No booze from June 1st

Are you not on facebook potty? there is to be a party on the circle line.

Posted about 1 month ago by Carla

If you drink enough it will look as if everything’s going round and round.

here all day

Posted about 1 month ago by BraveNewMalden

Yes, and you could all quite legitimately still be arrested. Because it is already an offence to be drunk and incapable in a public place. Which just further highlights just how fuckwitted this cocking ban is. Stupid, blond fuckbudgie.

Posted about 1 month ago by SuckMonster

i’d rather NOT fuck the budgie ta v much

Posted about 1 month ago by wickedlywitchy

Oh my goddddd no drinking on public transport!! ahhhh the world as we know it is coming to an end!!! They’re infringing our human rights!!

pshh just go to a pub! Not that bloody difficult is it??

maybe you’re too used to drinking tramp cider on public transport though. But hey there’s always park benches and bus shelters to drink in.

Posted about 1 month ago by lalalucy

Even leaving that aside, there’re, relatively speaking, fuck all assaults on the Tube. And the available statistics don’t even detail how many of those were down to the assailant being drunk, let alone because they were actually drinking on the Tube.

Fuck knows what his next bit of genius legislation will be. No walking your Bengal tiger without a leash?

Posted about 1 month ago by SuckMonster tipped with 1K

how about sometimes if you’re female traveling on your own, or just traveling on your own in general, male or femal, and a bunch of rowdy drunk people, or still drinking get on, it can be quite scary. Ever think of that?

Personally I’m looking forward to the ban and hope it’ll make traveling a little more pleasent.

Posted about 1 month ago by lalalucy

...and a bunch of rowdy drunk people, or still drinking get on, it can be quite scary. Ever think of that?

What’s scary? The rowdy drunk people, or the people still drinking?

Rowdy drunk people can be scary. That’s why we have laws in place.

But if you’re scared of people having a drink on the tube, regardless of whether or not they’re rowdy, then I think you might be a little bit too delicate for public transport. Perhaps you should invest in a driver, or something?

Pubs must be utterly terrifying for you, what with this phobia of open containers of alcohol.

It’s not a big thing, no, but it’s fucking irritating to see these pointless little laws that are going to make no positive difference (apart from for the poor souls who are phobic of open cans of beer).

Stupid, petty salami slicing of freedom, purely to play to the tabloid gallery.Utter tokenism. And just as he’s making an entirely symbolic gesture to the moral majority, it’s the symbolism of it – the petty control freak aspect of it – that’s pissing me off.

sodding daily mail readers Im scared of spiders - lets ban them too

Posted about 1 month ago by CasperCCC tipped with 2K

Lalalucy, I’m curious.

People who read Bibles on the tube make me nervous. I think that they might start preaching to me or something. Damn Christians. And people who read the Koran, too. An fact, anyone reading holy books. They’re all weirdos, and you never know what they might do.

So where would you stand on banning holy-book-reading on the tube? After all, it’s only a tube journey. If they want to read their holy books, then why can’t they go to a church to do it? What harm can it do, to not be able to read the Bible for half an hour out of their day?

Are you in favour of stupid petty bans to appease people’s sensibilities in all respects, or is it just when it comes to booze that you’ve got this control-freak tendancy?

Posted about 1 month ago by CasperCCC

Reading a bible on a tube and drinking on the tube are completely different things and I can’t believe someone actually linked the two.

Posted about 1 month ago by lalalucy

Not necessarily. Both, in my opinion, are fairly innocuous activities.

Being drunk is a different matter. But that, as has already been mentioned, is already covered by existing legistlation.

Posted about 1 month ago by SuckMonster

a bunch of rowdy drunk people, or still drinking get on, it can be quite scary. Ever think of that?

Well, let’s think about it now. Yes, it can be quite scary if rowdy drunk people get on the bus or tube. Johnston’s new law won’t stop that, of course. And if they’re still drinking? Leaving aside the sheer infrequency of this ever actually happening, the tube or bus driver will have to leave his cab to confiscate the alcohol or prevent the passengers from boarding – both of which sound extremely unlikely – or he or she will radio for assistance. By the time it ever arrives the drinks will have been consumed, the drunks will have sobered up or the other passengers will have become incensed at yet another delay to their journey and sought an alternative way to complete it. Or, the drunks could turn nasty at having the end to their evening being interfered with.

I’m all for making travelling a little more pleasant, but I can’t see how this legislation will make the tiniest difference.

Posted about 1 month ago by BraveNewMalden tipped with 1K

the 440 more police being drafted specifically to transport will probably asist with that.

Posted about 1 month ago by lalalucy

the thing that I find amusing is the amount of people complaining that Boris was voted mayor. Where were they on voting day? Why did he get in if everyone’s so against him and the tories?

The city had spoken.

Posted about 1 month ago by lalalucy

As I said, do you know how many people are actually assaulted on the Tube. Fuck-all, that’s how many. Something like one assault for every half a million passangers. That is tiny.

And this new law is utterly ineffectual, anyway, and, as BNM noted, difficult to police. And how much has been spent on training, posters etc. for it?

Posted about 1 month ago by SuckMonster

The vote thing has been done, Lalalucy. To death. And someone having a can of beer in their hand, in public, does not immediately make them intimidating. Unless you in live in constant fear. Of everything. And everyone.

THE TERRORISTS ARE COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted about 1 month ago by Carla tipped with 2K

how about sometimes if you’re female traveling on your own, or just traveling on your own in general, male or femal, and a bunch of rowdy drunk people, or still drinking get on, it can be quite scary.

I don’t think it’s scary and I travel on my own all of the time.

Posted about 1 month ago by Babb

He’s got the wrong target anyway. He should ban eating McDonalds on the tube. Surely it’s far more distressing to the tubefaring public to be assaulted by the sight and smell of someone stuffing greasy burgers into their bloated faces. And that bloke the other day? stabbed on Oxford Street after eating in a McDonalds, can no-one see what is happening here? it’s a menace and society needs to act now!

Posted about 1 month ago by middleofnowhere tipped with 1K

Reading a bible on a tube and drinking on the tube are completely different things and I can’t believe someone actually linked the two.

Lalalucy – I think you may have slightly missed the point being made here.

Honestly, we are surely all agreeingin general? It’s rowdy, drunk, threatening people on public transport that are the potential problem, not people calmly sipping from a can of beer while reading the paper on the way home, or on their way to a dinner party or whatever.

maybe you’re too used to drinking tramp cider on public transport though

Oh FFS. Stop stereotyping. Having a drink on a tube does not equal being a tramp or being pissed, obnoxious, threatening or whatever. And the latter is already legislated for. Stop being so ridiculous as to assume that is the same as “having a drink”. It may be the outcome of having too many drinks (even if drunk properly and legally in a pub as you’ve suggested, Lalalucy) but they simply are not the same thing.

Having said all that, in all honesty, I don’t really give a shit if drinking booze on public transport is no longer allowed. I think it’s a stupid pointless tokenistic idiotic law to introduce (as already mentioned in a previous thread) but I actually couldn’t care less and really it won’t impact my life in any way. I’m probably more irritated by the silliness being shown on this thread than I am about the law itself.

Posted about 1 month ago by Fi tipped with 1K