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tubeguru wrote:I should like to point out that this is probably (because I don't know if anyone else is out today) the first ever full network attempt which will not use an A-stock train.

Not true - I didn't use an A stock on 25 August!

Nigel wrote:

tubeguru wrote:I should like to point out that this is probably (because I don't know if anyone else is out today) the first ever full network attempt which will not use an A-stock train.

Not true - I didn't use an A stock on 25 August!

OK, let me re-word it.

IF THEY COMPLETE THE NETWORK, it will be the first ever full network completion without using an A-stock.

Did Geoff use an A-Stock on his recent completion? By that point there would only have been a couple of A stocks floating about.

greatkingrat wrote:Did Geoff use an A-Stock on his recent completion? By that point there would only have been a couple of A stocks floating about.

Hmm, I see where this is going. Let me re-word it AGAIN.

This will be the ...

Oh, forget it.

This is the first attempt where it is impossible to use an A-Stock?

tubeguru wrote: OK, let me re-word it.

IF THEY COMPLETE THE NETWORK, it will be the first ever full network completion without using an A-stock.

Still not true - I completed the network on 25 August and did not use an A-stock train.

I think my intention was to imply that it would not be POSSIBLE to use one. Who's going to be the first person to do a full completion without being able to use a 96 Stock, I wonder? It might be a few years before we find that one out ...

***** wrote:I''m with Neil. (just). It's impossible to use an A Stock to complete today. But indeed - our completion the other week didn't use one either!

Our complettion back in July 2011, may have also been the first completion to use an S-Stock. Can i claim that? Gotta claim something ...

I got something u can claim being the most person ever to blame the network fault!

We've been through this. If you fail to complete because of a delay caused by the Underground, then of course the network "failed". The only other possibility (barring an accident to a team member) would be that your route was so epically rubbish that you just couldn't get to the end station before the last train.

As people hardly ever suffer this last fate, it would imply that barring accidents the ONLY cause of failure on a full-network challenge is "network failure" of some description.

So why not blame it?

Jeez, when Andi gets a bee in his bonnet over something, he loves to go on and on and on and on about it.

Guess what... All the times I have failed to complete, it's due to the network f**cking me over!!!!!!!!!

Sam wrote:Jeez, when Andi gets a bee in his bonnet over something, he loves to go on and on and on and on about it.

Guess what... All the times I have failed to complete, it's due to the network f**cking me over!!!!!!!!!

its called being sarcastic Sam and besides lets get back on topic (i hear they are doing quite well at moment completion defo on the cards)

Unless the network fails.

tubeguru wrote:Unless the network fails.

no it never fails according to hopeless traveller keep going may the gods of boris be with you!

palkanetoijala31 wrote:

Sam wrote:Jeez, when Andi gets a bee in his bonnet over something, he loves to go on and on and on and on about it.

Guess what... All the times I have failed to complete, it's due to the network f**cking me over!!!!!!!!!

its called being sarcastic Sam and besides lets get back on topic (i hear they are doing quite well at moment completion defo on the cards)

Sarcasm? Is that something you really understand...

I didn't use an A stock on my completion Last one I caught was on the Olympic Bottle challenge... I was surprised to say the least.