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Strange questions that sometimes need answering (or not asking in the first place really).

Unfortunately I don't think it would be possible because
A. Capacity would be too low, an omnimover usually gets 2000pph but two Victoria Line trains could hold that and they come every 2.5 minutes.
B. An omnimover would be too slow, theoretically you could rig up something like Alton Manor but it would be difficult to run it safely at line speed (usually 30 mph in tunnels).
C. It would be a challenge adapting the system for wheelchairs since you would need to carry the wheelchair with the rider still on (presumably you could either have a wheelchair space every few cars or tip-up seats).
D. If you did have an Alton Manor style system then you would have the reliability problems that come with it, rush hour would be fun!
E. Most tube tunnels do not have walkways beside the track so it would be difficult to evacuate. For that reason, tube drivers are not going anywhere.

Theoretically you could do something like this for a small low capacity system, perhaps on hilly terrain, but it wouldn't scale up.
 
You'd need to do something like on a cable car where each gondola detaches from the high speed line onto a separate slower line through the station to allow for safe boarding, then reconnects to the fast line at the end again
 
Does anyone else’s brain make really weird connections sometimes?

So in my head Nemesis used to feel exactly the same as a specific piece of a specific song. My chemical romance, the last bit, from where he starts singing “I see you lying next to me”. That bit of that song does exactly the same thing to my brain as Nemesis.

It’s really hard to describe, it’s not that I was listening to that song on a day I rode it, it’s not like how music can bring back memories, not a nostalgia type thing. It’s different. It’s like a synethesia thing or something.

Anyway. Somethings been bothering me about Nemmy Reborn and I couldn’t put my finger on what it was. Then that song came on the radio the other day and I was like “I know what it is, Nemesis doesn’t feel like that this song anymore.

So weird!
 
Itgoeshowhigh said:
Does anyone else’s brain make really weird connections sometimes?

So in my head Nemesis used to feel exactly the same as a specific piece of a specific song. My chemical romance, the last bit, from where he starts singing “I see you lying next to me”. That bit of that song does exactly the same thing to my brain as Nemesis.

It’s really hard to describe, it’s not that I was listening to that song on a day I rode it, it’s not like how music can bring back memories, not a nostalgia type thing. It’s different. It’s like a synethesia thing or something.

Anyway. Somethings been bothering me about Nemmy Reborn and I couldn’t put my finger on what it was. Then that song came on the radio the other day and I was like “I know what it is, Nemesis doesn’t feel like that this song anymore.

So weird!
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I get your point here. I do the same.

Air. I always associated the song broken wings by Mr mister with this ride. I know the original theme for this ride shares a similar base line.

I think it's association with memories of past trips. On one trip round nemesis, you may have had that song in ya head as you had heard it on the way to AT. As an example, we did a trip to AT in June/July 97. A mate of mine brought a wind up radio for 1 thing and 1 thing only. Because that day, radio 1 first aired D'ya know what I mean by oasis. I can never drive to AT without that track being played at some point.

Same as the rapids. On another trip, our little gang of mates sang "Yorkshire moores and Tetley bitter na nana nana naa" during the tunnel bit. I hold that memory alone because that was probably one of the final times we were all together before we went out separate ways to collages etc.
 
Itgoeshowhigh said:
Does anyone else’s brain make really weird connections sometimes?

So in my head Nemesis used to feel exactly the same as a specific piece of a specific song. My chemical romance, the last bit, from where he starts singing “I see you lying next to me”. That bit of that song does exactly the same thing to my brain as Nemesis.

It’s really hard to describe, it’s not that I was listening to that song on a day I rode it, it’s not like how music can bring back memories, not a nostalgia type thing. It’s different. It’s like a synethesia thing or something.

Anyway. Somethings been bothering me about Nemmy Reborn and I couldn’t put my finger on what it was. Then that song came on the radio the other day and I was like “I know what it is, Nemesis doesn’t feel like that this song anymore.

