Stephen E Crane

Husband & Father; Would-be Musician; Cyclist & MTB'er; Horologist & Educationalist; Foodie; Balding, ageing, fattening, griping ole man.

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@sashakeable Great voice, good songs, godawful live sound at @ManchesterArena ... which, considering there are absolutely no live musicians, really says something about the capability of the sound engineer. Hoping @giveon uses an engineer with normal hearing & a bit of experience

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@ring_uk My 88yr old neighbour recently left hospital following an op for colon cancer. Her Ring doorbell A/C had a single character in error in her eMail. Ring have refused to do anything telling her to wait 15+ days for the device to remove itself from the 'wrong' account!!! 🤬

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@WestMidRailway No train on the way out, no train on the return leg either.
And no surprises either.
WMR never cease to astound at the level of incompetence in running a train service.

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@WestMidRailway Ella case

Why do I bother buying a ticket in advance?
The usual cr@p service.
Thankfully I gave myself an additional 90min window because this nonsense is par for the course.
@transportgovuk @Heidi_Labour why does this company retain its license after years of underperforming!?

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@SebGorka @VicDerbyshire @BBCNewsnight What a rude, objectionable, obnoxious, condescending, patronising, despicable cunt of a man (and it's the first time I've ever used that word on social media - I considered using some clever colloquialism ... but nothing else will suffice).

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@wowcher Never again will we use Wowcher. Their Customer Service people are the most unreasonable, ignorant & cantankerous support I've ever had the misfortune to deal with. They either can't read or won't AND they mislead. SIX days to recognise the error: the day of the booking!

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@JDVance Anyone resorting to ad hominem insults has already lost the debate...
...despite the fact you're also entirely wrong with your assertions.
Pathetic.

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@DanMartin86 Warner-Discovery bought GCN, tore it apart, disposed of the decimated remains, transferred the coverage to Eurosport, pulled Eurosport & now has a monopoly to do what it wants.
Expect more of the same from people who care nothing about sport would sell their grannies for 💷💶💵!!

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@BBCr4today Repeatedly giving the political shyster @DavidMencer airtime to peddle his misinformation and lies while innocent children, women and men are slaughtered en masse - and a genocide committed - in the name of religion. Always the victim, never the perpetrator. Shameful.

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@BBCr4today Arrogant, condescending, hubristic. @rushanaraali on BBCR4 this morning. I've argued against, "They're all the same" WRT politicians for most of my adult life. I am fast beginning to think that these days, they really are. Disgraceful stance. Answer the question!

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@Top_CashBack Yet another misleading aspect to this somewhat unreliable site: one cashback rate prominently advertised; log in and another rate is made available ... and it's always lower. Well, fancy that! Can't wait for the excuse, ahem, sorry, reason. Platitudinous nonsense.

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@sugar_bytes Can't see any discounted IOS products, guys...

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@mikejwood And, while you're at it, could you try and respond to the innumerable letters you will have received by now concerning the incompetence of @WestMidRailway?

No one I know has even received an acknowledgment from your office.

Is this how you think it's going to be!?

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@mikejwood So why did you not bother to vote on something so monumentally important as the assisted dying bill on Friday? Too busy...!?

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@ThomasDolby One of my all-time favourite LPs ... and I own over 2,500 vinyl albums and 2,000+ CDs!!!
Great it's gonna be re-released - my original copy has seen better days - but I'd much prefer it on 200g or 250g virgin vinyl, than some flexible clear jobby! Thoughts, @ThomasDolby ...?

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@LouHaigh
"📣 #WMRInfo Cancellations
Birmingham New Street - Shrewsbury
🚂 Due to a shortage of available train crew many services on this route have been cancelled today
🚌 Buses are shuttling once an hour"

Such messages are never-ending.
What exactly are you doing about this?

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@WestMidRailway And again, @LouHaigh - yet another service cancellation by this excuse for a train company.

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@WestMidRailway @Revamped_views There was no "abuse" here and none directed AT you, Ben.
There have been hours and hours of near-constant disruption in a manifestly sub-par service.
What you read was the frustration shared by many of WMT's customers, most of whom have given up posting: as there's little point.

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@Revamped_views @WestMidRailway No, Gary, that's not what it means.
And it wasn't directed AT anybody.
The strength of the language merely indicates the sheer frustration @ a service which has been abysmal since WMT began running it.
Relying on a sole adjective to marginalise a genuine complaint is pathetic.

[Stephen E Crane @SteveECrane]

@WestMidRailway @Revamped_views Clearly the colloquial proto-adjectives aren't directed @ U, rather WMT.
But when a service has been so abysmally, catastrophically dire for yrs - YEARS, not weeks - just what do U expect?
WMT's customers expect trains that run & run on time.
We don't all get what we want, do we?