Just came across this on the news (Babee on board app)
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I wouldn't give up my seat for a fatty
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Totally pointless if my experience coming home earlier today is anything to go by. Lady with baby in arms got onto the tube at Oxford Circus, all 4 people in the "reserved for those in need" seats by the doors offered their places immediately ! Londoners not as rude as generally made out to be ....
Can't passengers just use their eyes to spot a pregnant woman or disabled person?! An app that they choose to download to their phone isn't going to make them any more courteous - those who download it would be the ones who will stand up anyway.
Also, a bluetooth connection which allows randoms to send messages to your phone is surely open to abuse...
Also, a bluetooth connection which allows randoms to send messages to your phone is surely open to abuse...
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Ummm...you mean to tell me you've never had the preggers/porker conundrum?
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But people seem unsure if some are pregnant or just fat... This covers both bases under the same reason.I wouldn't give up my seat for a fatty
Mostly serious... mostly...
As above - Covers both bases and avoids insulting the fatty if it turns out they're not pregnant... or you looking silly because you can't tell.
Also covers the rarer case, where they actually are pregnant but are also too fat for it to 'show', that you'd notice - Had a girl at work like that once. I was lucky in that she told me straight away, but a lot of co-workers put their feet in it!
What's to stop the fat and lazy using the app though?Developers didn't think this through at all.
lol they missed a marketing trick there I think - "Overweight, tired legs, or simply fed up of standing on your long commute? Just download our app for only £3.99 and a load of hapless nitwits will immediately jump out of their seat to make way for your privileged self"
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"Babee" on board?
I thought those who are down wit' teh kidz say "bae" or some similar crap?
I thought those who are down wit' teh kidz say "bae" or some similar crap?
Obesity was much less common in the past.
Besides, how pregnant is pregnant? Comfortably loose clothing could easily make pregnancy invisible to other people for the first few months.
It's still a silly idea, though. Who would stand up because someone within some unspecified range has had their computer proclaim that they are pregnant? Maybe they're not in the same carriage of the train or on the same bus. Maybe they're not pregnant and just decided that £4 was a good price to pay for getting a seat or for being annoying. Why download the receiving app anyway? If someone who is pregnant is within a reasonable range, they're within speaking range.
The only reason I can see for downloading the receiving app is to boast about how doing so makes you a superior person, blah blah blah.
Claim to be a vet.
Don rubber gloves.
Roll up your sleeves.
See if you can find the head.
Problem solved?
On a sidenote, does my nut when women grab the seat right in front of you. Because you know, they're a woman. 
I've been standing on the tube, down the ram-packed aisle and the person sitting directly in front of me vacates the seat. Etiquette dictates that seat is mine to take, or offer. But no, I've had women practically shove me aside before I've even had the chance to offer it and sit down. How rude.
I've been standing on the tube, down the ram-packed aisle and the person sitting directly in front of me vacates the seat. Etiquette dictates that seat is mine to take, or offer. But no, I've had women practically shove me aside before I've even had the chance to offer it and sit down. How rude.Sorry doesn't work for me. I'll happily give up my seat for a pregnant lady (or any other person in need). But if I'm unsure then I'll wait for her to ask. Most pregnant women on trains nowadays wear badges so that helps a lot. Women aren't some kind of special species that are so delicate they need different treatment. Allowing them to sit down "just in case" is treating them as though they aren't capable of standing or capable of asking for a seat if they are in need.
Rather than be embarrassed at mistaking an overweight lady for someone who is pregnant (it wouldn't embarrass me at all - it would only embarrass them for putting themselves in that position) it's simpler to wait for the lady in need to politely make her situation known either with a badge, or simply asking the nearest person if they wouldn't mind vacating their seat.
On a sidenote, does my nut when women grab the seat right in front of you. Because you know, they're a woman.
Yes had this a lot too. Also had women try to push me out of the way to get on a crowded train. I don't yield when someone "entitled" pushes and simply sit down/get on train without yielding.
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Ah, but what if she's too polite to ask?
I assume, given the indignant responses from the non-pregnant ones I have mistaken, that they'd not be so polite in demanding you surrender your hard-won seat anyway... in which case it's kinder on your sanity and your ears to just take the car!!
Ah, but what if she's too polite to ask?
That was why the badges were introduced.