Secret Violent Rush-Hour Fantasies

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I meant to start this yesterday, but I was too hacked off at the Hammersmith & Sh*tty Line... Why yes, I am experiencing some adjustment problems at returning to full time employment.

Go on, then, indulge your most violent fantasies here...

-Electrified Carriage Doors with sharp teeth for chomping that last guy who always think he can jump onto the crowded train...

-Jaws of Death/Cattle Guards attached to the front of buses to dispose of cars who wander too far into bus lanes

-Wall of Flames in gridlock boxes to instantly incinerate any cars who "block the box" or jump the queue to turn right after the light has changed

-Taser Cattle Prongs to impede the legs of crotch-spalling bollocks who try to take up more than one seat

What are yours?

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

crotch-SPRAWLING that might be, in fact...

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

-Congestion Charge for private transport with ONLY ONE PERSON IN IT at rush hour raised to ONE FINGER JOINT, cut off at the knuckle. This will be doubled for anyone driving an SUV or minivan.

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

my brain is wired stupidly and when i read the word fantasy i immediately thought this meant like violent erotic fantasies.

I don't think I have had many violent fantasies but i used to have this one of like being on this crowded train being stuck next to this beautiful girl, both of us involuntarily being ground against each other, both trying to move away but powerless against the weight of everyone else around. Then slowly and reluctantly we get aroused as the torrent of forces continue to press and grind us against each other until the ordeal of pleasure became too much and we climax, just as the train arrives at the station. (cockfoster or something, although i guess that train wouldn't be that crowded if it were arriving to cockfosters)

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, this isn't what this thread was about at all was it? :(

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

No, no, no, not violently erotic fantasies. Please don't besmirch my good, pure thread with that. I want you to get out your inner Tory and start thinking CAPITAL PUNNISHMENT of the most barbourous Norman kind for those daily irritations on your morning commute.

-Those bastards who lean against the ENTIRE POLE meaning that no one else can grab on for balance should have said pole heated to white hot and inserted down south where the tube don't run!

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought we weren't doing erotic fantasies

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, pole-hoggers need to be punished. also, people who cluster stupidly in front of the doors (ie, nearly everyone) thus making sure fewer passengers can get on and that those who manage to are packed in tightly for no reason.

lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm heading for hell for my violent fantasies about people who dawdle on pavements, especially in groups.

Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, well, think of some vile medieval punnishment to be inflicted upon them, Lauren! Such as being PRESSED WITH ROCKS. Perhaps boiling oil should be released from the ceiling of the carriage by the doors if density by the doors exceeds density in the rest of the carriage. Watch how quickly they get out of the way then!

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Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

just play coldplay singles on repeat in the area near the door

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

They're 12-CD people. They might actually *like* that.

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I often dream of becoming an ass-kicking kick-boxing computer game chick who can wipe the floor with tube and bus pests.

"You think it's fucking funny now? Huh BITCH! I can't hear you? LOUDER BE-ATCH! Now apologise to that woman! Apologise! You're not fucking funny! ARE YOU? And you just got your ass whupped by a girl! DO IT AGAIN AND I'LL RIP YOUR BALLS OFF AND EAT THEM WITH A SPOON!!!"

Justice is done. It's also particularly satisfying if I am wearing high heels and a skirt. Didn't expect that did you?

Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

My regular commute fantasies are fairly limited now:

1. Jumping in front of the train
2. Shooting everyone
3. Blowing up the train

Though sometimes I imagine the oncoming train is somekind of monster approaching and I have to fight it with finger-lightning or some such bad special effect.

Interestingly enough when I drove a car and had to deal that hell instead, my fantasies were as follows:

1. Driving through the guardrail into oncoming traffic or off of a bridge
2. Shooting everyone (with rockets)
3. Blowing up the world

So perhaps it's just a difference of scale and isolation. My teeth don't grind nearly as much on the train as they did in the car, that's for certain.

TOMBOT, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe how stressful commuting is. I know that I had been avoiding it for about 5 or 6 years now, but I had honestly forgotten *why*. I have surprised myself with the number of machine-gunning everyone on the tube/bus/pavement fantasies I've had in the past three days.

It's almost irrationally stressful to me. :-(

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

you get used to it.

TOMBOT, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I never did in NYC. In fact, if anything, it got to the point where it got so bad that I didn't want to leave the house, ever.

I suddenly realise, all these decisions I've made in the past few years about not commuting, about paying extortionate amounts of money to live near to work rather than near my friends/fun, about accepting jobs for less money with a reverse communte - I actually made them for a reason.

