The totally off-topic thread

[anat0l]

Don't get me started on SIN MRT.

Some of the people there have got to be the rudest people i have come across in the world. People waiting to get on the train either side of the marked lines to allow people to get via the centre. These low life scum who hang back and are not in line then rush when boarding starts pushing past all the people that have been waiting.

And don't give me the excuse it is because of the barriers they have had to climb all their lives.

Thankfully when I rode the MRT last in SIN the behaviour I witnessed was far more civilised than you describe.

That said, it is well known that even Singaporeans are hardly civilised when it comes to riding the MRT (or any train) due to the behaviour you described. The MRT authorities have been running continuous public announcement campaigns to inform people of how to correctly do this.

It's another thing in Australia when we can't do it correctly either.

And then... there's China and Hong Kong. At that point, it's best to learn to disregard human life and consider swatting people aside, literally.

 

[Pushka]

Then don't try the trains or buses in India then. They are a whole new world of commuter pain. Not a matter of batting people away, but physically "picking them up" and moving them aside.

 

[anat0l]

Then don't try the trains or buses in India then. They are a whole new world of commuter pain. Not a matter of batting people away, but physically "picking them up" and moving them aside.

I could definitely see that happening.


Without some surprise, people are familiar that travelling on trains in Japan can involve being packed in tight. Yet, even though the Japanese can be the most harried travellers around, they are extremely civil when it comes to riding the train.

 

[Flashback]

Thankfully when I rode the MRT last in SIN the behaviour I witnessed was far more civilised than you describe.

That said, it is well known that even Singaporeans are hardly civilised when it comes to riding the MRT (or any train) due to the behaviour you described. The MRT authorities have been running continuous public announcement campaigns to inform people of how to correctly do this.

It's another thing in Australia when we can't do it correctly either.

And then... there's China and Hong Kong. At that point, it's best to learn to disregard human life and consider swatting people aside, literally.

Yeah. I hold back like a good Londoner and get left behind. Oh well! Such is life, I don't get stressed

 

[drron]

The last time I was on a Sydney train the fellow next to me spent the whole time talking to a rose.

 

[anat0l]

The last time I was on a Sydney train the fellow next to me spent the whole time talking to a rose.

Perhaps he was rehearsing before meeting its final recipient, or lamenting about who it should've gone to.

 

[erkpod]

He was right at the front so enjoying the view o guess. Guess he was really into trains...

I've never been to SIN!

 

[markis10]

The last time I was on a Sydney train the fellow next to me spent the whole time talking to a rose.

Those types find the thorn sooner or later.

 

[markis10]

I've never been to SIN!

Dont go to KL either, you won't sleep with the thought of driverless trains.

 

[erkpod]

Dont go to KL either, you won't sleep with the thought of driverless trains.

I'm going to SIN on the way back from the US & Japan in February. I have been on driverless trains before - it's a strange feeling!

 

[JohnK]

The last time I was on a Sydney train the fellow next to me spent the whole time talking to a rose.

Probably harmless though.

Those types find the thorn sooner or later.

Don't start with those silly puns again.

 

[Pollywaffle]

The last time I was on a Sydney train the fellow next to me spent the whole time talking to a rose.

Someone with some personality! What was he telling his rose?

While I find most commuters behave themselves, they are a dour lot. What's worse is I must look as gloomy as the people around me.

 

[drron]

Someone with some personality! What was he telling his rose?

While I find most commuters behave themselves, they are a dour lot. What's worse is I must look as gloomy as the people around me.

I doubt it was rose petals he was smoking.

 

[SeatBackForward]

Not to nitpick, but in Hong Kong it's the MTR and in Singapore its the MRT.

 

[Flashback]

Bill, we are here with Fredd and his wife in the EL at the Conrad bumped into them randomly talking about hawker markets!

 

[whatmeworry]

Free kebab. Click on the link.
http://oi44.tinypic.com/v7co7k.jpg

 

[Bundy Bear]

Bill, we are here with Fredd and his wife in the EL at the Conrad bumped into them randomly talking about hawker markets!

It's a small world.

 

[cove]

That is amazing that you ran into Fredd like that. He was a great help to me with Vancouver.

 

[jetlagger]

Someone with some personality! What was he telling his rose?

While I find most commuters behave themselves, they are a dour lot. What's worse is I must look as gloomy as the people around me.

I rarely travel on commuter trains nowadays.. That miserable demure appearance on most faces.. simply depresses me.

 

[Mal]

I rarely travel on commuter trains nowadays.. That miserable demure appearance on most faces.. simply depresses me.

As people in my Facebook feed now know... Imagine being on a train where one person is chatting to another about how he nearly committed suicide that morning by jumping in front of a train. Depressive indeed!