Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

(the closest i ever came to getting medieval on a transit employee's ass was in D.C. anyway)

husky busker guy at my stop in the mornings a few times a week -- every song either is or sounds exactly like 'hallelujah' or 'girl from the north country'

"husky busker," that's a nice rhyme scheme right there, v satisfying. (if I knew more about poetry there's probably a fancy word for that)

I think that guy's been in my park slope F station before, "Girl From the North Country" followed by Mumfords.

oh god, that relentless Big Bang Theory poster is back

one thing that bothers me about this poster is that you can tell that the main dude's hand is photoshopped because he's pointing at you in the poster version and not in the banner version which is located a foot away

had a terrible terrible wait for the train but the fact that I got to ride on my first r188s-on-the-7 almost made up for it

http://images.nycsubway.org/i131000/img_131240.jpg

moving on up

no rail fan window no cred

http://cdn.hitfix.com/photos/3172726/NBCs-Sean-Saves-the-World.jpg

that sean is so wacky but whaddya gonna do

doesn't that one look like a fake show poster that would be in the background of a movie or w/e

http://benhauck.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/the-michael-j-fox-show-featured-e1383279121389.jpg

there really is something eerie about all these posters

an outgrowth of the eerieness of the unkillable sitcom

Haha, yeah, the whole genre losing any kind of attachment to any audience whatsoever, existing in this vacuum that seems to assume that someone, somewhere is stoked that SEAN is on TV and can't wait to see his antics.

one thing that bothers me about this poster is that you can tell that the main dude's hand is photoshopped because he's pointing at you in the poster version and not in the banner version which is located a foot away

― iatee, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:30 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

during this poster's last reign at the top, I was convinced he was doing a "Cyclops" like gesture towards his glasses, but on the current version I realized his finger's not there... OR IS IT???

Haha, yeah, the whole genre losing any kind of attachment to any audience whatsoever, existing in this vacuum that seems to assume that someone, somewhere is stoked that SEAN is on TV and can't wait to see his antics.

clearly you haven't met my roommate

I think possibly the WORST ad campaigns ever are those Seinfeld in syndication banners in the subway.

http://adsonthesubway.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/photo1.jpg

a few years ago, this one happened to be prevalent around the time of the michael richards meltdown, and I had a really strong urge to cross it out and sharpie in "N166er!"

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/178892/KRAMER.jpg

it's probably good that you didn't

true

Okay c'mon that "there's nothing to watch" one is kinda lol

http://www.theonion.com/articles/billboard-alerts-drivers-to-existence-of-situation,33826/

^^^ fantastic

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-metro-north-passenger-train-derailed-york-city-21060651

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(I only take the New Haven line, no recent exp with the Hudson)

http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/12/04/the-metro-north-accident-and-train-control/#comments

almost (?) got into a fight with a crazy dude tonight, but it was my stop so i got off the train instead

Attention passengers due to an earlier incident we are moving hella slow

this story about how the MTA will give you a late pass for work was kinda funny

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/nyregion/delayed-train-skeptical-boss-mta-will-give-passengers-a-late-note.html

“There was a disruption in service, specifically signal trouble, sick customer, brakes in emergency and track circuit failure, which caused massive service delays, reroutes and/or trains to be discharged on the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, A, B, C, D, F, J, L, M, N, Q and R lines,” one recent response read, in part. “As a result, any one delay lasted up to 82 minutes.”

We hope to be moving shortly

the E train really has no business saying it is "delayed" at this point. If you're delayed every day, it's not a delay!

ugh the 7 has been terrible lately

My favorite subway announcement construction is "Due to an earlier incident"

It's so all-purpose as excuses go, I love it.

Por fin.

due to an earlier incident, the universe exists

I think I posted this upthread but my favorite two announcements ever were:

"Attention passengers we are being held in the station due to a delay in service."

"Thank you for your inconvenience."

A tautology and a malapropism. Or something. What are the appropriate rhetorical descriptions?

I love the "moving momentarily" announcement made several times over 10-15 minutes

Yeah, it's like you're in some kind of superscale model demonstrating Zeno's Paradox or something.

Also what's with the repeated bing bongs with the doors not quite closing? Are there actually people standing on the threshold hedging their bets that are keeping the doors from closing or is it some kind of conductor fakeout, playing for just a little more time?

I get really anxious when they do the "boong" like they're about to make an announcement but then no announcement comes

Okay, so seriously. That poster for Showtime with Don Cheadle in a blindfold and William H. Macy grunting at the camera: at the bottom, Don Cheadle's torso ends a good half-inch before everybody else's. It's easily missed in the darkness, but, Jesus, that's sloppy. Next to it on the G platform at Nassau, we also saw a poster for the new Ice Cube movie where the inept rookie has been really awkwardly shrunk by Photoshop, I guess to show that he's out of his league asking out Ice Cube's daughter! (or whatever) but I swear they could fit two of his head inside of Ice Cube's head and it just looks bad. Then there was a Seamless poster showing how you could order everything on your phone, the numbers didn't add up, and even had things where one 4.99 smoothie totaled up to 6.49 or something. I mean, how hard would it have been to get that right?

Seinfeldposter.jpg

I've been looking for a thread to post this, and I guess this is as good as any:
http://www.legendarylifestylemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Jack-Ryan-Shadow-Recruit-Kenneth-Branagh-2-590x860.jpg

It's actually a visually very good ad, but it's also creepy as fuck and sounds fascistic

we should have a thread for poorly designed public poster ads
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_29OC0nYbpRM/SKPleuk_v3I/AAAAAAAAIs0/_XehVobe9ro/s1600-h/akademiks1.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_29OC0nYbpRM/SKPleuk_v3I/AAAAAAAAIs0/_XehVobe9ro/s1600-h/akademiks1.jpg

rolling nyc subway ads discussion thread

thanks

due to signal problems at jay st-metrotech, we will sit here for 45 minutes. you may want to take the B57 bus instead -- although it is unlikely that all of you will fit -- but as soon as you leave this train will depart