Child in buggy blown on to London Tube station tracks
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neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Even without watching the video if you'd read the article you'd have seen the photo of the guy at the start. The silly woman only appeared after the buggy was on the track.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
8ball
Decolonise colons!
It's just marketing fluff.
There are lots of women on Urban though - just possibly not in the transport forum if that's where you hang out.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
The police want to speak to the women because she climbed down onto the tracks to rescue the kid, I guess, rather than because she may have been pushing the pushchair.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Who cares if the child is OK... Don't you know that tragedies were only invented for point scoring on Urban?
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Oh give over. The article was about a woman getting onto the tracks after her kids buggy ran away. It's totally reasonable on skim reading the story to assume she didn't apply the brake. I thought exactly the same. On exploring the story to a depth that many won't bother with we discover a bloke helped her.
The initial assumption wasn't sexist. It was just wrong. I'll tell you what as well; there are other people on this thread that made the same mistake and are keeping quiet about it!
It's unimportant and is just being used as a stick to beat Bungle with.
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Gromit
International Man of Misery
Nope. No one does.
Sweet FA
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Forums ARE social media
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Forums ARE social media
Oh Sush.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
A cursory glance at the BBC article would have shown otherwise. Admittedly it's not the crime of the century, but Bungle hasn't helped himself with some of his subsequent replies.
kittyP
Pluviophile
It was because you were replying to Weltweit who was accusing me of bullying. At least I think he was but he didn't come back to explain.
My apologies if you didn't mean me.
But I think defending yourself against insinuation of bullying getting the wrong end of the stick is a bit different than being so quick to defend tfl that you get it wrong.
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Without wanting to defend Bungle73's behaviour on this or other threads, it really is pretty unedifying to see people lining up to stick the boot in.
FWIW he's basically right. There is little or nothing TfL could have done to prevent this, and it would be impossibly expensive to retro-fit platform-edge doors all over the Tube. Looked at in terms of cost per life saved, the same money would be far better spent on improvements to the roads, better A&E facilities, etc. And if we're talking about spending vast sums of money on the Tube, IMO it'd be better spent on improving disabled access to the older parts of the system, which as slainte said last night, before his point got lost in the slanging match, is currently lamentable.
I suspect a lot of people are aware of all of this, but hey, it's more fun to poke Bungle with a sharp stick and watch the inevitable reaction, isn't it?
FWIW he's basically right. There is little or nothing TfL could have done to prevent this, and it would be impossibly expensive to retro-fit platform-edge doors all over the Tube. Looked at in terms of cost per life saved, the same money would be far better spent on improvements to the roads, better A&E facilities, etc. And if we're talking about spending vast sums of money on the Tube, IMO it'd be better spent on improving disabled access to the older parts of the system, which as slainte said last night, before his point got lost in the slanging match, is currently lamentable.
I suspect a lot of people are aware of all of this, but hey, it's more fun to poke Bungle with a sharp stick and watch the inevitable reaction, isn't it?
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Bungle often does himself no favours but there's never a shortage of folk ready to give him a collective kicking. Some people are more able to deal with robust debate than others. Bungle gets flustered and sweary, and some posters play on that for a bit of sport.
Apart from the assertion that "most" forum users are blokes
he really hasn't said much wrong here.
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wobbly
nothing there to support your '95%'
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
The lack of willingness to accept (or even just consider) any other opinions doesn't really help either.Bungle often does himself no favours but there's never a shortage of folk ready to give him a collective kicking. Some people are more able to deal with robust debate than others. Bungle gets flustered and sweary, and some posters play on that for a bit of sport.
Apart from the assertion that "most" forum users are blokes
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wobbly
that's because it is far, far less accepting of sexism than most of the net. so women are more inclined to stay about and openly ID as women.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
essentially you are saying, he's a twat and people on here goad him into being more of a twat?Bungle often does himself no favours but there's never a shortage of folk ready to give him a collective kicking. Some people are more able to deal with robust debate than others. Bungle gets flustered and sweary, and some posters play on that for a bit of sport.
Apart from the assertion that "most" forum users are blokes
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wobbly
OY!!!!!
it's not just blokes that get quite excited at discussing topics like railway architecture and history.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
95% blokes apparently
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
This is U75. It's packed with twats!
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
The last meet I went to was 95% blokes, and that's a Bungle Fact™
colacubes
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