For anyone wondering like me:
A Tannoy is a system of loudspeakers used to make public announcements, for example at a fair or at a sports stadium. [British, trademark]regional note: in AM, use public address system.
96I definitely googled it before coming to the contents. You're awesome.
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The funniest announcement in my railway station has been: "The train xxxxx coming from y and directed to z has been canceled because someone stole the electrical cables on the line".
Funny only since it wasn't my train.
71That happened near me. They dumped all the cables down the alley next to me and the weight of them collapsed the fence.
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A few years ago in Paris I was waiting for my train to Marseille and the announcer was rambling about our destination like he were paid to advertise it. "Marseille ! its cicadas ! its legendary sunny weather ! the smiles on people's faces !" after a while he seemed to run out of things to list so he went on with random stuff "its horses ! the ladies' perfume !" I had a good laugh
65I had the SNCF jingle as my notification sound for meetings like 10 years ago. I loved the sound of it. But I was a tourist and didn’t have to listen to it play 700 times during my commute.
4god this triggered my ptsd
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Was this in French or multiple languages? I ask because the trolley system in San Diego has automated announcements in English/Spanish, and most of the drivers are bilingual so they can yell at most of the people in a language they understand.
4Only in French iirc. Keep your expectations in check lol
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Used to be a guy like this at one of the main stations in Melbourne 😁
38Similarly I remember there was a (driver?) announcing the stations when I commuted from StLeonards to Central in Sydney, and he was hilarious, cracking jokes and congratulating people for not blocking the doors, keeping time records of how long passengers took to alight and aboard the trains
25I came here to comment that Melbourne had a few train and tram drivers that were very chatty and brightened your commute. I don't miss trying to change at South Yarra at rush hour, though.
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Remind me of a time where the announcer called the three-car train arriving 'petite'.
Got to have fun where you can!
37What magicial land di you live in where u can understand shit when they talk ...
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I didn’t know there even was such a job.
23Usually in conjunction with other station duties, cleaning admin work etc
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I’m surprised his bosses allow it. It seems that everyone is expected to act like a robot in their jobs.
16Once at, it was either Oxford Circus or Piccadilly, the announcer was doing the announcements in a Dalek voice. "Be careful on the escalaaaaator!"
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why does this post sound British
15Because they called a PA a Tannoy system...
7why do i understand this
even tho it doesn't make sense, he sounds too happy for a british person
7I've never met anyone that voluntarily refers to themselves as "fat" that didn't have a good sense of humor.
Then again they may have just snagged themselves an optimistic American transplant
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I bought a vehicle when the pandemic hit, but the last time I took a public transit train we had hometown boy Seth Rogan doing the announcements.
12A few weeks ago I got on the train home and whoever had control of the intercom (not the guy at the front, though he was having a grand time) proceeded to yell a bunch of stuff about anime (mostly names) during the time when they normally say to hit the button to request street level stops. I will always wonder who that hero was, it totally made my day.
12I want to go to there…
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7SIR TOPHAM HAT!
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