JCC Support the London tube strike

That's certainly another way to go.

Oh, and for anyone wanting to present the Docklands Light Railway as evidence, with it's driverless trains, complete lack of ticket offices, cleanliness and efficiency... the reason people aren't constantly mauled, harmed or diddled to death by marauding tigers on that line is that there are many old fashioned underground stations nearby so the tigers still keep their distance.

Scale back staffing in ticket offices and you WILL all die of health and safety or tiger wounds

 

Oh, here come the bleedin' 'eart lefties, who never ride the Tube anyway because they're too busy cycling from coffee shop to coffee shop...

slightly_unhinged, you described my Tube experience in very eloquent terms, thank you sir. I wasn't sure if the train driver was playing that game kids play where they make noises too close to the microphone to hear how buzzy and incoherent it sounds. Thank you sir, and you're doing the Lord's work.

He 100% summed up the Tube experience, though.

Tube apps are the most useful apps I've used, second only to Angry Birds. Oh and the one that changes peoples faces in photos.

 

The app I had didn't need data service; it would tell you that if you wanted to go from A to B what line/s to take and where to change. It would also tell you your journey would take X minutes, largely due to the engineering prowess of the driver and assuming that tigers hadn't formed a single unit and decided to overwhelm one station in force rather than small skirmish attacks on many. It didn't tell you when the next one was, but that's ok because the longest wait's 10mins in offpeak.

 

Also, Jello, they have this curious wall art at Tube stations that looks like a kid has drawn terrible shapes with different coloured crayons. Turns out they're actually maps.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/standard-tube-map.pdf

By tracing your finger along the route, and using the circle symbol to indicate where a line change is possible, you can navigate to your destination without someone half listening to your question and avoiding eye-contact (mandatory on the tube).

e.g. I want to catch the tube from Baker St* to Tower Hill, because I'm a tourist so I've been to the Beatles store and the Sherlock Holmes museum, and I need to gawk at the crown jewels or Henry VII's enormous codpiece. Using this "map", I see that I could take the Pink line to Aldgate, then take the yellow line to Tower Hill.

Of course, being an American you'll probably end up at Earl's Court or Clapham North.

* Every time the train pulled in here the opening bars of that bloody Gerry Rafferty song would pop into my head.

 

I always ended up at Cockfosters or St. John's Wood.

 

I always loved the blue line around Piccadily and Oxford Circus. Gosh there's a lot of red trousers there.

 

Is that really what happened? I honestly can't remember.

 

Not quite, we had sandwiches (I made vegetarian cheese sandwiches just for you and you didn't even show up in time for them... ) and cake and we played football (or at least tried to before we were told off ). It's your fault that you were late...

 

It was a lovely afternoon. hal displayed his goalkeeping might.

 

So, excepting a few armchair leftists, we're agreed that the strike is a git move?

 

Don't come crying to me when someone loses a leg, Mr Sai

 

I raped and killed 4 BART workers in your honor, Ender. If you want sloppy seconds, i can send you their corpses.

 

the fancy epaulets suggest an income of near £50,000 per annum, so I can only conclude based on the dated haircut and moustache that the gentleman in the above is in fact, a proud train driver and not Michael Palin?

 

I'm sure a very large manhunt will be conducted after than behavior.

 

Listen, Yank... you and your ilk are in no fit state to point the finger of blame at Her August Majesty. You apologise now, and show your apology by posting the flag of Her United Kingdom, the Coat of Arms of the House of Windsor, and saying "sorry, Ma'am". In your head, this must should like "maarm" and not like a sheep bleating (a common affliction of the American accent, sadly).

Or I'll have at you.

 

If i were in LA the police would shoot two innocent women and burn down my cabin.

 

COLONIAL FIGHT!

 

It's how you should talk, Iello, to overcome the American-ness you were born with.

They're not a colony anymore, remember? They broke away, wrote tonnes of dreadful fanfic, and thought they were special as a result.

(I mean, they are special, but that's not what they mean.)

Liberty Bell? More like Liberty Bell-End!

 

Pete, Ender is not actually a Brit.... he's Australian. He just has a boner for Britain.


Ender, Pete actually despises living in London..