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[volterator]

So, having spent the weekend in London I can report that London bus drivers are the biggest bunch of babies, sissies, ponces and weeds in the country. "Oh no, my ten-tonne double-decker vehicle with the very low centre of gravity wheelspun for a fraction of a second! Time to throw on the hazard warning lights, chuck off all the passengers and leave it in the middle lane of a major thoroughfare!!!" Between Camden and Wealdstone I saw 11 abandoned buses. Took us four and a half hours in the car to make a thirty mile round trip into the City of London and back, because of these soft pricks.

Fuck snow and fuck you as well, London.

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[nojay.livejournal.com]

Bus drivers who have an accident, any kind of an accident, lose their jobs. Doesn't matter if the weather is to blame, one shunt and they're on the dole. Period. Now consider the handling characteristics of a bus on ice and snow and figure out why the drivers won't push their luck.

So what was so important that you absolutely had to drive into London when you could have taken the train or the Tube, both of which were still running albeit with limited services?

Then I can dig it.

[vertigoranger.livejournal.com]

What? I didn't know you read this thing.

We were delivering furniture to a business as it happens, commerce having not stopped because of the weather, and the bloke driving used to be a bus driver and was personally appalled. I guess I got carried away with the prevailing sentiment. But! I hate cars and completely agree with you about public transport, I'm on record.

Re: Then I can dig it.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

Var drivers, delivery drivers in the city centre -- that's OK with me. In these conditions you're going to take longer, a lot longer than usual to get where you're going to do your job, that's all and you have to accept it before you set off. If you had hit the wrong bit of road your van could have been the one stuck and abandoned with other drivers cursing you out for your lack of grit (so to speak).

I've seen people talking glibly of relatives planning to drive from Devon up to Edinburgh today to visit for the holidays. Even if their family do make it through they will not achieve this trip in a single day, not with the road conditions the way they are.

Re: Then I can dig it.

[vertigoranger.livejournal.com]

That is madness for sure. Have to say yesterday evening we made the trip from Harrow to Wigan by car in 4 hours and that included a couple of ten minute stops. Which is about normal, really. Once people get over the initial shock we deal with the snow on the ground okay as long as we don't get more of it.

I'm only kidding anyway (mostly), this not being a true journal of my inner thoughts and feelings.