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Richard J. April 1st 05 08:53 PM

How Long to Buy a Ticket
 
Paul Weaver wrote:
"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
...
Paul Weaver wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 29 Mar 2005:

Then you can take a taxi, or a train. Its not my a drivers fault
you can't drive, yet they get peanalised for it. Martin
Underwood can drive, he has the choice of scumfilled busses,
expensive convoluted trains or the comfort of his car.

As you obviously never use public transport, how do you know what
buses are like? I use them daily, and usually find them to be
filled with charming, interesting human beings.


I use public transport every day, train and tube. I rarely use
busses as they are full of scum.


Buses (note spelling) are *not* full of scum in my experience, and I
resent the implied insult. I have seen more uncivilised behaviour on
the tube than on buses. Where and when has been your "rare" experience
of buses?

--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)


Paul Weaver April 5th 05 12:30 PM

How Long to Buy a Ticket
 
"Richard J." wrote in message
. ..
Buses (note spelling) are *not* full of scum in my experience, and I
resent the implied insult. I have seen more uncivilised behaviour on
the tube than on buses. Where and when has been your "rare" experience
of buses?


Recently? 49, several buses along Kensingont High Street, Ealing - Shepherds
bush 207? The slow one), 72, 220



Paul Weaver April 5th 05 12:33 PM

How Long to Buy a Ticket
 
"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
...
Paul Weaver wrote to uk.transport.london on Fri, 1 Apr 2005:

I use public transport every day, train and tube. I rarely use busses as
they are full of scum. A peak-time return is about 50p/mile on trains,
even
more on the tube.


And a lot less on the buses - which are, as I said, usually filled with
interesting and charming people, often very young, whose heartaches,
noisily expressed to their peers, either directly or via their mobile
telephones, make me smile discreetly to myself....


One thing worse than scum and thats evesdroppers. No doubt you read
newspapers over peoples shoulders too.

As for price, buses are obviously cheaper, as they are full of scum, but
more than that, they are way too slow, It's faster in a car than a bus, even
ignoring door-door, and that's saying something. They stop every 50 yards
for some lazy scumbag druggie to get off and buy their crack or dope or
whatever.
--
Everything above is the personal opinion of the author, and nothing to do
with where he works and all that lovely disclaimery stuff.
Posted in his lunch hour too.



Adrian April 5th 05 12:45 PM

How Long to Buy a Ticket
 
Paul Weaver ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

One thing worse than scum and thats evesdroppers.


Sod that. If a conversation's confidential, the bus/tube isn't the place
for it. Or turn the volume down a bit.

No doubt you read newspapers over peoples shoulders too.


Where's the problem in that?

Mrs Redboots April 5th 05 02:29 PM

How Long to Buy a Ticket
 
Paul Weaver wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 5 Apr 2005:

One thing worse than scum and thats evesdroppers. No doubt you read
newspapers over peoples shoulders too.

You are confusing overhearing with eavesdropping. And anyway, since,
according to you, the buses are full of "lazy scumbag druggies", how
could I possibly be reading a newspaper over someone's shoulder, since
if I *were* what you say I am, I wouldn't be able to read?????

As for price, buses are obviously cheaper, as they are full of scum, but
more than that, they are way too slow, It's faster in a car than a bus, even
ignoring door-door, and that's saying something. They stop every 50 yards
for some lazy scumbag druggie to get off and buy their crack or dope or
whatever.


I totally and utterly resent the implication in that last remark.
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 3 April 2005



Mrs Redboots April 5th 05 02:36 PM

How Long to Buy a Ticket
 
Paul Weaver wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 5 Apr 2005:

"Richard J." wrote in message
...
Buses (note spelling) are *not* full of scum in my experience, and I
resent the implied insult. I have seen more uncivilised behaviour on
the tube than on buses. Where and when has been your "rare" experience
of buses?


Recently? 49, several buses along Kensingont High Street, Ealing - Shepherds
bush 207? The slow one), 72, 220


Okay, so, how many people were on each bus? Of those, how many did you
see using drugs? How many? Exactly, please. How do you know the
elderly ladies travelling to their church fellowship meetings had
handbags stuffed full to the brim of crack cocaine? Did you see the pot
poking out from under the baby in the pushchair, or the schoolbags of
his brother and sister, or their tired mother's shopping bag?

What other incidences, apart from drug misuse, of anti-social behaviour
did you see? Or were the people on the bus just not "people like me",
so you automatically assumed that they were "scumbag druggies" to quote
your other post?

Please post details of the anti-social behaviour you saw, the people
committing it, and whether or not you reported them, as was your civic
duty, to the police.

And if not, why not?
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 3 April 2005



[email protected] April 6th 05 07:02 PM

How Long to Buy a Ticket
 

Mrs Redboots wrote:
Or were the people on the bus just not "people like me",
so you automatically assumed that they were "scumbag druggies" to

quote
your other post?



If you want to see another example of this sort of behaviour (and that
time it was tolerated) see:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...?q=chav&rnum=1

The topic on uk.railway: Chav filled raliway stations


Paul Weaver April 13th 05 01:01 PM

How Long to Buy a Ticket
 
"Adrian" wrote in message
44.170...
Paul Weaver ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

One thing worse than scum and thats evesdroppers.


Sod that. If a conversation's confidential, the bus/tube isn't the place
for it. Or turn the volume down a bit.


Yet another reason private transport is better

No doubt you read newspapers over peoples shoulders too.


Where's the problem in that?


It's rude

--
Everything above is the personal opinion of the author, and nothing to do
with where he works and all that lovely disclaimery stuff.
Posted in his lunch hour too.



Adrian April 13th 05 02:05 PM

How Long to Buy a Ticket
 
Paul Weaver ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

No doubt you read newspapers over peoples shoulders too.


Where's the problem in that?


It's rude


How so?


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