Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Nick Armstrong]

Guys... Losing the will to live here....

[ahinton]

Guys... Losing the will to live here.

Then to where are you wishing to relocate? And will you be enlisting the assistance of those virtuoso purveyors of Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge Kirstie Allsopp and Sarah Beeny in so doing?...

[Nick Armstrong]

Then to where are you wishing to relocate? And will you be enlisting the assistance of those virtuoso purveyors of Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge in so doing?...

Rephrasing that then: I'm losing the will to live, here.

[ahinton]

Rephrasing that then: I'm losing the will to live, here.

Sorry - I carelessly omitted "Kirstie Allsopp and Sarah Beeny" from the above post #1187 (see correction) - but we cannot have you losing the will to live Monsieur Caliban! That will never do!

Stop drinking that

and you'll almost certainly find that will will return!

But just in case that doesn't quite do the trick, it's ISIHAC to the rescue, with the immortal phrase
Q. "And what do points mean?"
A. "Breaks in train lines!"
...or Caténaires, as immortalised by Elliott Carter...

[Don Petter]

Rephrasing that then: I'm losing the will to live, here.

Once we get this track properly constructed, you'll be able to catch a train to somewhere else (other than the extreme West).

[Nick Armstrong]

Once we get this track properly constructed, you'll be able to catch a train to somewhere else

Makes me think of the classic line from 'Alan Partridge' - "Catch the train to London, stopping at Rejection, Disappointment, Backstabbing Central and Shattered Dreams Parkway".... Rather Bunyan-esque I always think.

Anyway, that and the fact that it's almost the weekend has enabled me to regain the will to live, happily

[Flosshilde]

If the train came off the rails (which its wheels run in direct contact with) it would not run too successfully on the other components of the track.

So demonstrating the socialist principle behind railways - that united we stand, divided we fall - & proving that the railway should be nationalised.

[Don Petter]

So demonstrating the socialist principle behind railways - that united we stand, divided we fall - & proving that the railway should be nationalised.

Presumably the Falangists would be best at preventing the train coming off the rails?

[gradus]

Kirsty-Philish, as in ' ......... also has to find a 'crash pad' for £350 'grand', not easy in today's market.'
Old targets and probably mentioned before but the weather is so p***poor that I needed a whinge.

[Ferretfancy]

My pet hate at the moment is "technology", an honourable word which as far as the newspapers and Ceefax are concerned simply means mobile phones.

[ahinton]

So demonstrating the socialist principle behind railways - that united we stand, divided we fall - & proving that the railway should be nationalised.

How do you work that out? Train services are public transport, of course, but no more so than planes, taxis, coaches, buses et al; do you believe that, purely beause they are all public services, they are somehow representative of the notion of "united we stand (especially on overcrowded rush hour trains), divided we fall" and therey of "socialist principles" and, if so, would that suggest to you that all public transport services should be owned and run by governments and funded by taxpayers as well as fare payers?

[jean]

...all public transport services should be owned and run by governments and funded by taxpayers as well as fare payers...

Make that instead of.

[ahinton]

Make that instead of.

Do that and they'll all close down before you can say knife! Can you imagine just how much additional tax revenue it would take fully to fund the amounts currently paid in fares to all public transport service providers for everything from a humble short bus journey to a first class ticket from London to Auckland?!

[Flosshilde]

all public transport services should be owned and run by governments and funded by taxpayers as well as fare payers?

They already are. In fact under privatisation railway services get more public funding than when they were publicly owned.

But this thread is in danger of becoming political & therefore at risk of being shunted off to a siding.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Strictly speaking ... "Train" refers to the string of locomotive(s) and/or carriages/wagons which comprises a railway service.

Sir Velo: WRONNNNNG!!!!

Strictly speaking (even more strictly speaking?) the train is the bit (coaches, wagons) that follows behind the locomotive, but certainly not including the locomotive, by analogy with the way a Victorian lady's train followed behind the lady!