Voyageur

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's 'UrbEx', actually. > > Now please excuse me, I have to go and WashUp. And I am being a CoPo tonight. (Couch Potato - natch).

Huguenot Wrote: > So these protestations are perhaps the last gasp > of Victorian traditionalists resentful of female > equality? > For 'gross women putting on makeup in public' > instead read 'women should know their place'. Spot on I'd say.

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have once threw my ice cream into the badly made > up face of someone on a bus who was now spraying > hairspray on their hair: I have bad lung problems > and anything sprayed makes me very ill. After > this I got off the bus and used inhalers and > tablets. Still waiting for the caution for the > assault but hey, ya gots to do what ya gots to > do. > > Great thread. Spraying hairspray in a crowded public place is pretty offensive :( Mind you, so is shoving an ice-cream in someone's face...

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Greengod Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Public Transport? The Bad Vibes Alone Can Drive > You Nuts > IN ANGRY RANTS / ON JANUARY 25, 2013 AT 12:20 AM > / > Nicolas Wingate writes from London: I don?t like > to use public transport. I prefer to drive or take > a cab. ... No, public transport is not for me. Too many bad > vibes Ah... all very well if you can afford to take a cab to work or have a central London parking space. For many of us, public transport is a necessity. Actually, having commuted to work in London for over 30 years I find most fellow commuters to be perfectly nice and well behaved people - then again I haven't an abhorrence of people wearing 'toxic' leather or rubber or applying 'deadly' moisturiser to faces or hands. Makes life much easier.

PaulK Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Voyageur get over yourself. No ones talking about > you putting on lipstick or moisturising your > hands. Read the first post. Read Louisa's posts bone-head.

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What is the male equivalent of a woman in > conversation with a man putting her hand inside > her blouse to adjust her bra? > I ask only because I've noticed it twice recently. Adjusting their balls maybe?

UncleBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Louisa is quite correct. Acceptance of selfish > behaviour in public does not make that behaviour > acceptable. Women applying make up on the train in > the mornings says so much about the tawdry > mentality of that person. Most of the make up > products are tested on animals also which makes it > more offensive to be done in public. Make up > applying in public is simply 'ladette' behaviour > and is nothing to be proud of. Absolute rubbish. If I was smoking in someone's face or playing music loudly and irritatingly on public transport then I can understand offence being given. If someone is offended by my touching up my lipstick on a train then they perhaps ought to see a psychiatrist. Or maybe stop rudely staring at me and any other women who might be applying lip salve or hand moisturiser and mind your own business. Your behaviour offends me.

Am marvelling at the mental image of people commuting to work with little cotton or wool booties on now that leather, rubber etc. have been banned as they are responsible for untold deaths purely from their aroma. Astonishing thread, astonishing`logic' :)

Breast feeding in public is fine by me - as long as it is done discretely if in, say, a restaurant or public transport. Easy enough with a scarf or muslin square.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Voyageur Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Louisa Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ---- > > > If myself and Mr Louisa were to pop onto the > > > number 3 and grope one another and partake in > > > sexual liaisons people would be up in arms > and > > > rightly so. It's an invasion of other > people's > > > personal space. The same applies to makeup > and > > > moisturiser. The question of a pet allergy is > > > different because unless the person is taking > a > > > cat onto a bus, it's something which is > hardly > > > avoidable - knowingly taking potentially > > harmful > > > products (for some people) onto a bus and > using > > > them without consideration for others is > > selfish. > > > DJKQ there are numerous pages on the Internet > > > which give plenty of details about people > > > suffering allergic reactions to makeup and > > other > > > products. I personally have an issue with > nuts, > > > and if someone sat next to me on a bus and > > pulled > > > out a bag of peanuts and started dining on > them > > it > > > would be close enough for me to react to that > > and > > > I would have to move. Why should I be forced > to > > > move because another person wishes to have a > > > munch? > > > > > > Louisa. > > > > Actually Louisa - I think you are a little bit > > nuts :( > > > > Your posts are getting more bizarre by the > minute > > and, on that basis, there seems little point in > > continuing to try to have a reasoned > discussion. > > > Oh so now because you disagree with me and feel > you are losing the argument you pull the bizarre > card out of the pack and dismiss me as slightly > insane. I came up with a good example of why food > should be banned, nut allergies are potentially > life threatening to some people and even being > near to someone eating them could result in a > severe reaction. But clearly you think my case is > flawed and because it suits you and others to > indulge yourself on public transport people who > disagree with you are seen as slightly bizarre. It > don't wash with me! > > Louisa. Nuts :)

