Etiquette when travelling by train

[Ridgley]

Farting on the train and pretending it was not you:)

[KidKruger]

It's better to pretend someone else did it - single them out, give dirty looks, move away holding your nose...

[Loz]

Saffron Wrote:

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> Only in lifts ;-)

To pinch Stewart Francis' joke...

I farted in a crowded lift the other day, it was wrong on so many levels.

[Chillaxed]

I fancy your 'live and let live' attitude would be sorely tested if a stray toenail clipping flew into your morning coffee or indeed within 3 feet of you.

*Bob* Wrote:

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> I try not to go on public transport too much.

>

> It's full of people who secretly hate their own

> lives - and manifest their secret hatred by

> getting disproportionately annoyed by the

> relatively inconsequential actions of others.

[Saffron]

Nah, I reckon you can just flick it out of the foam on your coffee with your monte blanc pen. It's when you get a clipping in the eye that you know it's gonna be a bad day.

[polla2256]

I think it's more anti social to use a mobile phone.

[Saffron]

And possibly more problematic when one lands in your coffee.

[Asset]

Nail varnish wouldn't bother me. I quite like the smell, I can appreciate some don't though and for that it is pretty antisocial. But eating a burger or something is much more vile in an enclosed space. I've had to change carriages when people are eating.

I do get irritated with people putting make up on. I don't know why. Fairly intolerant of me I know. I don't let it get my blood pressure up though.

Lets face it there are plenty of anti-social, inconsiderate divs out there.

[Asset]

I sat in front of a woman recently on the train who was eating slices of either ham or chicken from a packet. It smelled like I imagine the scunge between someone's toes would smell.

[Coman]

Silence.

(except in one designated carriage, at the very rear)

Penalties would apply. Financial penalties

[uncleglen]

I use ear plugs (the yellow and pink ones) and read and sleep- and hopefully I snore etc

[Top Banana]

Slightly OT concerning trains - does anyone else recall those psychedelic 70's carriages that were on the late night trains back to ED about 4 - 5 years ago?

[fishbiscuits]

Don't remember those, grande banane. Perhaps you'd been on the absinthe.

[Top Banana]

Possibly, fish. Possibly.

[polla2256]

Saffron Wrote:

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> Not sure why make-up bothers people? Make-up can

> be applied quietly, doesn't smell, and doesn't

> leave anything behind like brushing hair or

> clipping nails. Seriously it's all relative,

> isn't it? I'd rather sit next to someone applying

> eyeliner than picking his/her nose -- both of

> which I've seen in abundance.

Plus it makes people look better unlike many of the other factors people have mentioned that only prove detrimental (except farting which is rather amusing unless on the recieving end)

[Otta]

Asset Wrote:

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> Nail varnish wouldn't bother me. I quite like the

> smell, I can appreciate some don't though and for

> that it is pretty antisocial. But eating a burger

> or something is much more vile in an enclosed

> space. I've had to change carriages when people

> are eating.

> I do get irritated with people putting make up on.

> I don't know why. Fairly intolerant of me I know.

> I don't let it get my blood pressure up though.

> Lets face it there are plenty of anti-social,

> inconsiderate divs out there.

I've had to "eat on the go" between appointments before, and remember feeling like such a dirty scummer. Only do it when I really really have no option, and fully appreciate that everyone will think I'm disgusting.

[RosieH]

My name's fuck, and I put on make up on the train.

And I don't care.

[StraferJack]

That IS rather the impression people give

Which might be what aggravates people more than the makeup itself

[*Bob*]

There was a girl on the train last week who spent twelve stops on the Circle line holding up a mirror whilst making infinitesimally small adjustments to approximately six strands of her hair.

IT MADE ME SO ANGRY

[Help-Ma-Boab]

I also like the smell of nail varnish. Then again I did spread some shoe polish on a slice of bread once to try to extract the alcohol.

[fishbiscuits]

A burger or pasty on the 11:whatever is pretty much essential.

[RosieH]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> That IS rather the impression people give

>

> Which might be what aggravates people more than

> the makeup itself

But why should I care? I really don't understand what's to care about. I'm not encroaching on other people's space with my legs spread wide to accommodate my enormoballs, or sticking my newspaper in their face. It makes less noise than tinny headphones or rustley carrier bags or mobile phone conversations. It doesn't smell, unlike foodstuffs.

Why should people adopt an apologetic demeanour for this activity and not for any other? It's utterly nonsensical that people should care that you don't approve.

I hate the Metro - it's rubbish. But I don't judge people for not asking my permission to read it in my presence.

[LadyDeliah]

Because you're women, doing women things, shattering the illusion that we somehow get out of bed already made up and ready for the men in our lives.

And the fact we are blatantly not made up, not ready for the men, but don't give a shit, well how appalling is that?

If you were obviously the kind of frump who doesn't bother to wear make up, then that wouldn't be so bad, but no, you clearly do bother, but not for us!!!

[maxxi]

There's an annoyance scale-

Visual annoyance -

meh, 0/10

Smell annoyance -

from 'impulse-all-over-body-deodorant', 4/10 ...

to farting MacD muncher 10/10

Sound annoyance -

from noisy infants 3-7/10 ...

to headphone-spill/iPod-spill (previously known as Walkman-spill), punchtheminthefacepunchtheminthefacepunchthemintheface.

[malumbu]

Long bus journeys are much better, as you can listen into longer conversations, as long as you keep away from the i-pod that is too loud.

Even better was when a load of primary school kids got on my bus the other day off on an outing. Made the journey much more pleasant whilst I made sure that I did not come across as a dodgy geezer. I spoke a bit to one of the teachers, and suggested that she got the kids to sing as they would have done in France (well at least in my vision of what it would be like in France). I am sure that it would have been better than Kim Wilde.