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Now that's what I call a train. A type 37 if I'm not mistaken ( and I'm not cos I checked on wikipedia :p ) which makes it at least 47 years old :cool: .

I fucking love diesels. I wanted to go to the Diesel weekend on the East Lancs Railway but was working. Still got to ride on a great big stinking diesel train on the return journey when we did visit though - far better than the silly steam engine on the journey out.

Steam engines are history and should all be melted down and the metal used to restart production of the Deltic.
 
I was just looking through old pics from my blog (woo, it's Friday night, let's PARTY!!!) and found this one which made me snigger four years on. It is from Stranraer in Scotland- the one shop that was open had faded brand named products artfully arranged very carefully in its window in little displays of 'fuck me, it's Heinz ketchup! like it was about 1945.
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Fantastic - someone described a similar shop in Blaenau Ffestiniog with a 3 high pyramid of oranges and a several stacks of tinned beans - he described it as the ultimate example of "retail despair" ...mind you - this was in 1970 or so.
 
Fantastic - someone described a similar shop in Blaenau Ffestiniog with a 3 high pyramid of oranges and a several stacks of tinned beans - he described it as the ultimate example of "retail despair" ...mind you - this was in 1970 or so.
It is a wonderful thing to find nowadays but probably a shit experience for the car-less local who has to purchase items from the past at prices from the future.
 
They were very leafy ginnels
Unfortunately, my camera seems faulty. Or I'm a shit iPhone photographer as loads of light is leaking into them.
 
Ginnels to me are more austere affairs, with none of the leafy nonsense. Ideally cobbled, with high-ish brick walls on either side topped with broken glass embedded into concrete, just to give you that nice rat-trapped-in-a-maze feeling. Strewn with chip papers, litter and various other undesirable items makes for extra points, an abandoned settee or fridge gets 100 bonus points, and a body 10,000. :cool:
 
It's a West Yorkshire word I think. I'd never heard it until I met my ex (from Halifax).

That would explain it - those odd folks from West Yorkshire! :D

That'll be why it sounded vaguely familiar, and that I'd just forgotten in in the last 15+ years since I left Leeds.
 
Yeah, I know what a sneck is, but snicket is not something I think I ever used. Or at least that I remember.

at work we cry 'Take the sneck off would you?' to people passing through a staff only door close to 5pm
my standard response to this is 'No! You sneck off!'


In my mind a snicket should be surround you with lots of foliage, bushes or trees - I think this is because my brain goes snicket
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thicket because they sound alike
 
at work we cry 'Take the sneck off would you?' to people passing through a staff only door close to 5pm
my standard response to this is 'No! You sneck off!'


In my mind a snicket should be surround you with lots of foliage, bushes or trees - I think this is because my brain goes snicket
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thicket because they sound alike

I'm the same with snicket - it just reminds me of trees.
 
Just ginnels in Leeds. Never heard of sneck and snicket is the pseudonymous name of a children's author as far as I am concerned
 
The ginnels are in Adel, which is a posh, leafy bit of Leeds.
I grew up in slightly less leafy but not particularly blighted parts of Leeds and they were mostly not as litter-strewn and menacing as farmerbarleymow portrays from his experience.
To me, a scary ginnel is an alleyway!
Like in that London.
 
The ginnels are in Adel, which is a posh, leafy bit of Leeds.
I grew up in slightly less leafy but not particularly blighted parts of Leeds and they were mostly not as litter-strewn and menacing as farmerbarleymow portrays from his experience.
To me, a scary ginnel is an alleyway!
Like in that London.

I suspected they might be up that neck of the woods. I.e. one of the posh parts of Leeds. La-di-da OU! :p
 
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