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If myself and Mr Louisa were to pop onto the > number 3 and grope one another and partake in > sexual liaisons people would be up in arms and > rightly so. It's an invasion of other people's > personal space. The same applies to makeup and > moisturiser. The question of a pet allergy is > different because unless the person is taking a > cat onto a bus, it's something which is hardly > avoidable - knowingly taking potentially harmful > products (for some people) onto a bus and using > them without consideration for others is selfish. > DJKQ there are numerous pages on the Internet > which give plenty of details about people > suffering allergic reactions to makeup and other > products. I personally have an issue with nuts, > and if someone sat next to me on a bus and pulled > out a bag of peanuts and started dining on them it > would be close enough for me to react to that and > I would have to move. Why should I be forced to > move because another person wishes to have a > munch? > > Louisa. Actually Louisa - I think you are a little bit nuts :( Your posts are getting more bizarre by the minute and, on that basis, there seems little point in continuing to try to have a reasoned discussion.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Voyageur, you'd be surprised how even at a > distance of say 2/3 metres away, some poor > unsuspecting person could be at risk from the > fumes carried by your application of > makeup/moisturiser. It might not be a big deal to > you, but to others it could cause health issues to > flare up and equally is unfair in the cramped > shared space to subject them to the smells and > slopping sounds of the application. It's just > generally quite rude, surely you can appreciate > this? > > Louisa. No. I really don't appreciate what you are saying. I add a tiny blob of moisturiser to my chapped hands. I don't SLOP it around in copious amounts and I am confident that it would not cause anyone to break out in an allergic reaction. This isn't going to stop - so I suggest you avoid public transport at all costs.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > WM we do not know what goes into moisturiser, > there could be any number of hidden dangers which > to some people may well cause rashes and other > allergies to flare up. Being sat in this shared > space indulging in a behind closed doors act is, > IMO no better than having sex in a public place, > on the morality scale of selfishness. Therefore > how can you say moral and physical health is not > at stake? Sorry my reference to restaurants > doesn't always include alcohol, unless they're > licensed to sell/all people to consume it on the > premises. > > Louisa. Goodness me Louisa - have you OCD or summat? If applying moisturiser to oneself included grabbing one's fellow passengers in headlocks and slathering their faces in untested muck I would have some sympathy with your rather peculiar point of view. I often apply moisturiser to my hands and lip-salve to my lips on journeys - epsecially when there is a cold, biting wind. Are you really saying that that is an assault on my fellow passengers?! Bizarre.

PaulK Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do some work. Add something remotely relevant or interesting.

Wowzer.... I shall have a secret smile on my face when I next apply lipstick on the train knowing that I am responsible for the moral decline of society in general http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/teufel/devil-smiley-033.gif

I find it a tad amusing watching women apply make up on public transport n terms of the involuntary gurning. It's not offensive. Offensive on public transport? - Loud, tinny music from headphones - Mobiles with shockingly loud ring tones (turn the frigging volume down you a**holes) - people bellowing on phones, especially when discussing excruciatingly boring business matters - women clearing gunk from underneath their hideous acrylic nails and dropping it on the floor - farting/sneezing without covering nose/eating smelly food/filthy feet on seats.

csaddleton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > yes, nicely said pickle. Seconded!

Eastern Europe is great. Can highly recommend Dubrovnik! Lovely little bars and restaurants, stunning, scores of little coves with crystal clear water. http://hideoutfestival.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Dubrovnik.jpg Ljubljana is beautiful too. http://www.slovenijaturizem.com/galerija/ljubljana-iziol.jpg

Just throw a throw over it. Jeez, what a palaver.

Eagle Jon - most of he replies you get on edf will be smartarse put-downs by no-mark numpties, but there is clearly a lot going for the area, enjoy :)

With security lights, razor wire, hounds and booby traps. Such is urban life....

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well done Pinky82. Yes indeedy - onwards and upwards!

Quite like her personally.

Crab, spring onion and egg fried rice with stir-fried mushrooms, baby corn and sugar-snap peas. Umm Yumm.