F*cking nightmare of a bastard commute

[tommers]

As Bungle73 is no longer with us I'm going to have to take on the task of reminding you that southern aren't responsible for the signals.

Like I give a fuck.

 

[paolo]

Top tips Londoners:

When you’re hurrying for work and tube corridors are busy, you can

(A) Kick the back of my feet. Yes, you’ll get to work quicker. Riiiight. Oh no... you can’t kick past people, you’re just being a ****
(B) Not do that.

Why why why... grrr.

 

[NoXion]

I finished work about an hour ago. I'm still waiting for the bus home. Fuck you Greenline, you fucking useless bunch of fucking cunts.

 

[existentialist]

Top tips Londoners:

When you’re hurrying for work and tube corridors are busy, you can

(A) Kick the back of my feet. Yes, you’ll get to work quicker. Riiiight. Oh no... you can’t kick past people, you’re just being a ****
(B) Not do that.

Why why why... grrr.

Wear steelies to return the compliment.

 

[planetgeli]

Farmers. Fuck ‘em. They’re all fucking Tories driving big fuck off tractors at a top speed of 20mph, blocking my way, not paying any fucking road tax, barely paying any fucking fuel tax, creating massive tailbacks and even having the fucking cheek to do so on the A roads as well as the B roads.

I don’t know what has brought them all out today on the same day like some glorified Countryside Alliance protest but they can fuck right off and stop doubling the amount of time it takes me to drive my already too long fucking commute. There’s no crops around here, it’s all beef with a sprinkling of dairy. It’s enough to drive you fucking vegan. Ok, not that bad. I dunno though. Petrol bomb their fucking animals 4 Lions stylee.

Cunts.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Heh, it's the ones dragging massive tanks of liquid pig shit that fuck me off, really slow and fucking stinks your car out. Don't dare moan though or else the contents might be used against you...

 

[davesgcr]

I drop my eldest over to Hemel Hempstead station once a week , never a great commute , today it took 1 hour 25 to get back , normal timings ought to be about 20 mins. Solid f==ing gridlock , and he won't allow me to use his radio , so tedious in the utter extreme. Never good , but this was the record.

The roads are so tightly balanced , that one incident gives chaos for 90 mins, still it gave me a chance to examine the potholes.....

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Got on the train today - packed as usual, and I had a reservation. The seat was occupied by a lovely dog sat on a blanket - a fairly hefty boxer/bulldog type thing that must have weighed a fair bit. Advised the woman that I'd reserved that seat, only to be met by huffiness. Rather than get the dog to sit on the floor she moved it onto her lap for the remainder of the long journey. The poor dog was clearly uncomfortable.

 

[NoXion]

My bus route goes through Windsor. Well, at least it did on the way home. Because of this Royal Wedding barf-a-thon they've got planned, my bus took a diversion around the castle in the morning because apparently it was rehearsals today or something, and the rush hour traffic on the way home was even more terrible than usual. Windsor itself looked more forbidding, with the homeless and their possessions having been turfed out, railings everywhere, portacabins, and what looked like a damn bandstand as well. Lots more filth than usual (including a Hampshire logo) with one I saw strolling along the pavement packing heat, looked like one of those semi-automatic MP5s they have. I swear they doubled the number of Union flags along the route by the castle. The tat shops also looked like they had gussied up their outdoor displays.

It was a bit fucking shit to be honest.

 

[davesgcr]

Got on the train today - packed as usual, and I had a reservation. The seat was occupied by a lovely dog sat on a blanket - a fairly hefty boxer/bulldog type thing that must have weighed a fair bit. Advised the woman that I'd reserved that seat, only to be met by huffiness. Rather than get the dog to sit on the floor she moved it onto her lap for the remainder of the long journey. The poor dog was clearly uncomfortable.

Poor dog - but it had not paid for a f===ing seat , as you did ...!

 

[davesgcr]

My bus route goes through Windsor. Well, at least it did on the way home. Because of this Royal Wedding barf-a-thon they've got planned, my bus took a diversion around the castle in the morning because apparently it was rehearsals today or something, and the rush hour traffic on the way home was even more terrible than usual. Windsor itself looked more forbidding, with the homeless and their possessions having been turfed out, railings everywhere, portacabins, and what looked like a damn bandstand as well. Lots more filth than usual (including a Hampshire logo) with one I saw strolling along the pavement packing heat, looked like one of those semi-automatic MP5s they have. I swear they doubled the number of Union flags along the route by the castle. The tat shops also looked like they had gussied up their outdoor displays.

It was a bit fucking shit to be honest.

Not been to Windsor for a while - (like 20 years) , and being a man of leisure I went out in the sun last Thursday , out via Paddington and Slough - back via Riverside and Staines to Waterloo.

OK over a week ago , all quite restrained with signs of modest celebration to come. Not too much tat for sale -and walked up to the struggling school Eton to see how it was ..plans for a "very local" street party. Passports and Who's Who guide needed clearly......

Stirring group of Railway and Network Rail "suits" doing a recce and finalising plans ...very visible to the tutored eye. I wish them well.

 

[teuchter]

I was expecting this thread to be all flashing lights and alarm bells as the new Thameslink timetable sent the south east of England into meltdown this morning.

