Shiny new 40s

[solstice]

Oh dear beaver14uk, did you have to go back to the garage, or did you get a turn???

[Nero]

Ask the driver to turn off the heating. It works.

[The Onesevensixt]

Nero Wrote:

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> Ask the driver to turn off the heating. It works.

I'd be surprised if the driver could hear you over the jet-engine roar of the new 40's air con.

[skidmarks]

evelknievel Wrote:

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> The bus. The sparkly new, comfortable-seated, less

> environmentally damaging, piss-riddled bus.

Arf. I prefer the term scum-shovel myself

[Nero]

Just been on a new 40, but couldn't get on at the front and had to use the rear doors. The driver told me there was a problem with the front doors.

[SCSB79]

There was one brokern down at Camberwell today also... about 8.05am.

Not been a great start for the new route!!!

[Brendan]

I got one of these today and to my amazement there was actually enough space for me to sit in one of the seats upstairs without my legs being squashed up against the seat in from of me. Could it be that some designer somewhere has come to the realisation that there are actually a large number of people out there who are taller than 5?9??

Anyway the 40 stops behind my house and buggers up my TV reception so a pox on it and all who travel in it.

[soniala]

i also got on one today, v nice, roomy and clean

[SeanMacGabhann]

One downside is the SeanMacGabhann-heavily-used-extra-space at the back of the top deck is now a regular boxed in seat - but given the extra leg-room Brendan mentions, it's all good

[Brendan]

And how pleasantly soft and cushy the seats are for the boney of arse of this world. It was like sitting on a 2 tiered Victoria sponge but without all the usual liberal guilt you get from using cake as a cushion while people in Slough are forced to eat salt laden sandwiches from Tesco.

[annaj]

The upholstered back seats are not only good news for the bony-bottomed, Bredan, but also very nice for those of us (or perhaps it's just me) who used to slide off the old seats everytime the bus stopped or took a corner a bit fast.

Very happy with the new 40s.

[????]

I'm not sure about those strange cubicle behind the driver...look like the lairs of wrong'uns to me

[Brendan]

annaj Wrote:

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> The upholstered back seats are not only good news

> for the bony-bottomed, Bredan, but also very nice

> for those of us (or perhaps it's just me) who used

> to slide off the old seats everytime the bus

> stopped or took a corner a bit fast.

>

> Very happy with the new 40s.

Nope not just you Anna. They were especially tricky when wearing nice smooth, shiny suit trousers. It was an interesting way to get to know other commuters a bit better.

[SeanMacGabhann]

We're still friends tho' aren't we Bren?

[Brendan]

That depends, were you on the fucking bus last night when it stopped outside my window for ten minutes, disrupting the channel 4+1 signal and consequently my dinnertime episode of the Simpsons? Non-slip, bum-friendly seats are all well and good but a man can only take so much of Marge?s blue, bouffant crackling and pixilating to an electronic staccato after a hard day at work.

[Ted Max]

That depends, were you on the @#$%& bus last night when it stopped outside my window for ten minutes

I was. I was struck by the sight of a half-naked man dunking handfuls of Wotsits into a tin of beans, whilst swearing at a flickering blue screen. I haven't seen the like since I last visited the IT department to ask for a new mouse battery.

[Brendan]

What do you mean half-naked?

[Ted Max]

Oh, I thought that was a Princess Diana T-Shirt but it's actually a tattoo? Nice.

[Brendan]

It?s actually Babs Windsor but I spilled some jam down my chest so I can see your mistake.

[danrees]

Brendan Wrote:

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> That depends, were you on the @#$%& bus last night

> when it stopped outside my window for ten minutes,

> disrupting the channel 4+1 signal and consequently

> my dinnertime episode of the Simpsons? Non-slip,

> bum-friendly seats are all well and good but a man

> can only take so much of Marge?s blue, bouffant

> crackling and pixilating to an electronic staccato

> after a hard day at work.

Get a decent aerial!

[Oily Telly Tyke]

Why did they make the news buses with the same problem as before. I have normal length legs but mine still dangle annoyingly when i sit down! grrr