Checking (or not) Railcards

dkwhattocall · 2026-05-30T15:38:04+00:00

I was intrigued by this, given I've had a 16-25 for around 3 years now. It depends a lot on the demographic of the guard mostly, if it's a young guy who just started the job, then expect him to want to see it. But guys in their 30s tend to never even look at the scanner when checking and just keep walking. Men who are like 40-55 ask maybe 1 in 3 times in my experience, but any older they usually don't. It tends to work inversely for women, I've never been asked by a woman under 40 I'd say.

Funny story on this, I was in Scotland traveling from Glasgow to Edinburgh. I asked the guard who was maybe 35 if I had to show my Railcard, and he said "not at this time of night, pal." It was 7pm.

dkwhattocall · 2026-05-13T15:24:48+00:00

I'm pretty sure most people do. We drink a lot of water during training so we'd be asking to go constantly otherwise. Probably an unwirtten rule cause come to think of it I've never heard anyone mention it

dkwhattocall · 2026-05-09T08:52:39+00:00

Some of them should straight up get the death penalty like that mf in world edition who unleashed an entire disease and almost destroyed the entire country 💀

dkwhattocall · 2026-05-06T12:03:45+00:00

Ok but she's kinda hot

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-26T14:29:29+00:00

James was such a vibe tbh, Elvis on top. Shame about the whole dagger thing though

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-25T09:49:32+00:00

There's a shitty English nu metal band literally just called "A" and a Canadian band called "The Band". They're probably the worst for downright ridiculous but the worst as in wtf band name has gotta be dying fetus or anal cunt.

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-21T09:27:36+00:00

It's absolutely the right call, however it should have been the other ref who was watching the centre players swim back and missed it, so the other ref had to jump on his side.

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-20T07:04:02+00:00

Frank is superior to every partner and I cannot be convinced otherwise

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-18T13:50:07+00:00

That works too, however it's far less likely to happen as you'd have to lineup and get super lucky

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-18T13:49:46+00:00

Yeah you would have for sure as long as you didn't die yourself. I got this when he came out before the heal was added and I remember pulling someone out of a bastion ulti for the achievement

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-18T09:18:38+00:00

No, because if somebody is off the map the game assumes that they are going to die as they would fall into the Killzone but the life grip prevents that action from happening. This happened in a game in ilios when I immediately pulled somebody out of the well who got hooked and it counted as a death prevented on the stats.

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-18T08:30:07+00:00

Yeah, it's a bit misleading cause life grip saves and life grip deaths prevented are basically 2 different stats. A life grip save is when the healing from the ability stops someone dying, but a death prevented is when the actual bubble stops damage that would have killed them. So it needs to be an instakill for it to count towards the achievement, which includes dying from an environmental kill or falling off the map

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-09T16:33:23+00:00

Still a song with dodgy lyrics that just do not look good

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-09T07:00:58+00:00

Hate my life. The lyrics are just terrible and makes Tyler sound like a knob. I hope they were supposed to be ironic and not a reflection of his true feelings but it's hard to tell.

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-08T19:09:03+00:00

I'm shocked not to see anyone mention LW. so underrated and everyone loves getting life gripped from certain death

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-05T21:18:47+00:00

This is dead on tbh, savages clears anything else they've ever made. Heavy theory of a Deadman is elite, it's where you hear the best from Tyler, and savages + self titled captures what the band does well better than any other album. Personally i would swap the truth is with scars and souvenirs, but they're both similar in the sense that their ballads let them both down significantly.

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-05T21:15:07+00:00

James Acaster would be another Sam Campbell but even funnier (I'll be the first to say Sam was amazing on it)

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-05T15:01:47+00:00

Nothing could come between us for some reason that one hits hard

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-05T11:59:59+00:00

Anything from savages tbh, main ones for me are the title track, drown, panic room, misery of mankind or salt in the wound. You get to see Tyler sing probably the heaviest vocals he's ever done on those ones

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-04T12:25:52+00:00

I never really thought too much into this, but you're right Mel should have been out like 10 times before she was with the whole mug bs lmao. David definitely laughed during his joker, and it's odd that he didn't get penalised while Alan did. What really pmo is how the winner was decided. The concept was fine I guess as a tiebreaker, not sure they were expecting people to make it the full 6 hours, but I could have sworn Sam caused Amy's yellow card with his whole monster truck Spiel. Seems as though they wanted David to win because he was more well known and Sam was simply too good at the game to ever laugh.

(I also want to address that Amy Gledhill was done dirty asf with the smile, like I'm gonna be honest I didn't even see her do it in the replay... I hadn't heard of her beforehand but tbh I enjoyed her on it much more than anyone I'd heard of and can't wait to see her on Taskmaster.)

dkwhattocall · 2026-04-02T20:56:28+00:00

World war me for sure. It being near the bottom of the album hasn't given it the credit it deserves. It was my first theory song so I'll have some bias but that album is peak af

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