As a London Underground user
I imagine I have a skewed view of striking, but my general feeling is that it's blackmail by greedy and self-serving peasants. I'm of the 'if you don't like it you can always leave, you know - someone else would love your job that you can't stop whining about' school of thought. The only other striking I know anything about is the fucking French and those knobbish miners who REALLY STUCK IT TO THE MAN by refusing to work in those coal mines which had no coal in, that were about to close. YEAHHHH NICE ONE.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:03, 5 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

There's still millions of tonnes of coal available under the UK.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:04, Reply)

True or not, striking against closure of your workplace seems to me to be monumentally retarded.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:07, Reply)

I wonder how many of them came back to t'pit
to find some enterprising person had nipped around behind them, changed the locks and put a "CLOSED" sign up.

lol
( Kroney, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:11, Reply)

LOL is right.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:19, Reply)

Were they not striking in support of their colleagues whose workplaces were closing down?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:18, Reply)

I really cannot find it within myself to care one tiny bit.
I just don't like northerners TBH.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:22, Reply)

how would that help?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:23, Reply)

You understand the concept of a 'union', don't you?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:24, Reply)

Why do people think that by stopping work at one plant, that will make them reopen the other plant
it's stupid
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:27, Reply)

You see what happens is that when they go on strike, the redundant pits miraculously fill up with coal.
It's amazing really when you think about it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:31, Reply)

i see
they should get that geology bint to work for them
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:33, Reply)

I'd 'Pound' her 'land' IF YOU GET WHAT I MEAN AND I THINK YOU DO

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:34, Reply)

Except their resolution to strike was in the event that mines were being closed for reasons other than them having run out of coal.
If striking is the only weapon you have, then of course you are going to use it.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:37, Reply)

the car workers won their war as well, by destroying the industry that employed them
they showed "the Man" who was really in charge
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:05, Reply)

Tube driving is well difficult, though.
They've got to do all that sitting down in a nice warm cabin driving trains. All men hate driving trains, that's a fact. Nobody grows up wanting to be a train driver.

OK, so occasionally they run jumpers over, but they get counselling for it, the wankers.
( Kroney, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:06, Reply)

they really are pricks, the sooner the underground is automated the better

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:07, Reply)

^ this

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:07, Reply)

It works in Paris, Barcelona and on the DLR

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:08, Reply)

I cannot wait for the day that those greedy, selfish cunts are all made redundant and have to take jobs for 25% of their previous salaries.
aka their actual worth.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:09, Reply)

I fear it will not be in time to fuck over Bob Crow though

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:10, Reply)

The one good thing I can see is that the fucking Luddite pricks
will strike once the automated trains start running, helpfully taking the manned trains off the rail and thereby speeding up the process.

I'm pretty sure I understand how this will work, here.
( Kroney, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:10, Reply)

Yeh, they should have murdered more cabbies

( Peej, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:07, Reply)

Is this about Leslie Grantham?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:08, Reply)

Nope
Its about the Coal Miners strike
( Peej, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:09, Reply)

Oh well it should be.
In a strange way *everything* is about Leslie Grantham.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:10, Reply)

here I found a link
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_David_Wilkie

But its boring

TL:DR Coal miners murder cabbie for driving scab to work.
( Peej, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:12, Reply)

well this proves that they were being over paid, only swipe can afford taxis to work

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:13, Reply)

How could that NOT be a murder?
I think it is entrely reasonable that dropping a 46lb block of concrete onto a moving car may kill the occupant
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:15, Reply)

You know what, I don't know where I heard that, I might have just made it up, because I did, but I might not have, even though I did....
... but I think you're onto something when you say Bob Crow murdered a Black-Cab driver because the driver didn't let bob crow in the back of his cab with an extra saucey donnor.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:11, Reply)

That was during the miners strike, a cabbie was killed taking a miner who refused to strike to work.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:14, Reply)

Oh no, this is an entirely seporate incident that I'm making up on the spot that might have actually happened.
Bob Crow was in Faces in Gant's Hill, and took a load of cocaine. He then walked across the road to the kabab resturant and ordered a "Faaakin' Donnor, mustifa, don't be cheap on the sauce, I'm onto you, when the fuck did you come to this country anyway? MOAR SAUCE" until he walked out with his pita-bread and sauce with a bit of chicken donnor in (don't trust that 'muzzie elephant leg', his words, not mine, if I wasn't making this up).

