Brendan

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I will say I am partial to a spot of gentleman's > relish. > (I can't believe I've just written that) Working on a Carry On script there Mockney. >:D<

You shouldn't need rules to stop people from eating, listening to music etc on the bus. These should just be things that people don't do out of respect for each other. Just proof that society is sick! (ps. I'm not some right-wing extrmemist with a basement full of guns I promise. Just someone who doesn't want to sit on the remains of a happy meal when he takes the bus.)

Ok so how about this. We divide the country up into local communities. All the money that each community makes is kept in a pot (kinda alike a communist collective). This is used to provide services etc. Then once a year all the people and businesses in the community compete for what is left over in a big village-fair style games day with events like arm wrestling, bobbing for apples and such. Perhaps in the case of places like ED we could have croc throwing and buggy racing or a best-dressed staffie competition.

What about Saturday or Sunday afternoon? If enough people are interested and available.

All the better. You can galvanize support. It is easier to get drunk people to agree to things.

Yeah we used to call it the free bus aswell. Until my mate got a ?90 fine for not paying. Then it became the - Free most of the time but bloody expensive sometimes bus.

What about a net this weekend? Might as well take advantage of the fact that it isn't raining.

Surely the routemaster could have been modified with a retractable ramp for wheechairs? And then there would have been a conductor to operate it unlike the automatic thing on the bendy bus that never works properly.

10 more top-tens. 1. South London boozers 2. Stand up comedians 3. Political fuckups and/or gaffs 4. North London boozers 5. Dictator's taches 6. Terry Pratchett Novels (slightly selective one I suppose for people who were lazy students) 7. Live bands 8. Inventions 9. Beers - larger and ale. (or substitute chosen drink) 10. London bus routes (as it seems to be topical at the moment)

So what are your top ten Top Tens?

I try not to play with sharp things when I've been drinking.

The place is full of people lying down.

"Our team of experts has decided that Income Tax has not proved popular with the public and will therefore be abolished. It was started in order to finance the Napoleonic war in 1799 and we now believe that the time is right to announce the cessation of hostilities with Napoleon. Some of the money left in the coffers will be used to fill in our part of the Channel Tunnel in case no one has mentioned it to the French. Any remaining money will be strategically placed on a horse at the 3-30 at Haydock Park at odds of at least 12/1 in order to see us through until the next election. Income Tax will be officially replaced by people lending the government a bob or two at the end of the week when we?re a bit skint." - Official Monster Raving Looney Party Manifesto. Hopefully this will settle it.

I have heard tell of nets in Dulwich Park. Anyone know where they are?

If we are going to do this on the 18th shouldn't we arrange a net?

I think she's talking about busses Marmora Man.

Very eurocentric statement doodles. Does it apply to a city as "international" as London? Dam I got roped in. loooonge........

Jesus Christ!* How did bitching about shit bus drivers turn into a class war? *Sorry guv.

I don?t suppose if anyone knows if I can put Guinness cans in the recycling? They have a little plastic widget inside so they are a mixture of metal and plastic.

Of course it is. My name is really Sally.

It's not that bad. As long as you don't succumb to the urge to join the rest of the rabble and run and push in a blind panic to be the first to the platform or to be the last to squeeze onto the already overcrowded tube carriage. I have a relatively pleasant journey. I get a seat on the bus, train and tube and get to have a coffee at DH when I wait for the train. The journey time is about the same, sometimes even quicker. The only down side is it costs more.

The No. 12 is the most direct way for me to get to work. It literally starts from behind my house and stops around the corner from work in Westminster. I however don?t use it because it is so full of shite! It is quicker and less stressful for me to get a bus down LL to Denmark Hill, then a train to Blackfriars and then a tube to Westminster. My last straw with the 12 was when my mate and I were on the bus coming through Peckham and some scrote bottled my mate and then ran off into the night. But aside from that there is always either someone kicking off on the bus or the bus just stops and everyone has to get off. Oh yeah and it is also usually so full of litter one may as well get a ride home on a rubbish truck. I hate the 12 me! (6)

James the problem is the degradation of our society that has come about from us trying misguidedly to improve it. It has all gone to hell-inna-hand-basket and I for one intend to start a new country in the old railway tunnel in the woods. I baggsies King by the way.

I agree that it must be a really tough job. That is still no excuse for drivers driving badly. If someone is prone to being a dick* or driving like a dick** then they shouldn't be hired. They should bloody well pay them decently too. That will have way more effect than any number of these touchy feely training course and life management skills bollocks things that seem to proliferate in the public sector to pep up staff moral. *Technical term that. **Another one.

Apologies, for the second time this morning, for my outbursts. It is one of those days. (6)