Ever been robbed at Brixton's bus stops?

[miss direct]

Heck, I'm so old fashioned, I still often say 'thanks' to the driver as I get off a bus, much to the bafflement of some passengers.

I thought everyone did that! Most people round here though do anyway.

What really annoys me is people who get on the bus before everyone has got off. This big fat lady did that to me last week, and nearly squashed me, I'm sure she wouldn't have done that to a big guy!

But I guess you wouldn't have that problem in London with your fancy 2 door buses!

 

[IntoStella]

Apologies for not reading all of this all-too familiar argument -- I've been on holiday. But I must say that to me it is perfectly simple: if you are careless with your things they wil get nicked. Get used to it. And always make sure your money/phone etc are in a secure place where pickpockets can't get at them. My purse was stolen a few weeks ago but AFAIC it was my own stupid fault for being pissed and careless. Happily I lost very little money and I don't have any credit cards or anything. Tough tit to me.

Anyone who expects to walk around any urban area in 2004 with their money/mobile in easy reach of pickpockets and not get dipped is setting him/herself up for a big disappointment. If someone wants so much to live in a crime-free idyll, there is always rural Dorset. Sorry if this reiterates other people's posts.

</bleeding heart liberal>

 

[Anna Key]

there is always rural Dorset.

I was brought up in rural Dorset and, if anything, it's a more violent place than Brixton. Almost every household owns a shotgun, and they're always killing things (or chasing them to death on horse back or arranging for them to be ripped apart with dogs). Plus many people share the same surname.

So perhaps the people on this thread indulging violent fantasies should go and live in Dorset.

 

[IntoStella]

Plus many people share the same surname.

Key, presumably.

 

[Pickman's model]

Plus many people share the same surname.

are you subtly implying that incest and inbreeding are rampant in dorset?

 

[Stobart Stopper]

are you subtly implying that incest and inbreeding are rampant in dorset?

No, silly, that's Enfield and Ponders End!

 

[Anna Key]

are you subtly implying that incest and inbreeding are rampant in dorset?

Me? Subtle?

 

[IntoStella]

Me? Subtle?

Subtler than his sister... affectionately known to him as 'Mom'.

 

[editor]

Key, presumably.

Anna Key
Pedro Keys.
Keystone cops.

There's something meaningful in there somewhere.

Possibly.

 

[IntoStella]

Anna Key
Pedro Keys.
Keystone cops.

There's something meaningful in there somewhere.

Possibly.

We need drjazzz to work that one out...

 

[Streathamite]

News to me that the ever-suave Mr K is a yokel!
albeit a very vocal yokel....

 

[Rollem]

on the razor blade issue...

...a girl i went to uni with got her bag 'dipped' and so took to carrying a sprung mousetrap in it!

never been caught at the bus stop, but i am competely parnoid when it comes to my bag and other people's access....

 

[LDR]

Heck, I'm so old fashioned, I still often say 'thanks' to the driver as I get off a bus, much to the bafflement of some passengers.

I do that. Sometimes the driver gives me a grunt and it makes my day.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I quite often get a 'You're welcome' when I say 'Thank you'......more often on the little Granny buses rather than double-deckers though....

 

[Stobart Stopper]

I do that. Sometimes the driver gives me a grunt and it makes my day.

Yes, but you remember when it was trolley buses, don't you old man?

 

[ernestolynch]

Seriously though I think its well sad that signs had to be put up to remind people to queue and not barge past eachother...has this part of the world become that Americanised? People still wait in line in most areas of London, but I noticed that they're like fucking animals at the bus stops along the Brixton/Streatham high road...why?

 

[LDR]

Yes, but you remember when it was trolley buses, don't you old man?

They still have them in Wellington where I grew up.

 

[Heathcliff]

I thought everyone did that! Most people round here though do anyway.

What really annoys me is people who get on the bus before everyone has got off. This big fat lady did that to me last week, and nearly squashed me, I'm sure she wouldn't have done that to a big guy!

But I guess you wouldn't have that problem in London with your fancy 2 door buses!

I push people off buses if they try and get on before I have gotten off. I then ask them very loudly why they are so stupid and if they really think getting on the bus before those wanting to get off have got off is really the most effective way of boarding/unboarding. Most eventually concede that I am right and they are stupid. I then tell them they are a fucking rude cunt as well as stupid. I wish I was brave enough to do it to everyone who barges onto buses.

 

[Poi E]

That's awful! I hope nobody does anything as cruel as this.

Neck shot.

 

[Poi E]

They still have them in Wellington where I grew up.

God, the Mt Vic tunnel. Fond hazy memories of that area.

 

[IntoStella]

Pie1, PieEye, PoiE... this is all getting far too confusing for me.

 

[Anna Key]

Pie1, PieEye, PoiE... this is all getting far too confusing for me.

Try living in a Dorset village.

 

[Stobart Stopper]

...has this part of the world become that Americanised? ?

We have been to America twice and not once did we see an queue-jumping, drunken yobbery or general rudeness. No, the Brits need to take a leaf out of the Yanks book when it comes to behaviour.

 

[Pingu]

my visits to london are few and far between mainly due to the rudeness i encounter there. Not saying that everyone in london is rude but compared to other places its certainly ruder in my experiences.

i used to carry a "dippers wallet" when I worked in docklands it was empty apart from a note saying "ha ha fucking muppet".


I cant understand why bad manners (queue jumping) is so seemingly acceptable in london.


yours bumkpinlike

pingu

 

[Ol Nick]

my visits to london are few and far between mainly due to the rudeness i encounter there. Not saying that everyone in london is rude but compared to other places its certainly ruder in my experiences.

((pingu)) Rudeness? How terrible! I hope you don't encounter sarcasm as well.

 

[IntoStella]

my visits to london are few and far between mainly due to the rudeness i encounter there.

Londoners don't mean to be rude to you. It's just that being a baby penguin, you are only two feet high and they don't notice you.

 

[Ol Nick]

Londoners don't mean to be rude to you. It's just that being a baby penguin, you are only two feet high and they don't notice you.

If I went around shouting "noot-noot" and hitting people with raw fish I certainly wouldn't come back crying about how rude everyone was to me, although I might come back crying.

 

[hendo]

Did you try going in Iceland Pingu?

 

[editor]

Do penguins eat piranhas?

 

[Anna Key]

they're like fucking animals at the bus stops along the Brixton/Streatham high road...why?

The chaos at Brixton bus stops is psychologically healthy. The English love of queueing - we're famed in continental Europe for joining a queue and then inquiring what it's for - is giving way to something less anal.

Why should a whole nation go through life meakly standing in line?

Soon the poor old Brits may learn to complain in resturants, to laugh at their monarchy and to hold their governments to account.