luxury
in shanghai, if your not on-the-ball you will get carried by a crowd down to the wrong platform and onto the wrong train and you wont manage to squeeze out until you are in some strange outta suburb.
I have to say though. compared to my 5 mins, 80 must be torture.
(, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 7:17, Reply)
" if your not on-the-ball you will get carried by a crowd down to the wrong platform and onto the wrong train and you wont manage to squeeze out until you are in some strange outta suburb."
This is exactly what happens here.
I've been to Shanghai a few times, trust me in saying that line 1 in Beijing is substantially worse.
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Zuowan, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 7:25,
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Meh.
If you're not "on the ball" on the Northern Line in London they stomp on your head and then kick it around like a football. Then piss on you. Then laugh.
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JamTallons, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 9:26,
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Shut up London.
I've done the commute in London, people are packed in fairly closely but they aren't punching each-other in the face and when the doors open at a station there is always room for more people to get in. You don't get five stops in a row where nobody can be physically squeezed onto the train.
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Zuowan, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 9:35,
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I have however
seen fights on the northern line. Absolutely bloody brilliant they are. Stressy punch ups which get stopped but then the two protagonists are forced to stand next to each other until the next stop. I'm usually laughing at them which helps too.
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SpunkyBackpack, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 9:47,
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When there are fights here it's usually not at rush hour, and always between family members and everyone just stares at them.
Last week, as the doors were closing, they were jammed open by some guy. He was then pushed onto the train by a woman (presumably his wife or girlfriend) who shouted the rudest words in the Chinese language at him. He punched her very hard in the face, then she shouted something else and gave him a scissor-kick in the ribs. It wasn't a playfight - they were hitting each-other hard enough to easily break bones. This continued for an apparent eternity, probably only around 30 seconds, in which they managed to get a good five or six hard blows in. A few people tried to intervene, but nobody was brave enough to get between them and get injured themself. Some girl started crying.
I'm sure there's some interesting point I could make about this, but I can't think what it could be.
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Zuowan, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 9:59,
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fuck me I'm glad I live in Glasgow
I get the 747 Airport bus to work, which goes right into the centre of Town, but no-one gets it because they don't know where it goes so it's always nigh on empty (Compared to the 9, 16 and 42 which all go the same way and if I get them I normally have to stand, even on the double deckers)
Even when I used to get the Subway at rush hour it was never as bad as these places. No wonder people take to cycling.
(, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 10:54, Reply)
Yeah
I've seen fights on the Underground.
And indeed I've been threatened with a stabbing on the Tube. For 'bumping into me'. This was in rush hour when it's fairly impossible not to bump into people. I laughed.
(, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 11:06, Reply)