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Anyone had any amusing public transport related anecdotes lately?
You know, with like buses and stuff.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:36, 179 replies, latest was 11 years ago)
I'm probably going to catch a bus then a train tomorrow evening, if you can hang on til after then to see if anything amusing happens?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:38, Reply)
We're on a schedule here, tangledupinblue

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:39, Reply)
Then I'm sorry, Dr P, but I have nothing.
Good luck with the thread!
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:40, Reply)
so he can be at least 12 minutes late and lie about his anticipated posting time on the message board

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:41, Reply)
a man on the train this morning
Was wearing Superman socks.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:40, Reply)
Last time I got the train I fell asleep on it and woke up with drool. I was mildly embarrassed.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:41, Reply)
There is no public transport, only drool.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:44, Reply)
No, I drive.
Public transport is still a whimsical novelty to me.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:41, Reply)
Nothing decent since I saw that man kill himself, soz.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:41, Reply)
What happened.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:43, Reply)
A man killed himself.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:44, Reply)
A man killed himself.
Do keep up.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:44, Reply)
Alright Frog.
Soz I missed your birthday.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:49, Reply)
Alright mate? How's things?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:53, Reply)
All good.
Don't get much screen time in the day anymore, but I'm enjoying the work.
How have you been?
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:57, Reply)
Pretty good, a whole new year, an ocean of opportunity innit

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:58, Reply)
Don't drink the ocean.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:59, Reply)
but it's so delicious and salty!

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:00, Reply)
Can you swim?
I met a guy at the pub who can't swim. Thought that was weird.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:02, Reply)
Was he black?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:02, Reply)
No. Why, are you?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:07, Reply)
No, but black people can't swim. that's a thing I heard.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:09, Reply)
Sounds legit.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:13, Reply)
No.
The Manchester night buses are always good for a giggle.
Usually some lunatic on handing out propaganda pamphlets.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:44, Reply)
Mancs are funny. With their accents.
And their allusions toward mental illhealth when they like performing a particular activity.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:48, Reply)
There's a lady who walks round Sainsburys with a load of empty carrier bags. I mean, like 50 of them.
Her shoes talk back to her and she smells of wee.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:55, Reply)
Mum?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:00, Reply)
I saw a bus stranded in the floods by the house.
An old lady had to be carried off because she was too short to wade in the water. And old and a cunt.

Alright doc
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:48, Reply)
Silly cow should of evolved gills. Even fish can do that.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:49, Reply)
I should have got out of my van and drowned her,

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:51, Reply)
Old bitch.
Alright, Winders?
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:49, Reply)
Yo yo yo.
How's it?
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:51, Reply)
Dreadful.
HNY.

Are they working you hard?
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:53, Reply)
Nah, it's just a lot of driving about.
Doing loads of little sites, so I'm probably spending as much time driving as I do actually working.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:55, Reply)
Not all bad then.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:59, Reply)
Yeah.
Why you so dreadful?
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:00, Reply)
Just struggling with a 5 day week.
Now everyone is back at work it's actually busy which makes the day go quick but is boring.

bloobloobloo
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:03, Reply)
Maybe it's time you started murdering.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:04, Reply)
Normally a couple of beers at lunch on a bad day.......
I am off the lunch ale at the moment!!! Booo.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:05, Reply)
I must admit,
I do miss the cheeky afternoon pint, but it's harder to get away with when driving.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:07, Reply)
Alright Winsome.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:50, Reply)
I'm in Swindon tangles,
It might actually be worse than Coventry.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:52, Reply)
I told you there were worse places.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:53, Reply)
I am sorry for being so horrid about cov.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:55, Reply)
I forgive you.
Come again and I'll try to find a nice bit to show you.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:57, Reply)
Ok.
I'd like to. We can snuggle up and watch the forrins.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:00, Reply)
I'm in!

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:22, Reply)
Alright Winders?
That's a good point, are any of you affected by the flooding :(

We don't get none of that round my way.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:56, Reply)
I've got sandbags out,
Main road to my house is closed in one direction, I'm not worried though as there's a man in a high visibility jacket watching the river 24/7 to keep us safe.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:58, Reply)
Moses?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:04, Reply)
I assume he has some sort of magic power over water
Why else would he be there?
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:06, Reply)
Science is FUN!

