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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@jackyan not that well in #Germany tho.

#KFC was always overpriced and closes shops i. #Germany because a bucket if greasy chicken for the price of multiple complete menus ain't selling.

And #McDonalds "#AppWalling" and "#LoginWalling" their #Coupons and #SpechalOffer|s is cutting into their revenue when #Döner and #Dürüm have a better price/performance ratio. Why buy a #BigMac when you can get a full menue that fills you up for less?

The weirdest thing I've seen are #MgSpaghetti in the #Philipines which baffles me to this day cuz they have so much nice, delicious and cheap food and then they want soggy, sticky noodles with tasteless sauce?

  • I mean it's not even cheap food by comparison!!!
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Beim Blick durch einen Durchgang zur anderen Bahnsteigseite in der U-Bahnstation Hauptbahnhof Süd in #Hamburg traute ich meinen Augen kaum. Die Frau stand mit dem Rücken zu mir, fast perfekt mittig zum Torbogen, die Farbe des Mantels passend zu den Fliesen des Durchgangs. Und dann lief auch noch die Taube ins Bild. Und ich erwischte diese dann auch noch in einem Moment mit überkreuzten Beinen – passend zu denen der Frau. Perfekt für den #FotoMontag!

I could hardly believe my eyes when I looked through a passageway to the other side of the platform in the Hauptbahnhof Süd subway station in Hamburg. The woman was standing with her back to me, almost perfectly centered to the archway, the color of her coat matching that of the tiles of the passageway. And then this pigeon ran into the picture. And I caught it at a moment with its legs crossed - just like the woman's legs. Perfect for #PhotoMonday!

#photography #Fotografie #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography
#subway #ubahn #Bahnsteig #platform #FujifilmX #FujiXseries #FujifilmX100VI #FujiLove #FujiFeed #ishootjpeg #sooc
Der Blick führt durch einen hell gefliesten Durchgang auf eine Frau in hellem Mantel auf einem U-Bahnsteig. Die Frau mit schwarzen langen Haaren steht mit dem Rücken zum Betrachter. Rechts neben der Frau sitzt eine Taube auf dem rotbraun gepflasterten Bahnsteig. An der hellgrün gefliesten Wand im Hintergrund steht auf einem weißen Schild „Hauptbahnhof Süd“. Zwei kleinere Schilder zeigen Piktogramme mit einer durchgestrichenen Zigarette und einer ebenso durchgestrichenen Flasche mit der Aufschrift ALC. The view leads through a brightly tiled passageway to a woman in a light-colored coat on a subway platform. The woman with long black hair is standing with her back to the viewer. To the right of the woman, a pigeon sits on the red-brown paved platform. A white sign on the light green tiled wall in the background reads “Hauptbahnhof Süd”. Two smaller signs show pictograms with a crossed-out cigarette and an equally crossed-out bottle with the inscription ALC.
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PierreNick :apple_old_logo: 💾

Long shot but—
Any leads on data archives of the content being shown on the Montréal Métro Télécité displays from 1991 to 2015?

It was such a unique medium [see links below] but now it's gone.
Would be so nice to dig up those files and run them on an emulator, a modern recreation or even better: on real hardware.

Those tri-colour (orange, red and green) LED matrix displays were pretty advanced for their time, featuring fluid animations. Even the ads were so unique as they had to be custom. But it was more than ads! There was news, weather, tidbits, fun facts, trivia and even poetry to pass the time. For close to 25 years, it was such an integral part of riding the Métro.

Installed in 1991 and acquired by Alstom in 1999, the system was then sold to other transit systems around the world. It was apparently one of the first of its kind.

The custom content was phased out as the newer (MPM-10) trains were put in service. Télécité displays are still in use on the old MR-73 trains, where they're kept at their minimum: showing the date and time, announcing stations and their connections as well as any service announcements.

In the 1990s, it introduced itself with this cool animation:
"Vous regardez: [logo swoosh swoosh swoosh] Télécité, les afficheurs électroniques du Métro"

In the 2000s, it became:
"Alstom Télécité, média électronique du Métro"

I only found a few newspaper articles mentioning it despite it being so ubiquitous for over two decades. There's only a handful of videos of it on the internet (mostly > 2009, when people started having video cameras in their pocket).

📹 Footage from 2010:
youtube.com/watch?v=zPAaiT0lnB

🔠 Artist William Gamache recreated the font in 2017 (but never released it, AFAIK):
behance.net/gallery/52783015/P

📺 Gamache also made an animation that can only be found on the MR-73 English Wikipedia article:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MR-73#Au

📷 Left: Picture by me, last Thursday on the Blue line; right: screenshot from footage above.

LED display (in 2025) affixed above the window inside a subway train, showing two lines of text: Line 1, in red: Jeudi 20 février Line 2, in orange: 17 h 42
LED display (in 2010) affixed above the window inside a subway train showing a green, orange and black graphic that says “Quiz. C’est bon à savoir”
#STM#STCUM#Subway
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