Amazing synergy between this thread and the ongoing US police brutality and corruption thread rnThat said I’m with Tom on this one
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
Eating hard boiled eggs in an enclosed area is really inconsiderate of those around you but I wouldn’t let it ruin my week, I prefer to stand in quiet judgement
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
I... don't even know how the smell of boiled eggs can be disgusting, let alone be present to someone sitting three feet away?
Eating anything on public transport is disgusting savagery.
― gyac, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
Amazing synergy between this thread and the ongoing US police brutality and corruption thread rn
Throw the Don Cherry thread (about poppies) into the mix, along with my small recount on the snooker thread, and the whole universe is Real England basically.
I don't really mind people eating stuff on public transport, as long as it's food tbf.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
Disagree wholly with threatening anyone but absolutely hate the smell of eggs in enclosed spaces & would have got up and moved tbh
I've developed a terrific sense of smell if I may say so myself, but never got a bad scents of boiled eggs. And I do eat them frequently! (not on the tube) I realize this must be a flaw on my behalf.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
wasp bodies in a fig good, hard boiled wasp eggs on a caterpillar bad
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
otm
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
Amazing synergy between this thread and the ongoing US police brutality and corruption thread rnThrow the Don Cherry thread (about poppies) into the mix, along with my small recount on the snooker thread, and the whole universe is Real England basically.
Very much this.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
I'm assuming the eggs were hard-boiled because of the smell but I strongly feel the Standard should specify that because to me "boiled eggs" means soft-boiled.
― Alba, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
sliced or cut open boiled eggs can smell bad if not eaten straight away or immediately incorporated with another acidic condiment such as mayonnaise.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
don’t eat on public transport.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 14 November 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
sweets is ok tho
― mark s, Thursday, 14 November 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
yes. i think i sent that while sitting on a train and a person with a macdonalds came and sat next to me. (i don’t mind macdonalds particularly but do on trains)
― Fizzles, Friday, 15 November 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
last time i flew back from london this fella humphed onto the plane last, and dropped like a sweaty shit in on top of me carrying a fuckin burger king meal
one of the rare occasions when my ilx lowercaps mean persona exhibited irl, it got handed over for disposal immediately
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 November 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
i’m using the new Citymapper Pass and I love it. best thing easily is that i don’t have to use touchID at the barriers. just touch my phone to the reader, beep, through. just as fast as a card.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 January 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
that's now the case with just using contactless Apple Pay, too - and I agree, it's great that it's as fast as a card now.
― toby, Monday, 13 January 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
BAH my great advantage, gazumped!!
Apple Pay is pay-as-you-go only though, right? I can't tell you the number of times I've tried to work out whether paygo or unlimited zones 1-3 works out better for me. With paygo I always have the suspicion I'm somehow being screwed. But I start looking at my the sporadic payments to TFL on my bank statement and just end up dying of ennui.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 January 2020 21:58 (four years ago) link
I think it's still slightly cheaper to get a monthly travelcard if you travel every weekdays, but otherwise it's a wash thanks to the capping
― stet, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 08:48 (four years ago) link
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
could be worse
How big is the 90 minute public transit commuter zone for London vs San Francisco? This is my attempt to answer the question. Arrival point is central London or downtown SF. So, light areas = you ought to be able to reach central London/downtown SF within 90 minutes. pic.twitter.com/ZSftRqN1bL— Alasdair Rae (@undertheraedar) February 6, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 February 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
Bit quiet out today
― stet, Monday, 16 March 2020 10:23 (four years ago) link
Commuters into London, don't forget that you can cancel your annual season ticket if it doesn't look like you're going to be using it for a while.
I guess the same is true of TFL?
― ShariVari, Monday, 16 March 2020 10:27 (four years ago) link
I'm going to walk to and from work - as long as work stays open, which might not be long - so at least I'll be fit when I get the virus
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Monday, 16 March 2020 10:28 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_4moz_Psso
― koogs, Thursday, 1 April 2021 09:29 (three years ago) link
chris morris has so much to answer for lol
― imago, Thursday, 1 April 2021 11:54 (three years ago) link
i got 90% of the way through it wondering why i hadn't heard of this at the time.
― koogs, Thursday, 1 April 2021 12:24 (three years ago) link
Chuckling at the end of that, well done
― kinder, Thursday, 1 April 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
Happy to provide this closer shot for a proper analysis of the books on the shelves pic.twitter.com/vbn9NNF9zo— Henry Dyer (@Direthoughts) June 15, 2021
picture of the GBNews studios with what looks like a copy of The Bus We Loved on the shelves.
(i think the set designer must be trolling them with several of those books)
― koogs, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1daNvB4phHM
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
I was hoping for Lazenby.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
One hit wonder
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 21 October 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
https://metrodle.com/ wordle but for the underground
― koogs, Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:39 (one year ago) link
ha, today's is the station I park at when I occasionally drive to London!
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
Well today I learned that you still have to ring the bell on a bus even if you’re not coming to a request stop. Was that ever the case or did I just make it up?
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 29 June 2023 09:11 (nine months ago) link
What do you mean
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Thursday, 29 June 2023 09:15 (nine months ago) link
I think you have always had to ring the bell?
