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)
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)
-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)
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)
x-post
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)
"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)
1. Jumping in front of the train2. Shooting everyone3. 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 bridge2. 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)
It's almost irrationally stressful to me. :-(
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
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)
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)
But London IS capital punishment!
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
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)
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)
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.
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)
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 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)
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)
inasmuch as London is an overpriced tourist trap, you do havethe rolling london dancing threadwhere 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)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)
(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)
Tom's 1st post pwns this thread, btw.
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 10 March 2005 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
(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)
― Kirlkl, Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
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)
― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
Except, wait, no, they'd probably enjoy that. Bah.
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
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)
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)
― smee (smee), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious, in Texas, having some wicked messed up dreams, Thursday, 10 March 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)