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Your ticket DOES NOT take you further than you think

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BookwormDadUK · 06/09/2023 07:56

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

OP posts:
LaraMargot · 06/09/2023 11:48

Waggonners' Walk succeeded Mrs Dale's Diary on the Home service.

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 06/09/2023 11:49

Your opening post implies that you meant to enable voting.

TenderDandelions · 06/09/2023 13:24

110APiccadilly · 06/09/2023 11:16

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!

Lol! Great minds think alike (see my previous post).

One January when that advert was playing daily on my commute, I did occasionally shout "BUT IT IS!" at my radio in the car!

ErrolTheDragon · 06/09/2023 13:43

I dare say ScotRail tickets sometimes take you a lot further than you think if there's a replacement bus route, even though the destination is as expected.

AlecTrevelyan006 · 06/09/2023 14:11

DrMarshaFieldstone · 06/09/2023 09:01

It's catchier than 'Your ticket takes you further than you think in a strictly figurative sense but does not supersede the published conditions of carriage. Not to be taken literally.'

I prefer this version

Neetsie · 06/09/2023 14:32

My father's train ticket from Aberdeen to York took him a lot further than he thought when he got on the non stop service to Kings Cross.
This was several decades ago and the guard kindly arranged for him to get the train back up to York with no fine or extra charge.

CaptainJackSparrow85 · 06/09/2023 14:52

YANBU.

Also, thank you for using the word ‘bonehead’. It is an excellent word that should be used more often.

SoupDragon · 06/09/2023 15:30

TorroFerney · 06/09/2023 11:38

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!

what they mean is "See it. Say it. Sorted" just like they say.

HelenaTranscart · 07/09/2023 18:33

YANBU and it's as daft as their 'Kids for a Quid' campaign!

Hazey19 · 07/09/2023 18:35

Hahahahahahaha

SylvieB74 · 07/09/2023 18:44

Perhaps if it crashes, you could be off to heaven 😆

WonderingWanda · 07/09/2023 19:02

YANBU, it was probably the same marketing company who branded Plymouth the 'Ocean City' when it's next to English Channel not the Atlantic Ocean.

Oblomov23 · 07/09/2023 19:03

marketing crap.

MasterBeth · 07/09/2023 19:05

Herethere123 · 06/09/2023 08:44

I am sure it used to be 'sort it' and has recently changed to 'sorted'. As though the public felt the onus was on them to 'sort it' and fed back that once they have seen it and said it, it really ought to be someone else who sorts it.

Not a slogan but the repeated Tfl instruction that customers should carry small pets on the escalators. As though escalator use is not available to you unless you are carrying a small pet. Irks me in a low key way every time I hear it.

No, it's always been "sorted". The invitation has never been for the public to try and "sort" suspicious incidents.

MasterBeth · 07/09/2023 19:06

WonderingWanda · 07/09/2023 19:02

YANBU, it was probably the same marketing company who branded Plymouth the 'Ocean City' when it's next to English Channel not the Atlantic Ocean.

Hmm. Where does the English Channel lead to..?

NeverDropYourMooncup · 07/09/2023 19:08

marshmallowfinder · 06/09/2023 08:21

It's sortED, as I said. Which is the whole problem as it's forcing it to rhyme when it doesn't, which is irritating to many.

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London accent means it sounds the same. Sortid.

I wouldn't expect somebody not from the area to know that, though.

MasterBeth · 07/09/2023 19:10

IT doesn't rhyme with ID.

DrMarshaFieldstone · 07/09/2023 19:12

WonderingWanda · 07/09/2023 19:02

YANBU, it was probably the same marketing company who branded Plymouth the 'Ocean City' when it's next to English Channel not the Atlantic Ocean.

The English Channel is part of the Atlantic Ocean.

RausageSoul · 07/09/2023 19:21

Urgh ScotRail, just like the off peak after 1800 - except Edinburgh to Glasgow and I'm £30 return to go to work

NeverDropYourMooncup · 07/09/2023 19:22

WonderingWanda · 07/09/2023 19:02

YANBU, it was probably the same marketing company who branded Plymouth the 'Ocean City' when it's next to English Channel not the Atlantic Ocean.

Seeing as the official demarcation point is Rame Head, it's pretty bloody close. Like rolling down the driveway (the Sound) onto the road. Unless you're coming from Devonport, which is just to the left of the Sound, as it ends at the Hoe, rather than from the Barbican end. Then you're even closer.

And the Channel is an arm of the Atlantic, anyhow.

(DP's GF was in the Merchant Navy. I get inflicted with information like this regularly).

drspouse · 07/09/2023 19:24

FuzzyPuffling · 06/09/2023 07:59

YANBU.
But maybe if you fell asleep on the train it would take you to the depot?

DH used to commute daily by rail, about an hour, he would end up in a town notorious for pub brawls if he did this! It was more common that he'd get on a train that didn't stop at our stop and fall asleep ending up at the next stop and having to come back, though.

Yourcatisnotsorry · 07/09/2023 20:04

I think it’s quite good, makes me think of opening your eyes to things you don’t notice when driving, having time to read, expanding your horizons by exploring etc.

are you ND by any chance? Apparently these sort of non literal slogans are a real bugbear of autistic people.

Movingandlooking · 07/09/2023 20:07

We should all buy tickets to the next station but actually stay on to whatever destination we really want then quote that advert

Dahlia82 · 07/09/2023 20:23

YANBU. I’m a marketing copywriter and on a technical level I’m surprised this was actually approved. It’s potentially misleading.

MasterBeth · 07/09/2023 20:44

NeverDropYourMooncup · 07/09/2023 19:22

Seeing as the official demarcation point is Rame Head, it's pretty bloody close. Like rolling down the driveway (the Sound) onto the road. Unless you're coming from Devonport, which is just to the left of the Sound, as it ends at the Hoe, rather than from the Barbican end. Then you're even closer.

And the Channel is an arm of the Atlantic, anyhow.

(DP's GF was in the Merchant Navy. I get inflicted with information like this regularly).

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Good knowledge.

Also:

"In maritime, island Great Britain, Plymouth’s self-assumed moniker as the “Ocean City” might seem a little presumptive. As Britain’s westernmost principal port, however, Plymouth lies just where the English Channel broadens into the open Atlantic, with unbroken water west to North America. Plymouth alone of the island’s cities faces the Atlantic Ocean."