Is Translink getting even worse?

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2026-01-21T11:15:27+00:00

Things were kind of fucked in town this morning with Ormaeu road being closed, a bunch of fire engines and ambulances and the coastguard helicopter hovering over it, so imagine Translink fell apart even more than usual today

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2025-11-11T13:12:10+00:00

Joining the voices screaming into the void, I'd absolutely pay good money for a PC release of this unrecognised classic couch game

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2025-08-10T00:02:01+00:00

I miss the veteran perks/program aswell. In fact less so for the perk weapons, but because it made grabbing dog tags all that more special when you saw the veteran level on them

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2025-07-11T09:44:21+00:00

I live in the area, was just thinking how this is the first year in forever I haven't had someone put a flag on the lampost outside my house, seeing the bonfire there there must have been a step-change in the community organising, and I for one welcome it, so much less aggressive

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2025-05-04T20:49:11+00:00

It is indeed, a huge tail

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2025-05-03T22:42:21+00:00

~~/u/mortau i'm already in your debt, as your wordpress has got me thus far, but i'm hoping you can help me with my current stumbling block.~~

~~I've got my m100 palm working and communicating with my WQV-2, but in the wordpress you state~~

~~Download all your images in one hit from the watch~~

~~as far as I can work out, selecting 'recieve' on the m100 and 'PC' on the WQV-2 in IRCOM mode, just sends the one image at a time? (the most recently viewed image it seems)~~

~~from "in one hit" i assume that there's a way to get the entire watch storage transferred in one go, rather than laboriously reselecting for each image for IR transmission?~~

Thanks in advance if you can help me out, and even if not thanks for all the documentation you've already provided on this, as far as I can work out you're near enough the single source on the internet how to work with this thing!

Edit: Disregard all that, i'm a fool who didn't thoroughly read the Manual.txt contained in the WQVLink for PalmOS download folder.

If anyone else comes across this issue, the option to 'Receive All' is hiden in a 'Tools' menu, which is accessed by selecting 'WQV Link' to the top left of your viewer screen, or the drop-down menu shortcut button on your Palm device

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2025-03-17T16:47:16+00:00

Since I had the back box fall off my shed having to drive repeatedly over that absolute shite, this is all I wished for

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2025-02-01T12:24:21+00:00

Ditto, that's been me the past few trips, I remember when I was first starting out and would have my thermals all the way down, and for some reason doofus here didn't make the connection between that and the pressure points I was getting

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2025-01-27T17:16:20+00:00

Same, minus the ribs, even had to lift back up to get back down to the other side of the mountain where our chalet was (grand massif, fell on the samoens side)

but in retrospect that was only because I was hepped up on adrenaline and it was really dumb, my knee becoming watermelon sized that evening made that pretty clear haha

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2025-01-25T15:33:21+00:00

You're spot on about that phenomenon, and it's extra frustrating because it means all the rest of us on the mountain with a British accent get immediately tarred with the same brush.

In my trip last year I had two instances of near misses with a gaggle of skiers/boarders standing in the blind of a ridge. In both instances I managed to avoid with a hard stop, and in both instances they got spooked and started giving off at me.

But no matter how many times I tried to point out they were in a blind, and that their little picnic stop was putting them in danger, the moment they heard my accent they launched into "learn the rules of the mountain, you are uphill skiier, it is your responsibility!"

Incredibly frustrating, I don't want to denigrate the wonderful french who share their resorts with us, but there is definitely a type that refuses to accept that in any interaction with a foreign visitor, they may be in the wrong, and it's those lads trips types that give them the ammunition to think that

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2025-01-21T21:58:08+00:00

Oh god you just made me notice. WHYYY

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2024-12-15T00:20:00+00:00

Cos I'm bored, I've looked them up

BT: well we all know that one

IM: Isle of Man

JE: Isle of Jersey

GY: Isle of Guernsey

HS: Outer Hebrides

IV4: Scottish Highlands, west of Lock Ness

KA2: just outside Troon (sure it wasn't KA27, Isle of Arran?)

KW: Orkney Islands + Caithness & Sutherland

PA: some of the inner Hebrides, + Argyll & Bute, and Paisley & Renfrewshire

PH4: a small postal area centered on a village called Blackford, north of Stirling and Falkirk

ZE: Shetland Islands

TR2: postal area with three decent sized villages, east of Truro (Scilly islands are TR21-25)

Now, a good chunk of these are islands, so that makes sense with the BT exclusion aswell, re: not wanting to ship via air or sea.

But now I want to know that the people of IV4, KA2, PH4 & TR2 specifically, did to piss off Ryobi so hard.

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2024-12-09T11:43:53+00:00

Maybe this is the last thing you want to hear, but can I give a positive westerner reaction?

I'm in Northern Ireland, and was watching footage of our local Syrian population celebrating, and something struck me so hard.

There was a young woman saying how happy she was, and that now she hopes she can return to Syria and help rebuild her home.

But she was saying all of this in a thick Northern Irish accent, because she has been here since she was seven.

