skidmarks

They can afford to strike and they know they will win as they hold the whole of London to ransom.

I think I?ll starts: all tube drivers are over-weight, balding, angry, middle age men, who live in Dagenham, driver Mondeos, read The Sun and will eventually die of a heart attack?actually that nearly sounds like Bob Crow.

I just think there are plenty of other professions out there that have a more valid reason to strike but they can?t get their voice heard. The train drivers strike over anything and everything as they know they?ll get it as their action affects so many other people ? I would say it?s a kind of bullying.

snorky Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > snorky Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Tube driver however do somethuing that is > > beneficial to the community > > > > very few of the critics of the tube drivers ( > as > > an example ) do anything that benefits society. > > > > > Dont beleivve me? > > go to ED station between 7.30 -9.00Am each > morning > > > find commuters - there are usually lots on > Platform 1 ( Platform 2 seems to be Dolers and > Skoolkids for some reason ) > > get notebook > > nicely ask commuters what they do for a living > > very few of them will be able tell you what they > do in one sentence. hardly any will be be to show > you something that they have produced - something > tangible > > welcome to ED, home of the people who seem to have > made up professions I?m a civil engineer and I?m critical of tube drivers so sorry. However, I do have a little thing against train drivers after one tried to poison all of us while we worked in a tunnel under Clerkenwell when he started his loco up to warm himself up and no doubt make himself a cup of tea. Oh actually I live in Nunhead (I think) so I don?t count and shouldn?t even be on here.

If the track maintenance guys went on strike it would take weeks if not months for anybody to notice ? so they don?t the poor sods. The government are the only people to blame for long close downs on the tube and railways owning the their managed decline of the countries infrastructure over the last few decades until the back log came so great they had to privatise the lot.

Canning Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > for 2 days, seems like the bloody management are > always closing it down for the whole weekend. That is to maintain it and keep it safe for the drivers to open the doors on the wrong side. How do you think things get built?! Those guys down there in that hot humid atmosphere breaking out sleepers in a 12 hours shift - they?re the real heroes.

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > snorky Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > the parasitic family of non productive, > valueless, > > degrading, immoral so called professions, are > the > > first to mouth off about people who drive buses > > and tubes for a living > > They?re another issue. But tube drivers taking the > piss because they are in a protected sector and > have a strong union while people in real > professions like teaching or nursing which have a > much higher level of personal culpability, > required level of qualification and skill get paid > less and just have to lump it, that pisses me off. I agree. However, the RMT would look like a bunch of fairies if the National Union of Teachers flexed its muscles. Anyway, bring on full automation. Its pretty much been done on the DLR since the 1980's.

KalamityKel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Tube drivers are responsible for many lives. Yeah but so are the signallers, the train and track maintenance guys, the engineers. I know they are not seen as directly responsible for peoples safety. Passengers safety is being used a cover for the real purpose of this strike to keep the RMT in the limelight by flexing its muscles. This driver opened the doors on the wrong side and some how it is someone else?s fault (f#cking blame culture). If I had set out some railway rack as I used to and the first train hit the tunnel portal in the morning, do you think I?d get away and say sorry I was a bit tired? I would have more self respect and go get a job in Subway (no pun intended)

I'd rather a nurse get 40k for their gruelling 12+ hour shifts.

I love that one of the excuses for todays day off is that trains should have safety features to stop doors opening on the wrong side! I?m sorry but isn?t that the drivers job ? hardly rocket science is it? So it looks like a driver opened the doors on the wrong side and tried to hide his mistake, got found out and sacked and now the RMT wants him back working. I'll give him a job cleaning my car and thats about it. I think LU should invest in more automation and get rid of drivers all together in fact!

or liver in a jar

A toss up between Heather Graham or Eva Green?so in reality just a big toss.

Lovely eyes, shame the fringe makes her look like a sheep dog

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Carbon footprint?! Oh really, only on the EDF. I was joking, calm down.

Off topic but is anybody else into the Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie show on radio 2? They play some great stuff. Also, the Jon Richardson on radio 6 on Sunday mornings is excellent, playing some old classics from the early 90?s and intelligent banter.

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Changing the subject, but wouldn't it be great to > have a Viking funeral? I can just imagine the > grieving crowd on the steep pebbly beach, an > outgoing tide, calm glassy water in a deep blue > dusk, and the high-prowed boat sailing out as the > bright flames start to leap up and engulf the > hull... Marvellously dramatic and final. Whats the carbon footprint of that?.like you would care as you're dead

Full metal jacket is mine. Two films in one ?You climb obstacles like old people f#ck?? has to be an all time classic line

Just got back from sainsburys, it was a pleasant experience, the shelves were stocked, hardly anybody there?the only problem was that is was 50 notes for sod all! Oh, I did watch two lazy fat arse individuals park in the family bays

When is the next forum drinks anyway?

HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > skidmarks Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I?ll probably be a right old grumpy bastard in > my > > later years so I?ll just have ?Get f#cked? on > mine > > Come on Skids, after what your grandad put on his > stone, I think you need to make more effort. Ok I'll have it translated into Latin first

I?ll probably be a right old grumpy bastard in my later years so I?ll just have ?Get f#cked? on mine

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Billie Piper used be known as Chaz Baps before she > married Chris Evans. The price of cocaine must have been much higher in those days

Billie Piper..you just couldn?t?Chris Evans has been there.

thebeard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How about > > 1. East Dulwich Lordship Lane flyover. As Found In > Tokyo > 2. Underground car park beneath Goose Green. As > Found in Park Lane > 3. 30minute sensor parking meters. As found in Le > Touquet Northern France. > 4. Pedestrian Car shared use Pavement / Road. As > found in Sloane Square. > > > All the solutions are out there. > > Why try and reinvent the wheel. You could say all those measures would make it easier for cars to park. If its easier to park that may encourage more people to drive so more cars to deal with than before ? catch 22. They tried catering for demand in the 1960?s and that didn?t work it just resulted in road schemes like that of Croydon and the cyclist killer Elephant and Castle.

My granddad has ?keep on swinging? on his headstone?.