The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

Naaah that does seem worth 101'ing in.... It's not like you've called 999 expecting the flying squad but it might tie in with other reports.

 

Not saying that filming the countryside is against the law, but anyone with an ounce of sense these days doesn't film kids playing.

 

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[Louise2cv]

I have to get round London this weekend I am pooping myself. Not because I am anti London or anti public transport, just because I have no idea what I am doing. Working out where to go/which bus or train/how to pay etc.

 

I'm more nervous about getting my number and getting to the start than I am about running the 26miles!

[bub2006]

Why on Earth had you taken your cat to the services?

Car, sorry.

[DodgeRover]

I think you did the right thing too, although if my kids had been in there I might have had words.

Could well be a child with a troubled history there with a parent who has been forbidden to contact or come into contact with them.

[Parky]

I have to get round London this weekend I am pooping myself. Not because I am anti London or anti public transport, just because I have no idea what I am doing. Working out where to go/which bus or train/how to pay etc.

I'm more nervous about getting my number and getting to the start than I am about running the 26miles!

Any help or advice gratefully issued!

[Louise2cv]

Well I have to get from Heathrow to ExCel.

 

My OH says we just use contactless cards but I am programmed not to believe him. Is it true?

 

Also I have since discovered Heathrow isn't just a little airport, it should be easy enough to navigate my way out of there right?

 

We have been told to stop planning journeys with Google maps and CityMapper App has been recommended.

 

Thanks for offering to help!

[meshking]

It is true. Your contactless card will top out the days travelcard. I've not used my oyster for sometime.

 

Heathrow is a big place. You will need to get to the jubilee line, should be doable with a single change from Heathrow tube.

 

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[Louise2cv]

It is true. Your contactless card will top out the days travelcard. I've not used my oyster for sometime.

 

Heathrow is a big place. You will need to get to the jubilee line, should be doable with a single change from Heathrow tube.

 

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Thanks

 

So do we just wave the card at ticket barriers or do we need something else?

[Louise2cv]

I'm sorry about being so dense about it but it does baffle me.

 

Wasn't there a story about someone on here's dad forcing a London Bus driver to take a pound coin? That'll be me!

[Louise2cv]

Ok! I watched a TfL YouTube video guide for simpletons like me. I am almost not confused anymore.

 

Thank you for your patience.

[Lankytim]

I don't understand. What was wrong with what the passer by was doing?

 

Ben

Filming children and attempting to conceal it maybe?

 

If you can't see the issue with this then you've either arrived yesterday from another planet or you're woefully naive.

[Pillock]

Yes, use a contactless card on tube barriers and buses and at 2am the next day it works out the cheapest fare you can get away with for the journey made (i.e. a maximum of a travelcard worth) and charges your card.

 

On buses, touch in ONLY and don't try to touch out.

 

You can also use Android/Apple Pay on your phone, but the 0.2second delay will lead to you being trampled to a pulp and then beaten further to death by irate commuters.

 

Stand on the right on escalators. Do not make eye contact with anyone.

[Louise2cv]

You guys are brilliant!

​A really big chunk of my fundraising came from people from here too, really grateful for the support, thanks to all.

 

I'm at about £800 which is knocking on a grand with gift aid. Been injured and ill but determined to complete. And now there's a much stronger chance of me registering and finding the start too!

[sporty-shite]

I've just sent this by email to Chris Evans at the BBC...  In the subject line I called it "Listener Retention"

 

Mr Evans:

You failed.

I used to enjoy you on the Drivetime programme.  ...I thought your puppyish enthusiasm was a good thing in the mornings.  

 

I enjoy Sara Cox's version of the Breakfast Show almost without reserve.

 

 

For the love of God, Eddy. What on earth are you thinking?

 

Sara Cox is one of the few reasons I am embarrassed to be from Bolton.

 

Chris Evans' "puppyish enthusiasm" is just downright annoying, as is everything else about him. 

 

I really thought you were a man of taste.

 

Yours

 

Sporty

(not even on his 50s, but more "Victor" than all of you)

[robinmasters]

Harry Styles' new song is fucking ace!

It's a sign of the times.

That was Prince, not Harry Styles.

[M'coli]

You guys are brilliant!

 

​A really big chunk of my fundraising came from people from here too, really grateful for the support, thanks to all.

 

I'm at about £800 which is knocking on a grand with gift aid. Been injured and ill but determined to complete. And now there's a much stronger chance of me registering and finding the start too!

Another donation - you're not too shabby yourself!  Good luck at the weekend.

[Louise2cv]

Another donation - you're not too shabby yourself! Good luck at the weekend.

[Louise2cv]

Thanks ever so much, hope to do you proud

[loserone]

Do not make eye contact with anyone.

 

I made that mistake once.  Oddly, someone in the area then asked how far north I lived and offered that they'd moved from Cumbria and still hadn't gotten used to pretending noone else exists.

[Tayne]

That was Prince, not Harry Styles.

I thought it was the Belle Stars?

[Tayne]

Sara Cox is one of the few reasons I am embarrassed to be from Bolton.

 

 

Do any of the other reasons answer to the name Vernon Kaye?

[sporty-shite]

Do any of the other reasons answer to the name Vernon Kaye?

Possibly, but he's nowhere near as annoying as that Cox woman. Not by a long way. 

