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Assume v. Presume

antipodean said:
A bus stops at a bus station.
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A bus stops at a bus stop. Bus stations are termini.

antipodean said:
A train stops at a train station.
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I grew up with railway stations (no idea whether you did), but English isn't regular and we don't expect it to be.

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

EEPhil said:
"Police discovered a cannabis grow in a loft"
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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.
 
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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. :frantic:
 
EEPhil said:
Could be (for the older readers): "Are you going to [the establishment where] bingo [is played]?
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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
Black Hole said:
"Are you going to [play] bingo?"
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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.
 
EEPhil said:
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. :frantic:
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It's where the daytime TV money comes from. Be grateful an industry which (I presume) gets no money from us, pays.
 
EEPhil said:
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. :frantic:
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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.
 
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.
 
EEPhil said:
Or "other means" on the internet - YouTube being the obvious one and archive.org can be useful.
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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

Black Hole said:
...driving people to subscription channels?
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Channel5 often play that game by showing just a small part of a season that is aired in full on paid for Paramount+
 
trog said:
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.
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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).
 
Evan Davis (PM): "Milton Keynes train station"

Neil Nunes (9pm news bulletin, Radio 4): "Milton Keynes railway station"

Considering Evan's excellent diction, I'm surprised.
 
Out walking to Aldi this morning and was passed by a trentbarton [sic] bus on route "the Keyworth" heading towards Nottingham. The destination board included "Train Station" :eek:. At least it was showing the correct direction. Many trentbarton Keyworth buses going into Nottingham show Keyworth as the destination (and vice versa).
Bus stops are interesting showing Train (oops) Nottingham Station and the double arrow symbol
 
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@BH It looks like you may be able to point the finger of blame at American influence. the rot started there in the 40's and here in the 60's with the scales fully tipped by now.

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Train Station vs. Railway Station

When I say "train station" I am corrected to say "railway station", but I don't understand why. Examples... Buses are stationed at a bus station. Trains are stationed at a train
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