User talk:Fireinacrowdedtheatre/Archive 3

"Bob's yur Uncle"

I keep asking but no one can tell me what 'da heck that means. I use it, often, and get contorted looks. Can you help?--Buster7 (talk) 23:59, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Airport Metro station

Hi. Basically the {{s-line|system=TWM|line=Green|next=Callerton Parkway}} part of the code tells the s-line template to use the "TWM" information, for the Green line. This means that the s-line template automatically looks for Template:S-line/TWM left/Green and Template:S-line/TWM right/Green, and then places what it finds in the left and right boxes of the template (towards Airport/South Hylton etc). Before this happens though, the switching template: Template:TWM stations is applied to change any abnormal station names. So to fix the problem with Airport, all that was needed was a new entry in Template:TWM stations, so that when the script sees "Airport", instead of creating the default link of Airport Metro station, it switches it for the customised version - Airport Metro station (Tyne and Wear). Have a look - there are a few stations that use this for similar reasons, such as Four Lane Ends, but also the final destinations "St James via the Coast" and "South Shields via the Coast" that are used to avoid confusion at Monument Metro station. Hope that makes sense! Johnwalton 18:06, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Stamford East

I've replied to your 2008 question in Talk:Stamford railway station --Robert EA Harvey (talk) 22:51, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Reference desk

Hello. I've removed your request from the reference desk, since it isn't a request for help finding a reference, which is what the desk is for. I would suggest asking your father to find someone in France that can help him out. --Tango (talk) 18:29, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

I have reverted this. What I posted was a sincere, perfectly reasonable request. Nobody is forcing you to help me, so please don't be rude. — FIRE!^{in a crowded theatre...} 18:45, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

I have removed it again. It may be a sincere and reasonable request, but it does not belong on the reference desk. The reference desk serves a very specific purpose, it is not somewhere to ask for random favours. --Tango (talk) 22:21, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, but to me this sounds like a serious phishing expedition meant to get people's bank details to use in some fraud (which I assume somehow can be accessed by the person with the phone account) It's also not clear to me whether there are circumstances where this transaction becomes open-ended with more charges going to the bank account of the person who uses it to buy the card, which is used as an identifier. I wouldn't touch this with an eleven foot pole. Sorry if I offend, but WP:AGF doesn't extend to bank account information! Wnt (talk) 22:31, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Tango and Wnt are clearly talking rubbish. If I had found out about this at the time, I would have reinstated your question and answered as follows:

Just like in the UK, you can walk into a mobile phone shop in France and buy a pre-pay SIM card over the counter using cash. No ID or bank information is required. Of course, you need to be sure your phone is unblocked before it will accept a SIM card for a different/foreign network. The card (usually) comes with some credit already on it and it is readily topped up in many places including supermarkets. There really is no need to buy one in advance of your trip to France. If you really do need a SIM card before your trip, you might be out of luck. I'm not surprised the site won't accept foreign cards - in my experience, the French are strangely suspicious of foreign bank cards - and I really think it is unlikely you will find a kind stranger to help you in the manner you describe, due to the perception that they might not get their money back. Astronaut (talk) 02:17, 28 December 2011 (UTC)