Have a rant thread

[Mook]

I would rep that again if I could, people turn into complete spastics on a bus for some reason.

 

Another of my favourites is two mates sitting half the top deck away from each other & then proceding to scream their conversation (usually one of those 'And he was like...' 'Then I was like...' ones) for the whole journey.

 

JUST SIT NEXT TO EACH OTHER YOU CUNTS.

[Section_31]

Buses are horrendous. They've always been full of mental bastards. Extortionate too.

[manwiththestick]

I'm amazed by buses, having not been on one since my school days (almost 25 years) so I always look in them as they pass and I'm surprised to see that sometimes there looks to be normal people on them amongst the old ladies, single mums laden with their spawn and capped scrotes with tinny music blaring.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

If you bring earphones and a book, buses are fine. I prefer getting the bus to taking the car on most occasions now (except if I had to get more than 1 bus to get somewhere, fuck that shit). For the commute to work it gives me an extra 45-60 mins each morning and each evening to read, do uni work, or sleep. Fuck that sitting behind the wheel in traffic like a fucking MUG!

[Mook]

Not having a go at anyone here as we're a bit of a car orientated country so it's understandable but I find people's snobbery regarding public transport a bit dissapointing, if everyone used public transport, the country would be in a far better state.

 

I had a row with a guy once who'd told me he was a socialist & then a few weeks later I heard him taking the piss out of people for getting the bus, the fucking hypocrite. To me, public transport is socialism in one of its purest forms, everyone going to work together & putting some money into the system to improve it for the greater good. It's a simplistic way of looking at it but what's wrong with that? I've never had a car, my parents never had a car when I was growing up so I walked or used public transport & have never had a problem with it other than some of the twattery mentioned in the last few posts & let's face it, you encounter far more of it driving about in your car.

[Jairzinho]

Not having a go at anyone here as we're a bit of a car orientated country so it's understandable but I find people's snobbery regarding public transport a bit dissapointing, if everyone used public transport, the country would be in a far better state.

 

I had a row with a guy once who'd told me he was a socialist & then a few weeks later I heard him taking the piss about of people for getting the bus, the fucking hypocrite. To me, public transport is socialism in one of its purest forms, everyone going to work together & putting some money into the system to improve it for the greater good. It's a simplistic way of looking at it but what's wrong with that? I've never had a car, my parents never had a car when I was growing up so I walked or used public transport & have never had a problem with it other than some of the twattery mentioned in the last few posts & let's face it, you encounter far more of it driving about in your car.

 

I've said before, unless you own a Ferrari 250 GTO and live in Tuscany, driving is largely fucking shit. 

[cloggypop]

I only use a bike and public transport . It's all I need.

[rubble-rouser]

Didn't get a car until we had kids. Depending on where you live, even then it's not truly essential.

[rubble-rouser]

Buses in London - I sometimes get one the 15 minute walk from Temple to Waterloo if it's raining or I've got a heavy bag. If it's rush hour. they're full of people taking short journeys. Big double-decker buses with capacity for 75-odd people.  90% of the time, especially if it's raining. nobody will bother going upstairs. There'll be about 30 people sitting and standing downstairs, blocking the staircase, and about 10 people on top. And the cuntish drivers refuse to let passengers on rather than telling people to go upstairs. Would never happen up North.    

[Section_31]

Not having a go at anyone here as we're a bit of a car orientated country so it's understandable but I find people's snobbery regarding public transport a bit dissapointing, if everyone used public transport, the country would be in a far better state.

 

I had a row with a guy once who'd told me he was a socialist & then a few weeks later I heard him taking the piss out of people for getting the bus, the fucking hypocrite. To me, public transport is socialism in one of its purest forms, everyone going to work together & putting some money into the system to improve it for the greater good. It's a simplistic way of looking at it but what's wrong with that? I've never had a car, my parents never had a car when I was growing up so I walked or used public transport & have never had a problem with it other than some of the twattery mentioned in the last few posts & let's face it, you encounter far more of it driving about in your car.

I think the bus argument would be different if it was actually reasonably priced, public transport in general is extortionate.

 

Buses are also the only place where you're caged in with school kids and can't escape. The stuff of nightmares.

[Bjornebye]

I've said before, unless you own a Ferrari 250 GTO and live in Tuscany, driving is largely fucking shit.

