Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

due to an earlier incident, the universe exists

I think I posted this upthread but my favorite two announcements ever were:

"Attention passengers we are being held in the station due to a delay in service."

"Thank you for your inconvenience."

A tautology and a malapropism. Or something. What are the appropriate rhetorical descriptions?

I love the "moving momentarily" announcement made several times over 10-15 minutes

Yeah, it's like you're in some kind of superscale model demonstrating Zeno's Paradox or something.

Also what's with the repeated bing bongs with the doors not quite closing? Are there actually people standing on the threshold hedging their bets that are keeping the doors from closing or is it some kind of conductor fakeout, playing for just a little more time?

I get really anxious when they do the "boong" like they're about to make an announcement but then no announcement comes

Okay, so seriously. That poster for Showtime with Don Cheadle in a blindfold and William H. Macy grunting at the camera: at the bottom, Don Cheadle's torso ends a good half-inch before everybody else's. It's easily missed in the darkness, but, Jesus, that's sloppy. Next to it on the G platform at Nassau, we also saw a poster for the new Ice Cube movie where the inept rookie has been really awkwardly shrunk by Photoshop, I guess to show that he's out of his league asking out Ice Cube's daughter! (or whatever) but I swear they could fit two of his head inside of Ice Cube's head and it just looks bad. Then there was a Seamless poster showing how you could order everything on your phone, the numbers didn't add up, and even had things where one 4.99 smoothie totaled up to 6.49 or something. I mean, how hard would it have been to get that right?

Seinfeldposter.jpg

I've been looking for a thread to post this, and I guess this is as good as any:
http://www.legendarylifestylemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Jack-Ryan-Shadow-Recruit-Kenneth-Branagh-2-590x860.jpg

It's actually a visually very good ad, but it's also creepy as fuck and sounds fascistic

we should have a thread for poorly designed public poster ads
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rolling nyc subway ads discussion thread

thanks

due to signal problems at jay st-metrotech, we will sit here for 45 minutes. you may want to take the B57 bus instead -- although it is unlikely that all of you will fit -- but as soon as you leave this train will depart

i just missed that apparently

Anyone else notice the "take a sample, take a look" incense-and-comic-book guy in the 14th St./6th Ave tunnel getting a little more intense? Yesterday I swear he was going on like "I don't care what you do, you can be a fucking slut, sell your body, take a sample, take a sample, take a look..."

Due to blah blah blah, the last stop on this Manhattan-bound J train will be...Marcy Avenue. Which is in Brooklyn. Enjoy your walk across the bridge in the cold!

when should those of us at work leave work?

NEVER

made it home by 5:10 with only one express detour to Newkirk Plaza.

f/g badness at church ave fuuuuuuu

Thanks to 25-min spacing between A trains at 4pm I was too late for volunteer mtg, now cannot resched intv for position I prob don't want anyway. Oh well.

mookie do you live in my neighborhood? i'm just off the church these days

Actually more than 25 mins, that's just how long I was waiting.

Just saw that getting off at Hoyt-Schermerhorn. May have to take 23 to transfer to 7 at TS to get back to Queens. Which is probably at log easier than what others will have to do.

i live in carroll g, same as ever. it's a pleasant evening walk from jay street, which was a total shitfight

I knew this thread was gonna get bumped tonight. commute suuuucked.

why do ya think they call it the F train?

since I live off the Ditmas, forks, I now curse the extension of the G every day.

On the 7 now after catching 5 at Borough Hall . As I passed through the Fulton Mall on my way to the station I espied a vehicle with NCC-1701-D U.S.S. Enterprise painted on the side.

mookie do you live in my neighborhood? i'm just off the church these days

― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu),

Hey guys, Bergen Street here...are there a lot of ILXors in the County of Kings?

jimmy mod is also a bergen streeter, when he's not gallivanting about the globe

i still miss jersey city
sadface

signal problems on the E in Queens tonight. it ain't nuthin really.

So my roommate showed me a story about a guy who got hit by a train + decapitated two years ago on the L

Fuck, man

http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Subway-in-1981-21-640x432.png

http://www.fubiz.net/2014/01/30/new-york-city-subway-in-1981

Impeach Cuomo

F/G trains fucked in Brooklyn by signal problems, there went my chance to see Anthony Quinn in Barabbas.

Guess you didn't go see German version of Murder! either.

no, that's a tad trivial for me (also on YouTube)

i got in okay to see the carol churchill play, kinda wish i hadn't

whoops! I saw one of her plays 25 years ago, Alec baldwin was in it.

mom on uptown rush hour 3 train yesterday with Cadillac-sized baby carriage

die, asshole

Just a couple of points on that, as someone who occasionally has to bring a stroller on the subway:

1) "Rush Hour" in NYC is like a 2.5 hour window in the morning and another 2.5 hour window in the evening, minimum. In fact, some lines are crowded throughout the day, so it's pretty hard to avoid travel during "rush hour."

2) Some moms/dads have jobs they have to go to, requiring them to first drop off their babies somewhere (daycare etc.)

3) You can't just "fold the stroller" because it's pretty much impossible to carry a baby and a folded stroller simultaneously.

4) While I use and generally support the use of smaller "subway strollers" on public transit, when a baby is very young, it has to lie flat and hence has to be in an ordinary carriage-style stroller instead of a folding stroller.

That said, if the baby was really small, I suppose it could have been brought in a carrier, depending on where the mom was going with the baby.

This was 6pm prime human-crush 7th Ave line.

If all that is true, getting on a rush-hour train that is packed anyway... woman still needs to live somewhere else. Just solipsism at its worst.

Wanna be a parent? Give some shit up.

This whitegirl in a track suit can afford cabs.

Plus she was essentially blocking a door and of course glued to her fucking phone.

right, because its not solipsism to believe that people should "live somewhere else" rather than inconvenience you on a train