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By Johnny 1989
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Delays on the Central Line, again, because of A broken down train, Signal Failure, some berk has thrown themself in front of the train, some little tosser has hit the emergency stop button, some little sod has cut the power cables or whatever lame excuse they can come up with :x
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By MK Chris
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Jacqueline wrote:My mum's gone away, making my brother think that he can act like a 10 year old again...

Did he go on internet forums with several different aliases and posting pointlessly in every thread?

Johnny 1989 wrote:Delays on the Central Line, again, because of A broken down train, Signal Failure, some berk has thrown themself in front of the train, some little tosser has hit the emergency stop button, some little sod has cut the power cables or whatever lame excuse they can come up with :x

Thing with London is that if one line is down you can easily go another way, even if it means walking a small distance to the next stop or catching a bus.
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By Andy B
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Only weirdos catch busses in London and if you want to go somewhere in Zone 1 you can go a different route but once you start to get beyond zone 2 you're buggered if your line goes down. The stations are miles apart.
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By MK Chris
#363917
I understand that, I was working on the assumption he's in Central London. If he isn't, then he has no choice but to get a bus or walk - at least there is still the choice of doing it though.
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By Yudster
#363928
Being very tired is annoying me - been up half the night thanks to evening squash matches, late trains and thieving taxi drivers. Sorted everything out in the end, but it took a loooooong time..........
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By Zoot
#363941
I knocked a bowl of pasta over yesterday and I trod it into the carpet before I noticed.
I'm now really worried about my carbonara footprint...
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By Munki Bhoy
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Zoot wrote:I knocked a bowl of pasta over yesterday and I trod it into the carpet before I noticed.
I'm now really worried about my carbonara footprint...


I feel dirty now for laughing at that.
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By Yudster
#364042
Annoying me today was an American (which is unusual, I generally like Americans) I had to spend some time with who kept pronouncing words which clearly have multiple syllables as though they only had one. Accents are great, I love them - but when you turn "mirror" into "mirr" and "squirrel" into "squirl" (just two of the examples) its taking the piss......
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By Jacqueline
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Hehe, that remids me of Futurama- Bender's Big Score, when he sees his face on fry's ass for the first time, he looks at Fry's ass and says

"Neat. It's like looking in a smelly meer-r"

Now I adore John Dimaggio, but the way he pronouces Mirror like that "meer-r" is annoying
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By Sunny So Cal
#364069
Yudster wrote:Annoying me today was an American (which is unusual, I generally like Americans) I had to spend some time with who kept pronouncing words which clearly have multiple syllables as though they only had one. Accents are great, I love them - but when you turn "mirror" into "mirr" and "squirrel" into "squirl" (just two of the examples) its taking the piss......


That's it. I won't stay another night under your roof. Besides the above affront, I must say, your odd intrusions into my locked room in the middle of the night to give me "cuddles" was a bit off putting.
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By Andy B
#364070
My camcorder is bust...sort of. And I'm on the JVC website and can't find a bloody number for their customer support anywhere..you go to support it says most problems can be solved in our FAQ's...and mine isn't!

Seriously no phone number, no email address, no nada.....

Stupid JVC I wanted to use my camcorder this weekend, got a wedding to go to and everything. I wanted to tape the look on the grooms face when he finds out that I in true classic comedy cliche style have written "Help" on the sole of his left shoe and "ME!" on the sole of his right shoe.

I mean it's really old but it never fails to make me laugh. I mena how often does one get to go to a wedding in a church these days eh? Last time I was at one I got bloody paid for it!
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By Yudster
#364076
Sunny So Cal wrote:
Yudster wrote:Annoying me today was an American (which is unusual, I generally like Americans) I had to spend some time with who kept pronouncing words which clearly have multiple syllables as though they only had one. Accents are great, I love them - but when you turn "mirror" into "mirr" and "squirrel" into "squirl" (just two of the examples) its taking the piss......


That's it. I won't stay another night under your roof. Besides the above affront, I must say, your odd intrusions into my locked room in the middle of the night to give me "cuddles" was a bit off putting.

Careful or you might wind up stuck in that bed with a pair of nastily broken ankles........
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By Sunny So Cal
#364080
Look, all I said was I wasn't into having my bum tickled with that "squirrl" and that was why I had the double-bolts installed on the door. It was rather unseemly of you to come in through the window the last few nights. No means NO. God woman, take a hint!
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By Yudster
#364096
And - sunny wins.
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By Johnny 1989
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Topher wrote:I understand that, I was working on the assumption he's in Central London. If he isn't, then he has no choice but to get a bus or walk - at least there is still the choice of doing it though.


No unfortunately I work in Debden, right up near Epping, when the Central Line screws up there, the only way I can get home on the 167, which changes a 2-3mins tube journey from Debden to Loughton shoot up to 20 mins & getting back to East London can take over an hour :evil:
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By Yudster
#364188
I think its bonkers that people who live in London can easily take far longer to get to their work in London than people who live miles out. It takes Mr Yudster about an hour door to door (he works in the city), and we live in north Essex, almost in Suffolk.
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By MK Chris
#364189
It used to take me about an hour and a bit (not door to door because I used to cycle to the railway station, but Milton Keynes Central to door) and that was before the pendolino trains, or whatever they're called.
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By Andy B
#364191
Takes me nearly 2 hours to get to my mate's house in Mudchute door to door. And that's if I catch the fast train to London. Found out that as part of the Heathrow expansion project they want to add more railway lines round here. Sure it means getting rid of a load of land which is probably of some environmental concern but sod it, we get trains to Paddington, Guildford and Heathrow if they do!

Someone will probably find some species of frog or dragonfly that only lives there and there's only 5 of them left in the world and it will get shelved.
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By Andy B
#364198
Oooh what did you do then? For it to be something you regret it has to be really bad!

Tell us tell us tell us!
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