you're saying he was trapped between the old fashioned traditional
white /gates/ with the red circles as opposed to barriers? It's an
important distinction.

For clarity barriers go up and down gates swing across the track.

 

Generally, yes but as you would expect of something built by the
Victorians there are some quite odd exceptions here and there.

 

Coo. I've learned something else today.

OK, if you're in an info-sharing mood.......

How far can you hear a train coming, if you put your ear to the
rail,Tonto-style? I've always wondered.

 

Spandau. Think Hess.[/QUOTE]

Ah. Light dawns.

 

There's a crossing in Raynes Park where I've often seen people do that.
Silly b'stards.

 

They're not. And you have snipped the point I made, which is that
combatants were usually in the field, or at any rate away from home, for
far longer. How long was a tour of duty in Vietnam? I've no idea how
long a Soviet squaddie would serve in Afghanistan before being rotated
out.

I'm *not*.

I quite agree.

 

I'm not thinking of individual actions. I'm thinking of time spent away,
fighting.

Absolutely. Except that we wound up with Stalin on the "good" side.