Took a Bus the other day for first time in about 20 years
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No they're not, they come in different sizes
Wooooosh.
you're not going Hyde Road are you? that just described my exact journey this morning
edit: so you get on at Longsight Rogan?
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This is how my morning bus journey went today...
- No seating space so I had to stand
- Bus eventually filled up to the point where there was no space to even stand
- Bus stops for three fat chav women, each complete with pushchair (probably on the way to sign on)
- Bus driver says no due to lack of space
- Chav women moan and say they have waited long enough
- Idiot bus driver lets them on and tells everyone to try and move up
- The six people sat at the fold up chairs had to get up so the pushchairs could go there
- Had 20 minutes of my journey to go with some fat woman stood on my shoes.
- ????
- Loss
- No seating space so I had to stand
- Bus eventually filled up to the point where there was no space to even stand
- Bus stops for three fat chav women, each complete with pushchair (probably on the way to sign on)
- Bus driver says no due to lack of space
- Chav women moan and say they have waited long enough
- Idiot bus driver lets them on and tells everyone to try and move up
- The six people sat at the fold up chairs had to get up so the pushchairs could go there
- Had 20 minutes of my journey to go with some fat woman stood on my shoes.
- ????
- Loss
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ENTHRALLING STORY.
BEST READ IN YEARS.
WOULD READ AGAIN.
5 STARS.
READ OF THE YEAR.
now gtfo.
BEST READ IN YEARS.
WOULD READ AGAIN.
5 STARS.
READ OF THE YEAR.
now gtfo.
Come at me bro.
Is it the x39 you drive?
I went to college on the bath road and had to use the 36 which was a joke of a service. The majority of people got the x39 (going to bath), from what I seen of it, it was a real good service. Lots of buses, big undercover stop, much more modern bus etc.
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It would appear so.
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You're joking right? The 10 bus in Norwich is ****! It is almost always late, regularly breaks down and even though a double decker usually gets filled in the morning, once every week or so they send a single bus causing masses of people standing making it difficult to get off and just a very bad experience.
Can't wait 'til I can drive tbh, buses are so last decade.
Living in London, I tend to use the Tube over the Bus, even though at rush hour you have to put up with the overcrowding and heat. I only really tend to use the night buses, for when I need to get home late at night.
I have some friends who swear by the bus for commuting, as it means you get a seat, you don't get crushed or hot and sweaty and have a bit of a view. You just have to put up with the fact that you have a longer journey.
The thing that annoys me with the buses, especially in North London is that you've also got the scum of society using them. One of the biggest issues with the Bendy Buses, is not the buses themselves, but that the mid-way doors, a long way down the vehicle are basically a 'free' entrance. So people hop on, don't use their Oyster card and aren't challenged. So you've got more people on the bus than possibly should be and a lot of troublemakers.
You also hear so many stories about people being stabbed or what have you on buses, less so on the Tube though.
I have some friends who swear by the bus for commuting, as it means you get a seat, you don't get crushed or hot and sweaty and have a bit of a view. You just have to put up with the fact that you have a longer journey.
The thing that annoys me with the buses, especially in North London is that you've also got the scum of society using them. One of the biggest issues with the Bendy Buses, is not the buses themselves, but that the mid-way doors, a long way down the vehicle are basically a 'free' entrance. So people hop on, don't use their Oyster card and aren't challenged. So you've got more people on the bus than possibly should be and a lot of troublemakers.
You also hear so many stories about people being stabbed or what have you on buses, less so on the Tube though.
[TW]Fox;21110280 said:
Was it a Saturday? People don't sign on at weekends and kids don't go to school you noob.
Waiting 5 minutes is long enough when I want to get anywhere..I waited much longer to the point of being wound up
My Bus was full although the driver was polite that was not my issue
Good for you innit blud
Why do you have a car at all? Your public transport system sounds amazing.
Well I wish my experience was different. Fact is Take the Bus in weekdays with school kids on and jobless people going to blockbuster really makes for a crap experience. Nothing to do with GD
But then again Fox...You can slip on a dog turd and come up smelling like roses can't you
You're too kool for skool innit
Boo hoo, the bus was late. Never mind. Probably traffic, which you'd get caught up in a car as well. Don't get me wrong, I'm as infrequent a bus user as you are but I guess the difference is I don't expect a service to rival my car and I don't get bent out of shape when - shock - there are people less well off or less polite than me on the bus. It's the cheapest form of A to B transport (when you take into account the capital costs involved in motoring as well as just the fuel), it's unsuprising that unemployed people might therefore use it.
It's not, its just an average public transport system in a city far from London. Semi-regular bus services and long distance rail services but not much else besides. I guess I don't get frustrated with it because I don't expect a bus every 3 minutes with a red carpet and a bouncer on the door making sure nobody on less than £20k a year can board.
I have a car because I can afford one and I like having a car, and I find it preferable to using the bus. Same reason most people have one. But having a car doesn't come with an obligation to look down my nose at everyone who doesn't.
The problems you whinge about are public space issues, of which public transport happens to be one. You find irritating people in shopping centres, on pavements, on buses, on trains, in shops, in cinemas, on planes. Everywhere.
I am one of the old persons with a free bus pass which I have had for over two years.
In that time I have used the bus about 3 times, mostly because of the reasons already mentioned.
Despite the fact I can travel on buses and trains for free, give me my car every time.
Using buses and trains in the West Midlands is not a pleasant experience.
In that time I have used the bus about 3 times, mostly because of the reasons already mentioned.
Despite the fact I can travel on buses and trains for free, give me my car every time.
Using buses and trains in the West Midlands is not a pleasant experience.
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In general I laugh at people who use the bus.
Do I laugh at them for using the bus? No.
So why do I laugh? I laugh because they rant, bitch and moan about buses, but they will still use them the next day anyway. So, all in all, why would the bus service improve when you are going to use it regardless
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Do I laugh at them for using the bus? No.
So why do I laugh? I laugh because they rant, bitch and moan about buses, but they will still use them the next day anyway. So, all in all, why would the bus service improve when you are going to use it regardless
.[TW]Fox;21110875 said:
When I pay for a service I expect not to be waiting 20 mins for it. Especially when they then charge me £4.50
Its damn expensive for what it is...I certainly don't know how the unemployed people afford it...No wonder the UK is getting fat.They should walk or cycle the lazy gits. They all stink of smoke too.
I know next time I will pay the extra £5 for a private hire taxi
Neither do I. Did I mention I did?
If they behave like animals then I have every right to look down my nose at anyone who chooses to behave like this in public. The Bus just makes it worse.
In my day...If an old person got on the BUS I stopped swearing and let them sit down if there was no room. Thats what you did . You had respect for others...Most of the drivers have lost the will to live to and I feel sorry for them.
People don't barge past people in the cinema queue and play their phones loud in the foyer. And tell their mates to !"£$ off.
For some reason the Bus environment seems to validate this digusting behaviour.
Indeed
Fox again is being a keyboard warrior. 99% of buses and the people that use apart from the elderly are scum
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I take buses on a regular basis, due to the fact I dont drive. Headphones in its not too bad.
No headphones, it can still be okay if there are no chavs\kids on the bus.
And hey! ^ I'd best be in the 1% I'm always nice to others, often leave the headphones out my phone so others can enjoy the music.
No headphones, it can still be okay if there are no chavs\kids on the bus.
And hey! ^ I'd best be in the 1%
I'm always nice to others, often leave the headphones out my phone so others can enjoy the music.
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