Women Who Eat on the Tube Facebook group

[Jeremy]

Parkdrive Wrote:

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> Why, just why?

Hungry

[Parkdrive]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Parkdrive Wrote:

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> > Why, just why?

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> Hungry

So if I feel like having a piss on public transport you'd be ok with that? And you know what I'm getting at.

[maxxi]

Rumour has it a new, and far more shaming, page is under construction-

"Men Who Read The Mail on the Tube and Leave it There, Taking Their Broadsheet to the Office."

This is to be the sister page of-

"Guardian Readers Who Secretly Leaf Through The Sun At The Supermarket Newspaper Stand While Their Other Half Is Finding The Brioche"

[Jeremy]

I would suggest that eating on a train causes only mild annoyance, and hence some perpetrators will feel it is justifiable if they would otherwise struggle to fit in a meal.

I don't believe anyone would feel equally inconvenienced by someone urinating in a train vs eating a big mac.

[Twirly]

Hardly comparable bodily functions. When I last checked eating in public was neither illegal nor insanitary, however much a big Mac might smell bad.

I despair of our society sometimes.

[Parkdrive]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I would suggest that eating on a train causes only

> mild annoyance, and hence some perpetrators will

> feel it is justifiable if they would otherwise

> struggle to fit in a meal.

>

> I don't believe anyone would feel equally

> inconvenienced by someone urinating in a train vs

> eating a big mac.

Firstly those of us who choose not to eat on trains find behaviour not mildy annoying but disgusting especially when you happen to be sitting opposite someone who has all the grace of a baboon, and secondly the stink of the crap they eat is foul.

[Jeremy]

Sorry I really don't believe that every passenger on the train finds a single guy eating a pasty for five minutes "disgusting". Annoying, at a push. I think it's a personal bugbear for you and a few others.

It's not illegal - in fact the large number of fast food outlets at stations would seem to suggest that it's actually encouraged. Perhaps you could write to Southern suggesting food-free carriages?

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Parkdrive Wrote:

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...the stink of the crap they

> eat is foul.

An apple? Biscuits? Chocolate? Am I missing something? Is all nibbling abhorrent or just full-blown gutsing on a hot steaming portion of whiffy nosh and/or anything with onions/garlic?

Or is this a mis-spelling combined with awkward grammar and you simply mean chicken?

[Robert Poste's Child]

I agree that hot food can be quite offensive though I suppose it doesn't usually last long. The smell of Mcdonalds makes me retch slightly, so I generally have to flounce off when it wafts its noxious way onto the top deck of the bus. I can't bear the smell of milk either (butter is worse and cheese totally impossible), so I can't sit next to anyone with a cooling latte as the stench gets worse as the heat goes out of it.

Is this more of a problem than it used to be? It seems like everything is now an opportunity to eat. Recently I got an overcrowded train to Cambridge, a journey time of about 40 minutes, and it looked like everyone had a latte and some kind of breakfast which they stuffed into their mouths while slumped staring at their phones. Probably tweeting about the mad 40-something woman with only a bike and a book for entertainment (Made of, like, paper! Man, that is SO freaking retro?), who kept tutting and sniffing.

[Otta]

Eating on public transport is far from ideal, but there are times when I've had no chance to eat all day and I'm on my way to another appointment so I'll scoff something on the bus or train because I simply need to eat.

I cant imagine why anyone would want to eat fried chicken on the tube, but minging as it may be it's nothing like pissing on the train.

I remember being on a busy bus coming home from work years ago and some very drunk bloke literally pissed on the floor from his seat. That was disgusting and I'd much rather he'd just eaten a burger.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Agree. Peeing probably on a par with throwing up said burger after you've eaten it.

[charlesfare]

hahaha imagine being the kind of human being who genuinely felt like wretching at the sight of seeing someone eat a maccie d's or felt ill at the smell of someone else's latte. I think some of you are being very very precious. Espescially the old codger complaining about people tweeting and reading (shock horror) e-books. Grow up.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Maybe we're being honest. Why should everyone like what you like? Especially when it's muck.

Your punctuation is cr*p, by the way. Have a nice day.

[Otta]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Your punctuation is cr*p, by the way.

So their opinion doesn't count?

Sorry not trying to get in ann argument, just a pet hate of mine when people try to dismiss someone because their spelling or grammar is bad.

[charlesfare]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Maybe we're being honest. Why should everyone like

> what you like? Especially when it's muck.

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> Your punctuation is cr*p, by the way. Have a nice

> day.

Who gives a crap about my punctuation? this is a rinky-dink web forum not a PHD thesis. If you're genuinely offended and upset by people eating and drinking coffee on public transport and turn your nose up at people reading smart phones and reading ebooks, then maybe you should get a life.

[Robert Poste's Child]

As far as I can see they weren't giving an opinion on the topic, just ridiculing me for mine!

[charlesfare]

You deserve to be ridiculed. If you had any sense of self awareness you'd realize how snooty and precious you sound. At any rate, I'll make sure that the next time I'm on the train, hungry from a hard day's work or not having enough time to make breakfast, not to eat anything that'd offend the quaint commuters of the EDF's delicate constitutions and to only read my hand bound copy of henry david thoreau's Walden.

[Otta]

To be honest, the cooling coffee thing is pretty extreme, yoy must have an amazing sense of smell.

[charlesfare]

I believe the word you're searching for is "refined"

[Robert Poste's Child]

Yep, don't like dairy close up. My sister's the same. I believe it's more common for Asian people but a cultural thing for them.

[Saffron]

Well, a dog certainly has an amazing sense of smell, but that doesn't make it 'refined'.

[LadyNorwood]

Cannot bear the smell (or taste) of strawberries - have been known to jump off bus/train/tube at nearest stop when punnets are aplenty....

[Parkdrive]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Sorry I really don't believe that every passenger

> on the train finds a single guy eating a pasty for

> five minutes "disgusting". Annoying, at a push. I

> think it's a personal bugbear for you and a few

> others.

>

> It's not illegal - in fact the large number of

> fast food outlets at stations would seem to

> suggest that it's actually encouraged. Perhaps you

> could write to Southern suggesting food-free

> carriages?

Many petrol stations sell alcohol does that suggest to you they encourage drink/driving?

[StraferJack]

I wouldn't go as far as Parkdrive and compare the two. And yet, and yet..

I don't mind people eating on the tube/bus - unless it's certain kind of foods

Sarnie? Fruit? Why not

But cheese and onion pasty, or the chicken bones I find on the upper decks? yeah that's pretty grim

If you don't mind it fair enough, but courtesy to others would indicate that plenty of people do mind it so why not hold back a little?

[Jeremy]

On the 10.10 right now. Busy day and hadn't eaten since lunchtime. Frankly... I need to shove food into my face now. You dont need to sit next to me!