You didn't hit a nerve (partly because I've got none left), it's just the attitude people outside of it all seem to have, and I'm just sick to death of it.
Oh yes, there are idiots out there all right, but we all get tarred with the same brush for it.
It's the kind of thing where people feel they are duty bound to tell you to get a life because they obviously think that they are so much better than yourself and look down their noses at you. Just because you are carrying a tripod through a station (believe me, this has happened to me before, just because I had a tripod in my hand, no camera or anything, just a tripod. I could have been walking ANYWHERE! Unbelievable!).
And everyone slags White Van drivers off for their oafishness too!
Go to a station and you'll REALLY see just how stupid everyone else is too (along with the guy in the film, obviously!).
As for the Flying Scotsman, I can think of FAR better kettles out there!! (oh no, I'm now being a kettle veg!!).
As for the intercity bit, yes, I'd agree, but if was going between two cities, then technically, it was an Intercity!