F*cking nightmare of a bastard commute

[mattie]

I support Swindon Town. But I've not lived in the Swindon area since about 1996.

I can't think why you'd ever leave.

 

[Onket]

That would have been more consistently furtive!

No it wouldn't.

 

[Onket]

I can't think why you'd ever leave.

I do regret it most days, tbf.

My accent is the biggest loss. Thankfully certain words or phrases still come out right. 'Car park' is a good one.

 

[Spymaster]

No it wouldn't.

Do you collect your post from a "dead-drop"?

 

[Onket]

Do you collect your post from a "dead-drop"?

No, oddly enough it gets delivered to my house.

How about you?

 

[mattie]

I do regret it most days, tbf.

My accent is the biggest loss. Thankfully certain words or phrases still come out right. 'Car park' is a good one.

I went to a really nice tapas bar in Swindon a few months ago. It was all a bit strange, Spanish words in a Wiltshire accent.

 

[Spymaster]

No, oddly enough it gets delivered to my house.

How about you?

Dead-drops.

Much safer.

 

[marty21]

Do you collect your post from a "dead-drop"?

We have had confirmation that there is no secret lair

 

[Spymaster]

We have had confirmation that there is no secret lair

Marty, if you had a secret lair, would you publicise the fact on the internet?

 

[mattie]

So you reckon it's a double bluff?


He can't have two secret lairs, surely.

 

[Badgers]

What time are you off @Onket ?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

So you reckon it's a double bluff?


He can't have two secret lairs, surely.

He could have one either end of his journey, or one in East Croydon and that's the real reason he's there

 

[Spymaster]

He could have one either end of his journey ...

No. If that were the case he's already let slip that one's in Tulse Hill.

Mistakes like that can get you killed.

 

[Onket]

No. If that were the case he's already let slip that one's in Tulse Hill.

Mistakes like that can get you killed.

As I have already said, my journey doesn't end at Tulse Hill. You're not paying attention. Mistakes like that actually can get you killed.

 

[plurker]

What time are you off @Onket ?

Left at 16.30 I reckon, to arrive home by midnight

edit - or perhaps not.

 

[marty21]

Marty, if you had a secret lair, would you publicise the fact on the internet?

I might say I have a secret lair but not tell anyone where it is

 

[Spymaster]

I might say I have a secret lair but not tell anyone where it is

Ahhh, the old "Kyriakov Deception". Hadn't thought of that.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I think onket has given quite enough information for people to work out exactly where he lives and works. Just get out the map and check through the train timetables connecting the places he mentions in the period between 6 and 9 and with about 6 hours work you will get a few answers, one of which may be right. I would do it myself but I need to wash my hair.

 

[Spymaster]

As I have already said, my journey doesn't end at Tulse Hill.

Where does it end?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Left at 16.30 I reckon, to arrive home by midnight

edit - or perhaps not.

Probably, due to wrong type of fog on the line

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I think onket has given quite enough information for people to work out exactly where he lives and works. Just get out the map and check through the train timetables connecting the places he mentions in the period between 6 and 9 and with about 6 hours work you will get a few answers, one of which may be right. I would do it myself but I need to wash my hair.

Government offices in Croydon. You can also get to Cheltenham in 3.5 hours

 

[plurker]

Probably, due to wrong type of fog on the line

Fog is good for protecting secret lairs...

 

[TopCat]

And?

I honestly don't understand why you need to ask any questions here.

I post a 'nightmare commute' thread. People then reply saying stuff like "Yeah, that's nothing, I commute for 5 hours each way" or "Yeah, that's nothing, I work from home" or "Yeah, that's nothing, I'm in Newport tomorrow & at the North Pole the day after" or whatever. Fair enough.

But then other people want to know where I live and where I work. The thread obviously isn't about that- it's about a long journey between two points. Those two points could be anywhere.

Did anyone ask the 5 hr commute fella where he lives and where he works? Or the work from home fella where he lives and how far he walks to the room with the computer in, and which room the computer is in?

No. Because it's not relevant.

Grumpy grumpy grump grump!

 

[TopCat]

Tulse hill station and the trains that go though it are present in South London's equivalent of the Bermuda triangle. Trains stop for no reason for hours just outside the station, are cancelled at a moments notice and often crawl along at 1 miles an hour. You would be better off staying on the cycle.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Fog is good for protecting secret lairs...

His secret bunker's in here somewhere

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Tulse hill station and the trains that go though it are present in South London's equivalent of the Bermuda triangle. Trains stop for no reason for hours just outside the station, are cancelled at a moments notice and often crawl along at 1 miles an hour. You would be better off staying on the cycle.

There was a similar phenomenon in North London a few years ago affecting Euston. There were always workmen in hi viz on the track while the train waited for ages to complete the last few yards of the journey.

I had a theory that they had a shortage of track and that two of the tracks did not quite reach to the station. They solved this by having one spare bit of track which they temporarily put in place when a train was due, leaving the other line incomplete. Then when the train had left the first bit of track, they could transfer that across to the other line only to be removed once the train had entered and later gone out again. It is not so bad now, they must have found some more track from somewhere. They still do the "we are approaching" message about 7 minutes before the train is due to arrive though, just to wind up people who are not regulars.

 

[gaijingirl]

so what does the @thing do.... I honestly don't know.....

 

[gaijingirl]

sympathies on the commute btw...

 

[twentythreedom]

@gaijingirl - this!

 

[gaijingirl]

@gaijingirl - this!

what? It's not doing anything... I have a feeling I'm going to be ridiculed...