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  1. Deafening Silence

    Deafening Silence Well-Known Member

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    Currently sat on the 13:02 EMR service from St Pancras to Sheffield.

    There’s a very strange man with a Yorkshire accent listening to Ulster Unionist/Glasgow Rangers marching songs at full volume, drumming the table and singing along.

    Everyone is too polite to say anything and frankly I’m just bemused. I don’t use the train that often but is this normal behaviour?
     
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    Ask him for his BBS username....
     
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    I think he’s got the head coach job…
     
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    Is it @granty the red?
     
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    It isn’t, he doesn’t have his megaphone.
     
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    I'm a regular train user and recently it seems to be the accepted norm for passengers to use their mobiles without headphones - everyday there's some muppet watching tik-tok videos or facetime-ing on full volume without any due consideration for other passengers.

    For reference, Saturday - unfortunately - was the main marching day in Glasgow so he's probably watching the "highlights" from that. 30 Glasgow streets were closed for 62 Orange Lodges from all parts of the city to converge on the Green. Don't get me started.
     
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    Update: the guy is talking to his dog and is definitely a Barnsley inhabitant. Think I will wait for the next train from Sheffield so I don’t end up hearing songs about the IRA being sang on the train…
     
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    It's not that Adolf bloke on his way to his interview at Grove Street is it?
     
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    No, turns out he’s a Barnsley Owl… he’s humming Hi-Ho Sheffield Wednesday now…
     
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    How very very sad.
    If ever there was a case for drowning at birth.
    In 2023 there is absolutely no need for it.
    And the same goes for the catholic mob and their parades.
    Scotland’s Shame.
     
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