Goodbye bendy bus

Was the Routemaster loved when it first came in though? Probably not.

It's nostalgia. In the same way that some people here are piping up and saying that they liked bendy buses - haven't heard that before now, but we'll be all misty-eyed about them when they're a distant memory.

One thing I will say in their favour was that riding home drunk and straddling the bendy bit was great fun. That little section, where everyone stood facing each other, was also quite a laugh sometimes, what with drunken banter going on.

Mass hysteria whipped up by the media. See the MMR vaccine case for a good example of something whipped up out of nothing.

I've got another one - the phenomenon of the culinary foams now found in swanky restaurants. Lobster Foam? eeuugh.

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Stop fucking around with food! I ordered fish and chips in a pub a few weeks back and prior to being battered, it had been dipped in curry. I was filled with rage.

Maybe the chief did it for the halibut?

I see where you're going Tommy, but this is no laughing matter. Fried fish in this country is a fickle proposition at the best of times.

you at the end of the line Balki?

dehumanised the city? without them the city is more "human"? Are they breeding the new routematers from stem cells? you talk a lot of shit.

If you impose something on the people that they don't want, is that not dehumanising?

And therefore if you get rid of that imposition is that not humanising?

Balki - you fell for that hook, line and sinker.

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Stop fucking around with food! I ordered fish and chips in a pub a few weeks back and prior to being battered, I had been dipped in curry. I was filled with rage.

Just don't let people treat you this way.

If you impose something on the people that they don't want, is that not dehumanising?

And therefore if you get rid of that imposition is that not humanising?
The whole gist of the article linked by the OP is that there never was a real popular hatred of the bendy buses.

It's in the bloody guardian. Of course it reaches that conclusion.
It's an opinion piece, which reflects nothing but the opinion of those who edited it.
If the same footage had been edited by the Telegraph it would be full of people who vociferously despised them.

I fucking hate the things. So do a lot of people. They were designed for German airports, not narrow winding medieval streets.

Stop blaming the Germans!

It's in the bloody guardian. Of course it reaches that conclusion.

yeah but it got me thinking, is all, that i WILL miss them. But then I am a hand-wringing, Ken-voting, liberal militant atheist Guardian reader.

It's just that I have a feeling my fellow Londoners, even those few that do not read the guardian, will miss the bendy love when sat glumly on a rigid. Which was not free.

i wanna go in one of deez.

The closest I've ever been to being in serious shit happened on the 38.*

The closest thing I've ever been to being in serious shit happened on the 38 too.
When a young, sane-looking woman pulled down her jeans and took a shit next me.

The closest thing I've ever been to being in serious shit happened on the 38 too.
When a young, sane-looking woman pulled down her jeans and took a shit next me.

ahh yes, rings a bell. It wasnt near oxford street was it?? She is quite well knwon for it round there, there is a man doing the same also haha.

ahh yes, rings a bell. It wasnt near oxford street was it?? She is quite well knwon for it round there, there is a man doing the same also haha.

good heavens elaborate on this story please

good heavens elaborate on this story please

haha 2 homeless, 1 man 1 women, when i used to work in Soho, they were quite the celebrity especially on Old Compton street haha. There was a very famous incident when the guy of these 'two' decided to take a crap right outside the Admiral Duncan LMAO.

probably a few more of these types of people rounf there, like Irish, the gas sniffing homeless man, good guy though.

ahh yes, rings a bell. It wasnt near oxford street was it?? She is quite well knwon for it round there, there is a man doing the same also haha.

About a month ago up near Dalston Junction thankfully - I.e. I could get off and walk the rest. Pretty much the low point of my year.

I think this is in Львів/Львов/Lwów, but bendy buses would be more fun if London bus drivers drove like this.
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I think this is in Львів/Львов/Lwów, but bendy buses would be more fun if London bus drivers drove like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yjkBfXufQ4

You've never been on a 436 exiting Vauxhall Bus staion south late at night then?

When I use to have to a commute route that was on a bendy bus route they were the biggest problem, trying to overtake just before a bus stop then pulling in leaving me by the rear door (and the rear end of the bus no-wher near the pavement).

Aside from hating bendy buses as a cyclist, on the rare occasions I have to use bendy buses they always make me feel really travel sick like other buses don't, so I won't mourn their passing.

As an aside, when I went for cycle training last week, one of the instructors told me that they'd given bendy bus drivers cycle training sessions, for them to get a better understanding of what cycling in London is like. And for all I hate bendy buses, that's a pretty good thing to do I reckon.

pootsmanuva, CTUK actually gave bus drivers some training (despite the fact they were already quite good), it wasn't limited to bendy buses.

pootsmanuva, CTUK actually gave bus drivers some training (despite the fact they were already quite good), it wasn't limited to bendy buses.

RANT

wow so why do I still get bus drivers either trying to intimidate me or just ignore me.