Kernowfem
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Be very careful next time you pick up a metro.
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That was the info I heard. Either way it makes me feel slightly ill :?
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Be very careful next time you pick up a metro.
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That was the info I heard. Either way it makes me feel slightly ill :?
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I would have thought most people expect Metro to be full of crap anyway.
I don't even pick up a copy now (not that I travel daily anymore) but occasionally see the website, mostly when clicking on a link, and it's clickbait central. Total, utter, dross.
I assume the paper still takes stories from the Daily Mail and posts them days later, presumably as easy fillers when they haven't got anything else to go in?
I'm amazed people pick up a copy at all now, rather than just use their smartphone (perhaps only because people don't want their superslim smartphone battery to be down to 60% before they even walk into their office!).
Kernowfem
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I'm familiar with it through Twitter. Although occasionally I leaf through one if I chance upon one and I'm out of decent reading material. I drive everywhere these days so it doesn't happen often. As for the mail, I'm saying nothing
Does anybody actually share a 'sharer' portion? Fortunately I've yet to experience the full blast of the cheesy dorito, but when I do, it will no doubt be nauseating!
Why can't people buy food that smells good, such as chicken madras?
Minilad
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Fortunately I've yet to experience the full blast of the cheesy dorito, but when I do, it will no doubt be nauseating!
Why can't people buy food that smells good, such as chicken madras?
If anyone was sitting behind me eating a madras, or any other curry, they would be given two options. Leave the train or wear the curry
Since there is no rule against eating a curry on the train, wouldn't it be for you to find an alternative seat?
Minilad
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I could sit in the second mans seat I guess. But don't think the train would be going too far if I did
Surely there is some by-law against causing discomfort or some such wibble
I could sit in the second mans seat I guess. But don't think the train would be going too far if I did
Surely there is some by-law against causing discomfort or some such wibble
If the person eating the curry were in the second man's seat, I'm sure there'd be plenty of rules to get rid of him
But to be fair, if he were in the passenger compartment, I doubt the smell would get past the door to the front on most trains!
Minilad
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If the person eating the curry were in the second man's seat, I'm sure there'd be plenty of rules to get rid of him
But to be fair, if he were in the passenger compartment, I doubt the smell would get past the door to the front on most trains!
You doubt very wrong then. On the traction I drive it is very easy to smell things from behind the door. And hear!!
Ah well. It seems the only way to solve this is to bring back sliding ventilators and drop-lights then
Minilad
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Ah well. It seems the only way to solve this is to bring back sliding ventilators and drop-lights then
Oh yes. Preferably on Mk 1 or Mk2 stock with a nice loud engine up front!!
My list is:
No feet on the seats
No mobile phone conversations
No playing music without headphones
No music loud on headphones so I can hear it
No screaming kids
No smelly food
No passengers with personal hygiene problems
No bags/luggage/coats on seats
No standard class passengers walking through the 1st class so they can get off at the barriers
No standard class passengers standing in the 1st class vestibules
No standard class passengers sitting in 1st class because they think they can get away with it
No standard class passengers sitting in 1st class because the standard class is full they think they can upgrade themselves
No drunks
No football fans
Come to think of it, no other passengers on the train but me
No feet on the seats
No mobile phone conversations
No playing music without headphones
No music loud on headphones so I can hear it
No screaming kids
No smelly food
No passengers with personal hygiene problems
No bags/luggage/coats on seats
No standard class passengers walking through the 1st class so they can get off at the barriers
No standard class passengers standing in the 1st class vestibules
No standard class passengers sitting in 1st class because they think they can get away with it
No standard class passengers sitting in 1st class because the standard class is full they think they can upgrade themselves
No drunks
No football fans
Come to think of it, no other passengers on the train but me
There's a very special new type of carriage you might be interested in using instead of the 'conventional' rail carriages which you seem to find unaffordable for private use. Some of the advantages are:My list is:
No feet on the seats
No mobile phone conversations
No playing music without headphones
No music loud on headphones so I can hear it
No screaming kids
No smelly food
No passengers with personal hygiene problems
No bags/luggage/coats on seats
No standard class passengers walking through the 1st class so they can get off at the barriers
No standard class passengers standing in the 1st class vestibules
No standard class passengers sitting in 1st class because they think they can get away with it
No standard class passengers sitting in 1st class because the standard class is full they think they can upgrade themselves
No drunks
No football fans
Come to think of it, no other passengers on the train but me
- a smaller number of seats allowing for more privacy
- affordability for the average person to consider using one as an owner-operator without the need to carry other passengers
- access to a large network of routes
- pneumatic rubber tyres for a comfortable ride on the sections of said network which are not maintained well
- an ingenuous wheel-based control system allowing the user to pick which route to use instead of relying on turnouts controlled by signallers
- adaptable for both passenger and light freight usage
TheNewNo2
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I was lazy one night and got the DLR home from the cinema. I got on at West India Quay and there was a couple kissing. When I alighted at South Quay they had yet to come up for air.
