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Nap1st
Rank: Toyah |
The fúcking buses
replied on: 9/15/2003 11:32:38 PM I think their may have been many sicknotes that day. |
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NO PLEASE HELP ME!
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The fúcking buses
replied on: 9/16/2003 12:53:04 PM at least you can get on the trains and buses in birmingham, in london once you get on the fecking thing its soooooooo packed that it seems like your constantly in mortal danger. the tube in rush hour is well nasty, hundreds of people packed sardine style into a small tube shaped train thats in a tunel only just bigger than the train 20 meters underground and i always seem to be next to someone who smells like theyve eaten a raw onion and shit sarnie for breakfast. when i lived in brum i could get the train into town in rush hour allways get a seat and be in town twenty minutes later. here the smae distance would take over an hour. |
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racheymaus
old hand Rank: Chinny |
The fúcking buses
replied on: 9/16/2003 2:33:58 PM Yes, Birmingham is good, isn't it. But my point was, I think, that there is a certain unreliability not befitting a city with Birmingham's aspirations. We have improved, but that doesn't mean we can sit back and rejoice. Just cause it's less bad it doesn't make it good. And as for waiting for buses after Blues' matches, I think the problem there speaks for itself. Support a decent club! (Cause I've never waited for an 11 for hours in Witton! Oh, yeah, I have.)) No but really, taking pleasure in the misery of others is bound to bring sorrow to your door! It's a karma thing. |
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Beta_VF
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The fúcking buses
replied on: 9/17/2003 12:37:51 AM The buses are actually pretty good one of the best in europe... it's just that on some routes they are unfit for 'human' habitation. Its not the age of the vehicle but the scummy people travelling on them and the condition they leave it in. |
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DrVeraJenkins
old dear Rank: Jasper |
The fúcking buses
replied on: 9/22/2003 2:36:00 PM I know what you mean about the number 11. Did you know that they have a special team of inspectors up in Cotteridge who make all the buses queue up on certain days in the autumn and winter, until there's enough buses for a good convoy, then using radio contact with someone down at the bus stop opposite the out-patients department at Selly Oak Hospital, once the queue of disabled pensioners and mothers with sick babies reaches about 75 (or above capacity of any single bus) the chief bus inspector blows a special bus whistle and the convoy of buses have to race each other to Harborne passing as many stops as possible without having to pick up passengers. Obviously the poor driver who lands the stop at Selly Oak Hospital tends to loose unless he can make up ground at the stop near Sainsbury's where there can be a build up of Longbridge workers on their way home to Bearwood. It's a very exciting spectacle, especially if it's raining heavily and you're not one of the disabled pensioners. |
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DrVeraJenkins
old dear Rank: Jasper |
The fúcking buses
replied on: 9/22/2003 2:43:16 PM Another good one is the steep hill that runs from the bottom end of Harborne by the Green Man down to the White Swan, where there is a great tight bend in the road. If you've got two or three buses racing to get into town it can make for a wonderful roller coaster ride for us pensioners. A real hip replacement shaker. And what glee as we fly past the stop where all the dirty little oiks from Harborne Hill school queue up at quarter past three, you will never observe such pleasure on the faces of us wrinklies as we two finger the little gits, the bus literally taking off because the driver has forgotten about there being a bus stop half way down the hill. |
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DrVeraJenkins
old dear Rank: Jasper |
The fúcking buses
replied on: 9/22/2003 2:48:35 PM Is it just me, or is the number one bus called the number one because there literally is just one bus on the entire route? I just missed one the other day and by the time the next one arrived I could have sworn it was the same driver. I do like the private service though that Centro send to take pensioners like me to bingo. A chauffeur comes and picks you up right from your front door in a Mercedes, you get the big plush vehicle all to yourself and then he hangs around in the pub waiting for you all evening or sits patiently reading his girlie magazine. It's absolutely marvellous it really is. I think they call it Ring and Ride. |
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Quan-ton!
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The fúcking buses
replied on: 10/1/2003 12:37:40 PM Talking of buses....whatever happened to that track they used to have for the buses to run down in Stockland Green? And the Maglev thing at the airport? Say what you like about Brum it ain't afraid to try tp innovate when it comes to our transport needs. I'm sure if the council had its way we'd all be gliding to work on some futuristic giant escalator like something out of Metropolis. Shame the government won't give us the dosh to build an underground. I'd actively look forward to alighting at Nechells or Duddeston or somewhere similarly exotic. Rant over. |
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xerxes_quisada
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The fúcking buses
replied on: 10/1/2003 7:11:56 PM The Underground is apparently looking like it could become a possibility. Sort of. Well they're thinking of digging a bloody big tunnel for the Metro, which obviously isn't the same thing but sounds like fun. |
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Nap1st
Rank: Toyah |
The fúcking buses
replied on: 10/2/2003 1:21:19 AM someone needs to tell them about the tunnels of raf stratford or there will be trouble |
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Gravy Hole
Rank: Oddie |
The fúcking buses
replied on: 10/2/2003 5:42:53 PM quote: I used to use the (40?) bus from Slade Road to Lewis's every day to go to work. Talking to the drivers, they reckonned the trackway was an utter waste of time, if not actually dangerous; they could not swerve out of the way if someone stepped out in front of the bus. They had no idea what it was for except to let them take their hands off the wheel for a few minutes and be an obstacle for old dears to tumble over. Mind you it did stop those idiots who drive down bus lanes. |
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DrVeraJenkins
old dear Rank: Jasper |
The f򣫩ng buses
replied on: 10/3/2003 12:02:27 AM There used to be a craze amongst the young folk around Quinton known as egging the driver. The little bugger's 'd wait at the stop and then when the driver pulled up they'd throw eggs at the driver. They did it for weeks until one evening the bus pulled up and a load of beefy rozzers came legging it out of the bus after 'em. Mind you some of them drivers are miserable gits. I was on the 9 once coming round by the central library and the bus suddenly stopped with a big jolt and all the pensioners got thrown forward. An old dear next to me had her nose streaming blood and the driver just carried on. When some of us told him off he just said "oh". Now far be for me to encourage illegal behaviour amongst you younger folk .... but Aldi do sell a very cheap range of eggs, flour, milk... Any volunteers ...Peaky? |
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rotunda pants
villa, but nice with it Rank: Ozzy |
The f򣫩ng buses
replied on: 10/4/2003 9:03:41 PM I used to live by the concrete track that the trac-line 65 went down. It was designed so bus drivers wouldn't have to steer the bus, but they built it on possibly the straightest bit of road in Birmingham. The 65 didn't run on Sundays in those days, so, for one day a week, it was the only council funded BMX track. They've pulled it all up now and made it look like exactly like it did before- grass and trees and stuff. Still, it was better than that píssíng 'bus mall' in town where all the buses that terminate by the new Bullring all have to queue for half an hour before they can let any passengers off. Progress, eh? |
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racheymaus
old hand Rank: Chinny |
The f򣫩ng buses
replied on: 10/5/2003 12:22:53 AM Indeed. It isn't the fooking buses, in fact, it's more a case of what the fook have they done to the traffic? It's a nightmare in toon. Oh I'm sorry, I've gone a bit northern. |
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LAW
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The ƒuckin' Buses
replied on: 10/11/2003 11:42:02 AM How do the bus drivers themselves feel, with regards to those chaps who talk to them for fifteen minutes before actually alighting? It annoys the pi$$ out of me. If your a bus driver, give us your view. |
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