Today I'm angry about.....

[Prufrock]

You can get a bus there from ANYWHERE TD! Flagship service.

[Verbal]

People in that London whinging about how bad public transport is down there! Went to the cinema on t'Reebok last night. Tried to get the train there, turns out it was a bus replacement. Now given the bus stop isn't in view from the platform, did the driver come to inform people there was no train? Did he feck. Was there even a sign saying rail replacement? Well, there was a tiny notice on a piece of A4 blutacked in the rain saying there was a rail replacement on Saturday, the previous day, but no mention of Sunday. Woman interneted on her jazzy phone which said rail replacement. Having got a lift there, we checked to see when the next rail replacement back was. Turns out there was one at 9, 10, not 11 and 12. We got out of the cinema just after ten, waited nearly two hours for a bus which didn't bother turning up, and so having waited had to get a taxi just after midnight, at double rate. Just one example of the sheer, blinding ineptitude of the rail companies in this country, and they have the fecking cheek to put up the price of tickets!

One angry letter in the post. Angry old man? Not me.

I've commented to friends before that the Underground turns people into impatient bastards.

"What? FIVE minutes until the next train?!? Wtf do they expect me to do, stand here and WAIT?"

[TANGODANCER]

You can get a bus there from ANYWHERE TD! Flagship service.

I don't even know where it is, but apparently it's somewhere near the bus garage.

[Prufrock]

People in that London whinging about how bad public transport is down there! Went to the cinema on t'Reebok last night. Tried to get the train there, turns out it was a bus replacement. Now given the bus stop isn't in view from the platform, did the driver come to inform people there was no train? Did he feck. Was there even a sign saying rail replacement? Well, there was a tiny notice on a piece of A4 blutacked in the rain saying there was a rail replacement on Saturday, the previous day, but no mention of Sunday. Woman interneted on her jazzy phone which said rail replacement. Having got a lift there, we checked to see when the next rail replacement back was. Turns out there was one at 9, 10, not 11 and 12. We got out of the cinema just after ten, waited nearly two hours for a bus which didn't bother turning up, and so having waited had to get a taxi just after midnight, at double rate. Just one example of the sheer, blinding ineptitude of the rail companies in this country, and they have the fecking cheek to put up the price of tickets!

One angry letter in the post. Angry old man? Not me.

I've commented to friends before that the Underground turns people into impatient bastards.

"What? FIVE minutes until the next train?!? Wtf do they expect me to do, stand here and WAIT?"

Indeed, that train they didn't say was rail replacement was the one train per hour we get. I remember seeing somebody go insane with rage once when the Underground board said 8mins. I don't think he'd ever had to wait that long for a train before.

[Verbal]

What the shittting hell is this for? It isn't Val Thorens, Boris, you vane git

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[Prufrock]

What the shittting hell is this for? It isn't Val Thorens, Boris, you vane git

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200ft tower, one of them'll be useful!

[Verbal]

What the shittting hell is this for? It isn't Val Thorens, Boris, you vane git

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200ft tower, one of them'll be useful!

Shut it, you unwashed bastard. It's Monday :p

It's as if he decides transport policy based on things like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEZjzsnPhnw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[thebish]

What the shittting hell is this for? It isn't Val Thorens, Boris, you vane git

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it'll be recycled as a mobile phone mast...

I'm sure to non-Londoners, Boris looks like great fun... but in reality - he's a sack of uselessness...

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Is he? I don't think he's done much I disagree with.

[thebish]

Is he? I don't think he's done much I disagree with.

you could leave off the last three words - and we'd agree...

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

What's he not done that you would like to have seen him do and, if possible, you think another candidate would have?

[thebish]

What's he not done that you would like to have seen him do and, if possible, you think another candidate would have?

well, for one thing - I would have liked him to deliver on his promise to make the borough settlements fairer for the outer boroughs (particularly in the voluntary sector) - something that he promised over and over again in his campaigning - and a big part of his election success was on the back of the outer-borough support.

since then - he's not been seen outside the square mile...

can you list his achievements?

