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Rich

Posted on 04-30-07 01:45 PM (rev. 5 of 04-30-07 01:46 PM)

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	Yesterday, I went up to london to spend a day with my girlfriend. Eventually I had to get the 20:40 train to Clapham Junction, so I could get the 21:03 back to Poole (south england). short journey, so there shouldnt have been any problems. hmm. So we said goodbye, I got on the train, and everything was going smoothly until about literally 20 seconds before Clapham station. The train randomly stopped, and we were told there was a small delay. 40 minutes later, we were still there, no one had a clue what was going on, and then the guard said on the intercom that the delay was due to a trespasser, and the station had been closed off because the police were out in force. Someone on the train then randomly said that there had been a terrorist attack, and because people are stupid, people on my carriage believed him. People suddenly burst into panic, some people were running around, people were pressing panic buttons...a couple of guys were running around just shouting 'WHAT THE FUCK, WHAT THE FUCK!!?!' another 30 minutes later and all the lights went off, which caused someone down in the next carriage to shout out 'HOLY SHIT WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!! FUCK!!', causing more panic. the driver went on the intercom to tell us all to stop pressing the panic buttons so yeah, me and these other guys all decided to go into first class, and we couldnt actually see a thing. this woman had an epileptic fit too, and I had missed my last train back home. and it was constantly pitch black for the next 3 hours. during that time, we found out that the trespasser was actually a woman threatening to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge onto the live rail. And so they had to shut the rail electricity off, hence the lack of lights on my train. this caused quite a few people to shout out 'im gonna kill that bitch!!' etc and then a riot broke out further down the train people started fighting, things were being thrown around and about 20 armed police officers rushed in, and everyone was just like what the fuck is going on? two guys got beaten down, and arrested after attempting to jump out of the train after fighting (no one was allowed to leave the train anyway). and this police officer bet me £5 that the train wouldnt move for another half an hour, and I fucking lost. so that was my money to get a bus back gone, so i had to call my girlfriend for a lift. We then all got told there was an emergency evacuation, so we all had to jump out and walk it. finally after 5 hours on a non moving train, I was out. but I had no way to get home, so i had to make do with a night at my girlfriends house, sex included. ah well Fuck, that was a long post. but yeah, thank god I dont have to pay for train travel, otherwise I would have been pissed (my dad is a driver, so I have a staff pass for free travel). ____________________ Who needs a signature, anyway?

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Posted on 04-30-07 03:35 PM

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Far more eventful than the first train I've ever been on that went on for more than 30 minutes...and that was about three weeks ago.

I think the kicker out of all of that is you made a bet with a police officer out of probable boredom.

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Posted on 04-30-07 05:07 PM

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Glad to hear people in the UK are just as super paranoid and irrational as in the US. Oh wait... that's bad.

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Posted on 04-30-07 06:08 PM

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Nah, they're just like that in London. They don't represent the rest of us.

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Posted on 04-30-07 06:11 PM

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Hey, I'm in the US and I'm not super paranoid / irrational.

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Posted on 04-30-07 06:19 PM

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Scary to think you only live about 40mins drive from me :s

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Posted on 04-30-07 07:05 PM

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	Posted by Kasumi-Astra Nah, they're just like that in London. They don't represent the rest of us. Yeah, I dislike London greatly. It's absolutely nothing like what it is like here on the coast. ____________________ Who needs a signature, anyway?

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Posted on 04-30-07 07:09 PM

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Makes me wonder how the English say FAAWK.

I don't know why I'm laughing like an idiot at that but I am.

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Posted on 04-30-07 07:51 PM (rev. 2 of 04-30-07 07:53 PM)

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	Posted by Ranko Makes me wonder how the English say FAAWK. I don't know why I'm laughing like an idiot at that but I am. It's just pronounced as it is: FUCK!!!. But yeah, I noticed while in London just how different the accents people have there are to here. Here, the accents are pretty much non-existant compared to in London, and in my area are pretty hugely different to what 'british' accents are expected to be like. If that makes any sense. Like, on the train last night I was talking to this one guy who was in the same carriage as me, and he was from Cambridge University. And he had such a posh voice. I was trying to resist the temptation to say 'how the fuck do you have such a posh voice?!', because I've seriously never heard anyone speak like that down here in the Bournemouth area. On a different subject, I think South West Trains are brilliant. Mostly because it's completely free for me (my dad's a driver), but still. I've been using South West Trains services almost every single day for the last two years, and the most I've been held up is 25 minutes. Last night this was on Southern Trains (a different company) and it was awful. In the end, South West Trains guards were the ones who were helping people and sorting things out - southern weren't doing anything, not even offering drinks or food (which SWT do in these situations). I mean fuck, the station was literally a minutes walk away from the biggest station in the UK. Someone could have easily gone and got some water or something. One of the SWT guards on the train was actually laughing and saying just how terrible Southern are. And my dad shared the same views (not suprising though considering he works for SWT, but yeah). When we all had to evacuate, we were all told to leave our luggage behind (I was fine because I didnt have any). This one guy totally refused to leave or not take his luggage though, because...his DS was in his suitcase. Which was pretty hilarious to most of us. ____________________ Who needs a signature, anyway?

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Posted by Rich
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Nah, they're just like that in London. They don't represent the rest of us.

Yeah, I dislike London greatly. It's absolutely nothing like what it is like here on the coast.

Yeah I lived in London for 3 years when I was a uni. I'd not really want to move back. I meet some quite scary people - and a few rather cool MAME devs but that's another story.

