Assume v. Presume

[Black Hole]

A bus stops at a bus station.

A bus stops at a bus stop. Bus stations are termini.

A train stops at a train station.

I grew up with railway stations (no idea whether you did), but English isn't regular and we don't expect it to be.

When the bus station is next to the train station seems fair enough to call them that when giving directions to a lost soul.

That would confuse me more than if you called it by its proper name and didn't descend to baby talk. Sorry, make that small-child talk, we have not yet degenerated to choo-choo stations.

"Police discovered a cannabis grow in a loft"

Ejits trying to be trendy. Definitely "farm". Perhaps "grow" is gangster slang.

As I said (using different words), these are symptomatic of people no longer minding, or perhaps not realising, that they sound uneducated. To my mind, it could be that "woke" has gone so far as to bend over backwards not to exclude people by the use of "difficult" words! F**k that.

 

[Black Hole]

Another pseudo-noun: "invite"

 

[antipodean]

Surely that should be a desk station - to follow your other examples.

Well, to follow the other examples work stops at a work station ...

 

[EEPhil]

my soap-box pet hate is "train station".

can't remember whether the bus announcements say "railway" or "train".

Nottingham City Transport announcement for the next stop - "Nottingham Railway Station".

 

[EEPhil]

Well, to follow the other examples work stops at a work station ...

That might explain why my last contract wasn't extended!

 

[Black Hole]

Pseudo-verb: to "bingo"

Lazy bastards. "Are you going to [play] bingo?" "Let's [have a] party!"

 

[EEPhil]

Damn! You edited that as I replied. So...

Could be (for the older readers): "Are you going to [the establishment where] bingo [is played]?

Going slightly OT (with all the inherent risks). If ever I watch Rewind TV, I get thoroughly cheesed off with those bingo and gambling advertisements. Every flipping break.

 

[Black Hole]

Could be (for the older readers): "Are you going to [the establishment where] bingo [is played]?

Or simply "Are you going to [the] bingo [hall]?", but as the context of the TV ads is on-line play (are bingo halls allowed to advertise?), I think

"Are you going to [play] bingo?"

covers it.

There would be some confusion if it were "are you going to cinema?". How would we understand that: going to the cinema, or participate in an event at the cinema? This is the problem when nouns/verbs are part-of-speech fluid.

 

[Black Hole]

Going slightly OT (with all the inherent risks). If ever I watch Rewind TV, I get thoroughly cheesed off with those bingo and gambling advertisements. Every flipping break.

It's where the daytime TV money comes from. Be grateful an industry which (I presume) gets no money from us, pays.

 

[EEPhil]

It's where the daytime TV money comes from.

Not just daytime. At about 22:30, in and around Drop the Dead Donkey ruddy dancing animated cows.

 

[trog]

Going slightly OT (with all the inherent risks). If ever I watch Rewind TV, I get thoroughly cheesed off with those bingo and gambling advertisements. Every flipping break.

They should change the name to Dementia channel. I saw that they were airing a show I watched back in the 80's from episode 1 so I set a series record, the show is repeated again latter in the evening and yet again at the weekend, I watched the 10 or 12 episodes expecting season 2 to follow but they then just aired the same episodes with the same daily and weekend repeats again. This was several months ago and when I looked a couple of days ago they are still showing them on a constant loop.

 

[EEPhil]

They did show all the episodes of Drop the Dead Donkey since Rewind came to Freeview - but they're on a repeat showing now.
I can't make out what they're doing with other series - as you said: endless loop of first series.

 

[Black Hole]

endless loop of first series...

...driving people to subscription channels?

 

[EEPhil]

...driving people to subscription channels?

Or "other means" on the internet - YouTube being the obvious one and archive.org can be useful.

 

[gomezz]

A bus stops at a bus stop. Bus stations are termini.

Not necessarily. The Milton Keynes Coachway for example caters for through services as does the Aylesbury bus station.

 

[trog]

Or "other means" on the internet - YouTube being the obvious one and archive.org can be useful.

Archive.org have been having to fight constant copyright battles for years but seem to be losing a lot of cases recently so they may not be around for much longer. A few other Archives have already been forced to shut up shop. Tubi has some good content. https://tubitv.com/tv-shows

...driving people to subscription channels?

Channel5 often play that game by showing just a small part of a season that is aired in full on paid for Paramount+

 

[gomezz]

Archive.org have been having to fight constant copyright battles for years but seem to be losing a lot of cases recently so they may not be around for much longer.

Curiously I have come across a handful of cases recently where the content is listed on archive.org but marked as unavailable - but the same content is readily available on Youtube albeit with some ad breaks and the inconvenience of of being more of a faff to play (being classic radio shows which I want to listen to with the phone locked and in my pocket).