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Getting an Earful
The even tenor of our journey was interrupted this morning when an unseen teenager* got on at Queenstown Road and started sodcasting their music to the carriage at large. Most of us merely emerged bri… more →
Disgruntled Commuter
Fall Speaker Series Continues Tonight
misslynar wrote 1 month ago: The Fall Speaker Series continues tonight at the Renton History Museum with Tames Alan and Trial By … more →
Getting an Earful
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disgruntled wrote 1 year ago: The even tenor of our journey was interrupted this morning when an unseen teenager* got on at Queens … more →
Sap Rising
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disgruntled wrote 1 year ago: This, more than anything else, may be the real sign of spring. Forget that the news is full of gleef … more →
Perspective...
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disgruntled wrote 1 year ago: (…as in the thing you lose after you’ve been commuting for too long, and your soul has s … more →
More Feet
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disgruntled wrote 1 year ago: Do I even have to say this? Why do I even have to say this? And yet… Putting your feet on the … more →
Try a Little Helpfulness
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disgruntled wrote 1 year ago: Chaps! Can I alert you to the existence of these? Buggies, strollers, pushchairs, call them what you … more →
What's Worse...
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disgruntled wrote 1 year ago: … than being stuck on a train with only a freebie newspaper for entertainment? Well, if this m … more →
Ahem Ahem
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disgruntled wrote 1 year ago: *cough* Mustn’t cough. *cough* Coughing on public transport is bad and wrong *cough* *cough* I … more →
It's much more Bother with a Hover
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disgruntled wrote 1 year ago: It was a busy but not impossibly crowded train, and the woman sitting next to one of the few availab … more →
The Rain Falls on the Just
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disgruntled wrote 2 years ago: Walking into Kew Bridge this evening – doing my famous drowned rat impression – I could … more →
A Moral Dilemma
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disgruntled wrote 2 years ago: Here’s a question for all you ethicists out there: how wrong does somebody else’s conver … more →
Suffering in Silence
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disgruntled wrote 2 years ago: Has anybody else noticed how quiet people are on the trains in the morning? Even under provocation. … more →
Speak English you Fool...
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disgruntled wrote 2 years ago: … there are no subtitles in this scene. It’s rather unnerving to get off the train at Ki … more →
Something we can all swear by
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Citizen Sane wrote 2 years ago: Swearing is good for team morale and helps employees to cope with stress, according to a recent stud … more →
And it wasn't even the Quiet Coach
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disgruntled wrote 2 years ago: Looking up from my paper this evening I randomly caught the eye of the girl across the aisle who was … more →
Sweaty Betty
disgruntled wrote 2 years ago: Cycling into Battersea in the morning has opened up a bit of a commuting dilemma for me. Take this m … more →
Don't touch me, I don't know where you've been
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Citizen Sane wrote 2 years ago: BBC Magazine has run an article today that I can relate to: kissing etiquette. It’s the unspok … more →
Passing the Time of Day, London Style
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disgruntled wrote 2 years ago: Spot the regular being served in the queue at the Vauxhall news-stand: “Four-pounds-please-tha … more →
I am Beginning to Discover...
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disgruntled wrote 2 years ago: …one downside to all the lovely extra cyclists there are suddenly on London’s roads: the … more →