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	Posted by dirtbag Posted by Rich Posted by Kasumi-Astra Nah, they're just like that in London. They don't represent the rest of us. Yeah, I dislike London greatly. It's absolutely nothing like what it is like here on the coast. Yeah I lived in London for 3 years when I was a uni. I'd not really want to move back. I meet some quite scary people - and a few rather cool MAME devs but that's another story. Yeah, I just dislike how its so crowded, and how everyones in such a rush there. It's insane. Over here, people just seem so much more chilled out. In London, I get the urge to run everywhere just so I fit in with everyone else. But really, I just want to chill out, and relax. But thats what I get from living on the coastline/in the countryside. ____________________ Who needs a signature, anyway?

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Posted on 04-30-07 07:57 PM (rev. 2 of 04-30-07 08:03 PM)

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Funny you should say about SWT I used the for the past 2 years or so until 3 weeks ago when they pissed me off so much I now drive to work.

When I lived in London I stayed in Wembely - just before I went to uni I went to an Oasis gig at Wembley football stadium. A few weeks before I moved there they knocked it down

The following video must have stated to be recorded around when I first moved to the area here

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Posted on 04-30-07 08:00 PM

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	Posted by dirtbag Funny you should say about SWT I used the for the past 2 years or so until 3 weeks ago when they pissed me off so much I now drive to work. How so? It's the opposite for me - I've been put off getting a car for over a year now, simply because it's free to travel on trains for me. ____________________ Who needs a signature, anyway?

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Posted by Rich
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Funny you should say about SWT I used the for the past 2 years or so until 3 weeks ago when they pissed me off so much I now drive to work.

How so?

It's the opposite for me - I've been put off getting a car for over a year now, simply because it's free to travel on trains for me.

Well the last straw was when I got off at Basingstoke to change to go Fleet I didn't have a ticket because I couldn't get to the guard on the train as it was so packed people could not move (as per normal). So I went to the barrier to ask for a ticket before I continued my trip to be presented with a fine. If my final stop was Basingstoke far enough but it wasn't. I proactively went and asked for a ticket and was treaded like a fair skipper.

That and the steady fair increase means it now works out spot on the same in fule as it does via train. Also I no longer spend £2 a day on coffee and a newspaper

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	Posted by dirtbag Posted by Rich Posted by dirtbag Funny you should say about SWT I used the for the past 2 years or so until 3 weeks ago when they pissed me off so much I now drive to work. How so? It's the opposite for me - I've been put off getting a car for over a year now, simply because it's free to travel on trains for me. Well the last straw was when I got off at Basingstoke to change to go Fleet I didn't have a ticket because I couldn't get to the guard on the train as it was so packed people could not move (as per normal). So I went to the barrier to ask for a ticket before I continued my trip to be presented with a fine. If my final stop was Basingstoke far enough but it wasn't. I proactively went and asked for a ticket and was treaded like a fair skipper. That and the steady fair increase means it now works out spot on the same in fule as it does via train. Also I no longer spend £2 a day on coffee and a newspaper Yeah, that sucks quite a lot. But it is a rule stated on every ticket - if you do not get a ticket before you end up at your destination station (either by ticket machine or asking the guard) then you get a penalty fine. It's a pretty fucking stupid rule, but then again, it's stopped the majority of chavs and pricks from skipping fares and causing trouble - like the forced ticket checking at Bournemouth. It's just unfair that decent people who intended to pay all along get affected by the rule too, like in your case. ____________________ Who needs a signature, anyway?

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Posted on 04-30-07 08:17 PM (rev. 2 of 04-30-07 08:18 PM)

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Appart from the fact Basinstoke was not my final destiaion - it was just where I changed.

The crap part is that it wasn't check at Fleet or on my way back home. So if I'd just go on and nont asked for a ticket I'd not have got a fine! That'll teach me for being honest

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I actually had something like this happen to me a few years ago on my way home from school, while we were on the T there was a bomb threat at my stop, so they just let everyone off before that station and we all went on our merry way (except for most of us that merry way was a good bit of walking more than we would've had to)

yep, no waiting on the T for 5 hours just to be told you have to walk, yay america

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	Posted by setz yep, no waiting on the T for 5 hours just to be told you have to walk, yay america It's quite a bit different in the UK though, you have to remember. In the USA, the power usually runs above the train. Here, it runs along the rail. A thousand volts of it. When the power was switched back onto the line, the train had problems and had to re-boot and recharge before it could move. Therefore, if anyone got out of the train onto the tracks and touched the rail, they would have got a shock that would have resulted in insant death. There were 12 carriages on the train, and 8 or so were evacuated before the power turned back on. After that, it was just too dangerous to let anyone off with the live rail back online. It was pitch black outside for a start, and there were kids on the train. ____________________ Who needs a signature, anyway?

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Sounds like a very annoying five hours...
Thank God there's barely any trains where I live

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Posted by Rich
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yep, no waiting on the T for 5 hours just to be told you have to walk, yay america

It's quite a bit different in the UK though, you have to remember. In the USA, the power usually runs above the train. Here, it runs along the rail. A thousand volts of it.

When the power was switched back onto the line, the train had problems and had to re-boot and recharge before it could move. Therefore, if anyone got out of the train onto the tracks and touched the rail, they would have got a shock that would have resulted in insant death.

There were 12 carriages on the train, and 8 or so were evacuated before the power turned back on. After that, it was just too dangerous to let anyone off with the live rail back online. It was pitch black outside for a start, and there were kids on the train.

Actually, that's the exception rather than the rule in the UK as well. Only the network in the south-east uses third rail, the East Coast Mainline, West Coast Mainline and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link all use overhead powerlines. It's also used on lots of other lines in the UK.

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