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:08, Reply)
Somebody has to tell you when to get onto your roofs
otherwise you might not notice the water pouring through your fucking windows.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:10, Reply)
Uggggh, I'm going to have to get an accreditation because recruiters are fucking shit.
Maybe I'll go into bin collecting. Sorry, "refuse engineering"
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:51, Reply)
What's an accreditation?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:52, Reply)
It's a largely pointless piece of paper that the recruitment industry have taken to mean "qualification", which it isn't.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:53, Reply)
Since when do you work for a recruitment company?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:54, Reply)
Since 2007. I don't work in recruitment, though.
But recruiters don't understand my industry and have latched onto Microsoft accreditations as a way of saying "yep, he's definitely qualified to show a fuckwit like me how to turn on my monitor".
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:56, Reply)
Microsoft accreditations teach you how to use sixteen different DOS commands
to remote build a computer, which nobody in the world actually uses because everybody uses Ghost.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:57, Reply)
I still don't understand what it is.
But good luck.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:58, Reply)
I'm just annoyed and sounding off, really.
Imagine a specific bunch of textbooks that you don't need to understand how to wire a plug. Imagine wiring a plug is quite a specialised task to the extent that the people that recruit you have no idea how it works; it may as well be magic. Imagine that text book forces you to learn six months worth of pointless bullshit when you know perfectly well that it's three wires and a flathead.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:01, Reply)
Oh right,
I know the sort, what a load of Bollocks.
We used to have to go on all sorts of cellar courses and stuff in the pub, absolute Bollocks.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:03, Reply)
I expect I'm just going to have to fucking suck it up
but it's the principle, Windy.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:08, Reply)
I think you should vomit on the certificate and throw it at the woman.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:13, Reply)
whilst shouting "SPIDERMAN"
and doing a web flinging mime.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:17, Reply)
this^
I cannot be fucking bothered to take the Windows 2008/Windows 2012 and VMWare exams
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:34, Reply)
So no understanding of "experience" whatsoever then.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:59, Reply)
YM has lots of experience

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:00, Reply)
Which must be why she said you were shit.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:04, Reply)
no, she said I DID a shit
On her face.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:05, Reply)
She told me SHE did a shit on your chest.
And then you rubbed it in and licked your fingers clean and then finished yourself off into YD's mouth while your Mum gave him some band practice.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:10, Reply)
alright winders
Alright Gaston

Alright Dr P

Alright Off Topic

Get fucked Jason
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 12:59, Reply)
Alright doz.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:01, Reply)
This sexual tension is threatening to bubble over, Doozie

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:05, Reply)
Dearest J
Please get cock cancer.

Yours always,


FMD-S (Ret.)
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:06, Reply)
Baby, you treat me so fine.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:08, Reply)
I saw climbing legend
Chris Bonnington on a train to London, I didn't speak to him though
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:07, Reply)
Who?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:08, Reply)
WP
while I admire your youthful exuberance, he is hardly an obscure person. The internet will furnish you with all the information you need
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:10, Reply)
I didn't realise climbing was the sort of sport that had legends,
But then, I guess I know names of famous car restorers.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:12, Reply)
he is also a knight of the realm

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:14, Reply)
He may not be obscure if you're into climbing
but unfortunately that's several places below crocheting on my list of things I don't give a fuck about.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:12, Reply)
Now listen here Pierre
He was quite the TV celeb during my youth.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:15, Reply)
Have you heard of Ranulph Fiennes, Gaston?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:16, Reply)
yer, he plays Voldemort and was that tubby Nazi in Schindler's List

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:18, Reply)
Hahaha. No.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:18, Reply)
yer, he was in that one film The English Patient

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:20, Reply)
Yeah, he's an army chap. Nicked some explosives to help his friend demolish a garden wall.
Apparently he wandered around the pole a bit, too. My grandpa thought he was a smashing chap.

Never heard of this other wanker, though.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:19, Reply)
that 'other wanker' is stunned

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:20, Reply)
Well, Chris Bonnington is the same.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:21, Reply)
Chris Bonnington also stole explosives off the Army?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:25, Reply)
Kleptomaniac.
If it wasn't nailed down, he'd blow it up.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:27, Reply)
Dunno who he is, soz.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:09, Reply)
Your ignorance does not diminish Chris Bonnington's achiviements/fame.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:12, Reply)
It will when I tweet him. That'll really show him who's boss!

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:16, Reply)
He is way to tough to tweet. Like me.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:18, Reply)
'climbing legend'? really? is that something people can be?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:11, Reply)
It does seem that he couldnt
lead an expedition without at least 1 person dying
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:13, Reply)
Oh, I see. You said legend.
You actually meant "professionally negligent".
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:14, Reply)
Hmmmm possibly

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:15, Reply)
Our local Public Transport is rare. Haven't used it in a while so, no.
On another topic, why does the internet go slower than a reluctant mong around 1:00 p:m?
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:21, Reply)
"the internet"?
The entire internet?

