The Great Western Advert..

[DTCwordfan]

The tickets alone must have cost them the better part of £2500......in being bought on the sperm of the moment.



so bloody stupid, it's unbelievable. Enid must be rolling in her grave. Take Five.

Thoughts?

[choux]

sperm ?

[Buenchico]

>>> The tickets alone must have cost them the better part of £2500.

Not if the reason that they were at Oxford station in the first place was that their well-off parents had already decided to see as little as possible of their annoying little brats for a whole week and bought them unlimited travel on the whole of the National Rail network for 7 days for £270 (child fare) each, with Timmy travelling free, of course. That's only a total of £1080 ;-)
https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/pr20780b0a0400020167ed620a7e504e.aspx

[choux]

This bothers you, DTc, nearly 4 years after the event?

[DTCwordfan]

which event?

I knew someone called Buenchico would try and save money but the advert was for impulse travel - as in 'sperm,' or 'spur' of the moment.

[DTCwordfan]

The ad has just been shown down here in deepest Cornwall - now if it had been for Scillonians travelling in Northumberland, County Specsavers-ham or Norfolk, I could understand.

[Buenchico]

You can undertake impulse travel by deciding to go somewhere beforehand but only picking an actual destination when you arrive at the station, DTC.

As Julia, Dick, George and Annie were already at the station when the story begun, I simply assumed that their parents had already provided them with All Line Rover tickets, enabling them to travel anywhere on the National Rail network, without any further payment, for a whole week.

[Buenchico]

I don't think they have trains in Norfolk yet, DTC. They only invented the wheel up there a year or two back ;-)

[DTCwordfan]

Very true......I've never seen a wheel in a John Crome painting - I presume his family came from Cromer....

[choux]

No need to be sarky, there is the date, Autumn 2018, clearly marked on the YouTube picture you posted.

[DTCwordfan]

seriously, they have just run the ad on ITV down here this evening!!!

[douglas9401]

Maybe the magic lantern projectionist has been ill

[DTCwordfan]

the fact that i found a copy of it on Youtube dated to 2018 is neither here or there. Nice to see an ad with 'endurance' I guess.

[DTCwordfan]

Scotland next, Douglas, the Famous Five to reach for the Skye?

[douglas9401]

Lashings of gingers here.

[DTCwordfan]

and Whisky Galore - are they old enough yet to have a few wee drams en route?

[zebo]

*I don't think they have trains in Norfolk yet, DTC. They only invented the wheel up there a year or two back ;-)*

Oi, stop it or I'll high-six you!

[rowanwitch]

It won't be shown on the Isle of Wight for at least another 10 years. Now that place really is holding back the tide of modernity. Norfolk is ok, they focus on what they are good at.... Brewing! Sometime soon I want to get back there and revisit the places I went with dave.... Well the pubs mostly.

[1ozzy]

I think Enid would have been impressed with this though.