[Hoboh]

What's he not done that you would like to have seen him do and, if possible, you think another candidate would have?

well, for one thing - I would have liked him to deliver on his promise to make the borough settlements fairer for the outer boroughs (particularly in the voluntary sector) - something that he promised over and over again in his campaigning - and a big part of his election success was on the back of the outer-borough support.

since then - he's not been seen outside the square mile...

can you list his achievements?

Kept out all the leftie commie socialists, and errr is funny to look at

[Il Pirate]

What's he not done that you would like to have seen him do and, if possible, you think another candidate would have?

well, for one thing - I would have liked him to deliver on his promise to make the borough settlements fairer for the outer boroughs (particularly in the voluntary sector) - something that he promised over and over again in his campaigning - and a big part of his election success was on the back of the outer-borough support.

since then - he's not been seen outside the square mile...

can you list his achievements?[/quote]



'Boris Bikes'

[Prufrock]

It's still six months away, but I'm already at the point of tooling up in preparation for the cruel and systematic disembowelment of the next cnut, be it newsreader, journalist or politician, to use the fecking word 'legacy'. AAARGGGHHH. Roughly three times per minute on the news tonight!

[Little Green Man]

It's still six months away, but I'm already at the point of tooling up in preparation for the cruel and systematic disembowelment of the next cnut, be it newsreader, journalist or politician, to use the fecking word 'legacy'. AAARGGGHHH. Roughly three times per minute on the news tonight!

It's only because stocks of 'iconic' are at an all time low.

[2399]

Got knocked back on my Parking Fine, not so angry, very angry that the review officer didn't write their name! I don't know who to murder now!


Plus there is no payment plan for the fine! How will I pay then!

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

What's he not done that you would like to have seen him do and, if possible, you think another candidate would have?

well, for one thing - I would have liked him to deliver on his promise to make the borough settlements fairer for the outer boroughs (particularly in the voluntary sector) - something that he promised over and over again in his campaigning - and a big part of his election success was on the back of the outer-borough support.

since then - he's not been seen outside the square mile...

can you list his achievements?

I don't have such a list, no - I'm just genuinely and innocently enquiring as to where he has let you down.

What are 'borough settlements', if you don't mind explaining?

[thebish]

What's he not done that you would like to have seen him do and, if possible, you think another candidate would have?

well, for one thing - I would have liked him to deliver on his promise to make the borough settlements fairer for the outer boroughs (particularly in the voluntary sector) - something that he promised over and over again in his campaigning - and a big part of his election success was on the back of the outer-borough support.

since then - he's not been seen outside the square mile...

can you list his achievements?

I don't have such a list, no - I'm just genuinely and innocently enquiring as to where he has let you down.

What are 'borough settlements', if you don't mind explaining?

you did say he hadn't done much you disagree with - which does kind of imply he has done SOMETHING!!

the borough settlements (maybe not the precisely correct technical term!) - the formulae by which the local government funding (from national gov) and other grants for london are parcelled out... I accept that many inner London boroughs have a prior claim because of social need (Tower Hamlets, for example) - but the formulae are so massively weighted against the outer boroughs that local government services are stripped to the bone... Boris did a grand tour of the outer boroughs, promising that his administration would rebalance the formulae - but, he hasn't - and he has rarely been seen outside the square mile since then, seeming to prefer life in the bright lights with attendant photo opportunities...

[jonnybwfc]

Got knocked back on my Parking Fine, not so angry, very angry that the review officer didn't write their name! I don't know who to murder now!


Plus there is no payment plan for the fine! How will I pay then!

Great thing about parking fines in the UK, is you get an early bird discount.

Not sure that exists in any other country ?

Makes me almost feel happy paying it, (and discussing it in the "Today I'm happy about ...." thread), which I suppose is the intention - "look how much I've saved".

Bad thing about parking fines in the UK, there are more parking police than cars, so be naughty, and you're bound to get one.