Comments on: Virgin Trains – ‘Booty Train’

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:08:31 +0000

like the advert, don’t know why a train from London to Manchester is heading south at Stoke-on-Trent, might explain this:
“Anyone noticed the clock showing 3 minutes past the hour when it arrives at Manchester Piccadilly? The advert has us believe that the woman is catching the 1920 ex-London Euston (despite there clearly being shown a departure leaving 20 minutes earlier). This service is timetabled to arrive at 2128 – the time therefore being very likely 2203 thus the train arriving 35 minutes late. Pretty much what I expect from Virgin Trains – never on time.”

By: Bad News

Bad News — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:32:26 +0000

Rest in Peace. You’ll be missed.

By: GastricExplosion

GastricExplosion — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:17:48 +0000

haha its a train.

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:26:05 +0000

Well the “older generation” do have difficulty remembering things….

By: owen

owen — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:56:08 +0000

this isnt that bad! people can relate to it. how many uni students, young professionals and even the older generation can think back to a time, when they had to travel to see a loved one.

thats what i have to do everytime i visit my girlfriend in birmingham form south wales.

in all fairness what the ad doesnt show is the wet toilet papered automatic cupicles that stink up the the whole train and the over crowded carridges!

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:34:50 +0000

Virgin Trains are rubbish. So are all the rest. So that’s that argument defused. The bit that gets me is the tagline ‘where do you want to go’? I’d like to go from Liverpool to, say, Bristol… but oh, wait, the Government made VT drop the only North West – South West routes back sometime in 2002… so I had to go via Central Trains and then get on a Virgin at Birmingham(!). And then you lost the Cross Country franchise… so ultimately, Virgin, I can’t go anywhere with you from Liverpool, except to London. And I don’t want to go there. Whoop-de-bloody-do.

By: robert

robert — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:18:45 +0000

Archer

Said on the 19 May 2009

In my home county of Lancashire, the BNP are gaining a stronghold. Is it just me or do “trains” have a scary connotation for those of us who had relatives who lived through the 40s/50s? Surely well-run trains = facists?? Very well-run trains = part of European history that makes us all shamed.

Despite the mainstream sleaze… shouldn’t we all be voting on June 4th for crappy running trains and badly managed MPs’ expenses?

Viva la crappy-trains and les crappy-train-adverts.
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So let see you add some new train’s m8 than saying virgin tranis are rubbish

By: si

si — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:29:59 +0000

My only, and last ever, trip on a virgin train was nothing like this unfortunately.

No (fairly) attractive women applying loads of make-up, waitresses showering me in champagne or sexual innuendo of any sort…

On the trip down to London another train had been cancelled, meaning that the train I was on had twice as many passengers on it. Standing room only. For about 3 hours.

The return journey was not quite so packed, but I was surrounded by a group of old women, and one ladies blatantly homosexual grandson. The entire journey was filled with him talking loud, and often, about how marvellous he was, and the various things he got up to in his mind-numbingly boring life. And his grandmother occasionally chiming in about how wonderful he was.

Virgin trains are bloody awful.

I find it really funny that the sponsor at the top-right of this page, at the time of writing, is Virgin media heheheee

By: Gary Glitter

Gary Glitter — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:29:39 +0000

Gary, you should stop Stoke-ing the whole ‘Stoke is shit’ fire.

Could you kill Robbie Williams for me, though?

By: GARY

GARY — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:44:46 +0000

By: GARY

GARY — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:42:38 +0000

yeah.. stoke is bad.. its funny really because i like everywhere north of stoke, cheshire etc, pretty much everything east and west of stoke, and even south of stoke. but stoke itself… crap nightclubs in the early 90′s, pottery, the M6 and robbie bastard williams.

By: GARY

GARY — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:38:42 +0000

everytime i go on a virgin train the carriages smell of poo. its really quite nasty. i prefer to travel in my mercedes.

By: Martin Morris

Martin Morris — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:23:30 +0000

After watching that ad, I would rather give my children away to some gypsy’s than travel on a Virgin train.

By: Littlefishey

Littlefishey — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:12:45 +0000

Virgin?

Very unlikely.

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:16:51 +0000

It’s as good a reason as any. Stoke on Trent has been known as the damp armpit of the universe.

By: Offended

Offended — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:57:58 +0000

So, I ask….you dislike an advert as it shows Stoke-on-Trent??

You jumped up little shit! I would love to know in which exotic UK location you reside!

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:16:14 +0000

Did I miss the point there?

By: frankie smales

frankie smales — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:27:34 +0000

the song the look of love was used for an
car tv advert in the 80s the second song to be used
in tv advertising a long side ride of the valkyries the popular
tune from apocalypse now but a classy advert though.

frankie smales

(tv advert fan)

By: Noel

Noel — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:19:01 +0000

Looks like the poor bloke is having a stroke in the last bit of the advert – someone ought to get him to hospital

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:18:57 +0000

She whispers that the sex change op was a complete success.