Anyway. At the moment I'm getting through by imaginging using corporate sponsors on the WALL OF DEATH fire things. Perhaps Ken can use them to double up for fireworks displays on New Years Eve and the like. That would keep the tourists out of Central London!

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps it's different if you've been dealing with heavy traffic and crowds of people jostling for position since the age of 15. I mean on the one hand I absolutely hate it but on the other it's something that has to be done and it could be so much worse - I know and have known people who made a regular journey of 4-6 hours round trip to get to work, at which point I would have already followed through with Option #1 a long time ago and would not be typing this.

I did have a 3 hour round trip one summer when I worked across the state line and got paid cash. That was relatively traffic-free though except on the way home, but never really stressful I don't think.

TOMBOT, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the absolute worst was when I had to drive FROM fairfax virginia INTO washington DC at 5:30-6pm. I'd put in 11 hour days just to avoid the hell of downtown at late rush hour. I hate all of you - pedestrians, other drivers, but most of all more than anything else in the world I hate BUSES and BUS PASSENGERS, war criminals all of them.

TOMBOT, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I want you to get out your inner Tory and start thinking CAPITAL PUNNISHMENT

But London IS capital punishment!

caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

At least YOUR nation's capital is regarded as a world-class cultural center and not an overpriced tourist trap

TOMBOT, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I grew up, or at least spent my teenage years in a quite remote place - a mile from my nearest neighbour. I didn't even learn how to drive until I was well over 18. I don't think I dealt with public transport on a regular basis until I was in my early 20s arriving in NYC and dealing with the subway. I just found it overwhelming and horrible. Every other aspect of NYC, I got used to, but commuting, I never did.

I dislike being touched. Intensely dislike being touched, so public transport at rush hour is almost intolerable.

I don't particularly like crowds, either. I think I grow more hostile to other people as I grow older, if anything. Perhaps I really shouldn't live in a metropolitan area. Sigh.

x-post, HA HA HA, Tombot, you've been to London as well! Overpriced Tourist Trap? Hello, London, I hear thy name...

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha caitlin.

I always though 'rush hour' was a stupid misnomer. I only have a 40 minute bus commute these days but fuck it's depressing. Most of my fellow commuters are dirrty students and MY GOD can you not go ONE JOURNEY without loudly using your stupid mobile phone to discuss the work you haven't done, the drinks you consumed the night before, the lecture you're skipping today and the rubbish band you went to see on Tuesday? No? Then fuck you with knives.

Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahahaha, you card Tombot.

A pole-hogging hipster girl gave me a really shitty look the other day when I dared to hang onto 'her' pole at a really awkward angle just underneath where her shoulderblade connected with it. I wanted to stamp violently on her instep.

People who rustle their newspapers to avoid seeing other passengers pathetically squeezed should have to eat the damned things. And people who shove their books nearly through my septum have a special reception awaiting them as pressed commuter flowers in an enormous spiky LEADEN BOOK OF DEATH.

I nearly revived the Build Your Own Hell thread recently specifically to construct a Public Transport Hell.

Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Rush hour? Yeah, CRUSH hour, more like, and not in the happy happy cute boys oh my sense of the word but in the OH GOD SOME HORRIBLE STRANGE STEPPING ON MY TOE AND ANOTHER ONE CRUSHED UP AGAINST MY THIGHS NOT EVEN MY LOVER GETS TO HAVE THIS MUCH PHYSICAL INTIMACY WITH ME ARRRGGGHHHHHH!!! sort of sense.

Wouldn't it be better if rush hour was crush hour? But alas, I think there are no cute boys in Steatham at all. Hammersmith, however... hrmmmm.

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Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

And I am sorry, Liz, but I have taken to bringing a book (distracts me from the hell) and using it as a weapon against annoyingness. I think I physically assaulted someone with Jane Austen this morning when they tried to get through the barrier ahead of me. Grrrr. (Well, physically assaulted in the Jane Austen sort of way, more of a mildly annoyed bat.)

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like to take every SUV-driving asshat zooming past me on snow-covered residential roads while I'm barely holding onto the road with my gutsy lil Honda Civic (passing me ON THE RIGHT I might add) on a brief trip into unyielding Jersey barriers covered in spikes, bombs, and castor oil.

Other than that, I'm cool.

Oh, wait. To those of you riding my bumper like it's a porn star hole - the roads are STILL snow-covered & you getting right up on me in your Hemi-powered cockmobile (while every other driver with half a brain gives their fellow commuters enough space to skid out safely) is only going to strengthen my desire to just slam on the brakes & see how good your insurance company is. Also, you fucktard, you could drive a Stealth bomber & kill hobos for sport, and you'd still be a bald 40-year-old fuck.

