The Hallucinating Goose

A new railway station has been opened in the village of Bow Street, a few miles outside of Aberystwyth. Always good to see new rail infrastructure! Any new stations or lines opening up near anyone on here? Obviously I'm not directing that question at Leigh fans. The line we want reopened round here is Beverley to York but the latest studies show there is basically no way that is happening. Shame because the trains between Hull and York would probably be so much quicker going that way than the way they go now. I'd also like to see Beverley to Hornsea because that road between those places is absolute hell quite frankly, crashes on almost a daily basis. Trains between Hull and Hornsea would be fantastic.

No one cares, it's just an observation.

I certainly do have these suspicions quite often. I also notice how the chasers seem to be a bit off their game on celebrity editions but slaughter ordinary contestants. Also I can't help noticing how the jackpot is won almost everytime on celebrity quiz shows.

How many films have been made about earth destroying comets or asteroids? I can think of 3 off the top of my head. The one mentioned above, Armaggedon and Deep Impact. You'd think Hollywood would think it had been done now. What gets me about the latter two as well is they came out within just a couple of years of each other. Did someone in Hollywood not look across the street at some point and go, "that lot seem to be making the same film we are".

I've had a good afternoon of films today, working my way through iplayer, I've watched, 12 Monkeys, first time I've seen it in about 10 years, still brilliant, love Terry Gilliam as a director. The Conversation, also not seen for ages, didn't enjoy it quite as much as in the past, still very good, seemed even more bleak and miserable this time than it did before. Nightcrawler, second time I've seen it, absolutely amazing film, so dark, even more creepy this time than the first, Jake Gyllenhaal is scary in it, such a psychotic character, really great performance. Tomorrow I may be going for Cat People 1 & 2 and the Hitchcock classic Suspicion.

Noticed that myself.

Forgot I started this thread. Thought I'd share this horrible story with the group. 100 ducks have been shot up at the top end of the River Hull near Driffield, many are dead, many many more injured. The story suggests it was done purely for pleasure and amusement and nothing else. Absolutely disgusting behaviour, absolute b@stards whoever has done it, they need f***ing shooting!

Just had a little nosey through that website, looks like they've got some good stuff on there, think I'll give the 15 part history of Britain documentary a go.

He is a goalkeeper, 43 years young apparently, I thought he had retired years ago but apparently he's still been playing.

Apparently Roy Carroll is going to play his first game for Dungannon Swifts tomorrow. He played for Hull in the mid-90s, how is he still playing??

Woops, quoted myself, the edit button seems to have moved! Edit. Did it again!!

I would say the benefits of the knowledge we have accumulated in the name of science far outweighs the number of creatures that have died for it. We have at least gained something from this. Personally, my anger would be directed at those people who kill animals for sport and enjoyment, those who kill simply to collect species and display them and especially those that kill for profit, I am of course talking of poachers here. I get massively upset at animal cruelty where an animal is kept alive because then it has to suffer. At least an animal that is killed does not have to suffer, although this still isn't an excuse for killing it simply for pleasure or financial gain. Going slightly off topic, this is why the thing that upsets me the most in the world is any kind of sustained abuse, mental, physical or sexual because the person that has endured it has to live with it whereas at least someone that is murdered does not have to suffer. Again, doesn't make murder any less horrible. And this leads to why I will never support a death penalty because the person put to death does not have to experience any kind of punishment if you get my meaning, because they will not be aware of the fact they are dead, yet spending the rest of their life in solitary confinement or something would be a much stronger, sustained punishment that they have to endure. Anyway, that's a debate for another time.

Yeah I've heard that's good. I've always liked Carey Mulligan ever since I saw her in the crime film 'Drive', one of my favourites of that genre.

The medieval one is the only one I've read though I am planning on reading the others. The medieval one is one of my favourite books, absolutely fascinating.

As soon as I wrote that I thought, I bet said person was cremated. Yep, you can do that yourself I'm sure!

If you need help carrying the coffin into court your friends on here will be happy to help!

Shame, might have been able to work out the model from the airline, was kind of hoping it would have been one of the budget airlines because they only tend to fly one model of plane rather than a mixed fleet.

Do you remember what airline it was?

Must say I've thought the same thing, surely advertisers have got a bit of a captive audience at the moment, perfect opportunity to sell some unnecessary, mass-produced, capitalist goods!

I'll look into it, not been to Speyer, been to Heidelberg just across the river and got some friends up in Essen so could always meet them down there. I've been in the cockpit of a 707 at the Scottish Museum of Flight at East Fortune. Some very interesting planes there, especially some gorgeous de Havillands such as an early Comet, a vampire and if I remember rightly a Dragon and a Dove. There's also a Vickers Viscount there, a favourite of any civil aviation enthusiast and of course a Concorde which you can go on board and walk through. I do enjoy telling people I've been on Concorde, they don't need to know it was sat in a hangar! There's also a fantastic hangar of planes at the Belgian military museum in Brussels, mostly fighters but they do have an Aerospatiale Caravelle hanging from the ceiling. Opposite that museum is a motor museum which has some brilliant cars and bikes as well. Shame the rest of Brussels is a toilet.

Bet he thought the train would swerve first.

Fair enough, I'll look into it.

I'd like to go to Belgrade but not sure about Serbian trains I must say.

I've looked at the same journey but as you say, you get messed around so much. The way I'd worked it out was, Hull to London, London to Paris, Paris to Munich, Munich to Vienna, Vienna to Budapest, Budapest to Bucharest and finally Bucharest to Istanbul. If I remember rightly, everything after Paris is night trains and apparently the Eastern European ones are pretty manky but it saves on a hotel booking so there is that positive. Also the trains into Istanbul don't go right into the centre of the city anymore and actually stop at a small suburban station right on the edge of the city and you have to get a bus transfer into the centre which is yet more messing around. Its hard enough to get from the new airport into the city at the moment seen as it hasn't been fully connected up to the metro yet so I don't need to bd messed around on the trains as well. Istanbul is somewhere I am yet to go to and I really would love to.