I initially heard it as "Fisk", and was wondering why there was a town with a name that translates to "Fish". But the Vikings did have a habit of leaving Britain with some whacky names.
this is actually really soothing. Reminds me of riding a nearly empty train back home in summer. The suns setting, and you’ve just come back from having a fun day out with friends in central. you’ve got nothing to do tomorrow so you feel all warm and fuzzy as you drift in and out of sleep. Then, the train announcement goes off as you stir and realise your stop is next. You walk back home while evening sets in and the streetlights turn on. Coming home, you make yourself a nice cup of tea, and then go to bed, cradled in the embrace of warm memories.
Lmao I was in the London Airport and the first announcement my friends and I heard was "don't leave luggage unattended or it will be taken and destroyed" in the most monotone and almost cheerful british accent. That's it. It was so passive aggressive and down right scary we all held onto our luggage for dear life while waiting between flights 😂😂
i remember hearing that on the tyne and wear metro at airport. just in the most deepest, bored-sounding voice, "we will burn everything you love if you forget it 😐"
mine also repeats in welsh afterwards bcs we live so close to the border. it makes me laugh bcs a few years ago my little sister didn’t realise it was welsh and she turned to me one time in horror and said ‘is she ok???’😭😭
I saw a comment on RU-vid a while ago from someone saying that he was never going to take his mother to Wales again after what she said about the awelsh language outside a cake shop in Caernarfon. The comment was already a couple of years old and the OP hadn't responded to requests for more info.
At my local station the voice person finishes the sentence in a tone of voice that makes it sound like she's going to say something else, makes me laugh every time 🤭
Sometimes Great Northern fills on on Thameslink services, and of course normally you have the ‘This is a [company] service to’ except in this case the company is skipped, giving you: This is a [pause] service to… Every time I hear it as: This is a service? maybe? allegedly? to
@@Anna13Tonks why wouldn't you? most scandinavian countries if not all have a far superior standard of living than here in the UK. this place is a dump, would love to get out
It's a common joke in my family to imitate the train annoucements we have here in France. They sound basically like this but with extra intonation that really does not sound natural on top of the already weird pauses
Don’t worry about it I’m English and even I didn’t catch on till the end. We do have some pretty odd names and being a souther I just assumed they were places up north to start with. I don’t dare venture up the north I understand they talk to people there, like actual strangers 😂
Nailed it. Just missing the "If you see something that doesn't look right, speak to our staff, or text the British transport police. See it. Say it. Sorted."
It is quite fun to come up with random PA's like this. "The (pause) 10:(slight pause) 48 London Express service to (slight pause) Hestrigeton is now arriving at platform (pause) 3."
Stunk. Twenty Is Plenty. Please Drive Carefully Through Our Village. Thank You. Winner of Britain in Bloom 1998. Roundabout sponsored by Joe King and sons scaffolding and digger hire.
Sometimes a station is 3 times louder than the others and it does my head in because nobody seems to know how to fix it. For years my train has announced "Calling at Chorley, Buckshaw Parkway, Leyland, Preston, KIRKHAM AND WESHAM!!!! Poulton-Le-Fylde, Blackpool North"
The North Walian (Transport for Wales) announcements are hilarious. " The next train calling at platform 1 will be the 10 :45 TfW service to Llan - did -noor ..., 🤣
@Big Box I remember getting off an 8 hours long British airways flight at Gatwick from my holiday to Orlando and the I live in Nottinghamshire so it was a long, boring way up to London with thameslink then we got off and I think we took the tube to Kings Cross st Pancras and we were going to take east Midlands railway to Nottingham and change for a regional train but my dad booked a much later train not expecting to get there that early so we decided to take the tube to Victoria where we could have gone to directly with the Gatwick express but anyway we took a national express coach to Nottingham and then Went to Nottingham Central and got on the regional train to my town and we finally got a taxi home and we landed at like 8am and now it was like 6pm so a whole day of travelling (also I think the train we didn't get on was delayed)
I remember finding out that "weston-super-mare" was a real place after someone kept refering to anyone struggling with something or throwing a tantrum as "hes having a weston-super-mare"
Ahhh good old Weston! half hour up the M5 from me in Bristol. My local seaside resort, But you wouldn't catch me in the sea 😂 if you know you know. Great place for the boy racers! Frequenting on the sea front (sarcastic face). They recently re-built a full size oil rig into an attraction with waterfall and everything, They took a retired rig from the north sea! That's pretty cool.
Meanwhile the NYC subway’s recorded voice is like “THERE IS AN UPTOWN LOCAL 1 TRAIN TO VAN CORTLANDT PARK 242ND STREET APPROACHING THE STATION. PLEASE STAND AWAY FROM THE PLATFORM EDGE.”
Sound like a name for a crisis. "General, the situation has worsened. We are now at Threshold Green and request authorisation for Summer Breeze." "God help us all."
I’ve been on two trains today and the only thing that’s even better is crossing the England/wales border and suddenly hearing the even weirder welsh place names than the English ones yet the announcer voice never changes😂
I caught a train from Crewe to Shrewsbury to get to Machynlleth. At Crewe the nice lady in the ticket office said "Mackinleth". At Shrewsbury the guard on the platform just did a big wet sound with his mouth at me.
This is why they need it to swap to an actual Welsh announcement voice on those locations. The names being said in Welsh sound so much less weird than the English announcer completely butchering them 😅
Visiting Edinburgh and this came in my suggestions. Took the train from Heathrow to Paddington then tube to Kings Cross then the train to Edinburgh. This was so spot on. I've seen it, I'm saying it, and it got sorted.
That is remarkable. She's even got the Stephen Fry-esque linguistically rich and plump sounds of the British place names which, for all that, remain no less ludicrous😂❤
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There's always 3 stops you remember: The one you just came from, the one you're going to and the one just before the one you're going to because no matter how far it is *that's the one you start packing your things at*
The O eight, thirty five service to brain, is delayed by approximately ten minutes, this is due to missing crew members. We apologize for the delay to this service.
