rant: feet on seats

so the national "news" today is that they're contemplating giving you an
asbo if you put your feet on the seat on public transport.

the rationale behind this is that "you wouldn't put your feet on
someone's furniture if you were visiting them".

well, if they were charming and considerate people with louis xv chairs,
i certainly wouldn't. if they were incompetent, unhelpful, rude cunts who
lived in a shit filled hovel and their furniture consisted of twenty year
old cow turds with a thin layer of straw on top, i'd probably go what the
****.

now, what class do you think the rail services fall into? certainly on
my infrequent train journeys, first thing in the morning when the carriages
are fresh and new, both seats and floors are still covered with a thin
layer of dried puke[1] and cheeseburger, and attempting to point this out
to the staff results in the same weary couldn't-give-a-****-mate
expression that appears when you get arsey about the fact that the train
you just spent as much as a taxi on is twenty-five minutes late.

but apparently it's the passengers who are really to blame for all this.

[1] not really surprising since the smell is enough to make you gag and
in many cases there aren't even any windows you can open

 

you're not suggesting it's the staff who puke and smear cheeseburgers
on the floor, are you?

Where are these trains anyway? The ones I use every day (One Railways
from Enfield Town to Liverpool St. and/or First Capital Connect
between Moorgate and Enfield Chase) are occasionally a bit grubby, but
never as bad as you describe.

 

....another reason why I avoid public transport.

 

There is some truth in that. I personally get an urge to beat the cunts
about the head with a piece of rubber tubing. Whether or not you'd do
it in someone's house really isn't relevant. What _is_ relevant is that
someone else is going to have to sit on the seat where your feet are,
and get the shit (literally or figuratively speaking) that your feet
have deposited on the seat, on their clothes.

It's a question of respect for other people and irrespective of what
some idiots have written here (_cf_ 'the modern world is amazing, and
awful, and empowering, and bold' .. ROFL!!), a lack of respect for
others is becoming the norm, rather than the exception.

An ASBO isn't the answer. Giving those responsible, a hefty beating
with blunt instruments, just might be.

D.

 

no. i'm suggesting it's their job to clean it up and make the train a
civilised and respect-worthy place.

network southeast. but the tube is similar.

 

If it saves the life of one small child...

 

"This train is now arriving at Clapham Junction

Women and children to the right, men and boys over 14 to the left.
Station staff will inspect your tickets and advise whether you must proceed
to the shower block.
Have 20p to hand, the facility is no longer free."

 

Nah, round all passengers up and put them in cattle trains, no seats,
problem solved...

 

Is it bollocks.

I use the District, Circle and/or Bakerloo line every day, and often the
Jubilee as well, and the only time they ever look as you describe is
last thing at night when half the passengers are tired and emotional.

Even the FGW trains I use morning and evening are nothing like you
describe, with the same caveat.

 

Well then the problem is that the people who _never_ put their feet on
seats or otherwise damage the material (like me) are penalised.

No, I reckon my idea of creating a sort of 'subdivision' of the police,
authorised to inflict monstrous beatings on thoughtless and selfish
cunts who believe that the world revolves around them, is the way
forward.

Oh, and if they can see their way to doing the same to the morons who
run along the street whilst looking over their shoulder in the opposite
direction ....

D.

 

Last train home, aka the "vomit comet".

 

Idiot - NSE hasn't existed since 1996.

Same with Northern, Vic and Jubilee lines. Southern, SWT and
SouthEastern mainline - I use on a very regular basis - are nearly always
clean and puke free. Except possibly after 23.00.

Even FCC (the former Thameslink) who's sets are getting tired are never
as bad as he describes.

 

Well, no. Exterminating people because they're as dense as lead, isn't
the same as doing so because they're Jewish.

D.

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, dog typed:

This is so typical of the modern approach to tackling social problems - if
you want to address things that are deep-seated and difficult, take just one
visible example and punish the perpetrators out of all proportion. It's the
same mentality behind the speed-camera fetish. Too many accidents and
deaths on the road? Take just one aspect (breaking the speed limit) and act
as if it's the whole problem.

In both cases, the "offence" is easy to spot, easy to punish, and makes it
look like you are doing something. In neither case does it have any effect
at all, but that wasn't the intention. The authorities can claim to be
"doing something".

Mind you, people putting their feet on seats on trains and buses annoys the
**** out of me.

 

I doubt it's the job of the same staff that you see on the train. You're
correct that the carriage should be clean, of course.

 

Yeah, sounds like the Final Solution to me.

 

[*applause*]

 

You are obviously a retard.

 

man of taste and breeding.

D.

 

Care to explain why?