So weird!
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Very much so! I was once extremely ill after some dodgy enchiladas as a child and remember projectile vomiting in my bedroom. For some still completely unknown reason, the journalist and broadcaster Trevor McDonald popped into my head and now when I remember back to that incident or enchiladas, I think of our Trev. The human brain is a wonderfully odd, insanely complicated bundle of mush.
 
Could just be something as stupid as that song was playing when you saw a certain advertisement for the ride and it made your brain really happy, so the two things got subconsciously linked. Doesn't necessarily mean it had to be playing on the actual trip to Alton Towers. It's a theory anyway.
 
Why do old guys walk with their hands clasped behind their backs? You see older chaps of a certain generation walking around like this all the time, is it an etiquette thing to avoid putting their hands in their pockets as they consider it rude, or is it some kind of posture thing?
 
Shaggy_Dog_ said:
Why do old guys walk with their hands clasped behind their backs? You see older chaps of a certain generation walking around like this all the time, is it an etiquette thing to avoid putting their hands in their pockets as they consider it rude, or is it some kind of posture thing?
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I asked my old Man this when he was still around and he said it was comfortable and kept his posture nice and straight. Used to embarrass me as a kid (oh to be young and dumb). I was also watching a Kathy Burke doco recently and she said the same thing.
 
Not sure, but I randomly started doing it sometimes once I was aged over around 35. Started winking at people as well. No idea why it started happening ;):laughing:
 
BarryZola said:
Not sure, but I randomly started doing it sometimes once I was aged over around 35. Started winking at people as well. No idea why it started happening ;):laughing:
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Have you found yourself wearing your watch upside down on your wrist yet like some older gentlemen do as well? Now that one might actually have a military explaination for it, such as the fact that having it on the under side of your wrist means you can see your watch whilst holding a rifle or whilst driving with your hands on the wheel of a vehicle.
 
Unfortunately I can't claim that one as I stopped wearing a watch at around 18 when I got used to checking the time on my first mobile phone. I do get annoyed by any kind of noise now though, and don't like being bothered :tearsofjoy:
 
Shaggy_Dog_ said:
Why do old guys walk with their hands clasped behind their backs? You see older chaps of a certain generation walking around like this all the time, is it an etiquette thing to avoid putting their hands in their pockets as they consider it rude, or is it some kind of posture thing?
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Old *** reporting for duty.
Eases back pain for many, but others simply don't know what to do with their hands, or do know, but want to avoid arrest.
Some just want to copy Phil the Greek, even though he is sadly deceased.
 
And there may be a little truth in the fact that it helps support a lifetimes beer belly growth.
Distended gut balance and all that.


...and, military or conscripted old gits (I'm not that old) were trained to stand at ease, feet a bit apart, with hands resting behind the back, looking at the officer, or parade rest, eyes front, but the same.

So, beer bellies, bad backs, hab mats, or ex services...there's your answer.

Now, what was the question again sonny???
 
DiogoJ42 said:
I noticed last year that I've started walking with my hands behind my back. Every time I realise I'm doing it, I try to stop. I do not want to start using Janeway mannerisms!
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It's too late, you'll be wearing caps with sunflaps at the back, socks with sandals and squinting at information boards in no time at all.
 
Having just got back from Greece. I have observed a few things and have some questions about the Brit abroad that need answering.

1, what's with some having a dirty plaster on the face?

2, why do we all dress so bad?

3, what's with the mad rush to get off a plane? To be the first to the empty baggage carousel? To be the first to 1 greek passport bloke....

4, we are slowly catching the Americans up in using weird bandage, support type things on the leg.

5, the god awful brown nosing of local restaurants and bars. Seriously people, there is more than one.

6, heard in a bar "seriously though have you seen a fast food place in the area? That's what's wrong in britain" Only to then say "we just wanted a nice sit on the balcony tonight, but it's hard to get a take away."

7, the constant need to repeat anything said on a public address system in the airport.

8, British kids are a right moaning set of "use your own word here, I've had a telling off for using a couple recently" compared to the foreign child.

Seriously, I was glad to mixed in with Germans over the week. Far nicer to be near on the beach.
 
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