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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,915

    It feels like they’ve been designed to get as many people as possible from one place to another which is plainly a ridiculous idea for a public transport system. Why does no-one think it unreasonable the Tube doesn’t provide facilities for commuters to work on the move?

  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 21,404

    I probably shouldn't laugh at ignorance, so I'm sorry that I did. Perhaps I can pretend that 'Nevina' is actually a satirist.


  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,993

    A lot of the tube has WiFi I think.

    I very rarely go underground but I'm pretty sure I had mobile & data signals on the (quite deep) jubilee line today

  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 30,094

    No, I think the main thing it demonstrates is Peter Foster's lack of preparation or flexibility. With a little bit of planning you can always have something offline to be productively getting on with.

    On train WiFi is only as good as mobile data coverage and outside cities coverage along railway routes will also be patchy.

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited August 2024

    lol you can’t sit with a laptop on those seats. Not enough room. You can have it on your actual lap but you can’t open the screen far enough to be easily visible in that uncomfortable position because it bumps into the seat infront.

    If you manage to contort yourself to do so, you can’t really do it for very long. Far too uncomfortable, and it pushes your elbows out quite far to type.

    Also sucks if you want to watch anything, as you get terrible neck ache having to peer down at your own crotch to watch it.

  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited August 2024

    The irony is, no one takes that line if they can avoid it because the carriages are so awful and there are alternatives where you can have a flip out table for your things.

    When they change out that train carriage for those everyone grumbles.

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,915

    Doubt you’d be working on there though

  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 30,094

    I can and do almost every day.

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,847

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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 62,191

    😄 Post of the month. Quoted for posterity.

    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,404

    A Matsui Walkman? Luxury.

  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660

    on those carriages? I don’t believe you tbh.

  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660

    This is why we can’t have nice things

  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,276

    Washing machines are nice.

  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660

    It’s a great defence. My favourite. Things we even worse when I was younger so I will demand that any complaints about things that are still an improvement on that must never be uttered.

    Such crab bucket behaviour. On the one hand we all must move out and commute because we must not complain about house prices but we must also never complain that the trains we spend dozens of hours on a week, because they were once worse.


    did you know Victorian trains were slow and noisy?

  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,722

    He's doubling down.

    You couldn't even listen to a whole song because of Steve Fucking Wright talking over half of it.

    Plus your trousers pockets all got baggy on account of the Walkman weighed as much as Ryanair hand luggage.

  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 62,191

    We're definitely into '4 Yorkshiremen' territory, in a very amusing sort of way.

    I'm jealous of people who could afford Walkman at such a young age.

    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,722

    Don't forget that you weren't protected from jumping off while it was moving, or from being decapitated.

    The back rests were quite uncomfortable as well. And the wood veneer used to be sticky and smell of juicy fruit.

    Life was tough back then.

  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,276

    People used to have to use a mangle to help dry their clothes.

  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 30,094
    edited August 2024

    Carshalton to Farringdon then the Elizabeth line to Liverpool Street. Occasionally Northern line from Morden to Bank. Laptop balanced on top of rucksack on lap is more comfortable. The luggage racks by the doors are also just the right height if there are no seats. If it's just emails you can do that on your phone.

    I think the Cambridge to Brighton trains are longer than the Sutton - St Alban's stock. I don't know who decided to spec 3/4 of that stock without fold-down tables and WiFi but it doesn't make that much difference.

    I usually have 3 or 4 projects on site so I'm traveling back and forth on a variety of rail, tube and bus networks throughout the week and I can't afford to just sit and look out of the window for all of it.

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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,261

    In fairness, the train seats were wider and more comfortable, the overhead baggage was designed to take baggage and the slam doors prevented you from being timed out from boarding. So some things were rosier.

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,915

    It's a mode of transport - you can't work whilst commuting by car, bike or bus either. For someone who has as many issues with public transport as you do I'm surprised it even registers. Getting from place to place on time, not spending a fortune and having a seat for your journey are surely far more important?

  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,722

    There were very high rates of mangling injuries. Far more than the number of people who are hung out to dry these days.

  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,722

    But he is a pain in the neck.

  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,722

    There was no limit to the number of people who could sit on a bench seat.

    Plus, they had that horrid scratchy red velour.

    It was unbearable, but we all managed somehow.

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,915

    Didn't have Wi-Fi or USB charging points though (and if you wanted a seat you normally had to go in a smoking carriage).

  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,722

    I remember there used to be smoking at one end of a carriage, because diffusion hadn't been invented yet.

    Every public space withing British Rail used to smell of one or both of cigarettes or urine.

  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,261

    As late as 2007, I went a way for a while and took no devices that needed to be plugged in to power at all. I quite miss that.

  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,276

    To be fair old people's homes used to smell of cigarettes and urine.

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