A little thread where people who use the Northern line can bang their virtual heads against a virtual brick wall

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― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

this and battersea bridge - is there a conspiracy to stop south londoners from going north of the river?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

"First they came for the south Londoners, but I wasn't a south Londoner so I did nothing..."

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 13 October 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

with the current level and standard of public transport being provided in london, can you honestly blame punters for wanting to stick to their cars?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)

Indeed. And just imagjne how much quicker they could drive around in their cars if they reduced congestion by sharing them...

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 13 October 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

oh lordy. i'm walking tomorrow. had to walk from highgate halfway to muswell hill to get on a bus.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 13 October 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

Just imagine how much quicker they could drive around in their cars if they didn't have to queue up for 20 minutes at a time on every major arterial roads because of fucking bus lanes.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

i think petrol should be rationed.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 13 October 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

I think people should be rationed.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

Isn't the eye-witness woman quoted in that news article a BBC News staffer?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

a lot of people would probably have walked/waited more patiently for the bus if it hadn't been chucking it down all last night and so far all this morning.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

Clare Runacres watched eight packed buses pass before one heading in her direction stopped. She said passengers were "very angry".

lol but that's like what happens every day. stupid moron tube users.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

a couple of full buses and they can't cope.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

Well if she works at BBC News then she must take the same bus as me and I didn't see any problems with the 220 bus at White City yesterday teatime.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

white city isn't on the northern line....

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

Exactly. Also there's a BBC hopper bus which goes to Oxford Circus and even Elstree for those who want it so there's no excuse really. Why she could have "run acres" if she'd wanted to get home in a hurry!

Bloody public servants sponging off my hard-earned license fee!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

broadcasting house is nr warren street/goodge st i guess.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

Broadcasting House is about 100 yards away from Oxford Circus. It probably wouldn't have hurt Our Clare to walk all the way back to her crappy bedsit in Kentish Town and pretend she's living la vida loca.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

obv if she was going south then substitute Colliers Wood for Kentish Town.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

mm, but oxford circus isn't on northern line, and changing to the victoria for one stop is gay.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

Do the BBC have a problem with gays then, or just Graham Norton?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

maybe she lives in high barnet

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

people in high barnet all hate graham norton

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

His barnet isn't quite so high these days, I notice.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

that's why they hate him there.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

his herring isn't gay enough either.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

they've got a herringbone to pick with him then.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

I heard Norton used to spend a lot of time up Colindale...

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

why's that, then?

― N_RQ, Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

i went once, to use the newspaper library, but if i were a famous tv person, i probably wouldn't spend much time there -- i'd be whoring it up in soho or what have you.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

He had a Mile End.
(xp)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

seeing all those other people in soho get laid and he doesn't might make his wood green

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

F*ck f*ck f*ck. The first week I get a proper travelcard, and the Northern line stops running. Like Thameslink really needs to get any busier. :-(

They really don't care about Sarf London, do they

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

he's still recovering from that night when he got lost in st john's wood

(xp, obv)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

Whilst Swiss cottaging?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

it turned his golders green

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

But at least he didn't get his Earls Court

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

he loves watching barons court

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

barons regularly get theirs court up in the shepherd's bush

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

xpost: And going up the Mudchute

(oh dear, I didn't think it could get any worse)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

one would just stay there while their cock fosters

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

But does he take it up the tooting broadway?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

Well, I don't think he'd be interested in seven sisters.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Whatever beeps your Oyster, I suppose.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

he got some sexual ealing, even if he was only acton.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

As long as he doesn't get involved with any theydon bois.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

i love travelling to work on days like this, ie when no-one else is.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 23 December 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

(kind of xpost)

Maybe it was Warren's treat?

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 23 December 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

Yeah my journey was great this morning, Highgate to Camden I HAD A SEAT ALL THE WAY! I did leave the flat about 8:50 this morning though, so that might have had something to do with it. I still got to work before 10am though which would never happen normally.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 23 December 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

I haven't used the Northern Line for over three years.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 23 December 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

i don't use the tube much, but the roads were a thing of beauty this morning.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 23 December 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

The roads this morning when I was going to work: lovely and empty.

The roads *now* when I had to go do the daily bank run, pick up everyone's dinner from the chinese takeaway, etc: HELL.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 23 December 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

what's this about tfl, alan?

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 2 March 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

― codename: hilary duff (gareth), Thursday, 2 March 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

TfL are taking over the running of the Silverlink - nee North londoN line. I think there are probably better threads on which to address it,

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

oh, yea i know, i thought it was something else

― codename: hilary duff (gareth), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

alan wrote something but i can't remember where. i didn't understand it.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

OH FOR FUCKS FUCKING SAKE YOU FUCKING CUNTS

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/unlinked/tube-posters/21-22-Oct06/Northern-A4-21-22-OCT-06.pdf

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Time for you to get a car like a REAL MAN. Oh wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

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