Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => The Debating Chamber => Topic started by: badger on July 14, 2013, 10:47:57 AM
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The rudeness on the London Underground never ceases to amaze me,selfish people ,mostly guys who do not give up their seat for an expectant mother.twice recently my work buddy has seen two woman one wearing a ' baby on board' badge standing next to a guy seated,he stated both looked at least eight months pregnant. Apparently you cannot transport animals in temperatures above 30 degrees and its well above that at the moment >:(.
Rant over
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WTF are they wearing 'Baby On Board' badges for if they're at least 8 months gone ?!? More emotional bloody incontinence!
Oh, and does it mean that we all have to stop travelling because it's over 30 degrees ?
(Blue touch-paper well 'n truly lit ;))
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They introduced the badges because in their defense, those who do not give up their seats to anyone said they were worried they would offend those women who are just fat.
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So, for sure, young men should have a badge that says "millions of babies on board" ? Innit.
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I look four months pregnant and nobody gets up for me.
I have to laugh about the hysteria going on in the UK because the sun has shone for a couple of days, one newspaper last week was predicting that "at least 25 people will die in the current heat wave"
Here it's mid thirties and millions of people aren't eating or even drinking water for 14 hours a day and everyone just gets on with it.
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So, for sure, young men should have a badge that says "millions of babies on board" ? Innit.
You missed 'Look' out KKOB ;)
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Look ;), It'd be a boring ol' world without the tabloids to get us in a frenzy about one thing or another.
Here's another cracker you may have missed.
According to the Daily Mail we're about to be overrun by wolves from Europe.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2361758/The-wolfs-door-Killer-beasts-roaming-Western-Europe-time-100-years-sparking-fears-soon-arrive-Britain.html
Unless they've learnt how to build rafts to get across the Channel, I doubt we've got much to worry about.
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So, going back to badger's original post :) My youngest daughter lives in London so we go down quite often and travel frequently on trains/underground. It's always a pleasant surprise how often young men straight away give up their seats for me to sit down if there's none free. Now I'm no spring chicken but at 61 certainly not old ???, look younger than my years (or so I'm told) and fit enough and capable enough of standing if I had to.
There are some who have manners, or maybe they just feel sorry for me :( ;)
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I wouldn't offer my seat to a woman because she was pregnant. I'd offer it because that's the right thing to do - being pregnant doesn't come into it. I hate to see young men sitting down while ladies stand.
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I think the right thing to do is offer your seat to anyone you feel needs it more than you do. Male, female whomever.
You are a gentleman Scunner.
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I am, but more and more these days they politely decline! I assume they think I look like I need it more than them :D
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I'd take your seat any day Scunner! ;D ;)
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Hmmm... If you knew the mosquito story, you'd probably be helping him. .
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I am certainly not in the first flush of youth but am relatively fit and agile so when travelling on the dolmus I always give my seat to people who look as if they need it, young or old, male or female. Never really use public transport in UK but would do the same
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Our big problem with the dolmus was that when we visited the UK, we had to remember to keep an eye on our kids who would automatically sense when the bus (especially the airport buses) were full and go to jump onto some old boy's lap!!!
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I don't think it is just the Underground; I think everyone in London is rude wherever they are. It takes wild horses, or sometimes Hilary, to persuade me to go to Great Wen. Filthy, obnoxious pit of a place.
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Hmmm... If you knew the mosquito story, you'd probably be helping him. .
Haha don't worry Lotty, I've heard that one ;D
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Our big problem with the dolmus was that when we visited the UK, we had to remember to keep an eye on our kids who would automatically sense when the bus (especially the airport buses) were full and go to jump onto some old boy's lap!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D
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Some time ago, I can't remember exactly when, Brenda and I were on an over-crowded (is there another sort) dolmus on our way to Fethiye.
Seeing that were several young ladies standing in the crush, I used sign language to offer one of them my seat.
Just as the young lady went to accept my offer, an elderly Turkish gentleman standing next to her, gentle took hold of her arm. Looking sympathetically at the young girl, he started stroking his chin while motioning in my direction and politely shaking his head.
I could soon tell from Brenda's strangulated laughter that the old gentleman was clearly telling the girl that I was in far more need of the seat than her :(
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Using a very crowded dolmus on our last holiday to Turkey we were most impressed with the local youths who gave up their seats for any female, young or old, seemed to us they had been brought up to have good manners.
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It used to be like that here, we always gave up our seats and happily too. Methinks in general, people now have their own transport (cars) where we mostly used to use buses, so todays kids perhaps don't know about that?
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Travelling on the tube 5 days aweek ive seen it all, but there is one lady who is about to give birth to an
Elephant as she has had a baby on board badge now for at least 2 and a half years, daily people stand up and give her there seat , she travells in different carrages and not always at the same time of day so having a baby on board badge a fat belly with more front than Blackpool she gets a seat. :(
I have many a time thought about saying on your bike you are not having a baby and a few weeks ago a guy recognised her scam refused to give her his seat then then got verbaly abused by just about every one around him on the train, she just shed a few tears rubbing her belly in a seat that another lady had gave her !!
So glad im a coward and never said anything ;D
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I will tell my workmate to watch out for her Shaun,he gets on at Elm park 8)
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Geoff she gets on at either Elm park or Hornchurch then gets the jubilee line to London brige >:(