David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a theory about the oft-voiced-by-garrulous-Australians no talking on the Tube thing: we simply can't deal with conversing with people whose armpits we have just become far too intimately acquainted with (that fabled British personal space), so try to pretend that it's all just an unpleasant dream and/or go into a Public Transport Trance. Meditation is the new Da Vinci Code.

I hear you about the necessary literary distraction, Kate, but it's a sad point that at the moment when critical sweaty-pit mass has been reached and distraction is most required, it's the least possible to actually read without fucking someone off in some way.

Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

As far as I'm concerned, smelling my sweaty armpits is punnishment enough for those SMUG BASTARDS THAT GET SEATS. I mean, they think they're clever cause they live in Crystal Palace or Dulwich and can get on the train ahead of me? Grrrrr.

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I do rarely have to deal with being completely crushed up against people on the way to or from. This is A) because I live on the green line, which is mostly for college students and poor blacks thanks to decades of Maryland misdevelopment B) my work schedule is now 7-3 and before it was 10-6. A few run-ins with the yellow and orange line crowds at 5:30 pm on the way to classes have been enlightening, but not cause for a nervous breakdown like I thought I was going through nightly cruising northbound on 18th in my beetle.

inasmuch as London is an overpriced tourist trap, you do have
the rolling london dancing thread
where DC has, uh, I think a baseball team now, that we bought from Canada.

TOMBOT, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I commute by car now: it's a 6 mile journey. It takes 15 minutes to get to work (for 8am), and 30 minutes to get home again (at 5pm).

caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that the only thing *worse* than having to be on public transport would be *shudders* dealing with a flipping PETROSLED. I can't imagine how much more hellish commuting would be in a car.

Maybe I should think about changing my work hours, if I can. I used to go in late (say 11) and miss the rush, but maybe I should start thinking about going in early (say 7) and missing it at both ends.

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

going in for 8 is great I don't have to wait for coffee, I always get a double seat on the bus, plus two hours of work before everyone else gets in a clogs my jets.

Ed (dali), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Yup, same here. Except that in my case it's half an hour of catching-up-on-overnight-ILE before I start working seriously.

(although to be honest I'm usually in at 7.45 to take account of those days when the traffic is really clogged up; so i have 15 minutes of my own time to read ILE before I start work anyway)

Plus, going home, the 5pm rush-hour is far better than the 5.30pm rush-hour.

(in-between tends to be worse, though, because there's a level crossing on my way home that's closed a lot between 5 and half-past)

caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Since I got rid of the car my commute has been a cushy cloud ride through heaven with the TTC. When I did the car thing one thing really angered me more than anything else ever - the people who'd rush through yellows only to block the intersection. I hate them. I would sit there starring a hole through their head while they sat there, in my way, obliviously yapping on their cells. All the while I'd be fighting the urge to get my tire iron from the trunk and just start smashing the shit out of their car. A few more months and I don't think I would've been able to restrain myself any longer.

Tom's 1st post pwns this thread, btw.

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I want a bike. I think that's a whole fresh hell of commuting woe (or joys) to discover!

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 10 March 2005 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

today my secret violent commuter fantasy was scratching out "depends on your dedication" and writing "hates you for wasting their money" on an advertisement aimed at government procurement officers who are in the market for big computer systems. Actually that wasn't a fantasy at all.

My real fantasy was falling backwards into the path of the oncoming train. I didn't do it so now I'm at work. six half dozen whatever.

TOMBOT, Thursday, 10 March 2005 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

ACtually, I had one violent fantasy today. About the bloke who cut in front of me getting off the train. But I got to cut him off going through the barricades. Ha ha, I am so petty.

(I am still so scared of the tube/train barricades, I always think that they are going to snap shut and crush me in their pincer like grip.)

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

During rush hour I sometimes fantasize that I have a car.

Kirlkl, Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I want a bike. I think that's a whole fresh hell of commuting woe (or joys) to discover!

Just don't STAND ON A PACKED COMMUTER TRAIN WITH YOUR BIKE RIGHT IN THE WAY OF THE DOOR AND EVERYONE ELSE ON IT THEN. YOU'VE GOT A BIKE, FUCKING RIDE IT TO WORK, DON'T MAKE EVERYONE ELSE'S DAILY MISERY THAT LITTLE BIT MORE UNCOMFORTABLE YOU WORTHLESS SELFISH PIECE OF SHIT.

