• @Johnhones@sh.itjust.works
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    1407 months ago

    “MIND. THE GAP.” It’s only Embankment station that has this old recording. The rest have been updated. It is kept just for her. The new message is longer and much less stern. Something along the lines of “Please mind the gap between the train and the platform”

  • @StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Aww shit. I have a health condition so my wife is extremely likely to outlive me, probably by decades. I should start recording videos for her.

    Or should I? I want her to move on after I go and I don’t want to interfere with that. Dying sucks.

    • robotica
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      247 months ago

      I love how the post says the “mind the gap” was recorded in 1950 but TfL started using that message in 1969 😆

  • TWeaK
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    7 months ago

    Aww. This reminds me of my car, which had a recording of my dad who had it before, saying “Tweak’s phone”. It’s something so small and insignificant, but still warmingly happy.

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      7 months ago

      I set up a streaming radio station with a looped recording of my cat purring. She died in 2018. This way she’d always be purring somewhere in the ether.

      Miss you, Choupie.

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    Can’t say how many times I’ve thought about this the past couple years.

    I still have both my parents, but both are about to hit their 70s and their health is already not great. There’s a fast approaching time coming where I’ll never be able to hear their voices again. My dad’s said “love ya” so few times in my life, not because he doesn’t, but he’s from that upbringing where you don’t really say that stuff. He finally picked it up from me a few years ago and now says it any time he sees me. I’ve ended up saving voicemails he and my mom leave, just so I can at least hear their voices again when they’re gone.

    Appreciate the time you get with the people you love. It’s easy to take for granted that they’re always there. Someday they won’t be and it’ll be quicker than you can imagine when it happens.

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      67 months ago

      I had the same thought years ago, and also started saving all my voicemail from loved ones to my phone. With a parent and grandparent recently passed, it’s much appreciated to have at least these recordings. I don’t have many vids of them talking directly to me, but these voice messages hit different because for a moment, it almost feels like they’re still alive and reaching out to me.

    • @funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      57 months ago

      The announcer changes periodically except at Embankment (pictured). It’s usually a woman’s voice, except for this station where it is this gentleman.