Crispy
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I don't mind the smell of fried chicken - although I know some people don't like it - but I think people who spit the bones all over the floor and leave the container under the seat should be made to lick the inside of the bus clean!
tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
There was a 15 year old kid sat at the back of the bus 9am monday morning, playing really shitty dancehall, top volume on a shitty mobile phone - so loud it was distorting.
Some guy asked him to turn it down, and got a "shut up" in return. The driver came up and asked him to turn it down, which he did and then turned it up again as soon as he left.
What the fuck is all that about?
Some guy asked him to turn it down, and got a "shut up" in return. The driver came up and asked him to turn it down, which he did and then turned it up again as soon as he left.
What the fuck is all that about?
I don't mind the smell of fried chicken - although I know some people don't like it - but I think people who spit the bones all over the floor and leave the container under the seat should be made to lick the inside of the bus clean!
Wiping their hands on the seats?
Azrael
circling Airstrip One
Teenage inadequacy hidden by a display of what he perceives to be machismo. And being an anti-social lout.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
There's a development on the greasy head patch I've noticed recently - the greasy hand rail/pole on bus and tube. Nothing worse than grabbing a greasy hand rail in the morning.
Aside from all the other gripes expressed here that is, of course.
Aside from all the other gripes expressed here that is, of course.
Shit on the seat?
Azrael
circling Airstrip One
Are you speaking from a personal encounter?
a while ago on the bus there was some youngish bloke playing his music loudly through his phone - one person asked him politely to turn it down or off (which he didn't) and someone else asked too, saying it was annoying them as well. they were both very polite, but the bloke started having a go at them - "behave yourselves! you don't see me telling you what to do or telling you were to sit or whatever or to not put your bag on the seat so don't start telling me what to do!"
bless.
*tuts*
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Actually yeah, I'd forgotten about marty's unfortunate experience.
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
I'm no better or worse a commuter than anybody else, personally. I used to be much better than everybody else, but it gave me so much stress and anxiety that in the end I gave in and joined the thronging mass. Now I sit in the aisle if it is slightly off-peak in the hope that if the carriage ends up semi-empty, I will have a free seat (no sighing if anybody turns up though, and I will move to the window in that case, not require them to squeeze through). And I listen to headphones that I am 97.5% sure nobody else can hear, but will not fret unduly if they can hear them. And I will walk like a zombie in the direction I want to go without courteously getting out of everybody's way. Because getting from the train to the tube in Waterloo alone is enough of a fucking disaster as to rob you of your soul if you'll let it and the only way to survive is to pretend you are somewhere else, preferably with the aid of a book or Nintendo DS.
We may have met
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
You'll know me. I'll be the one dressed in business casual, with shoulder bag and a book/DS, shuffling forwards with no life in my eyes and performing all the commuting actions on autopilot. You can't miss me.
Do you often choose the top of the escalator during rush hour to gather your thoughts?
Do you prefer to wait until you are right at the tube gate before searching for your Oyster Card?
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
I still aim for, and get, excitement out of commuting. For example, how quickly I can get DOWN the stairs to the tube platform at Farringdon, with a cup of coffee, while walking against a tide of FCC and tube passengers.
Or getting from the district line ticket barrier to the plat1-8 concourse at Victoria at high speed, without touching anyone.
Or getting from the district line ticket barrier to the plat1-8 concourse at Victoria at high speed, without touching anyone.
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
Must admit, not many of the thousands pouring out of Waterloo smile back as I cycle past them in the morning, grinning
While playing 'The Eye of the Tiger' at full blast on your headphones?
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Gosh no. I don't need to have any thoughts. There is a fucking GROOVE in the floor due to the route I take every day.
And I don't have an Oyster Card. But you might occassionally have to wait behind me at the tube gate because it's one of the 5% of times that I haven't got my season ticket out of its little holder fast enough.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Nah, D&B, house or techno usually. I find it gives me a suitable level of isolation from my fellow passengers...
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Don't do it on platforms? I do it making my towards and then into the fucking train.
tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
It's weird. I don't understand it really. I think it's a dominance thing.. or maybe they're just so lonely that they are desperate for any kind of human contact, even if that's an argument.
Poor poppets.
I blame the parents.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Such is their due.
I always tell people what to do if they're being stupid.
"move down the carriage"
"your bag is shredding my face"
"if you get off and stand to one side, we can all get off quicker"
etc.
but the bike is much less stressful, and that includes elephant & castle roundabout
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Damn right. And I expect no less should I be the one standing in the wrong place. Damn our cattlelike eyes.
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
There is a cut through that takes out both roundabouts, depending where you are going, of course
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Kennington Park Road - Borough High Street and vice versa.There is a cut through that takes out both roundabouts, depending where you are going, of course
TFL reccomends Hampton St., through the estate, then Meadow Row and Rockingham St. going South to North. But that's a massive detour. I don't see going round the other side being much quicker, so straight through it is. It's really not that bad as long as you ride defensively and don't take stupid risks (which I see all the time
)christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
I use the one opposite the technopark college coming north to south and come out on Newington Butts, and am then Brixton bound
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