He then tried to get a black cab, pulled one over, "Sorry mate, I know you are Bob Crow, but you will have to finish your kabab first", so bob crow pulled out a hammer and smashed the side window in, pulled the cab driver out via the window, and made him "bite the curb".

I'm sure that might have happened, sounds plausable.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:19, Reply)

*calls the daily mail*
excewllent work
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:21, Reply)

You heard it too? Hmmm.... no smoke without fire.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:27, Reply)

OH NOES, SOME OF US HAVE TO WORK CHRISTMAS EVE FOR TRIPPLE PAY ON OUR £40+KPA JOBS WHEN WE WOULDN'T BE FIT FOR STACKING SHELVES UNDER NORMAL CURCAMSTANCES.
Bob Crow deserves to be strung up and hanged at the Tower as a warning for all other jumped up power hungry pricks who try to cripple London on a whim.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:10, Reply)

So you're against?

( Kroney, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:14, Reply)

the only reason Bob Crow can get strikes is because the workers are pissed off with the managment.
If the managment didn't piss off the workers so much then he'd never get a strike vote passed.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:16, Reply)

They aren't remotely pissed off - they see an excuse to blackmail more money and cushier shifts so they grab it with both hands.
Those cunts aren't exactly wronged semi-slave labour Victorian mill workers.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:17, Reply)

I bet you at least 8 out of 10 people here are "pissed off with management", and most of them don't get half the wage or have twice a cushty job.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:20, Reply)

All I'm saying is that the two sides can't make a decent agreement between them.
You'll say that's because Bob Crow is being unreasonable, I'm saying that due to the way union rules work the agreement should be easier for managment. They only have to persuade a majority of workers that it's acceptable, where as the other side has to be accepted by only the managment.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:24, Reply)

So basically they're both shit. But managment seems to always be seen as the victim in the press.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:25, Reply)

The fucking public are the victims.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:27, Reply)

Londoners are spoilt little brats anyway.
1 bus an hour at a random time, that's what the rest of the country gets and you get better than that on strike days. So shut up.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:28, Reply)

Oh and the buses all stop at 6pm

(PsychoChomp, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:29, Reply)

that's your fault fr living somewhere shit

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:30, Reply)

Every londoner moans like Soho to Camden is a massive chore that can only be attempted with a days planning.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:32, Reply)

It can take time but London is a big busy place.
I was travelling home from Euston yesterday to Lewisham and did it in 30 mins, train to door. Despite the tourists.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:34, Reply)

Bullshit. The only time it's difficult is when there is engineering work at weekends and even then it's simple.
I hardly ever hear a London resident moan about getting across town.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:48, Reply)

You can hear your mum moaning from across town when I pay her a visit

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:51, Reply)

'oh shit, it's that massive bent spastic again, don't answer the door'

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:52, Reply)

Haha

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 12:09, Reply)

There are 10 million of us.
It wouldn't work if it ran like it did in the cuntry.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:29, Reply)

There are 40 million of us.
edit: 52 million
(PsychoChomp, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:30, Reply)

but you are rather more spread out

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:31, Reply)

Not in one place.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:31, Reply)

Except in populated areas they have increased busses, so that doens't work.
Take out all the dencely populated areas with resonable transport; such as city centres... then do the maths.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:35, Reply)

You're making an entirely specious argument.
Entirely. As in completely and utterly.
( Kroney, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:38, Reply)

CHOMPY IS A STATS MONG ! CHOMPY IS A STATS MONG !

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:39, Reply)

ALSO: SCARPE SCARPE SCARPE

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:41, Reply)

HAY CHOMPY, IF 8 OUT OF 10 PEOPLE BELONG TO CATEGORY A, AND YOU HAVE 100 PEOPLE.... WHAT IS THE AVERAGE POPULATION OF CATAGORY A
hahahaha, what a mong.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:45, Reply)

You know you have a choice in where you live?
So don't moan.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:32, Reply)

But you hate them too, right?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:28, Reply)

Of course.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:29, Reply)