Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
If I pass them on the way out (i.e. single decker). I don't shout down the bus like some loon.
Oyster Cards are 15 years old today
- Thread starter editor
- Start date
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Yes, I’m sure GCHQ are tracking someone who can’t follow a three lines of text process, which tells you what to do in real time and reminds you on the fixed infrastructure, in case you pull down the entire edifice of which they are part.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
It's the principle dear boy, the principle.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
I remember that. You had to go to the bank and do paperwork and then queue to receive said money. God forbid you didn’t follow the instructions correctly. Then when you ran out you had to go back and do it again. What a fucking palaver that was.
But heyho rose tinted specs for the good old days eh?!
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
I do the same with my disabled railcard.
Don’t think GCHQ are that bothered where I travel tbh
Gromit
International Man of Misery
It’s a welsh thing to thank the driver. Glad to know how superior welsh society is.
Cardiff bus driver changes his name to ‘Drive’
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
I don't make a special point of saying thanks to the driver every time I get off a bus. But I will if they let me out via the front door, and especially if they open the door at a non-designated point which is a courtesy they don't have to extend, and probably breaking their own rules, so always appreciated when they do.
Usually I just acknowledge the driver when I get on with a standard upward head nod as a sign of respect from the ghetto.
Usually I just acknowledge the driver when I get on with a standard upward head nod as a sign of respect from the ghetto.
Last edited:
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
Sometimes they do, but more often than not they don't. Even if they have the chance to.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Bollocks it is, it's an 'everywhere people have even the faintest sense of decency' thing.
maomao
普費斯
I've lived on three continents and it's a North of England and Scotland thing.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
This too is bollocks. Even the French thank bus drivers. The French.
maomao
普費斯
In the North of France?
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Well probably not Paris but yeah.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
When the AI's seize control and they start rounding us up, you're probably at the top of the list.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Fear not, my secret bunker is not on google maps.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
But you won’t be able to get it because it will need you to touch your RFID twice to unlock it.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
It has a voice recognition lock with a password. In Elvish.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
There was a perfectly reasonable, functioning system, and Transport for Greater Manchester could surely have got the people responsible to replicate it. But no. They created a different system somewhat snappily (ie not at all) called Get Me There. And it didn't work properly. iirc correctly Crapita or one of those other dysfunctional and incompetent public sector parasites were involved.
Yossarian
⏭️
I think one of the earliest ones, and still probably the gold standard, was the Octopus card in Hong Kong, which worked so well that it's now used in all kinds of places including supermarkets etc.
Efforts to replicate it elsewhere have been mixed, IME - there's London, where a version that works fine was introduced reasonably smoothly 15 years ago, and then there's the "Presto" card in Toronto, which is kind of like an Oyster card except it's 15 years late and doesn't work.
Efforts to replicate it elsewhere have been mixed, IME - there's London, where a version that works fine was introduced reasonably smoothly 15 years ago, and then there's the "Presto" card in Toronto, which is kind of like an Oyster card except it's 15 years late and doesn't work.
Not for tfl !
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Yeah, I read it at the time brutally scathing, but hilarious with it.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
That is a ridiculous system
I love the app and cards are different part - that’s brilliant.
Alex
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Isn’t the one advantage you have when not being first to market, that you can learn from the other system and emulate/improve on it?
The Manchester system seems to have tried to make everything as bonkers and impractical as possible.
The Manchester system seems to have tried to make everything as bonkers and impractical as possible.
The good news is that scousers and Yorkshire folk have yet another reason to laugh at Mancunians.
It’s not all bad !
