Well That's His N C B Up The Pictures!

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/baltimore-bridge-latest-workers-possibly-in-the-water-as-video-shows-moment-of-collapse-13101977

 

[Barsel]

TTT What is NCB and what does up the pictures mean?

I can understand Peter Pendants posts more than yours.

[naomi24]

That's horrendous!

[naomi24]

Barsel, I assume NCB = No Claims Bonus.  'Up the pictures' = gone.

[New Judge]

"TTT What is NCB and what does up the pictures mean?"

NCB = No Claims Bonus.

Up the pictures = lost 

I don't know if you ar efamiliar wit hthe film "The Wrong Box". In it there occurs a head-on smash between two steam trains on a single line. The wreckage is spectacular, with both locomotives ending up propped up in the air, buffer to buffer. The remainder of the trains is reduced to matchwood.

John Junkin, playing the driver of one of them, stands scratching his head and says to his fireman "I tell you what, Fred. We haven't heard the last of this!"

[Barsel]

Sorry New Judge, I have seen that film.

I just wish people would stop abbreviating words and using sayings I've never heard of.

Thanks to you and Naomi for explaining.

That's a terrible thing that has occured.

[ToraToraTora]

Stop pretending barsel, you know what's being said. If you can understand PP I'm a doddle.

[THECORBYLOON]

I have never heard the phrase, "up the pictures".

[theshedman]

It just seemed so far off course as it should have been in the centre of the span I would have thought.  It also had 2 pilots on board who should know the area like the back of their hands.

[Ken4155]

TTT, your abbreviations don't worry me as much as your apparent scant regard for the lives that have possibly been lost.

[ladybirder]

This ship also hit a bridge in 2016.

[douglas9401]

Think I preferred Boxangle. 🙄

[New Judge]

I have never heard the phrase, "up the pictures".

I'm most surprised, Corby.

It's similar in meaning to "Gone for a Burton". It was well used when I was younger, though perhaps not so much now. It seems from this:

https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/31/messages/343.html

That others similarly have not heard of it, thinking it means "gone to the cinema".

[naomi24]

Corby, //I have never heard the phrase, "up the pictures".//

 

It's an old fashioned London phrase. 

 

TTT, life here would be so much easier if you would only make the effort to speak a language that everyone easily understands.  May I suggest English?

[Barsel]

I do wonder if a lot of your sayings are London based like cockney rhyming slang of which I know some, but I'm from Manchester TTT and we don't have sayings like that here.

[Barsel]

Lol Naomi.🤣

[retrocop]

TTT could have written 'down the swanee'

[ladybirder]

Brilliant.  What about this ghastly accident that this thread is supposed to be about?

[naomi24]

Indeed, LB.  Very few of the posts here are about that.  See what happens to legitimate News thread when you talk gobbledegook, TTT?   You spoil them.

[nicebloke1]

Well there's really not much more to say apart from some speculation, have if you listen to what a marine ( expert?) has just said, quote, bridges are not designed to be hit by a ship, unquote. I never knew that, did you?

[ladybirder]

In fairness, look at the link TTT had added was all anyone had to do.