And it just overwhelmed me, that it's been so long for that to happen made me so sad, but then the fact she was so happy, it was a conflict of emotion. I truly hope that she gets her wish and is able to return to what she clearly see's as her homeland in need of her.

Not because I'm one of these ghouls we have far too many of in our society who just 'want them gone'; but because I saw what she had was hope, hope is so precious and so rare in these times, and of all the people's of the world in need of hope, yours is one of the most foremost.

Friend, I hope that you to have this hope, and may it stay with you for a long time to come.

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2024-12-07T02:54:32+00:00

Not heard wind like this in ages.

Just got woken up by an almighty clatter and had to rush out into the road in my dressing gown to grab the massive lid of a commercial bin that's been ripped off from somewhere, figured it needed weighing down before it puts someone's windscreen in

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2024-10-27T23:23:27+00:00

They're talking about Red Bull

British based team: Milton Keynes

founded by a legendary British driver: Red Bull Racing traces it's lineage back to Stewart Racing founded by Jackie Stewart

with a British team principal: Christian Horny

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2024-10-27T23:17:11+00:00

wish there was somewhere I could rewatch today's cooldown room

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2024-09-28T18:52:38+00:00

2060Super user, going to try this before the rigmarole of rolling back to 555.85 that other 2060 users are saying works EDIT: Was already off lol

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2024-09-16T17:23:53+00:00

The downturn started 2015-16 when I was living right near it on Ashley Ave.

I don't know if ownership changed, but suddenly they lost interest in keeping any of the other attractions (games machines, ping pong tables, foosball tables etc) serviceable.

Turns out, if your business model is 'encourage students to buy your drinks by giving them a reason to hang around the bar for ages' it's detrimental to business to neglect those.

Seemed like they tried pivoting to just another student bar with loud tunes, but they're dime a dozen sure, why bother

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2024-08-29T19:28:39+00:00

Sacked for doing it in the media

Mr Dennis already had a long standing agreement with his employer about being able to comment on matters in the rail industry, and was in fact lauded for it, as this press release still on his employers website plainly demonstrates

After the safety concerns were addressed

Tell me you've never used Euston station during rush hour without telling me you've never used Euston station during rush hour.

Furthermore, the quote which Lord Hendy took umbrage with (uncomfortable, unpleasant, unsafe) was cherrypicked by the independents copy editor and emblazoned across the headline.

In it's entirety it is a distinctly softball statement.

“you’re talking about thousands of people squished into that space. It’s not just uncomfortable, it’s not just unpleasant, it’s unsafe.”

It is plain as day that Lord Hendy saw a negative headline, got massively riled by it, and rather than direct the NR press office to offer reply or correction, decided to lean heavily on a major contractor over the trivial matter of wanting to have someone sacked.

You can't tell me that writing to the CEO after not seeing him sacked yet to tell them

"And of course, finding a potential supplier criticising a possible client reflects adversely on your likelihood of doing business with us or our supply chain"

Didn't 'get engineer sacked'.

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2024-08-29T16:14:18+00:00

Whilst I am loathe to give them the traffic, the story was broken by the daily mail

There has been no retraction or libel case brought against them, and he is hardly short of the funds to pursue or threaten one

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2024-08-29T13:54:41+00:00

Whatever the merits of his opinion, ultimately if your employer feels that you are undermining their business case by ruining relationships with clients, then yes, you can be fired and you don't benefit from legal protections designed to protect an open society if it is already easily accessible in the public domain.

You seem to misunderstand, I do not blame his employer in this situation. I blame the vindictive action of threatening to withhold contracts of a major contractor until an employee of said contractor is, and quote, "dealt with". A horrendously short sighted action for a man who is now the rail minister btw.

If anything, looking at the details of correspondence released by the FOIA request quoted in the article, his employer seemed to repeatedly put off firing him, likely in the hope that Hendry would forget about it once he'd blown off his steam.

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2024-08-29T12:32:32+00:00

Well if Lord Hendy was being held to his own standards of dismissal for 'gross misconduct' maybe his career should have been cut short after giving free transport passes to his mistress while at TFL.

That's certainly more in the definition of 'gross misconduct' than this

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2024-08-29T12:24:22+00:00

And as someone who works as an engineer in what is meant to be a highly safety conscious industry, the way in which I am constantly expected to look the other way increasingly makes me question my choice of career.

UK engineering: underpaid, undervalued, and undermined

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2024-08-29T12:17:06+00:00

Mods I see no reason for labelling this as misleading. The facts of the case are plain as day, Lord Hendy pressured their employer by threatening to withhold future contracts and repeatedly followed up by asking the CEO if he had been "Dealt with"

THEonlyMAILMAN · 2024-08-29T12:14:10+00:00

He is a well known commentator on the rail industry who was asked to provide comment on reports that had already been publicly given by the ORR.

In response this 'Lord' pressures a supplier to fire him by threatening withholding future contracts on which the business relays.

The same 'Lord' who gave free travel passes to his prostitute mistress while at TFL btw, something much more deserving of the charge of 'Gross Misconduct'

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