trainophile
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People who don't flush the toilet after using it 
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.People who don't flush the toilet after using it
It does rather depend on whether the toilet actually flushes !
Tommy1581
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People who don't flush the toilet after using it
You can't even dispose of whatever you want to dispose of on a Pacer.
trainophile
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I used two different toilets on ATW trains today, and both of them were gross until I flushed before using them myself. Nothing wrong with the flushing mechanism, and no signage about not flushing while in a station, so no excuse except laziness or just being inconsiderate.
ChiefPlanner
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There is a rather large fellow - working man - baseball cap - who frequents a train from Farringdon of an evening - who consumes a snack of 2 packaged sandwiches and a drink with much grunting , open mouth chewing and sighing. Odd other noise as well.
Judging by the eye rolling from other commuters this does not go down well. As he is a creature of habit - first coach - easily avoided. However, some people have no concept of acceptable behaviour.......gross ...
Judging by the eye rolling from other commuters this does not go down well. As he is a creature of habit - first coach - easily avoided. However, some people have no concept of acceptable behaviour.......gross ...
My most recent one was on a train between Leeds and Preston. A guy got on at Bradford and sat across the aisle from me. Out of the bag comes a box containing a very strong smelling curry. He scoffs the curry down oblivious to the reek filling the carriage. Then he gets on the mobile to talk absolute drivel so loud everybody cannot help but hear it. It sounded like a conversation about how great he was and how he was single handedly running the company. Let's just say client confidentiality was somewhat breached! I couldn't help thinking if he popped his shoes off I could have got the hat trick! Some people really couldn't care less for other people.
trainophile
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Oh that curry tale reminds me of another one... women who varnish their nails on trains. Don't they realise it stinks the carriage out?
Oh that curry tale reminds me of another one... women who varnish their nails on trains. Don't they realise it stinks the carriage out?
Oh yes, that one irritates me - whereas curry doesn't.
Sounds like a case for putting your own phone into recorder mode and sending the result to his employers.
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Anyone who thinks it's okay to subject other passengers to the same text alert over and over and over and over and over and over again, especially that five-note whistle one.
trainophile
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And those who don't realise that you can mute the keypad sounds. Beep beep beep beep bl**dy beep!
STEVIEBOY1
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Perhaps the guy with the curry did get a bit of payback the next morning if it was a hot one!
Regarding text alerts, I was once on a Pendolino and a bloke nearby had a scene from Pulp Fiction as his.
It was the bit from 0.22 - 0.30 here (Warning contains bad language!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOoBomvuYnw
It was at full volume as well!
It went off numerous times between Glasgow and Carlisle.
Precisely nobody was impressed.
As for toilets, I'm reminded of this gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEv6dqVPLSM
It was the bit from 0.22 - 0.30 here (Warning contains bad language!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOoBomvuYnw
It was at full volume as well!
It went off numerous times between Glasgow and Carlisle.
Precisely nobody was impressed.
As for toilets, I'm reminded of this gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEv6dqVPLSM
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TheNewNo2
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That particular one drives me insane! The other annoying one is the CHOO! CHOO!
Someone at work had a ringtone which was the start of a song, it went something like "Would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?"
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