Your own personal hell.

[nath]

How many of you have actually thought about it really?

Not in a jokey way like, having to snog your gran, but actually think about something that causes you so much displeasure and something that you couldn't adjust yourself to. For example, I find that serious pain, even though I can't blank it out, I can adjust to it and accept it. Some things I can't.

Have a think about it, what sort of activities would you get up to at camp hell?

Then answer this: would you pay 5 quid for it?

I did, and I'm planning to hunt down and maim the people who are responsible for the state of the London Underground trains and their lack of space/air conditioning/ventilation/whatever. I honestly came very close to punching through the window just to get some fresh air today, and I'm not exaggerating, not even a little.

Anyone else having fun times on public transport in this lovely weather we're having?

 

[mank!]

What exactly is the question? Do we hate public transport or what?

 

[nath]

How the hell should I know, it's a rant :|

I was merely pointing out the absurdity of having to pay for something that I would consider something that would routinely be inflicted upon me in hell.

 

[old.Dillinja]

Yeah but you are getting on a train for a reason, in hell you supposedly endure things you don't like for eternity and you get no reward at the end of it, such as a paycheque for going to work on the train for the past week.

 

[caLLous]

I'd pick riding on a hot train over kissing my gran any day.

 

[mookie]

what about kissing a hot train or riding your gran?

uke:

 

[caLLous]

My gran's hot!

 

[nath]

Aye Dillinja, and if my pay cheque wasn't utterly utterly shit and worthless, I might be able to bear it a bit more. As it is, it's crap and so the tube is more unbearable. It's work experience too, so it's a means to an end, not something I want to actually do.

Finished in 3 days though

 

[old.RedVenom]

The underground sucks. REALLY badly. 4 1/2 years of it changed my life.*













* not in a good way.

 

[pcg79]

The Tube smells nice. And the central stations have nice ladies.

 

[xane]

I remember the daily chore of the wonderful Underground, for around 15 years, then I moved into East London and now work is a bike ride away along a canal towpath

I might have to endure the local zoo creatures outside my front door, but it's still way better than the Tube any day.

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by mookie
what about kissing a hot train or riding your gran?

uke:

What about riding your hot gran like a train?

 

[mookie]

damn tom even i wasnt going to go that far :scared:

 

[wolfeeh]

bah

you londoners are fucking weird... we'd kill for a transport system like the tube... it's fucking awesome... trains run all over the place.. line closed? route around it! dead easy...

we get a bus route closed down here, you're fucked, you may as well go home for the day... with the tube you get to your destination a few minutes late...

so it's cramped, hot and stuffy? so fucking what? it's also fast, runs regularly and is cheap... you pay for a day ticket for any zone travel what i would pay for a single return journey on a bus... to got for a few miles!

as for personal hell, it would be something like someone giving me papercuts on my eyes...

 

[mank!]

Originally posted by old.RedVenom
The underground sucks. REALLY badly. 4 1/2 years of it changed my life.*

* not in a good way.

Is this why you're such a grumpy bastard?

 

[dysfunction]

I think the tube is fine actually. Occasionally it can cause you a few hours of hell but 98% (ball park figure - no actual data used to get to it) of the time it runs pretty well.

Yes this stuffy hot weather sucks when your'e on the tube....especially when you have to wear a bloody suit!!

My Personal Hell would be having to wear a suit and tie in 30c 90% humidity outside in the sun!!

 

[old.RedVenom]

Originally posted by mank!
Is this why you're such a grumpy bastard?

Nope, thats just 4 1/2 years of my life down the tube. Wa wa wa waaaa.

Don't you know its.. Cool to Hate.

 

[MYstIC G]

Originally posted by nath
Anyone else having fun times on public transport in this lovely weather we're having?

Yes, I like to play the "count the people running the financial services of the world, with there flash educations, that can't figure out there isn't any more space in a fucking tube carridge" game at Canary Wharf tube station. I especially like the bonus rounds of "watch the twat get slammed in the doors" and "deliberatly tripping up rude people who push in front".

I'm so unsociable :E

 

[Testin da Cable]

my personal hell would be falling into a swimmingpool filled with irate flightless wasps

-or-

hearing that the company you work for is going to phase out the unix servers because someone from microsoft told them "windaes aer bett0r d00d!!". oh, and they got a sportscar too. I thought we weren't allowed to accept "gifts"? aaaaanyway...

-or-

being within 500 yards of my ex.


I'll be bathing in wasps if you need me...

 

[danger]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
hearing that the company you work for is going to phase out the unix servers because someone from microsoft told them "windaes aer bett0r d00d!!".

:uhoh:

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
being within 500 yards of my ex.

I'll be bathing in wasps if you need me...

Buh you hit the nail on the head... well.. she'll get in trouble if she comes within 500yards of me

 

[Mr.Monkey]

London underground.

Utter crap.
You can't rely on it at all. I'm required to be in the city by 9:00.
Not getting there is a big issue. So I have to aim to arrive by 8:00, so that when things go utterly tits up (about once a week on the nothernline, twice a week on the circle and district line) I have a cushion of an hour to make it on time.

The conditions are inhuman at peak time. They are very probably in breach of european regulations on the traffic of livestock. Thank god we don't have the same priviledges!

The staff are unhelpful and rude jobsworths for the significant minority.

Everything works on the tube, other than the trains.....

 

[hoggsboss]

glad i work for the utterly superior network rail


the bakerloo line which shares our line up to harrow is superb when it runs, but when it goes tits up forget it.

 

[mank!]

Originally posted by danger
:uhoh:



Buh you hit the nail on the head... well.. she'll get in trouble if she comes within 500yards of me

If my ex came within 500 yards of me I'd probably disintegrate

 

[old.RedVenom]

Originally posted by hoggsboss
glad i work for the utterly superior network rail

Meheheh, we help run your network. Poor sucker.

 

[WPKenny]

Originally posted by Mr.Monkey
London underground.The conditions are inhuman at peak time. They are very probably in breach of european regulations on the traffic of livestock. Thank god we don't have the same priviledges!

Tis true. Livestock have better regulations than us. They get more space and by law have to be transported at lower temperatures than are experienced on the tubes.

cba to back that up with any evidence. It's just true.

 

[nath]

Perhaps it's because we willingly get on the tube that we give up any human rights.

 

[Mr.Monkey]

Spoken like a true EU politician.
You should be proud/shot dead.

 

[hoggsboss]

Originally posted by old.RedVenom
Meheheh, we help run your network. Poor sucker.

who be that then?

 

[danger]

Originally posted by mank!
If my ex came within 500 yards of me I'd probably disintegrate

It's Einsteins 93rd law... the entropy of the universe will shoot up as soon as your ex steps within 500 yards of you... leading to freaky shit going down

 

[stu]

wolfeh trust me, if you'd had to get the tube regularly at peak times your opinion would change rapidly.

You know those photos of the japanese subway, with the conductors physically cramming people into the train. It's a bit like that.

Actually, forget that. You know those photos of trains in india with 400 people clinging to the outside? It's a bit more like that.

Only hotter.

And it costs a shitload more.

6 months of the Northern Line was a major contributing factor to me quitting my job and leaving London.