Bus Rage

AJUK said:
I refuse to run away and I will stay here and fight for my country.
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Its a few reprobates on a bus, not the might of Nazi Germany.... ;)

Although I am considering sodding off to NZ and leaving the rest of you so fester in the hole that is the UK in the 21st century. :D
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Good.
 
I personally don't catch buses, but I have to take a train every week, and last week a man of about 35 was playing pop-dance music on his mobile phone, for all to hear for about 30 minutes, I really really felt like turning around and asking him to turn it down, but judging on the conversations he was having and his company I thought better of the idea ;p. Instead I avoided confrontation and stopped reading as it became impossible to concentrate.
That was very frustrating : (!
 
I empathise with a lot of people on here :p

I've just started Uni (Leeds) get a bus there and back every day. It's even more painful now my lovely half fare pass has ran out! (I got that with college and it ran out on te 15h). So it's £3.30 for a day rider if before 09:30 (I think).

The only thing which really bothers me is smelly people. There aren't many more things I can think of that are more uncomfortable than sitting next to someone for 20 minutes who literally makes you gip because they smell so bad every time you breathe in. I actually felt myself getting light headed on Monday because this woman smelt so unpleseant I just couldn't breathe at that normal rate that I needed to! XD

I always have my mp3 player on (at sensible volumes ;)) so I can ignore most of the other stuff.

It's about 40 minutes walk into Uni actually which I'm going to start doing on Monday :)
 
LoadsaMoney said:
*whistles while leaving.
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*stands up in court*
oh my, i am not guilty! :eek:


Ex-RoNiN said:
I feel the same way when lots of silly foreigners descend on my islands in the summer, cram my beaches and talk in their silly foreign language, I mean, how dare they be in my country as guests and speak their language

Not being racist of course ;)
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they arent on holiday, they live here, i can be on a nice quiet bus journey, then a group of non english people get on and talk in their own language, because i cant understand their language it annoys me because i cant make sense of it, i wouldnt mind so much if i could understand it. i know people would tell me to ignore it and what other people are talking about is none of business (which is correct) but i cant ignore it, and i cant be bothered to learn 50 languages either (our town is full of immigrants from everywhere)

theres talking and theres talking loudly, i dont mind talking, but talking loudly on a quiet bus where the only thing you can hear is some foreign students shouting "CHOORDOR HOZA KEERPA MOHEY" and you cant understand it has got to be annoying right?

anyway, i sorted it out with an ipod, i just try to be the first on the bus, sit downstairs, sort my ipod out and block out everything else thats happening until i want to get off



and the ticket inspectors, "tickets please", whats the point in that? if the driver is doing their job properly, they should have a valid ticket :confused: half way through my journey, my ticket has been folded into an origami object, lol, so i have to undo it just to show them :(


buses are the only place i never want to be, most of what i listed earlier i can live with outside of a bus, not being shot at though, that kid was lucky the bus had a security camera else he would have been hanging out the fire door :mad:
 
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Your forgetting the young moms covered in tattoos. They can't control the stupid screeming child and just let him run up and down, annoying everyone.
£4.00 a day is what i spend on buses!
 
silverskyline said:
Sorry but people putting their bags on the seat is one of my hates! I know it stops unsavoury types from sitting next to you, but seats are for people not bags. I just hate hate hate walking down the bus/train and seeing a seat free but with a bag on it, and the owner sees me but pretends they haven't, and I'm forced to say 'Excuse me please'. The fact that they make you have to ask for it to be moved, when they know they're taking up a seat you want to sit on.

And then the look of disgust and hardship as they're forced to move their bag, sigh sigh oh woe is me. Then usually make a point of jabbing their leg or some other part into you for the entire journey to prove some kind of childish point.

Then there's the people who sit in the aisle seat, who when you make a move to try and appear to stand up just sit there. Knowing you want to get out and look at you out of the corner of their eye, so you have to go 'Excuse me please' and then the sighing and omg I actually have to move to let somebody out expression. Then taking 10 years to stand up so you're like sometime today please! As your stop/station rapidly approaches at mach 10.

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I have noticed its mainly old people who do this. I was on the bus the other day and some kids where trying to rap along to a song (playing from a mobile), it got very annoying very quickly.
 
you need to take to wearing goats skulls etc on your clothing while you're on the buss, people will leave you alone then.
 
I too get the 149 from London Bridge to Liverpool Street... never had any of your experiences though *touches wood*.

One of the worst things about that line is that there are not enough buses to service the route from Liverpool St to London Bridge (yeah its not far and yeah I could walk - but I have a zone 3 travelcard so why bother!? :p) especially in the rain.

It also annoys me when people who have only two stops to go take a seat, thus having to push past all of us long travellers when they get off the bus - grr!!

BB x
 
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Its not too bad around here, someone mentioned people talking loudly in foreign languages: I'm sometimes tempted to shout back at them in that same language (as theyre usually south Asians) that I dont need to hear their private life and to quit giving everyone a headache...
 
I got the bus back from college yesterday and it was disgraceful. Two 9-year old lads were running about flamming, smoking, throwing sweets at people, being racist to a black and two chinese people! It was sick. It was on the top floor of the bus when this happened and some man dangled over the stairs and held one of the boys up to tell him off, good on him I say :D Most of the buses/bus stops in my area are covered in graphetti and litter, I avoid the bus at ALL costs :p
 
I hate busses too. A while back i was innocently sitting in my seat listening to music, and all of a sudden i see a fist whack into the family jewels. Me, in a bit of pain removes my earphones to an old granny going 'you have no manners, get out that seat i want it, show some respect to your elders'. All she had to do was ask and i would have moved, but nooooooooo.
 
Sorry Ferret, but I think you're the problem here. Don't be so stuck up. I'm sorry that I'm a big guy (6"1 and generally just big guy)...I can't bloody well help it if someone like yourself thinks their too good to be touched by someone else. I can't even get my damn legs behind the seat properly, so that's awkward as it is. Then my arms, jesus relax. You aren't going to catch something. I do try and keep myself close, but as I said - I can't really help it.
 
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