Paul Corfield wrote:

On 8 Jan 2007 11:35:25 -0800, "Mizter T" wrote:

Paul Corfield wrote:

On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:45:50 GMT, wrote:


"JFGrieve" wrote in message
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What do you think is the most scenic route on the tube? Is it the
Amersham bit of the Metropolitain line?

Waterloo to Embankment

Why?

I think he might be teasing you by citing an example where there is no
view whatsoever.

Of course if you walk it you'll be treated to some great view over the
river as you cross one of the two Hungerford Millennium footbridges.

I prefer the view from Waterloo Bridge which is one of my favourite
London views.

I agree, I think it must come out top of all the on bridge related
views.


Alternatively you could spend the time people watching instead. The
author of the Going Underground blog is certainly fascinated by the
Tube's fashion victims [1]. As, indeed, am I!

I had a quick look at the blog - I can't get into that at all. And as
for the fashion sniping well I'm sure people could spend their time more
effectively. I mean really - there must be something better to do while
travelling round on the tube e.g. sleeping!

To be honest my comments regarding that blog were somewhat flippant and
were prompted more by some subconscious need to write catchy yet
ultimately naff prose than a desire to reflect my own views. I actually
sort-of think the blog it's a touch invasive, well it's certainly not
cutting social commentary. I guess what I meant to say was that the
Tube is, as many public places are, a good place for people watching -
though I don't think I get a gold star in being observant for saying
that.

And no I'm not the weirdo who spend his time staring piercingly at
everyone else in the carriage! I'm more likely to be the person who's
surreptitiously eyeing up the carriage for an abandoned quality (i.e.
not free) newspaper, having managed to forget my book and having
annoyingly mislaid my own paper at a mystery location somewhere during
the day.

Or perhaps I'm shiftily putting my in my earphones, painfully aware of
how this action means I become yet another member of the regimented
masses of iPodistas, yet still hoping that my choice of thoughful
listening, a Radio 4 podcast of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time programme
concerning the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, might somehow mean I
get a little more out of my personal audio experience than listening to
the latest hits of some up and coming beat-combo, but I'll probably
finish my journey even more confused than when I started it and without
the planned feeling of smug one-upmanship over my fellow subterranean
riders (though of course there's the consolation that Melvyn Bragg
seems to have had a similarly hard time feigning understanding of the
topic and has only just managed to maintain his everpresent mask of
smugness). Anyway, I digress.


Though as my present
wardrobe isn't spectacularly outlandish maybe I should be joining
them... perhaps I'll travel as a Tiger, replete with snogging
accessory[2]... I think this might be veering off-topic!

I already have a particular mental picture of what you must be like. It
would probably go into meltdown if you were to do this. g


I'm not sure whether I should be disturbed or very disturbed ;-)
I just measured the tone of utl using Tom Andersen's past posts so I
think he should take all the blame.

Plus, unfortunately, I somewhat think Dom Joly's beaten me to it in the
old dressing up as animals in public routine. Shame.
http://www.comedycentral.com/images/shows/trigger_happy_tv/downloads/thtv_wallpaper02_800x600.jpg