Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

chewmylegoff

balls. i got hypnotised by the coverage of the US election and now it is 1am and i need to be in work for 7am. tomorrow is going to be a yawny day.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

can you imagine getting on a london commuter train in the morning and saying to someone "errr, sorry, you're sitting in my seat". all you'd be paying extra for is the privilege of being told to shove your seat reservation up your rear end each and every morning!

i get on at the last station where you are guaranteed a seat (except on the 7.51 for some reason). at the next station there is always a horrendous mad dash for the last couple of seats, which i always enjoy very much.

i enjoy getting to putney even more - where half the contents of the platform can't get on the train.

Used to live in Vauxhall. Great undergroound line and fine for trains to all of Surrey and points south and west. Well dodgy for trains to waterloo. There'd be some space as there would always be people getting off there to get the Vicky line.

But there would only be a handful and you'd be standing room only and squeezed in like sardines and have to take turns breathing.:eek:

Edit; Well, that's Obama got in and I can breathe a sigh of relief!

Spirit_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

can you imagine getting on a london commuter train in the morning and saying to someone "errr, sorry, you're sitting in my seat". all you'd be paying extra for is the privilege of being told to shove your seat reservation up your rear end each and every morning!

i get on at the last station where you are guaranteed a seat (except on the 7.51 for some reason). at the next station there is always a horrendous mad dash for the last couple of seats, which i always enjoy very much.

i enjoy getting to putney even more - where half the contents of the platform can't get on the train.

I am imagining a train where all of the passengers are polite queue abiding types and the guard ensures compliance if necessary.

Spirit_2

_party__party__party__party__party__party__party_ Obama

SingleSue

Spirit wrote: »

Off topic and a bit of a whinge - posted this on another thread - see, I am very whiney (andexhausted).
Tonight on my journey back from London I paid to upgrade my ticket and got the last seat in 1st Class. It was £20+ but a whole lot better than standing for over an hour after a very long day.

My day return ticket had already cost over £75 and I had had to stand for part of the journey in the morning.

I would be happy to pay a few £ extra to prebook a seat rather than the random scrum when an already full train pulls in and you have to board. I am not convinced that first come first served is a reasonable principle when customers at 'later' stations will always have an unmet demand for seats.

When we go to Norwich, we can book seats (for free) on the Ipswich to Norwich part (and of course, the Norwich to Ipswich bit) but not on the train from here to Ipswich...not that you need to book one for that bit, that train rarely gets overcrowded.

lemonjelly

misskool wrote: »

what would you do when set with a stupidly impossible task at work when you're triple busy?

i'm tempted to kill myself and do it (because I hate looking stupid and I hate being unprepared) but I'm tempted not to do it to make someone else look bad.

it's now 75% kill myself

If you want something doing, give it to a busy person...

lemonjelly

zagubov wrote: »

Totally agree.

Sorry, I'm going to be controversial here.

I'd spend NOTHING on footballer grant McCann. I think he'd offer nothing to my football team...

lostinrates

I understood the mxxxxn case was not allowed to be discussed on mse?

Just sayin'

Wheezy_2

Isn't there a law in this country making it illegal to drive a bicycle without lights nor reflectors? :mad:
Yesterday evening, on my way back from work....unlit country lane, pitch dark...I think I missed him by less than 2 feet :mad:


That was my rant for the day

Wheezy_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

balls. i got hypnotised by the coverage of the US election and now it is 1am and i need to be in work for 7am. tomorrow is going to be a yawny day.

I got hypnotised also, dozed off and woke up in the sofa around 2AM.
Declared results at that time was 160 for Obama, 170 for Romney or something like that, so I still knew nothing.