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• Roseofsharon Shipmate

  12:37PM

  Here's yet another headline made weird by a misplaced "as". From The Standard, I believe.
  
  
  Shocking pictures show train station outside London completely flooded as it’s closed until Christmas Eve.
  
  
• Wesley J Circus Host

  1:20PM

  Quite. Here's the link. Apparently, it's due to a burst sewer pipe, which makes matters even worse!
• Stercus Tauri Shipmate

  1:27PM

  I wonder why we have to be told that it is shocking? It's an inconveniently large amount of water in the wrong place, right enough, but unless the overhead wires somehow got into it it shouldn't have shocked anyone. Consider the national annual savings in printer's ink (or electrons) were the word 'shocking' to be dropped by the newspapers.
• Wesley J Circus Host

  1:31PM

  I think, it's a bit s**t, that's why.
• Bishops Finger Shipmate

  4:38PM

  Stercus Tauri wrote: »

  I wonder why we have to be told that it is shocking? It's an inconveniently large amount of water in the wrong place, right enough, but unless the overhead wires somehow got into it it shouldn't have shocked anyone. Consider the national annual savings in printer's ink (or electrons) were the word 'shocking' to be dropped by the newspapers.

  
  Quite, but lots of dirty water in the wrong place is hardly 'Noos' these days. I'm surprised they didn't tell us how outraged and traumatised local rail passengers are by the resultant carnage and chaos...
  
  
• Sandemaniac Shipmate

  4:49PM

  Another Oxford Wail cracker. Unusually, this seems to be accurate reporting!
  https://flic.kr/p/2rLzkQQ
  

  Hedgehog wrote: »

  Fake news! I'm innocent!

  Bishops Finger wrote: »

  Stercus Tauri wrote: »

  I wonder why we have to be told that it is shocking? It's an inconveniently large amount of water in the wrong place, right enough, but unless the overhead wires somehow got into it it shouldn't have shocked anyone. Consider the national annual savings in printer's ink (or electrons) were the word 'shocking' to be dropped by the newspapers.

  
  Quite, but lots of dirty water in the wrong place is hardly 'Noos' these days. I'm surprised they didn't tell us how outraged and traumatised local rail passengers are by the resultant carnage and chaos...
  

  
  I think the rail users are probably all too used to their station being full of shit...
• Baptist Trainfan Shipmate

  4:49PM

  It's because they're all trapped in gridlock in their local supermarket's car park.
  
  By the way, have you noticed how passengers are almost always "commuters" in the Press?
• Bishops Finger Shipmate

  5:09PM

  O yes, I'd forgotten about being trapped in gridlock.