Why am I so boring?

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I am very dull. Why is this? How is it possible that I should have no hobbies or interests or exciting things to think or talk about? Why don't I do anything, ever? I don't think I even have an opinion about anything.

― alix, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alix you are not dull. You are smart and smart people often get paralysed in this way. But I do recommend getting yourself a hobby horse.

― Nick, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thank you. I dont believe you though. Best go get that hobby horse.

― alix, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

lso have no hobby. Or indeed a horse.

― Graham, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Generally you come across as being too wise/inscrutable to pass comment on the petty concerns of others. But now you come to mention it one would see the same effect if you were boring. Hmm.

― Tom, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NOT DULL NOT DULL NOT DULL

On meeting new people at uni I discover that I also have no hobbies. Or indeed a horse.

― Graham, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you would like a hobby, I was wondering this morning how many British disk jockeys had called the popular rapper Jay-Z his name with a British pronounciation ie Jay-Zed. You could find that out for me if you wish.

You do have opinions on things, btw. It is just that when they are about Pokémon they are wrong!

I have a project for tonight we should work on.

― Sarah, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(something went horribly wrong when I first posted this, but that's what happens when you type in a tiny window to avoid the ire of your Freddie Mercury impersonator salsa-dancing programming teacher)

― Graham, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm sure I had a brain but I've just realised from my above post that I just wonder random bullshit. Hmmm. I hate Mondays.

― Sarah, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Doing The Whole Tube System Inside A Day Without Paying by Alix Campbell (Picador, 2002). I've pre-ordered this on Amazon.

Step to it, lady.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Of course you're not dull, you have SNAKE POWER and VULTURES ON BICYCLES with PUPPETS. Now shut up and get back in the fridge.

I didn't really have a hobby until I started playing the guitar, which is great because I get to annoy EVEN MORE PEOPLE.

― Ally C, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, your post was helpful - I was trying to remember which proununciation of "z" was the correct one. I'd done the alphabet in my head about 10 times and I was pretty sure it was zed because it sounds so much better but then I got confused because of the whole "Zed's Dead" bit in Pulp Fiction and I thought, surly if they say Zee in America it would be "Zee's Dead" not "Zed's Dead".

― toraneko, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You bastards! You've cheered me up no end. A project, you say? For tonight? Sounds intriguing. Hope it's not macrame. I was reading a leaflet in the Tube earlier; apparently there'll be tickets gates at every station very soon. Have to hurry. Am currently making list of Tube stations without regular barriers. Oh! no! I'm being boring again. Tits Up!

― alix, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are no gates and no ticket inspectors at Kensington Olympia. That's a rubbish place to start though.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

None at Finsbury Park, as you probably know. Also - the overground North London line only has barriers at the stations in 'poor' areas. Get on elsewhere and you can get in and then change onto Victoria, Northern and possibly other lines in various places.

N.B. I am not advocating fare evasion.

― Nick, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How to effectively travel around the underground without paying. You need

a) An American Accent b) A suitcase.

Its straight to the large barrier for you without flashing more than a pink bit of poorly printed card. Of course this brings me back to the days when I had my Magic Travelcard. For some reason the machine at Caledonian Road & Barnsbury went nuts and printed - in the date area "64 JPZ 34" - not a date on Earth. I therefore used this ticket to go through barriers everywhere telling the staff that it came out of the machine like that. (I neevah used machines of course for fear it would get et).

Until one sad day when a ticket inspector who believed me but thought it would be safer for me if he replaced it....

― Pete, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

veryone should have a hanle y horse

― Geoff, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

North London Line - aka Silverlink Metro is a fare evaders dream ticket. So much so I wrote a number of short stories in a cycle all set around fare evasion at these stations. Highbury and Islington off the Viccy on to the NLL is evaders heaven.

― Pete, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And the TRUSTY THAMESLINK! All the way from Kings X to Streatham and no paying! I quite fancy going to Streatham. And getting some chips. Does anyone want to come with me?

― Sarah, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I have gone insane. I blame RickyT for alerting me to it even though I think he found the test via me in the first place. Well. Dammit. Urgh.

― Sarah, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can vouch for the overground at Briondesbury, West hampstead, kensal all being barrier free, and hardly rich Nick???

― chris, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kings X0r Thameslink now has barriers to foil such evil fare dodgery.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Acton Central is barrier free as well.

― RickyT, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Briondesbury, West hampstead, kensal

I consider all these to be quite rich. At least in comparison to Dalston Kingsland.

― Nick, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Okay, well I only ever go from Loughborough Jcn to Blackfriars and both of those are no barrier-a-rama... same w/ City Thameslink. Streatham is barrier free, as are I think Herne Hill, Tulse Hill, all those stations to Wimbledon. Wimbledon has bitchin' barriers but if yr there late @ night they're usually OPEN cheers cheers!

― Sarah, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wembley/Pinner kind of area is very good according to my brothers.

― Graham, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How to effectively travel around the underground without paying. You need

a) An American Accent b) A suitcase.

Didn't work for me. Hmph.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Brondesbury = Harlesden = get your head shot off region.

I never feel - how you say - comfortable when in off licences all the booze, including the soft drinks - are caged away along with the shopkeeper. At Kings Cross you can still do the tube/Thameslink changeover as refered to by Sarah - however barrier in Thameslink exit for quite some time now (though the gate is always open for rucksack puntaz).

― Pete, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Amersham is considered the best place to start a one-day assault on the Underground (kinda obvious - you wouldn't want to waste an hour or more going there and back). Anyone got any ticket barrier info for there? Should this be in the 'What you can't find on the Internet' thread?

― Michael Jones, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ticket barriers at outlying Metropolitan line stations are non- existent.

― Pete, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Harrow on the Hill has barriers that are always shut - don't take yr Metropolitan Line for granted!

― Sarah, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's feasible then. In Keith Lowe's book "Tunnel Vision", the protagonist starts at Morden at 5:08am. Of course, you have to leave the Tube network at various points in order to squeeze it all into 19 hours - not sure if these are all in outlying areas, untroubled by barriers and surly staff.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I found the details of someone's failed (ticketed) attempthere. His route deinitely involved leaving/entering stations w/ticket barriers and he still failed. I fear a ticketless attempt would be doomed to failure.

― RickyT, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WAHOO! Acton Central! I used to live on Goldsmith Road...just a stones through from there...yep, you could fare dodge to Richmond without much hassle, not that I ever did. *sigh*.

nothing wrong with being boring unless you are the beautiful south.

― james, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What a boring thread this is.

― Nitsuh, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I do not know why I am boring. I have hobbies but I never have anything to say to people except unfunny bits of sarcasm. I cannot help but I can offer my sympathy.

The knee beard comment wasn't boring. It made me laugh.

― Maria, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would feel all too guilty about not paying.

Although i did accidentally not pay on the overground train between london bridge and honor oak ... it made me feel so alive ...

― chrissy, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Although i did accidentally not pay on the overground train between london bridge and honor oak ... it made me feel so alive ..."

Catching that train (usually the other way, and starting at Sydenham) is enough to make *me* feel alive, fare avoidance or no. Especially it's a slam-door antique.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete Brondesbury doesn't = Harlesden it = Kilburn, but still damn nasty, Kensal Rise station though [shudder] always there be drivebys round there, just on the outskirts of Harlesden.

Willesden Junction which is also in Harlesden is a piece of piss to sneak on without tickets as there's so many entrances to it, plus you get a multitude of lines there too.

Walthamstow to Liverpool street is very easy to do ticketless on the overground but having a weekly travelcard I always insist on going through the barriers, I've paid for it so I damn well want to put it through a machine.

― chris, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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