Talking of aimless tv viewing ..... last night on BBC 4

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  1. Mr Badger

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    I watched the best part of three hours of the Australian Ghan train as it travelled from Adelaide to Darwin.
    Most of those three hours was taken up by the flat, boring Aussie landscape as the 36 carriage train tootled along. The highlights were a river, a metal statue and some rocks.
    There was over 2000 miles of the stuff.
    Brilliant edge of the seat viewing with no advert breaks to spoil it.
    I have in the past watched that 2 hour Country Bus ride through the Yorkshire Dales. Twice.
     
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    Get yersen tested, it's clearly a symptom.
     
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    I Found that program. Thought i had sound muted. After 10 mins of the same view i switched it over. I reckon they will be nearly there now.
     
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    If something is on for 3 hours and you're bored after half an hour, turn it off/over then mate
     
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    The reindeer ride in Lapland is fascinating .:rolleyes:
     
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    i went on that train too tight to pay for a bed or owt. Not one of my better decisions.
     
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    Didn't watch it all but did watch 20 mins not sure why. Once you've seen one bush you've seen em all........matron!
     
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    Impossible !!
    You don't know what you might miss.
     
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    Lol mate :)

    It's like a film, i usually know within a few minutes whether i am going to enjoy it.

    I've still only seen the first 5 minutes of Titanic...lol :)
     
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    Spoiler alert - the ship sinks at the end.
     
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    A metal statue?

    That sounds quite interesting.
     
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    Does it? Never would know that! I won't get that far watching the film anyways. Not my cup of tea, as they say
     
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    Yes it was. Totally engrossing.
    About 5 minutes before the train reached it the driver announced to the excited passengers, "in a few minutes if you look out on the right hand side you will see a metal statue which honours the men who built the railway."
    Then the wait .............
    It turned out to be a bit of welded scaffolding about 6 feet high, gone in a fraction of a second.
    People have spent a fortune to miss that.
     
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