Heavy caveat that I don't actually live in London anymore (though I do work there two or three times a week) - but I was talking to ILX faves the Pinefox and Michael Jones recently, on an anniversary of us first meeting back at the end of the 20th century, and I floated the idea that the only thing that has got better in the UK in the last 25 years is London transport. Elizabeth Line, the overground, better bus info, proper cycling routes etc etc. Is there anything else in the country that has seen material improvement like this?
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 29 June 2023 09:19 (nine months ago) link
As long as London is fine the rest of the country can go to hell is the general philosophy.
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 June 2023 09:21 (nine months ago) link
I did teach a German couple the other day that you have to flag down a bus, they'd assumed as long as they were at the right stop buses would stop automatically.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 29 June 2023 09:34 (nine months ago) link
I thought there were some mandatory stops that the bus would stop at anyway. Big junctions of lines/routes etc and significant destinations. So you didn't NEED to press bell. But keep finding over here that bus request bells have somehow switched off or been switched off so if I or somebody else hits the bell there's no feedback light coming on . Also come across bus drivers who object to you pressing bell for next stop as soon as you've passed the previous one. Had some idiot a couple o f years ago actually open the door to cancel the request. .I think a load of people do try to make sure request is clearly in as soon as it is relevant so having a driver obtusely try to undo request is strange. But that is a side issue. & this is a different town to London. But I do think the idea of mandatory stops is pretty universal isn't it?
― Stevo, Thursday, 29 June 2023 09:48 (nine months ago) link
It's been a long time since I lived in London but my recollection is that if the stop wasn't a request stop (i.e. it said "bus stop" rather than "request stop") buses would automatically stop there even if no-one was waiting to get on and no-one had rung the bell to get off.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Thursday, 29 June 2023 09:48 (nine months ago) link
I think I was thinking the same.PLus i thought that several of them were thought of as fare stops as in designating where the price of the ticket would change like zone to zone. Probably not all of them as I'm just working out, though could be exactly which ones did fit the bill.
THis town still has a single fare across town and various passes one can work out. 24 hour all fares covered is teh same price as 3 bus rides so I frequently get that. Or may have actually got cheaper still since price was cut a few months ago and I think it's now 2 point something.
Other thought i just had. During the pandemic and possibly just before there was a directive that if a bus got ahead of schedule it had to stop at a bus stop until the schedule caught up with it. It wound up with buses needing to do that in what had formerly and has since returned to rush hour. I know beforehand one could get to the bus stop out of town and think one was way ahead of time and the bus had had no traffic to slow it down so had gone past stop already. It takes like 10 minutes or something to get from town centre to outskirts where I live and you'd wind up having to wait for a half hour for teh next one. So I'm just wondering if there are similar route regulatory stops made elsewhere to try to make sure waiting passengers aren't stranded in places for ages and hence these mandatory stops.
― Stevo, Thursday, 29 June 2023 10:08 (nine months ago) link
I've never heard of a request stop in my life, think this must have been phased out.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 29 June 2023 10:13 (nine months ago) link
"request stop" is what I think when I see some of the threads on here tho HEYO
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 29 June 2023 10:14 (nine months ago) link
LmaoYeah unless there’s people at the upcoming stop I’ve always pressed the bell?
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Thursday, 29 June 2023 10:15 (nine months ago) link
During the pandemic and possibly just before there was a directive that if a bus got ahead of schedule it had to stop at a bus stop until the schedule caught up with it.
this has been the case for ages. Magnus Mills wrote about it in The Maintenance Of Headway which came out in 2009, based on his own experiences driving London buses
― imago, Thursday, 29 June 2023 10:21 (nine months ago) link
even if there's people at the stop you usually have to press the bell to get the driver to open the rear doors, unless it's a small one-door vehicle
― imago, Thursday, 29 June 2023 10:22 (nine months ago) link
In my experience "flagging a bus down" involves standing purposefully at the edge of the stop and fixing the driver with a gimlet stare as the bus approaches. If still unsure as to whether it will stop, raise your hand in an apologetic half-wave until the driver activates their indicator. Then say "cheers" to them as you get on. Job done.
― I fell asleep at kabuki (Matt #2), Thursday, 29 June 2023 10:23 (nine months ago) link
Still a bunch of those near me in Tottenham, on the W4 route for example. As far as I can see the dictinction is that request stops don't actually have physical bus-stops or even signs - the bus-driver knows where the stops are, and will stop there if you ping the bell.
I've lived in London all my life and have always pinged the bell if I've wanted to get off, and never assumed a bus will stop at the stop I'm waiting unless I wave my arms a bunch (although occasionally, when I've been out late, a nightbus has stopped to see if I wanted to get on and wasn't dosing and thus missing the bus).
The bus stopping for a bit because it's ahead of schedule was definitely a thing pre-pandemic.
― serving aunt (stevie), Thursday, 29 June 2023 10:23 (nine months ago) link
Yeah the demise of the card bopper in the middle of buses is the single biggest downgrade in London buses, why yes I’d LOVE to join a group of people all trying to board a bus through the single point of entry while two others are exit-only 🙃
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Thursday, 29 June 2023 10:24 (nine months ago) link
ok so request stops are like the TFL secret menu? learn something new every day.
xpost
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 29 June 2023 10:25 (nine months ago) link