I'm not sure if it amuses or bemuses me that the British repsonse to news that some poor sod has had a terrible accident or tried (and maybe suceeded) in topping themselves in a manner involving public transport is to focus on how damned selfish and unhelpful it is for them to have done so in a manner that inconveniences others.

Ever thought of the poor sod who is driving the train when an inconsiderate idiot goes for suicide by train. Most of the drivers are mentally scarred for life and many never work again.

I've survived bombs and bomb scares in London so I guess I'm a bit hardened to London life. With these incidents you rarely hear any information other than 'someone under a train' so it's hard to have any sympathy when you don't know any specifics.

Recently we were all delayed on the way in as they stopped the train I was on and kicked everyone out at Willesden Green. I had to get 2 buses from there to get to work and it took an extra hour. Everyone in the office was affected. However we found out later it was due to a lady giving birth and everything was OK with her and the baby so we didn't mind so much.



Suicides are a regular thing for drivers and I'm sure most have had at least one. Didn't they do a TV show / film on it? I vaguely remember something.

EDIT Found them

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A Deal Is a Deal

having known several of them who have been seriously effected and had to host the front facing camera footage recordings from the incidents as part of a project. It really really isn't good.

When I was living and working in London the tube was regularly held up by "an incident on the line." Even when the bombs were going off I never noticed any of them.

Exactly. It is a very selfish way to try and kill yourself. You are practically forcing the driver to become an unwilling murderer.

Yes very selfish. Though not murder as the driver had no intention to kill. Not even manslaughter because the driver was not in a position to do anything about it. Still wrong for the driver to be put in that position.

I went down to central London on Gay Pride day to buy some white fabric to make replica Leia dress and John Lewis only had off white fabric for £13 /m. No thank you.

I thought John Lewis were quite expensive for that sort of thing anyway... Haven't you got a local haberdashery shop?

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bought tickets for showing for the Cornetto trilogy in Leicester square : £15 /ticket.

Screening finishes at 2.10AM. It's night bus or £45 cab home. fun

It could have been worse. Last time I went to see a film in Leicester Square it was £23 each.

So with a car show coming up soon, I got my show alloys out of storage. Machine polished them up last night. I can fit them to the car but the pavement outside the road is dropped and the road has tonnes of camber so decided to pack them in the car and drive off to a local KwikFit. Although it's shut, there is a huge parking area outside and it's completely level. Got the wheels out, got my trolley jack out, got the locking nut, the adapter and the torque wrench out. Could not find the little tool to remove the alloy nut covers anywhere! Had to pack everything back into the car and drive back home and unpack. That was 30 mins lost.

[LIFTED] students! We have just had an influx of about 20 interns (hate that American word) here in London.

You'd think they could read wouldn't you? I put this sentence in their email with the phone information:

IF THIS NUMBER IS NOT CORRECT PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP

Turns out they can't read that.

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That sounds a lot like the student on the 36 week course I run who turned up every week, then came in on week 34 with the certificate stating that he'd done the same course last year, and passed the exam.

In my experience some students are really dumb lol