[News] "Common scum who cost the railway millions and keep fares high"

[RandyWanger]

"Common scum who cost the railway millions and keep fares high"

I thought this was going to be a tory bashing thread.

 

[The Large One]

I haven't been to Lancing for many years now, but someone told me this week that they have closed the ticket office to reduce staffing costs, and replaced it with the barriers. However, the barriers can only be used when staff are present, and when there are no staff, they are left open.

Not much saving there then!

Sort of.

The ticket office is manned until 12.30pm. The person on the barrier isn't a Southern employee; they are agency staff from a company called Ontrak. They are supposed to be the all of the time - I'd guess the station is manned about 70-80% of the time. Perfectly decent people who are well aware of the chaos and white noise coming out of the DfT and GTR.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

A bit of paint doesn’t harm anyone, or impact the operation of your car either - so what slogan would you like scrawled across it? Any particular colour preference?

I don’t own a car.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Oh I must disagree with you there,’a bit of paint’does a good deal of harm,it makes communities look unloved,it brings a whole area down and above all it shows a total lack of respect for property.
The punishment needs to be financially painful,make the perpetrators pay for all costs,removing it,the hours of delays it causes on railways,every penny.
If this lad had been lucky enough to complete his graphics design degree he may have thought twice about the blight he was enforcing on community if he’d be paying for his ‘bit of paint’ for decades to come.
A punch in the wallet usually focuses minds.

I can’t get worked up over a bit of graffiti. Sorry.

 

[ditchy]

With Trump's spokespeople, past and present, aggressively defending the policy. Their stance, that arrested criminals including illegal immigrants, are necessarily always separated from their kids.

My suspicion is that they're using this cruelty to deter others crossing the border.

Eaxctly this

 

[Baker lite]

I can’t get worked up over a bit of graffiti. Sorry.

Don’t apologise,I’m sure it wasn’t you..

 

[ditchy]

One of these lads was just about to start a university degree in graphic design, so I guess he had some idea of the 'direction' he wanted to go in.

pity he didnt look in that direction then

 

[GT49er]

I don’t own a car.

Oh good. So it's just other people's property you don't give a shit about then?

 

[Diablo]

Some seem to like or at least think no harm done by graffiti....I think it`s horrible and whilst it is sad the three lads died,they must have known the risks they were taking and yes it is a fact they won`t be doing any more !!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Oh good. So it's just other people's property you don't give a shit about then?

No. You asked how I’d feel if someone painted my car. I’m saying I don’t own one.

 

[Easy 10]

No. You asked how I’d feel if someone painted my car. I’m saying I don’t own one.

OK, how about if someone painted some "street art" on the side of your house ?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

OK, how about if someone painted some "street art" on the side of your house ?

We have grafitti on our property right now. I don’t care.

 

[Easy 10]

We have grafitti on our property right now. I don’t care.

Fair enough - I think you'd be in the minority though. I'd not be a very happy bunny at all if I woke up one day to find that some herbert had daubed their scrawlings all over the walls of my house.

 

[alfredmizen]

No, not Barber's thoughts on Palace's special train but rather this...

Loughborough Junction: Tributes to graffiti artists hit by train
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44534102

A strong comment by a former TFL member who definitely wins today's prize for insensitivity But is it a case of harsh but fair? (Btw, I don't think he's saying they deserved to die though many will interpret as such I'm sure)

very harsh , very nasty

 

[LowKarate]

I certainly wouldn't describe as Graffiti Artists as the BBC have done.

Graffiti Vandals would seem to be more relevant.

 

[AK74]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Fair enough - I think you'd be in the minority though. I'd not be a very happy bunny at all if I woke up one day to find that some herbert had daubed their scrawlings all over the walls of my house.

Maybe if I lived in a small village and someone daubed my house with paint I’d be a bit miffed but graffiti in city-centers is part of life.

 

[wellquickwoody]

One of these lads was just about to start a university degree in graphic design, so I guess he had some idea of the 'direction' he wanted to go in.

Starting a university degree. Doesn't exactly make anyone exceptional these days now does it?

 

[Baker lite]

We have grafitti on our property right now. I don’t care.

This was my local park about 30 minutes ago,I know it’s just a bench,it’s also a bench that some people like to sit on and have lunch,relax,reflect and generally enjoy the park.I cannot imagine many people will find it’s current state enhances their enjoyment of the park.
The council will,in time remove the graffiti,council tax payers will fund this and so the game of cat and mouse continues,until the individual concerned either grows up or moves onto railways and gets creamed by the 1438 to Oxted.

 

[wellquickwoody]

I don’t care.

Bit like being a traveller perhaps?