[Eddie Honda]

Yes, use a contactless card on tube barriers and buses and at 2am the next day it works out the cheapest fare you can get away with for the journey made (i.e. a maximum of a travelcard worth) and charges your card.

 

It's all witchcraft!

 

Last time I was in Shit City (2015), I must of looked a right thicko from the country. My miserable bank(s) hadnt issued contactless cards and the train ticket I was using was an old-fashioned CIV handwritten one because SailRail.

[overrun]

Hay fever is kicking my arse, and every time I sneeze it hurts my back. I worry that it will set off the muscle spasms I can get, as my back isn't the best at present, and was fucked, a couple of weeks ago.

[michael1703]

I have to get round London this weekend I am pooping myself. Not because I am anti London or anti public transport, just because I have no idea what I am doing. Working out where to go/which bus or train/how to pay etc.

I'm more nervous about getting my number and getting to the start than I am about running the 26miles!

You need a good poop before running 26 miles too.

 

Don't use the DLR if you can avoid it, get south of the Thames another way, it's known to break on marathon day, one year some poor buggers had run 4 miles before they'd even started the race

[Cavcraft]

Filming children and attempting to conceal it maybe?

 

If you can't see the issue with this then you've either arrived yesterday from another planet or you're woefully naive.

This. We've reported people in the past at my local park for the same thing.

Could be entirely innocent and maybe they're taking pictures because they used to live near there years ago, or whatever. Thing is though, you'd do that when there was no kids about.

Even in junior football we (managers) couldn't take pictures of our team unless the parents gave us permission.

[cms206]

For the love of God, Eddy. What on earth are you thinking?

 

Sara Cox is one of the few reasons I am embarrassed to be from Bolton.

 

Chris Evans' "puppyish enthusiasm" is just downright annoying, as is everything else about him.

 

I really thought you were a man of taste.

 

Yours

 

Sporty

(not even on his 50s, but more "Victor" than all of you)

Sara Cox is a fucking nuisance of fuck. I just don't listen to R2 before 9.30am or after midday any more.

 

I liked the spell of Chris Tarrant covering for Steve Wright a couple of years back. More or less anyone appears to be more entertaining than Simon Mayo. Jeremy Vine can fuck off as well. R2 was ruined by most of the presenters dying or being/accused of being beasts.

 

Just need them to decide they're board of Johnny Walker, Ken Bruce and Bob Harris and I can fuck it off altogether.

 

 

 

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[Supernaut]

"Oh, could you please install a phone in this room?"

 

"Ok then"

 

Room turns out to be in the arse-end of a huge building, taking me about 10-15 minutes of wandering about to find because having room numbers on your door is for losers.

 

Once I find said room, it's locked up tighter than a drum, and has a phone number on the door to call to gain access. I call the phone number, no answer, it just rings endlessly. Phone number is NOT the one I'm installing, before you lot make any smart-arse comments.

 

Get. In. The. Fucking. Sea. I've had this a few times this week now, and have a growing pile of 'to install' phones on my desk.

[Lord Sterling]

We want to go to London on Friday. Family day out.

Obvs we could take the car.... Park at Stanmore for a fiver, four all day tube tickets (£44 total) and about £20 diesel. But thought for a bit of chill time, take the train.

First of all, it's a fucking lottery where to get it from. I'm half an hour from Tamworth, Leicester, East Midlands Parkway and Rugby. There is a huge difference in prices from those stations, like £99 (for all of us) to £230 (at roughly the same time of day).

Then, there's the Off Peak Farce. You say you want a return, you say you're leaving at 9.30am, it offers you an off-peak return. What time can you come back? WHO FUCKING KNOWS. Virgin say after 16.45 unless you're only going as far as Long Buckby in which case it's 19.00. London Midland say any return train. Except the tickets say I can use any TOC so I need to check before getting on the train.

Then you realise that sometimes, two singles is cheaper than a return, but then you're on a fixed train. This means you can reserve a seat, but can't miss the train. And it might be more expensive. So you end up with tabs open for all the different train companies, two different booking screens for singles and returns, then trying to check the off peak rules.... then you realise that some returns are valid on certain TOCs only.

I do this all the time for work, but when it's your own cash you start to look a bit harder and it's a total nightmare.

I feel for you there brother...

 

I have to do this all the time for work. Travelling from place to place trying to find the cheapest way to get there to make the job worthwhile (otherwise I just call up the office and demand extra monies)

 

Train travel is vastly and sometimes prohibitively expensive, it's also deliberately complicated due to the fact that many travellers have fast moving lives and don't have time unpick the spaghetti menus and cross travelling through other operators etc...

[dave21478]

It's all witchcraft!

 

Last time I was in Shit City (2015), I must of looked a right thicko from the country. My miserable bank(s) hadnt issued contactless cards and the train ticket I was using was an old-fashioned CIV handwritten one because SailRail.

 

Aye, last time I went to London I was gazing about me in awe, snapping photos of stuff for my collection caper. The only way I could have looked more like a hillbilly would have been to wear my wellies and an old wooly jumper with bits of hay sticking out of it.

 

Yeah, I get it...;its not my natural environment, but why the fuck does it have to be so complicated? The transport systems are pretty much a mystery unless you are born there....I guess this knowledge is passed down like genetic racial memories or something?