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TLF Travel Alerts is a (now-defunct) a parody Twitter account for London's public transport system, existing in a bizarre alternate world where buses and trams have Thomas & Friends-like intelligence, and eldrich horrors lurk in subway tubes. And boats. They also have boats.It can be found here. |
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Dropped link to Ghostbusters1984: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Starfish Language |
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Starfish Language: Attempting to imitate one is not recommended. |
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Becoming the Costume |
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Becoming the Costume: For Halloween 2017 they warned of a student who dressed as a circle line train in 1997 who became an example of this trope and was still running in service. Consider your costumes wisely! |
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Halloween Episode |
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Halloween Episode: Subverted, since Halloween is just another day to them. |
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Noodle Incident |
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Noodle Incident: Quite a lot of them, actually. Many tweets make it sound like something is going on, but don't give you quite enough information to figure out exactly what. |
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Mysterious Mist |
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Mysterious Mist: Delays on the Victoria Line are because of the Creeping Sleep Fog or the Dust Cloud of Malfeasance. Bus connections not available, delays. |
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Instant Runes |
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Instant Runes: Came down with a case of these on April 15th 2016 when they spontaneously manifested out of thin air leading to much consternation and trains being held at stations. |
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Lightning Can Do Anything |
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Lightning Can Do Anything: The Circle Line must harvest lightning to continue operating. Unfortunately the harvest only allows for three week's running. Delays. |
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Christmas Episode |
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Christmas Episode: In a spoof of the early broadcast of Christmas themed commercials, for 2017 they gave us an early release heartwarming advert of a boy befriending an escalator. Which then devolved into a Twisted Christmas tale of ruination and delays. |
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them! |
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Occasionally they decide just to close lines down because they are in charge and can do what they want. Sucks if you need the Victoria or Bakerloo line. Delays. |
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Big Entrance |
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Big Entrance: Apparently the underground trains like to do this, so red velvet curtains have been hung on all stations to help them. |
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Bait-and-Switch |
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Bait-and-Switch: Claims is hot enough in the London Underground to literally fry eggs on the escalators. How ever you shouldn't try to do it ... they are on a diet. |
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Only the Knowledgable May Pass |
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Only the Knowledgable May Pass: Commuters miiiiight encounter this problem. |
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Ret-Gone |
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Retgone: There have never been any buses. |
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Time Crash |
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Time Crash: On June 25th 2018 a heat wave hit that was so intense that the very concept of time itself melted and destroyed cause and effect itself. Leading to there being no more delays. |
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Heat Wave |
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Heat Wave: The heat in the 2015 heat wave led to platforms hot enough to turn people into eggs to fry themselves on them, the fabric of space and time melting, and delays. And in June 2018 the heat rose high enough to break the very concept of time, ending the running gag about delays. |
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Alien Abduction |
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Alien Abduction: The inevitable result of using the Dockland's Light Railway. |
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Parody |
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Parody: Of the actual Transport for London Twitter page. |
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Overused Running Gag |
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Overused Running Gag: That everything causes delays. Highlighted in the June 25 2018 tweet about how the heatwave had broken time itself and thus there could be no more delays. |
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Berserk Button |
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Berserk Button: Do not step over the yellow safety lines! |
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Mind Screw |
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Everything causes delays, including more efficient service. |
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Dragon Hoard |
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Dragon Hoard: London buses have had to adopt a cashless payment system because of dragons stealing cash payments for their hoards. |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: Many. This tweet from Feb 24, 2014, referencing Ghostbusters (1984): This one celebrates Easter 2016: |
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Vigilante Man |
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Vigilante Man: The Signals at Earls Court are not going to play by your rules, but they are going to get results! Delays. |
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Mundane Made Awesome |
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Mundane Made Awesome: It's a Twitter account for bus and tram service (and boats), yet it still manages to be funny, surreal, frightening, and even poetic. |
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Weird Currency |
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Weird Currency: On trams, in addition to money, you can pay with emotions, or — as of March 2014 — pancakes. |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Invoked occasionally, such as in this tweet from Jan. 20, 2014: Tlf is puzzled as to why everyone got worked up by an octopus in central London: |
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Despair Event Horizon |
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Despair Event Horizon: The Central Line started doing this to commuters when South Ruislip station began pumping out abject misery. Delays. |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: Dark winter evenings are not caused by demon wolves, that is just a false rumour. |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In this case the list includes the usual flour, milk, lemons, eggs, etc. of a shopping list before heading to: Screams. Confusion. Fear. Denial. Acceptance. Tears. Oh, and Delays. |
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Running Gag |
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Running Gag: The continual mysterious and perplexing appearance of pineapples on the district line. Everything causes delays, including more efficient service. |
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Comically Missing the Point |
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Comically Missing the Point: The official travel advice for dealing with the Covid Coronavirus outbreak of 2020; wash your hands, try not to touch other people, respect personal space, means that the virus is a great thing for commuters as it means ideal commuting behaviour. |
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Spider Tank |
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Spider Tank: Created a Spider-Tram. It spun a giant web and devoured commuters. Delays. |
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