I tell you Kate, next time I see you in a pub there'll be hell to pay.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

But... but... I don't even own a bike yet! And I would *never* take a bike on the tube - that would just be silly! Belt and braces indeed!

This morning we had THREE TINY CHILDREN on a packed train, all of whom had to have their own seats, and sing loudly in unison "I SEE A POO-POO, I SEE A POO-POO!!!" at the top of their childish voices.

I thought it was funny (though what are the parents thinking, taking tiny kids on a train at rush hour) but my god, if looks could have killed, my fellow commuters were not amused.

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

That's not very funny as I've been seeing an alarming number of "poo-poos" in the subway stations recently in NYC!

Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

links for you matt dc & kate:
http://www.bromptonbicycle.co.uk
http://www.dahon.co.uk


Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

plus:
charvers who intimidate the elderly DEATH
taggers DEATH
loud, obnoxious drunks DEATH
people who scratch their tags on the window glass DEATH
people who insist on playing shit 'ardkore at each other on their mobile phones (WTF?) TORTURE, DEATH.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't you be a bit more imaginative than just "DEATH"? I mean, can't you think of some poetic justice form of death for them?

Having their skin slowly scratched off with giant flailing knives would be a good one for the key scratchers, surely.

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Loud obnoxious drunks should be drowned in vats of lager.

Except, wait, no, they'd probably enjoy that. Bah.

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait! Vats of lager which has been vomited up by tramps! Now that is more like it!

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really care how it's achieved, just DEATH, you know? so they won't be a pain in the ass anymore.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

People who get on the bus and stand at the front - even though there are seats further up, and cause a blockage which means nobody else can get to the seats and the driver thinks the bus is full because he can't see through the crowd - need to be slowly tortured for a VERY VERY long time. IF THERE IS A SEAT - SIT IN IT!!!

And don't even get me started on people who think lighting a fag at the back of the bus doesn't effect anyone else - you are not in an isolation chamber it is a bus!!!

smee (smee), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

people who STROLL down tube station steps when there are clearly people in a HURRY behind them and a tube can equally clearly be heard RIGHT FUCKING THERE but they still insist on FUCKING STROLLING and walking in such a formation that no one can get past them and then you miss the tube -----> throttling at the hands of me.

men who sit with their legs splayed WIDE APART so they encroach into girls' personal space ------> cocks cut off, obviously. this is not a problem for me as I just make Inappropriate Thigh Contact and it makes them uncomfortable, but I think this would exacerbate the problem if one was female.

The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

On the other side, 3 cheers for HARDASS BUS DRIVERS - last week jill was on the bus & witnessed:

1/asshole on back seat drinking beer - bus driver asks him to put it away, he refuses, so bus driver gets out, goes to back seat, takes beer can from asshole and throws it out of the bus window!

2/charvers throwing snowballs at bus, then they try to get on - bus driver refuses to allow them on the bus, then phones depot & tells other buses to refuse to pick them up as well!!

Give him a pay rise!!

Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I LOVE this bus driver - he needs to get a medal or something....

smee (smee), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

people who STROLL down tube station steps when there are clearly people in a HURRY behind them and a tube can equally clearly be heard RIGHT FUCKING THERE but they still insist on FUCKING STROLLING and walking in such a formation that no one can get past them and then you miss the tube -----> throttling at the hands of me.

Put them on a treadmill to harness their strolling energy for the running of electric trains. Grrrrrrr. Run them until they drop dead of exhaustion.

Man, I'm far too creative with these punnishments. I think I must have been a medieval monk in a previous life...

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

(Of the Spanish Inquisition kind, not the boring praying kind, natch.)

Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I did actually think of something similar but I then thought that though my chosen way may lose out in the interestingness stakes, it makes up for it big time with CATHARSIS.

The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Aww, Alex is a proper Londoner now!

Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The other night I had a dream wherein I was stuck in some godawful stretching-for-miles traffic on a West Texas highway (thus, long, straight, no landmarks to speak of) when I screamed out the car window and suddenly a massive shadow fell across the land, not unlike a storm cloud. Suddenly, everyone was getting out of their cars, pointing up, screaming, running out into the plains, and I got out and looked up and realized I had summoned a METEOR to come down and wipe us all out with my endless road rage! Then I was like, WTF, this can't be real, oh yeah, DREAM CONQUEROR MODE: ACTIVATE, and grabbed the boy and PFWOOOOOOOSH flew off over the horizon, leaving all those FOOLS to be crushed by the WRATH OF SPACE.

nickalicious, in Texas, having some wicked messed up dreams, Thursday, 10 March 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)


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