Well, I wont get too personal, but you smack of being pompous and arrogant.
Pompous and arrogant?Well, I wont get too personal, but you smack of being pompous and arrogant.
Lets both agree to keep our own counsel
I use carrier pigeon to a fellow fan at Whitby who then uses his new technological amstrad thingymajig to write what is on the note attached to the pigeons leg on here. The pigeon has a fair few miles on the clock though and gets lost in thunderstorms. I may need to upgrade to the new fangled pony express I suppose, but I am hearing good things about the GPO’s new telegram service too, decisions, decisionsLets have a survey of who accesses this site using their "mobile devices" ?
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I cant and I`m certain others cant either.
It's best part of 6 days now! But the answer is a power bank. I fully charged my phone, watch and power bank before setting off at 6am on the Wednesday and then put phone and watch on charge from the power bank in my tent each night. The power bank ran out on Sunday morning but my phone was fully charged at that point and lasted until we set off back on Monday morning, at which point I could charge it again.
I get mine picked up and dropped off by the travelling post officeI use carrier pigeon to a fellow fan at Whitby who then uses his new technological amstrad thingymajig to write what is on the note attached to the pigeons leg on here. The pigeon has a fair few miles on the clock though and gets lost in thunderstorms. I may need to upgrade to the new fangled pony express I suppose, but I am hearing good things about the GPO’s new telegram service too, decisions, decisions
So instead of carrying a card, you need a phone and a power bank and hope that they both last.
Be another 6 month before anyone on CEEFAX finds outI use carrier pigeon to a fellow fan at Whitby who then uses his new technological amstrad thingymajig to write what is on the note attached to the pigeons leg on here. The pigeon has a fair few miles on the clock though and gets lost in thunderstorms. I may need to upgrade to the new fangled pony express I suppose, but I am hearing good things about the GPO’s new telegram service too, decisions, decisions
50? Assuming he is in his late fifties or early 60s then, I genuinely struggle to understand how someone of that age group can function well without any of those things. Not doubting your post in any way but I feel like he is missing out a bit. What does he do for work?
If you forget your card currently it's easy to get a printed ticket from the ticket office.
Obviously people can have whatever phone they want, but I'm not actually sure if there is anything admirable about it as such. A smartphone is just a phone with easy internet access, not as if Roofie has shunned the internet entirely (28,500+ posts on here and counting).
I would counter that. I've had a few paper based tickets faill. Now that's slow. Plus more and more people are paying for the tube on their watch. Now THAT'S quick
In fairness, a large proportion of trains now have USB charging points. Some of them even have wireless chargers on the table itself (ok thats only the fancy new ones and you need a newish smartphone for it to work) but your phone battery dying isn't half as bad as losing your actual ticket (which wasn't exactly impossible before the advent of digital tickets). Conductors would invariably make you buy a new one, which to London now at rush hour for me (on the day) is in excess of £200 one way. At least now you can ask someone to borrow a charger (if you don't carry one yourself, which I do, for various devices not just for my ticket).
These are pretty good.
I wasn't talking about paper tickets or watches. I was (as I have explained more than once) replying to a specific point about 'phones being quicker than cards. They aren't. You get your card out. You place it on the reader. You are through. You get your 'phone out. You fiddle around with it a bit. You place it on the reader. You are through. That's at best just as quick, but often slower. As observed on an almost daily basis.
TBF once you know what you're doing and if you have it set up correctly its simply a case of getting it out and pressing one button, no fiddling whatsoever. Appreciate maybe not every is/has though.
