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How does one "drink in your face" and what health risks does it pose to fellow passengers?

You flaunt your ignorance, intolerance and bigotry most days here, but I put up with it. It's called tolerance. You should try it sometimes.

Rubbish you completely ignored the entire point you have no answer for.

You did exactly what I said you would do...come back claiming it isn't a health risk...like this has got anything at all to do with the attitude that YOU get to decide what bans are worthy.

The sheer arrogance of that is incredible.

Should smokers get to make that decision too? Perhaps they think if they smoke on an open platform then there is no health risk? What about smoking near an open window blowing your smoke away?

Should they get to decide whether to follow the ban or not?
 
Rubbish you completely ignored the entire point you have no answer for.

You did exactly what I said you would do...come back claiming it isn't a health risk...like this has got anything at all to do with the attitude that YOU get to decide what bans are worthy.

The sheer arrogance of that is incredible.
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Dravinian, earlier today.
 
According to the BBC no one has been thrown off public transport as a result of the booze ban - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7701392.stm . Apparently Police have "spoken to" 35 people seen drinking alcohol and no criminal offences have been recorded. This is why we (although not me and I suspect most on here) elected you Boris... tough measures to crack down on anti-social behaviour or maybe not

Ehrm, whacky idea, just mulling it really. But maybe, just maybe that's cos it ain't a criminal offence to drink on teh tube?
 
I don't mind not drinking on the tube, but banning alcohol on buses is going too far. There are few greater pleasures in life than sitting at the front on the top of a double-decker enjoying a can of Guinness.
 
front top seats on a double-decker are fantastic anyway. having a can (or any chemical enhancement) just make it that much better :)
 
front top seats on a double-decker are fantastic anyway. having a can (or any chemical enhancement) just make it that much better :)

Absolutely. I can never understand those people who traipse all the way up the stairs only to sit on an ordinary, boring, halfway-back seat. I often spend a whole day just riding around London on the front tops of various buses, leaving countless cans of Guinness in my wake.
 
when I've drank on the tube (whilst already drunkenly joyous) people on the carriage have just been smiling/laughing at me.
 
Last time I drank on the tube I had a bottle of cava and behaved like a wanker; brayed a bit, you know the type. I did not spill any and removed my bottle to bin above ground. Last time I drank on the bus I had Smirnoff Ice (litre bottle) and sang along to Girls Aloud and got laughed at by teens.

Imo it's just not worth being a wanker so I don't do it anymore.
 
Perhaps the ban will eventually open up the market for the 330ml (ie, Coke-sized) can of beer - hitherto a rare site in this city.

At present, the only brew widely available in this format is this one:

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No discussion of the best things to drink on the tube then?

Top tip: The premixed cans of pimms and lemonade look like an energy drink to anyone that isn't used to them, so you can wander around drinking in front of staff as much as you like. And they sell them in liverpool street tube station.

~Central line user
 
No discussion of the best things to drink on the tube then?

Top tip: The premixed cans of pimms and lemonade look like an energy drink to anyone that isn't used to them, so you can wander around drinking in front of staff as much as you like. And they sell them in liverpool street tube station.

~Central line user

These are good. Threshers do one that is a triple, for about £1.50.
 
On a similar tip, the premixed G&Ts etc are very good. Easily pocketable if you've got one open when the bus comes. :)
 
I was on the tube to Wembley last Sunday for the NFL game with a few mates. We had a couple of cans on the way up and noone batted an eyelid.

After the game we waked back to Wembley Central (with a beer in hand) and on arrival at the station a BTP officer grabbed me to one side and told me drinking was not allowed. I went to take a final sip at which point the miserable bastard grabbed the brew from me and threatened me with a £50 fine for trying to finish it :mad:

As we walked off a mate started chanting "Boris is a Wanker, Boris is a wanker, na na na na" only to get pretty much everybody walking through the station to join in. That'll learn the miserable copper:D
 
Thing is, who would be in the British Transport Police?

There are two reasons to join:

a) Not good enough to join the normal police
b) Trainspotter

This explains a lot.

The police state thing is par for the course these days and my advice to anyone that wants it is to ignore any laws you don't like, otherwise you'll just end up depressed.
 
I was on the tube to Wembley last Sunday for the NFL game with a few mates. We had a couple of cans on the way up and noone batted an eyelid.

After the game we waked back to Wembley Central (with a beer in hand) and on arrival at the station a BTP officer grabbed me to one side and told me drinking was not allowed. I went to take a final sip at which point the miserable bastard grabbed the brew from me and threatened me with a £50 fine for trying to finish it :mad:

As we walked off a mate started chanting "Boris is a Wanker, Boris is a wanker, na na na na" only to get pretty much everybody walking through the station to join in. That'll learn the miserable copper:D

:)

If only it would learn miserable Boris.
 
Cheaper than the mainland?

Double woof!

Good question.

I think it's about 50% more than the Shenzhen underground (which I was also very impressed with,) but it's still dirt cheap when compared to London. The cheapest fare is about 40p, it costs about 60p to travel, say, 8 - 10 stations and the highest fare is about GBP 1:80p which gets you across the region.

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Thing is, who would be in the British Transport Police?

There are two reasons to join:

a) Not good enough to join the normal police
b) Trainspotter

This explains a lot.

The police state thing is par for the course these days and my advice to anyone that wants it is to ignore any laws you don't like, otherwise you'll just end up depressed.

Not quite right, BTP pays more than any other police force, so loads of coppers want in.

In fact the 2nd in charge was a Chief Cuntsuble for a regional force, retired after 30 years with full pension and now gets top whack off BTP, he trousers something like £200K a year :eek:
 
I think my comments on this thread amount to a colossal case of sour grapes.

I'd love nothing more than to finish a meeting, get on the Skytrain, pull a brewski out of my briefcase, shotgun that first beer, pull out another, and be totally shitfaced, tie askew, when I finished the 45 minute ride back downtown.
 
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