Fucking users.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:22, Reply)
I probably meant my local broadband - which is semi-rural and shit at the best of times

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:24, Reply)
I'll help you out, it's not the internet, it's your network.
It's because all the rest of your ex-union red top commie work-shy ballbag colleagues all knocked off to lunch the very second 1pm came around, reducing the bandwidth available to you, who's apparently been shirking for longer.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:24, Reply)
Your cheese-eating-surrender-monkey observations would be correct
If I wasn't working from home.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:30, Reply)
Because your Mum is making all of her suck job appointments in her calendar?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:23, Reply)
Naaah, can't be that
She's still dead.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:23, Reply)
Nothing like a bit of death to free up large chunks of space in your calendar.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:25, Reply)
Who's your provider?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:31, Reply)
I helped northern opera singer Lesley Garrett off the train at Newcastle
In other news, Mrs Cow's Dad has just written his car off :o(
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:25, Reply)
Did he survive?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:26, Reply)
He did
Skidded on ice driving over the moors towards Bridlington, through a fence and into a field
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:26, Reply)
Prick should have been driving on a road then, shouldn't he.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:28, Reply)
Thats what I said

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:29, Reply)
Everyone here who thought they were on for a big inheritance take one step forward.
As you were, Sporters!
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:29, Reply)
Damn meddling kids

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:30, Reply)
We've yet to see any icy weather in Manc.
Seems that soon as I moved here, the North East has been a clusterfuck of bad weather.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:30, Reply)
Its been canny here when the rest of the country has been underwater or blown away

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:31, Reply)
The Tyne has spilled over twice since I've been away!

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:31, Reply)
...apart from that

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:32, Reply)
You had really bad snow and Wintry conditions too. I missed all of that.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:33, Reply)
How long have you been away?
That was at least 3 years ago I think!
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:34, Reply)
3 1/2 years now.
I'm a bad omen for the place!

doubt I'd ever move back though.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:50, Reply)
Move to civilisation, chaps.
London is where it's at. No problems whatsoever.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:35, Reply)
well, except that most of Tottenham will be on fire by this evening.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:44, Reply)
Which can only improve the area.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:45, Reply)
Indeed.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:45, Reply)
I look forward to seeing the classy residents
excusing this behaviour as sticking it to the man, while nicking family packs of monster munch
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:49, Reply)
I don't get how it moved onto Enfield Town but skipped Edmonton.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 14:04, Reply)
Except, you know, there's fuck all in Edmonton

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 14:04, Reply)
Ouch!
He is ok though?
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:28, Reply)
Yeah, just pissed off about his car
1996 Toyota MR2
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:29, Reply)
Is he a hairdresser?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:35, Reply)
I said MR2, not MX5

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:36, Reply)
HUGE difference though there isn't.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:37, Reply)
I'd say so
That style of MR2 is fucking cool.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:38, Reply)
Not so much now its wrapped round a fence

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:38, Reply)
As Kroney will tell you
they find the car name very funny in France
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:39, Reply)
merdeux
The French couldn't give 2 shits.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:41, Reply)
Previous one was better though.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:40, Reply)
Sounds like a midlife crisis hitting hard

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:38, Reply)

midlife crisis fence
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:43, Reply)
Is it going to snow soon? If so I might try doing one of those 'sickies' I was adamant I was against doing yesterday

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:40, Reply)
It's not cold enough is it?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:41, Reply)
word on the street is that temperatures, like YM's boobies, are about to plunge

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:46, Reply)
Not according to the BBC or the Met office
then again, they are lying communists.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:49, Reply)
Yeah, something about inappropriate use of public money and disagreeing with the unique way the BBC is funded

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:57, Reply)
Guardian reading bastards.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:59, Reply)

Guardian
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 14:03, Reply)
Apparently that "polar vortex" thingy that's over the US at the mo is due in a week or so?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:42, Reply)
but will it snow? i need definitive answers, not hearsay!

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:47, Reply)
I'd guess yes

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:47, Reply)
that's more like it, which day?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:47, Reply)

mumblemumbleday
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:51, Reply)
Kewl, I shall make plans for then. Thanks.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:53, Reply)
Good thinking
that Kym Marsh knows fuck all about meteorology
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:49, Reply)
She can keep a look out in 2 directions at once though

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:50, Reply)
No, its one way or another for them

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:51, Reply)
No!

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:54, Reply)
\o/

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:55, Reply)
That Shrek one might be a bit geeky.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:52, Reply)
I saw a bus once.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:45, Reply)
Me and the England rugby 7's
pulled a Train on YM once
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:50, Reply)
That must have been a short train
the 7's boys are all mad for cock.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:56, Reply)
In fairness
I received far more than I gave...


Oh hang on.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:57, Reply)
which is why they were all over YM

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:58, Reply)
Oh, well played. Well played.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 13:58, Reply)
NO U NEVA!!

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 14:14, Reply)
Why do lollipop ladies now stand at zebra crossings and traffic lights?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 14:08, Reply)
To get to the other side?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 14:12, Reply)
Kids are stupid.
Zebra crossings I can see why as drivers still plough across them.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 14:13, Reply)
Health and safety gone mad mate
broken Britain, send em all back to bongo bongo land, SLUTS
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 14:14, Reply)
new thread now open
thanks v much lovelies
(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 14:15, Reply)

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