[08:20] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[08:20] <SuperMatt> morning
[08:20] <SuperMatt> I hope the weekend was good and long for everybody as it was me
[08:28] <brobostigon> morning
[08:29] <brobostigon> variable, good and bad.
[15:45] <SuperMatt> bit quiet in here today
[15:49]  * diddledan sounds the sirens
[15:49] <SuperMatt> what are they normally designed to alert to?
[15:49] <diddledan> I think it's a warning about tsunamis?
[15:51] <SuperMatt> are you not worried about causing panic?
[15:52] <brobostigon> so it isnt a politician sprouting crap siren?
[15:53] <diddledan> I weighed up the pros and cons, and decided what the heck
[15:53] <brobostigon> :)
[15:54] <diddledan> 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] <diddledan> 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] <penguin42> wth did the format of rail tickets change?
[18:55] <zmoylan-pi> because all the software people had written to handle them was complete? :-)
[18:56] <penguin42> they've been the same format for decades!
[18:56] <diddledan> they've changed?
[18:56] <zmoylan-pi> yeah, they had to go in that case...
[18:57] <diddledan> harder to forge?
[18:57] <diddledan> or.. easier to forge?
[18:57] <zmoylan-pi> it's the train equivalent of moving the location of the bread in the supermarket... :-)
[18:57] <diddledan> ooh, that's evil!
[18:58] <penguin42> diddledan: https://mastodon.org.uk/system/media_attachments/files/001/068/303/original/d51053f15692422a.jpeg
[18:58] <penguin42> doesn't seem easier/harder to anything
[19:00] <zmoylan-pi> all those people with their own templates knocking out tickets...
[19:00] <diddledan> refundable for a fee?
[19:01] <diddledan> it's not much or a return if you can only use it on one journey...?
[19:01] <penguin42> diddledan: That's one of the two tickets
[19:02] <diddledan> why print one ticket when you can print two at twice the cost... :-p
[19:03] <penguin42> right; I have had single tickets that do both ways, but it's unusual
[19:03] <diddledan> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTUrdizRZyw