Comments on: The ftr of Bus Travel? http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/ Everyone has a right to my opinions Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:23:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ticked Off http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-131338 Ticked Off Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:57:35 +0000 http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-131338 Clarice, Humm great chosen words for the people of Acomb. not every one like you can be born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Clarice, Humm great chosen words for the people of Acomb.
not every one like you can be born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

]]> By: Clarice http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-125523 Clarice Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:27:09 +0000 http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-125523 Hooker! Hooker!

]]> By: Clarice http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-125522 Clarice Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:26:06 +0000 http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-125522 Yeh. Also, it probably seems a lot more nicerer when you use it out of choice or as a one off. As opposed to every relentless day, out of necessity, with crying toddlers and bags of shopping in tow, when you have to wait half an hour for it in the pouring rain and you haven't got enough money for the gas meter when you get home, and your mother's a hooker, and your father was murdered and your baby-father is a violent drug addict. Doesn't seem so nice <i>now</i>, does it, eh? The problem I would say, with public transport, is that it is public. Therefore, if you use it, you are forced into proximity with <i>all</i> sorts of people, and a disproportionate number of damaged and/or badly-brought-up ones in particular. That's never going to be nice, is it? On top of this, one also has to contend with the aggressive appropriation of the "public" space by over-hormoned teenagers and their noise pollution. This is also deeply unpleasant, and appears to proceed unchecked, because people are too busy being grateful not to get stabbed. I think if you added behaviour police, and taught people how to behave in public, <i>then</i> this bus would get my approval. Yeh. Also, it probably seems a lot more nicerer when you use it out of choice or as a one off. As opposed to every relentless day, out of necessity, with crying toddlers and bags of shopping in tow, when you have to wait half an hour for it in the pouring rain and you haven’t got enough money for the gas meter when you get home, and your mother’s a hooker, and your father was murdered and your baby-father is a violent drug addict. Doesn’t seem so nice now, does it, eh?

The problem I would say, with public transport, is that it is public. Therefore, if you use it, you are forced into proximity with all sorts of people, and a disproportionate number of damaged and/or badly-brought-up ones in particular. That’s never going to be nice, is it? On top of this, one also has to contend with the aggressive appropriation of the “public” space by over-hormoned teenagers and their noise pollution. This is also deeply unpleasant, and appears to proceed unchecked, because people are too busy being grateful not to get stabbed.

I think if you added behaviour police, and taught people how to behave in public, then this bus would get my approval.

]]> By: Sim-O http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-125417 Sim-O Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:07:32 +0000 http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-125417 sleek and beautiful now, because it's new. Wait until it's been in service for a while and then get one home on a friday or saturday night and see how beautiful it seems. sleek and beautiful now, because it’s new. Wait until it’s been in service for a while and then get one home on a friday or saturday night and see how beautiful it seems.

]]> By: Robert http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-125269 Robert Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:04:00 +0000 http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-125269 Such bile and reactionary comments to such a sleek and beautiful thing. < < sighs >> Such bile and reactionary comments to such a sleek and beautiful thing.

< < sighs >>

]]> By: Clarice http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-125141 Clarice Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:15:44 +0000 http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-125141 Yes. Also, I can't help noticing these things you like about it are novelty items. If all buses were like this, you'd lose the novelty factor, in which case you've got to ask, what's left? Yes. Also, I can’t help noticing these things you like about it are novelty items. If all buses were like this, you’d lose the novelty factor, in which case you’ve got to ask, what’s left?

]]> By: Sim-O http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-125132 Sim-O Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:17:54 +0000 http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-125132 It's still a bus and therefore you've still got to stand in the cold rain for what seems an age, and a ten minute walk from your house and to where you're going and still a nightmare with lots of shopping and probably not too cheap either and... It’s still a bus and therefore you’ve still got to stand in the cold rain for what seems an age, and a ten minute walk from your house and to where you’re going and still a nightmare with lots of shopping and probably not too cheap either and…

]]> By: jameshigham http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-125124 jameshigham Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:41:55 +0000 http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/01/07/ftr/#comment-125124 Still a bus though and therefore claustrophobic. Still a bus though and therefore claustrophobic.

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