I think it is a good idea. Putting some "unimportant"
words at the start of an announcement gives people
chance to tune in without missing the important
content.

The problem is that most of the announcements are
useless. This means that people will tend to ignore
them completely.

Which announcements do you think are useless? Do
you have any examples?


Matt

"Matt Ashby" typed

Which announcements do you think are useless? Do
you have any examples?


'On leaving the train, please ensure you have all your personal
possessions with you.'

Has no effect on the terminally scatter-brained AFAICT...

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Edgware.

"Helen Deborah Vecht" wrote in message
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"Matt Ashby" typed

Which announcements do you think are useless? Do
you have any examples?


'On leaving the train, please ensure you have all your personal
possessions with you.'

Has no effect on the terminally scatter-brained AFAICT...

But would have an effect on someone who isn't scatter-brained, but has left
something behind. Just because it doesn't affect you doesn't mean it's
useless

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Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

d ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

'On leaving the train, please ensure you have all your personal
possessions with you.'

Has no effect on the terminally scatter-brained AFAICT...

But would have an effect on someone who isn't scatter-brained, but has
left something behind.

If they're still on the train, then they don't realise that they're about
to leave something behind.

If they've just left the train, then by the time they DO realise, the train
doors are closed and the train is just disappearing into the tunnel...

"Adrian" wrote in message
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d ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

'On leaving the train, please ensure you have all your personal
possessions with you.'

Has no effect on the terminally scatter-brained AFAICT...

But would have an effect on someone who isn't scatter-brained, but has
left something behind.

If they're still on the train, then they don't realise that they're about
to leave something behind.

Sorry - in the process of leaving something behind. As in they are with
their soon-to-be-lost property, but have forgotten they have it with them.

If they've just left the train, then by the time they DO realise, the
train
doors are closed and the train is just disappearing into the tunnel...

But would have an effect on someone who isn't scatter-brained, but has
left something behind.

If they're still on the train, then they don't realise that they're about
to leave something behind.

Sorry - in the process of leaving something behind. As in they are with
their soon-to-be-lost property, but have forgotten they have it with them.

If they've just left the train, then by the time they DO realise, the
train
doors are closed and the train is just disappearing into the tunnel...



People this dismally stupid go through life in a haze that the witty
denizens of Usenet would not even realise as sentience. Watch them stand in
front of ticket gates fumbling in their rucksacks. Watch them drop things
whilst waiting at cashpoints or checkout queues for no apparent reason

I really want a place to get away from these ****wits. Yes I do want to read
my book, and yes books are optimised for a slightly longer attention span
than the Metro is; do people get bored upon finding their phones don't work
underground and they need some waffle to listen to?

In message , Tim
writes


I really want a place to get away from these ****wits. Yes I do want to read
my book, and yes books are optimised for a slightly longer attention span
than the Metro is; do people get bored upon finding their phones don't work
underground and they need some waffle to listen to?


Oh dear, hide the sharp objects !

--
Edward Cowling London UK

In message , Helen Deborah
Vecht writes
"Matt Ashby" typed

Which announcements do you think are useless? Do
you have any examples?


'On leaving the train, please ensure you have all your personal
possessions with you.'

Has no effect on the terminally scatter-brained AFAICT...

You probably saw that I posted recently about a large part of the front
end of a Ford Escort being left on a District Line train (I was told of
this on a behind-the-scenes visit to Baker Street a while ago now).
The number of umbrellas, gloves and mobile phones there is amazing.

Whenever I come to the end of tours, be it for half a day or for several
days' duration, I always do an announcement about not leaving things
behind which I endeavour to make sound spontaneous and with feeling,
rather than just being well, an announcement. But people still leave
things, even after they've been told the tale of an incident many years
ago now, when someone left behind their artificial foot.......
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

"Ian Jelf" wrote in message
...
In message , Helen Deborah Vecht
writes
"Matt Ashby" typed

Which announcements do you think are useless? Do
you have any examples?


'On leaving the train, please ensure you have all your personal
possessions with you.'

Has no effect on the terminally scatter-brained AFAICT...

You probably saw that I posted recently about a large part of the front
end of a Ford Escort being left on a District Line train (I was told of
this on a behind-the-scenes visit to Baker Street a while ago now). The
number of umbrellas, gloves and mobile phones there is amazing.

Whenever I come to the end of tours, be it for half a day or for several
days' duration, I always do an announcement about not leaving things
behind which I endeavour to make sound spontaneous and with feeling,
rather than just being well, an announcement. But people still leave
things, even after they've been told the tale of an incident many years
ago now, when someone left behind their artificial foot.......

But you never see the items from people who would have left something, but
upon hearing the announcement remembered to take their items with them...
so it'll always appear, from lost-baggage's perspective, that the
announcements don't work :-P

--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

d wrote:


But you never see the items from people who would have left something, but
upon hearing the announcement remembered to take their items with them...
so it'll always appear, from lost-baggage's perspective, that the
announcements don't work :-P


They could test it by not playing the announcement for a month and
seeing if the number of left items goes up. Perhaps they have done such
a test.

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