Best scenery but them roads are awful. A complete mess. Ridiculous considering the amount they charge to drive on the motorway.

[Mook]

I think the bus argument would be different if it was actually reasonably priced, public transport in general is extortionate.

 

Buses are also the only place where you're caged in with school kids and can't escape. The stuff of nightmares.

 

That just adds to my point, if everyone used it, it would be cheaper & more efficient as well.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

That just adds to my point, if everyone used it, it would be cheaper & more efficient as well.

 

At the moment it is cheaper for most people to bring their own car, just for one person, than to take the bus. I bus it anyway because my work is enrolled in a TaxSmart scheme where we pay a fixed rate from our wages (£90 or thereabouts before tax, which equates to about a £60 drop in takehome pay) for unlimited travel on our work route. But without that it would cost me upwards of £130 a month to get the bus.

[Mook]

At the moment it is cheaper for most people to bring their own car, just for one person, than to take the bus. I bus it anyway because my work is enrolled in a TaxSmart scheme where we pay a fixed rate from our wages (£90 or thereabouts before tax, which equates to about a £60 drop in takehome pay) for unlimited travel on our work route. But without that it would cost me upwards of £130 a month to get the bus.

 

Fucking hell, that is expensive.

 

I'm moving to a suburb of Edinburgh in December & my annual train pass will cost me around £600 a year, it would be roughly the same for a bus pass (which would take me anywhere in the city or nearby).

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Fucking hell, that is expensive.

 

I'm moving to a suburb of Edinburgh in December & my annual train pass will cost me around £600 a year, it would be roughly the same for a bus pass (which would take me anywhere in the city or nearby).

 

The £130+ is using a 'smart pass' and is just on one route! Translink are a fucking joke over here.

[RedKnight]

I love driving. I like trains and Nottingham's tram system is excellent. I've used a bus once in about 20 years. Used to walk or cycle places in my pre-car years.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Facebook related rant.

 

The current bunch of "don't give to refugees give to our own homeless soldiers first" posts

 

No. Fuck off. It's my money and I'll donate to whoever or whatever I want. If you're being told and forced into giving to one thing over another, just because somebody would rather you did, then it fast becomes anything before charity.

 

It's the online equivalent of bawling your head off like a cunt in Tesco because somebody has bought Dr. Pepper and you prefer Tizer.

 

Twats.

[Rico1304]

Facebook related rant.

 

The current bunch of "don't give to refugees give to our own homeless soldiers first" posts

 

No. Fuck off. It's my money and I'll donate to whoever or whatever I want. If you're being told and forced into giving to one thing over another, just because somebody would rather you did, then it fast becomes anything before charity.

 

It's the online equivalent of bawling your head off like a cunt in Tesco because somebody has bought Dr. Pepper and you prefer Tizer.

 

Twats.

[morgan]

Not having a go at anyone here as we're a bit of a car orientated country so it's understandable but I find people's snobbery regarding public transport a bit dissapointing, if everyone used public transport, the country would be in a far better state.

 

I had a row with a guy once who'd told me he was a socialist & then a few weeks later I heard him taking the piss out of people for getting the bus, the fucking hypocrite. To me, public transport is socialism in one of its purest forms, everyone going to work together & putting some money into the system to improve it for the greater good. It's a simplistic way of looking at it but what's wrong with that? I've never had a car, my parents never had a car when I was growing up so I walked or used public transport & have never had a problem with it other than some of the twattery mentioned in the last few posts & let's face it, you encounter far more of it driving about in your car.

 

You can tell you live in Edinburgh. Everyone here loves buses and cycling; it's like a mass psychosis affecting otherwise pleasant people who seriously need to try driving in a normal place for a while.

 

I moved here about 6 months ago and I met the fella in the flat downstairs. He was appalled that I drove my warm, comfortable, sanitary, pleasant car to work rather than cycle uphill both ways through the rain and gale-force wind or sit on the bus next to shit-yourself bagheads through Craigen-fucking-tinny to work. He went so far as to post, through the door, routes to work for both buses and cycling.

 

"The bus service in Edinburgh is so good! The city's made for cycling!"

