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This thread is great because I can see it happening on imaginary forums for every kind of person who lives in London (or other major metropolis). The same as when you drive you get cut up, when you use the tube you get people pushing through you to get on before you get off, the same as when people walk three abreast down a pavement and force you into a gutter.
Living in a big city fucks with peoples heads to the point where they become entirely obsessed with self preservation at all costs. It's mental.
My highlight last night was the pedestrian crossing outside of Waterloo St. on Waterloo Road. As the flashing amber goes there was still a middle-aged woman struggling across on a crutch, which is a pretty visible sign that she might be less mobile than normal and so a bit slow. Did it stop the ten or so bike riders streaming within maybe a foot of left and right of her causing her? Did it fuck. She had to stop in the middle of the road to let the fuckers go past.
In what kind of society is that even remotely normal behviour towards one another?