This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Shouted "don't do it" at a brompton rider on Farringdon road, who was just about to undertake a tipper which predictably eased to the left, eliminating the already narrow gap he was going to squeeze down. Gave him a wry smile and a "please don't get squashed". Not something I ever want to witness.

The scooter scooter man I was behind on the stretch from Russell Square to Euston decided to drop anchor with no visible reason...
I follow suit, brake hard - endo over the front and was faced with two options
1 - come off over the front on the piss and hit the tarmac at a funny angle
2 - come off over the front squarely and land on his back.

I went for option two.

He lolled.
I lolled.
We high fived.

He lolled.
I lolled.
We high fived.

Actually lold, brilliant post.

Glad you're ok!

^^ did you end up as his pillion?

Some wreckin' ball Eric Pickles'alike came wobbling down from the central reservation he'd used to bypass two lanes of traffic near London Bridge North, and quickly gets into a shouting match with a ped angry with his straying into the crossing. Funny as shit.

Think of these poor miserable fuckers the next time your commute gets you down

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/on-the-hot-line-commuters-tell-of-brutal-heat-as-londons-transport-network-reaches-temperatures-too-high-for-livestock-9624717.html

Made worse by the new Routemaster not having windows you can open;

does that make it worse?

it does if you want to breath something other than stale farts, BO and other people's dead skin cells.

When the A/C's not working, yup.

A/C working on buses is akin to a small miracle

I was puzzling from the top deck of an older bus the other day why they have all the windows open and run an AC. It's just pumping slightly cooler air straight into the atmosphere. You Brits and your failing to understand cooling. So sweet.

^ this, the inability to open windows improves the cooling systems performance

I was puzzling from the top deck of an older bus the other day why they have all the windows open and run an AC. It's just pumping slightly cooler air straight into the atmosphere. You Brits and your failing to understand cooling. So sweet.

Literally all British people cannot understand the concept of cooling. It's our national shame.

the problem is the aircon doesn't facking werk, innit.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/meltdown-on-the-boris-bus-aircon-cockup-leaves-passengers-sweltering-in-30c-8690392.html

The bus designer Thomas Heatherwick - best known for his Olympic cauldron - wanted windows to open but was overruled because it would “ruin the efficiency” of the on-board cooling units.

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Literally all.

England doesn't get that hot so people don't invest in high quality AC. So, when it does get that hot it takes an excruciatingly long time for the AC to be effective, and eventually someone will lose patients and open a window.

And, it's not very British to go over and close it again, the common response is a tut or a sigh.

someone will lose patients and open a window.

That can happen in mental hospitals, but usually opening the window comes first.

Urgh, I wish people would accept I'm dyslexic and not pick me up on it every single time. It does ruin the flow of conversations some what.

England doesn't get that hot so people don't invest in high quality AC. So, when it does get that hot it takes an excruciatingly long time for the AC to be effective, and eventually someone will lose patiences and open a window.

And, it's not very British to go over and close it again, the common response is a tut or a sigh.

Literally all.
Literally.

Literally.

all.
All.

All?

All.

Some?