 

Try driving to work for six months in a decent car with a good stereo and comfy seats whenever you want and then go back to sitting next to some old fella who's shit himself on the bus while listening to some arsehole scream at her spawn somewhere close to the half hour, more-or-less. Or *shudder* getting on the same bus as a...what's the correct word for a collective of school children? A horror? A fucking maelstrom? A shitty-dance-tune-through-shitty-phone-speakers, arguing and fighting, cunt-filled monstrosity smeared in shitty lynx spray to disguise non-existent personal hygiene and an over-active hormone gland? Whatever.

 

Buses are a great idea in principle...but only if there was a minimum level of behaviour. In practice, however, they are fucking awful - too hot in summer, too cold in winter and there's always one arsehole who makes the entire journey a fucking nightmare. Bastards. And all the buses go through Princes Street, which means to get from anywhere to anywhere you have to go through the middle of this over-congested, twat-filled, speed-bumped ant hill for no fucking reason. It's filled with a curious mix of junkies and neds (Pilton, Craigentinny) and want-to-be-southern twats in red trousers and plaited beards (Morningside, Stockbridge). I miss Glasgow, with its reasonably-priced pubs and restaurants and it's sensible grid system. And I fucking hated Glasgow.

 

Trains don't seem to attract quite the same level of wingnut, and I quite like trains. I'm even considering trying the new Borders railway just for fun. But buses? Fuck you, right in the ear. Hard.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

And, while we're at it, that Paul Hollywood boils my piss.

 

Just something instantly dislikeable about him.

 

Bet he stinks of yeast. And he's a smug fucker too. I can just imagine him, rather than ending his emails with his name, just using a capital P.

 

Bready cakey cuntchops.

[Dr Nowt]

You can tell you live in Edinburgh. Everyone here loves buses and cycling; it's like a mass psychosis affecting otherwise pleasant people who seriously need to try driving in a normal place for a while.

 

I moved here about 6 months ago and I met the fella in the flat downstairs. He was appalled that I drove my warm, comfortable, sanitary, pleasant car to work rather than cycle uphill both ways through the rain and gale-force wind or sit on the bus next to shit-yourself bagheads through Craigen-fucking-tinny to work. He went so far as to post, through the door, routes to work for both buses and cycling.

 

"The bus service in Edinburgh is so good! The city's made for cycling!"

 

Try driving to work for six months in a decent car with a good stereo and comfy seats whenever you want and then go back to sitting next to some old fella who's shit himself on the bus while listening to some arsehole scream at her spawn somewhere close to the half hour, more-or-less. Or *shudder* getting on the same bus as a...what's the correct word for a collective of school children? A horror? A fucking maelstrom? A shitty-dance-tune-through-shitty-phone-speakers, arguing and fighting, cunt-filled monstrosity smeared in shitty lynx spray to disguise non-existent personal hygiene and an over-active hormone gland? Whatever.

 

Buses are a great idea in principle...but only if there was a minimum level of behaviour. In practice, however, they are fucking awful - too hot in summer, too cold in winter and there's always one arsehole who makes the entire journey a fucking nightmare. Bastards. And all the buses go through Princes Street, which means to get from anywhere to anywhere you have to go through the middle of this over-congested, twat-filled, speed-bumped ant hill for no fucking reason. It's filled with a curious mix of junkies and neds (Pilton, Craigentinny) and want-to-be-southern twats in red trousers and plaited beards (Morningside, Stockbridge). I miss Glasgow, with its reasonably-priced pubs and restaurants and it's sensible grid system. And I fucking hated Glasgow.

 

Trains don't seem to attract quite the same level of wingnut, and I quite like trains. I'm even considering trying the new Borders railway just for fun. But buses? Fuck you, right in the ear. Hard.

 

Repped for sheer rant quality.

[Mook]

Decent rant but I've lived here for nearly 20 years and never had half those problems on the buses, if you're going through Craigentinny and Pilton then you're probably getting the 21, in which case you have my deepest sympathies.

[morgan]

Decent rant but I've lived here for nearly 20 years and never had half those problems on the buses, if you're going through Craigentinny and Pilton then you're probably getting the 21, in which case you have my deepest sympathies.

 

I'm not, 'cos I have a car. But yes, you're right - that would be my route to work and has done enough to engender hatred of buses into me to last a thousand lifetimes.

 

(I took it once and never again. The 44 into town is actually quite pleasant, but isn't really rant quality.)

[Trumo]

If more people used buses, it's more likely that you'll encounter people with personal hygiene issues and lack of social etiquette.

[Section_31]

Morgan's rant belongs in a hall of fame thread.