 

[kabbes]

My SW train was unaffected, actually. The new timetable does mean that I no longer have a viable alternative to the two SW trains per hour, though, which is a shame.

 

[nuffsaid]

New timetable takes trains off my morning commute but adds to my evening one.

I now have to get a 10 min earlier train in the morning as the next one is now almost half an hour later, where there used to be 3 in a half hour slot...

Although it was a Gatwick Express that was so empty I almost had the front carriage to myself.

A choice of 4 trains in half an hour for the homeward trip is better tbh.

 

[davesgcr]

I was expecting this thread to be all flashing lights and alarm bells as the new Thameslink timetable sent the south east of England into meltdown this morning.

Thameslink (Great Northern) has really struggled this am , though overall performance not even up to 70% , which is pretty desperate.

However . Manchester - Preston - Liverpool is the triangle of hell today - major train crew shortages , which have been on for a while , but seem seriously bad today.

 

[teuchter]

I hadn't been properly paying attention to what would change but have just found out that my local station (on the Wimbledon loop) has a train every 15 mins all day now, so no more 30 mins waits in the cold at blackfriars on winter nights.

 

[teuchter]

New timetable takes trains off my morning commute but adds to my evening one.

I now have to get a 10 min earlier train in the morning as the next one is now almost half an hour later, where there used to be 3 in a half hour slot...

Although it was a Gatwick Express that was so empty I almost had the front carriage to myself.

A choice of 4 trains in half an hour for the homeward trip is better tbh.

Stayed with some friends in Brighton at the weekend; there was intense discussion of their new morning and evening options. They had even printed out the new timetable and gone at it with highlighter pens. I'll await their accounts of what happened today. All the plates are in the air with everyone trying to second-guess which trains will be the busy ones now.

 

[Plumdaff]

Farmers. Fuck ‘em. They’re all fucking Tories driving big fuck off tractors at a top speed of 20mph, blocking my way, not paying any fucking road tax, barely paying any fucking fuel tax, creating massive tailbacks and even having the fucking cheek to do so on the A roads as well as the B roads.

I don’t know what has brought them all out today on the same day like some glorified Countryside Alliance protest but they can fuck right off and stop doubling the amount of time it takes me to drive my already too long fucking commute. There’s no crops around here, it’s all beef with a sprinkling of dairy. It’s enough to drive you fucking vegan. Ok, not that bad. I dunno though. Petrol bomb their fucking animals 4 Lions stylee.

Cunts.

The ones that I particularly despise are the ones on the A48 in Carmarthenshire, no lights, doing about 5 miles an hour in pitch darkness.

They'll be fine - I'll be dead if there's a crash. Utter wankers.

 

[teuchter]

The ones that I particularly despise are the ones on the A48 in Carmarthenshire, no lights, doing about 5 miles an hour in pitch darkness.

They'll be fine - I'll be dead if there's a crash. Utter wankers.

While they should of course have their lights on - if you are going too fast to stop within the distance you have a clear view of ahead of you - ie. what you can see in your headlights - then surely you are driving too fast.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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However . Manchester - Preston - Liverpool is the triangle of hell today - major train crew shortages , which have been on for a while , but seem seriously bad today.

I've heard lots of people moaning about it this morning .

 

[existentialist]

The ones that I particularly despise are the ones on the A48 in Carmarthenshire, no lights, doing about 5 miles an hour in pitch darkness.

They'll be fine - I'll be dead if there's a crash. Utter wankers.

They're particularly disorientating when all the lights are covered in cowshit, but they've got an amber beacon flashing away. Judging distance is a bastard, then.

 

[Badgers]

Thameslink (Great Northern) has really struggled this am , though overall performance not even up to 70% , which is pretty desperate.

There is already 4 coaches waiting outside my local station so I fear that this evening will not be an improvement

 

[ice-is-forming]

I drop my eldest over to Hemel Hempstead station once a week , never a great commute , today it took 1 hour 25 to get back , normal timings ought to be about 20 mins. Solid f==ing gridlock , and he won't allow me to use his radio , so tedious in the utter extreme. Never good , but this was the record.

The roads are so tightly balanced , that one incident gives chaos for 90 mins, still it gave me a chance to examine the potholes.....

Why can't you use his radio

 

[teuchter]

The Cicadas Take Flight: Explaining The May Timetable Changes - London Reconnections

 

[davesgcr]

Why can't you use his radio

He has an irrational hatred of Radio 4 ! (well he may be right sometimes..)

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

He has an irrational hatred of Radio 4 ! (well he may be right sometimes..)

if you twiddle the knob you might find a station that isn't Radio 4

 

[A380]

Fucking Thameslink New Timetable Buffoonery.

Thant is all.

 

[mx wcfc]

I have resorted to reserving a seat on the train home. Too old for that standing bollox.

Fought my way through to my precious seat to find a sweet little old lady sat in it. Bollox.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Had to walk around the corner for the bus this morning to see it pulling out.
Fucking interminable 4 minute wait for the next one

 

[OzT]

if you twiddle the knob you might find a station that isn't Radio 4

Knobs? Wotz this, valve radio???