[08:20] morning boys and girls. [08:20] morning [08:20] I hope the weekend was good and long for everybody as it was me [08:28] morning [08:29] variable, good and bad. [15:45] bit quiet in here today [15:49] * diddledan sounds the sirens [15:49] what are they normally designed to alert to? [15:49] I think it's a warning about tsunamis? [15:51] are you not worried about causing panic? [15:52] so it isnt a politician sprouting crap siren? [15:53] I weighed up the pros and cons, and decided what the heck [15:53] :) [15:54] I mean, you only live once, and if you haven't caused mass casualties from stampedes at least once then it's a bit of a wasted life... [15:56] of course, for best effect you want to get all the people near water to rush inland to escape the faux tsunami while at the same time raising alarm about a nuclear bomb en route targetting the inland area they're rushing towards [18:53] wth did the format of rail tickets change? [18:55] because all the software people had written to handle them was complete? :-) [18:56] they've been the same format for decades! [18:56] they've changed? [18:56] yeah, they had to go in that case... [18:57] harder to forge? [18:57] or.. easier to forge? [18:57] it's the train equivalent of moving the location of the bread in the supermarket... :-) [18:57] ooh, that's evil! [18:58] diddledan: https://mastodon.org.uk/system/media_attachments/files/001/068/303/original/d51053f15692422a.jpeg [18:58] doesn't seem easier/harder to anything [19:00] all those people with their own templates knocking out tickets... [19:00] refundable for a fee? [19:01] it's not much or a return if you can only use it on one journey...? [19:01] diddledan: That's one of the two tickets [19:02] why print one ticket when you can print two at twice the cost... :-p [19:03] right; I have had single tickets that do both ways, but it's unusual [19:03] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTUrdizRZyw