Reply to: Tube chat?

[Uncle Albert]

He's wearing shoes, what's the problem?

The problem is he's put his bag on the seat next to him. The selfish bastard.

[bobspud]

Its the ones that are making so much noise about not wanting to participate that need to be bullied into it.
London has lost its way. Everyday I watch swarms of morons press their noses up against their smart phones and completely ignore the world around them. Social media has got to be the ultimate oxymoron of this century. The millennial generation have been fooled into thinking that their community is a bunch of people on Facebook that they never see.

Add to the fact that nearly everyone has lost the ability to say please or thank you or relate to strangers with civility and you have a perfect storm of sheeple.

[greenlake]

I like to expose myself on public transport.

That usually gets people to move away.

FTFY.

[BrilloPad]

I like to expose myself on public transport.

That usually gets people talking.

"Has that man just been swimming in the sea?"

[minestrone]

I like to expose myself on public transport.

That usually gets people talking.

[mudskipper]

I'd wear a badge saying "Miserable unsociable old bastard" but with my face I don't need to.

Aww, you'd get a do-gooder thinking you need cheering up and coming to give you a pep talk.

[GJABS]

Indeed some Londoner has started handing out badges telling people explicitly not to talk to them:

[Fronttoback]

I once was asked to stop smoking on the district line!

[xoggoth]

I'd wear a badge saying "Miserable unsociable old bastard" but with my face I don't need to.

[BrilloPad]

I love seeing how the bitter angry Londoners are having a go at him, thereby proving his point.

Isn't the point that you wear a badge to say you don't mind social interaction, rather than that you force it on other people... though the fact that saying hello to someone is considered "forcing it on someone" says it all really.

"forcing it on someone" is an understatement if its the opposite sex. A while a go a woman said hello to me on the tube. The other passengers gasped in shock. Naturally I accused her of being a rapist who needed castrating for the rights of men to fgo about their lifwe without these unwanted attentions.

That showed her.....

[ChimpMaster]

I worked in London for a few years and it was awesome, a great experience getting p1ssed and eating at restaurants like a spoilt rich d1ckhead (I wasn't but those who know the City might understand). All whilst sticking to my close knit group of colleagues and avoiding contact with anyone else. Frankly that is what most Londoners are about.

Once on the way home at Waterloo I saw a father get off a train with his baby in a pushchair. The man came off the train and accidentally 'dropped' his pushchair which went head-over-heels (there was a drop between the train and the platform), and the poor baby went head down into the platform.

It was rush hour - around 5pm - lots of people around. And yet people just seemed to be dumbfounded that there was a parent who was in need of assistance. It was, frankly, disgusting to see to 'professional' workers, men and women, incapable of assisting another human being. They just stood around like the villagers from Minecraft.

I ran over to help, flipped the pushchair back over and checked the baby boy. Fortunately he was OK, the pushchair had somehow protected his head from hitting the floor. Gave the baby a quick check, said to the (somewhat shellshocked) father that everything was OK, and went on my way.

To this day, I recall the shocked look on the father's face but more than anything it is the apathy shown by the many Londoners present at that time that sticks in my mind. It was abysmal.

[mudskipper]

London hasn't been kind to the man behind the Tube Chat badge - BBC Newsbeat

This guy is totally nuts. Anyone who speaks on a tube should be keel hauled.....

Well the write up made me smile.

[d000hg]

There is a reason why people don't talk to one another in London on public transport.

Because they're miserable narcissists who want to be in complete control of every interaction they have with another human being (and everything else that happens in their lives)?

To be fair I can imagine that living in such close proximity to so many people, and being completely surrounded by them 24/7, would lead to a strong desire to act this way. But saying hello to a stranger as they sit next to you is hardly that awful.

[northernladyuk]

He's off his rocker.

There is a reason why people don't talk to one another in London on public transport.

However if there is an incident on the train, tube or bus, OR you have young children with you or are disabled and appear to need help people tend to offer to help you without you asking. In fact you hear some blind people telling people to f*** off due to being asked 10 times in 5 minutes if they need help.

Not if you're deaf, you don't.

[SueEllen]

I'm not really getting this guy. All the way through is the evidence it doesn't work but he still want's 'to have a bit of fun'? 80% think it's a terrible idea and 20% think it's nice.. But of that 20% how many will actually do it? And then he's lumped it right in with the pron sites online??

I can't work out whether he's off his rocker or a out-there thinking genius......but actually I think I can...

He's off his rocker.

There is a reason why people don't talk to one another in London on public transport.

However if there is an incident on the train, tube or bus, OR you have young children with you or are disabled and appear to need help people tend to offer to help you without you asking. In fact you hear some blind people telling people to f*** off due to being asked 10 times in 5 minutes if they need help.