Your ticket DOES NOT take you further than you think

[BookwormDadUK]

Frivolous thread, but ScotRail have adopted a strapline for the Scottish train service, "Your ticket takes you further than you think".

It makes my teeth itch, it's so stupid.

Surely the one thing we can agree on is that your ticket takes you literally and precisely to the station stated on the ticket. In fact, going further is a criminal offence.

YABU - it's genius
YANBU - it was written by a bonehead, all posters should be immediately corrected with a Sharpie

It's ScotRail, no it doesn't 🥴

To be fair, with ScotRail your ticket might take you further because there's a good chance it will involve getting off at a random station you've never seen before, crossing a railway bridge, waiting for another connecting train or getting shunted on to a bus <still bitter from the Edinburgh/Glasgow commute I did for years>

Back in the day my trainline was WAGN (West Anglia Great Northern) and they had a strapline "WAGNers walk". Meaning, I think, that you could get the train somewhere lovely and have a lovely walk. But given the amount of disruption and cancellations on that line my reaction was always "yes we fucking do, because there are no trains."

YANBU. It used to really piss me off when the HMRC adverts declared "tax doesn't have to be taxing"!

Well make the system fucking simpler and I might agree with you!

Its actually quite clever, because the " further than you think" could also be towards a bad experience, if you've underpaid.

I walked into a Harry Potter shop once and squeezed the belly of a certain well known house elf doll. "Dobby is a free elf!" it proudly exclaimed. The security guard didn't believe poor Dobby and chose to believe his barcode and label.

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YANBU, but I suspect they THINK that they're speaking figuratively rather than literally, i.e. "your ticket takes you to this location, but who knows who you might meet or what you might do while you are there, and what lasting and positive impact it might have on your life forevermore...?!".

When in reality it is actually bollockspeak. Your ticket takes you to Milngavie, late if you're lucky, and no further - and all that awaits you there is a cold cup of indifference and a cheese'n'dysentery pie.

"See it, say it sort it" is best when read by a conductor with a slightly threatening central Scottish accent....*

*I believe it is "sorted" but on Scotrail it sounds like sort it to me so it shall remain that way

😂drives me nuts that !

I do quite like the billboard advert that points out that V&A Dundee is only 3 minutes walk from the station though

For fans of the Tailenders podcast it's "See it, say it, Salford". Makes it much less irritating when I can smile about that every time I hear it.

"Your ticket takes you further than we think".

Sorted for you. Unimaginative and stupid ad people who can't think to the end of a sentence.

Oh I hate that one! DS used to ask me what it meant when he was a preschooler, and I just had to say it meant absolutely fucking nothing.

”If you see something that doesn’t look right, report it to a member of staff” also puzzled the literalist four year old. He wanted to tell the man in the ticket office about misleading adverts on the platform.

Unless you get some other kind of perks with your ticket (discount entry to attractions, free drink at the station cafe??) then it absolutely doesn't take you any further than what you pay for, and this advert would also make me very (possibly totally irrationally) angry.

To be fair, the Southern Railway ads I see with that strap line are indeed advertising 2for1 entry to various castles if you show a train ticket.

You would have had to have set out to buy a train ticket to the station next to the castle though, so you are still going exactly as far as you expected to, just a bit cheaper.

I agree.

Has anyone mentioned "Tax doesn't have to be taxing," yet?

I suppose it's possible in theory that it doesn't have to be. But anyone who's ever had dealings with HMRC can generally attest that they make sure it is!

See it say it sorted........... ugh. Alas its not just a London thing. Drives us mad too.
Another one is that you can buy snacks, drinks etc "in The Shop".

Im #teamsharpie too. I wonder if anyone has ever challenged it.

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It's a metaphor. Or a figure of speech.

Like itching teeth.

But I have generally researched where beyond the remit of my ticket I would like to go. And have never bought a ticket to go as far as the arrivals concourse and no further.

Actually I have discovered lots of good things about onward travel in different parts of the country, often by accident. Search facilities are very reductive in the way they encourage us to think. They ask for a specific date / time / destination. It's really hard to find a general timetable of routes and connections.

I agree with the noise pollution in stations and trains. There are so many announcements it's just unbearable. They chunter on about where you're going, what ticket you can use, don't slip if it's raining etc etc.

Recently took a train in Spain (on the plain) and it was delightfully peaceful. Big screens showing the list of stations coming up and where we were going. No need for a gobby train driver to have his five minutes of fame with repeated monologues.

Presumably this was a long time ago and it was supposed to be a pun on Waggoners Walk.

I hadn't heard of Waggoners Walk before but I am sure you are right! It was the end of the 90s I think, so they were relying on some long memories, given Waggoners Walk ended in 1980 according to Wikipedia.

I assume it means you report it, authorities do sod all so as well as seeing it and reporting it you have to sort it yourself.

i know what they mean is “see it, report it, we ‘ll sort it”

is there no one in these ad agencies or companies that employ them with the balls to say- that’s bollocks!

I thought the exact same thing when I seen it. Your ticket only takes you to exactly where you have paid to go to. The advert makes no sense .