(02 Dec 2023, 10:56 pm)TEN 6083 Taking a photo of Stagecoach NE 22081 on Northumberland Street earlier today being used for a Santa’s grotto and a middle aged woman comes past and they said “they’ve got a nerve doing that” obviously thinking it’s a GNE bus.

Do they not realise that it’s Stagecoach. Guess to some people they all look the same.





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(02 Dec 2023, 10:56 pm)TEN 6083 Taking a photo of Stagecoach NE 22081 on Northumberland Street earlier today being used for a Santa’s grotto and a middle aged woman comes past and they said “they’ve got a nerve doing that” obviously thinking it’s a GNE bus.

Do they not realise that it’s Stagecoach. Guess to some people they all look the same.





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(02 Dec 2023, 11:22 pm)BusLoverMum I can't think why she was confused by it...

(14 Dec 2023, 10:39 pm)F114TML There is a joke in SC that people try to hail our DT bus (which happens an alarming amount, same with Not in Service) and when it doesn't stop, it's GNE that get the complaint cos it's red!

(15 Dec 2023, 9:04 am)Rob44 When i had my focus RS i wnet to pick the crocodile up from Gateshead metro.  Whe was standing by the taxi rank so i stopped to pick her up - several people tried to get in thinking it was a taxi!!    It was only a two door in Ultimate green!

(15 Dec 2023, 8:09 am)Ianthegoon Some people will try and hail ANYTHING!

A few years ago one of my friends bought one of the local minibuses.  It was debranded, although still in the base livery.  A week or so before Christmas we decorated it with trees, tinsel and baubles, set the destination blind to read "Straight to Cuba", and drove down our local High Street.  It was astonishing the number of people that put their hand out to hail us.  And there were about six different routes that went along there, so they would have HAD to have looked at the bus to see if we were the correct route for them .....

(15 Dec 2023, 9:37 am)Andreos1 So not the ex-Crocodile anymore?

Think we need to have a thread about the Rob44, the Penthouse and the Crocodile. Just to keep up.

(15 Dec 2023, 10:31 am)Rob44 Oh yeh still ex.Shes got my car though so im using the bus more!!

(15 Dec 2023, 10:37 am)Andreos1 Eh? What? The ex-Crocodile ended it, you ended up in a Penthouse, but she got the car?!

(22 Jan 2024, 9:28 pm)Unber43 Due to Storm Isha there were several Ryanair Flights diverted to different airports and there were some funny ones...

- Copenhagen to Dublin, diverted to Manchester. After 4 hours on ground, the aircraft took off again to make another attempt to reach Dublin. 3 hours later it diverted to Liverpool, 50 km away from Manchester.
- A Flight from Manchester to Dublin got diverted via Belfast, for the plane to miss the runway approach and is now back in Manchester after 3 hours
- From Tenerife to Dublin diverted to Bordeaux
- A flight from Budapest to Standard was diverted to Manchester to be diverted back to Budapest
- Tenerife to Edinburgh, circled Edinburgh and ended up in Cologne
- Another flight from Manchester to Dublin ended up in Paris (you would think they would learn)