Big up the tube drinkers
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chainsaw cat
Tea. Biccies. Happy now?
I'm going to that London next month and I shall be having a drink on the Tube for the first time in my life.
I don't even need to go on the Tube, I'll be making a special trip.
If anything interesting happens I'll start a thread.
I shall call it 'Stroppy Bumpkin Harassed over Meths by Nazi Boris'
I don't even need to go on the Tube, I'll be making a special trip.
If anything interesting happens I'll start a thread.
I shall call it 'Stroppy Bumpkin Harassed over Meths by Nazi Boris'
Stobart Stopper
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But have you ever spoken to any of the cleaners who have to get rid of the litter and puke? I know a few who work up the station and they are paid a shit wage for having to clear up after drinkers and it aint nice. Some passengers piss into cans and leave them on shelf at the back of the seats and sometimes they get knocked over and it goes all over the seats and floor. Then there's the sick.
I know this probably still happens but from what I hear things are alot better now they have banned booze from the tube.
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Thats hardly related to people enjoying a can or two after work is it. Thats from people stumbling home after a skinful on Fri night. Banning being pissed on the tube would sort that out.
butterfly child
Well-Known Member
I would imagine an all out ban on drinking alcohol on the tube is easier to police than having to assess whether someone is pissed.
BlackSpecs
The DogFather
Damn right, get em back in their cars where they belong!
I don't think people should be allowed to drink alcohol on the Tube, people WILL spill it, that is a given, it is a moving shaking carriage after all, it makes seats sticky, it smells fucking awful if you don't drink and I don't really see the need.
London Underground reckon you should add 2 mins to your journey time for each station that you pass through. That is just 20mins if you travel 10 stops, 20 stops is only 40 mins.
There are only 37 stops on the Central Line, so even if you were going from one end to the other, it would only take an hour and a quarter, if you can't survive an hour and a quarter without actively drinking alcohol, I think you need to go get some help.
Nothing like treating people as guilty until proven innocent, is there?
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
more clumsy til proven innocent
Nothing like treating people as guilty until proven innocent, is there?
*yawn*
if that attempt wasn't so utterly pathetic I might have wasted a moment refuting it.
This is a fucking idiotic argument.
That fuckwit Johnson is probably laughing at all the proles moaning about drinking on the tube, while he's sipping champagne in his chauffer-driven rolls.
No it really isn't.
You are stopped from drinking alcohol for a measly 1hour and 15 mins if you travel from one end of the Central Line to the other.
A 'slight' inconvenience. For the benefit of everyone else.
I am shocked by the selfish attitudes displayed on this board, given its propensity to complain about shareholders and dodgy corporations making billions while millions live in fuel poverty. Yet ask you to not drink alcohol on the tube and all of a sudden your needs, your wants, your desires, what you want to do, is most important and everyone else can get fucked. How dare you think you can get on a tube without it stinking of Special Brew, how dare you think you can sit on a seat and not get stuck to it through the magical properties of dried alcohol.
Those are minor inconveniences that non-drinkers have to put up with, but thats ok, we can suffer right, I mean, as long as you don't have to suffer.
Just to add, the only person in his chaffuer driven car, is him, the only person he spill champagne on, is him and his car. The Tube you have to share. Yes unfortunately being poor means you have to share with other people sometimes, sucks don't it, but when you do share, you supposed to be considerate, not selfish bastards who think your need to consume alcohol should come before everyone else.
eta not saying you all bastards, just i couldn't think of another word to fit in there, it is far harsher then I intended to be, but still not sure what i can replace it with that isn't just as harsh
being selfish is just a bit harsh anyway, but I do feel that people who think they have the right to drink on the tube are being inconsiderate and they are being selfish. Look I might understand if it was the Overground and you might not be able to have a drink on a 6 hour journey, that might be a bit brutal, but its the underground, the average journey is probably no more then 30mins and some are much lower.
FridgeMagnet
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There was a man opposite me on the tube yesterday eating a yoghurt. He could have spilled that. Should have been ashamed of himself, the bastard.
I do agree, I think the banning of food eating on the Tube should be next, hardly like you will starve to death between stops if you don't eat.
....but it won't happen, cause they sell that in the stations and they would have to stop selling food in stations, if they wanted people not to eat food in stations.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Well at least you're consistent.
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hiraethified
There was no puking going on in the carriages I was on - just good natured banter. It was a very pleasant atmosphere - people smiling everywhere.
But if if you want to remove the chance of people being sick, then you'd have to introduce a breathalyser test at the gates because most of the problems come from people who are already pissed out of their heads when they get on the tube.
And as for your touching concern for the cleaners, I trust you will be lobbying hard to remove their number one source of litter, the freebie papers. Oh, and fast food packaging. And soft drink cans. And water bottles. And sweet wrappers.
Tell you what - let's just ban everyone.
I look at it like this, I wouldn't get in a friends car and eat a stinking Kebab as he drove around, sure he might tell me its ok, but I certainly wouldn't assume it was ok to do it, it isn't considerate of him or his car.
Tube isn't really all that different, except we are all passengers.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
as I predicted the laughably unenforcable ban is being quietly flouted by sensible folk. In your face Boris, Dravinian, Ajdown and all the other self appointed moral busybodies who find the mere sight of a proley enjoying a can offensive
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hiraethified
So you've never, ever eaten anything on a train, plane, bus or tube?
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fuck the system!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Stobart Stopper
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It's only anti-Conservatives who hate the no-drinking on the tube IMO, it's because it was bought in by Boris. If Ken had done it would be a different story.
Stobart Stopper
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They don't mind the free papers, it's the half-empty drink cans and bottles that cause the most problems. Water bottles are easy to empty out and clean up but with alcohol you can't just tip it anywhere as it reeks.And as for your touching concern for the cleaners, I trust you will be lobbying hard to remove their number one source of litter, the freebie papers. Oh, and fast food packaging. And soft drink cans. And water bottles. And sweet wrappers.
Tell you what - let's just ban everyone.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
stale coke and fruit juices however, smell divine. I may realease a new line of perfumes based on stale non alcohol drinks. Sure to be a big seller
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
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nah, I'd have seen it as a petty curtailment of a harmless enjoyment even had Commisar Ken of Keningrad introduced it. I'm not that partisan
Can we vote on who to start with ...
panpete
Blokes name, birds body.
I know I dislike ingratiated authoriarianism, but I've got to admit, I find it very bizzare, that smoking indoors is banned in public, yet you can still drink on the tube.
I 'm not tory, but tbh, I would vote banning shit-faced tube travellers, over indoor smokers.
I 'm not tory, but tbh, I would vote banning shit-faced tube travellers, over indoor smokers.
I think there is a difference between a Train and a Plane, each of which can be extended journeys that could take hours, and some are insane and are 24 hours, for instance a plane to Australia.
As compared to the average bus and tube journey time.
There is also the fact that this isn't new and clever that I just thought of, and is pretty much recognised in the design of both those vehicles.
The Tube and the Buses are short hop journey fillers, they are not designed for you to sit down and eat a meal, and nor really should they be as it would be a huge waste of space. Trains and Planes are sometimes designed so that you can sit and eat.
Also to argue that you did it once so......, doesn't really make any sense does it. Sure I have eaten chocolate bars and crisps and probably McDonalds, and I more then likely drank alcohol on the Tube too, and all sorts on Tubes and Buses, because I have at times in my life been an inconsiderate little bastard. Hell I remember smoking at the back of the Bus because it was legal at the back.
Just cause I did it, doesn't mean the person doing it wasn't being inconsiderate.
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