Are people really this thick?

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Munter

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31,326 posts

247 months

Tuesday 7th July 2009
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Rain floods London Tube stations

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8139435....

"It's only been raining for 20 minutes and this happens, what a joke."

Yes love it's called a flash flood. You know like what happens all around the country. Just because it's london you think it's immune?

Mexico.

1,254 posts

193 months

Tuesday 7th July 2009
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Ms Barr said: "Everyone's really moody, some woman came by us shouting, 'Can you just keep moving?' and we just thought, 'Where?' Everyone's so grumpy but I'm secretly quite happy because it means I don't have to go to the gym."


Get a life just because it is that time of the month please do not blame the weather muppet rolleyes

mikechandler

1,998 posts

208 months

Tuesday 7th July 2009
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Southern softies hehe

deevlash

10,442 posts

243 months

Tuesday 7th July 2009
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I get bloody sick of having to hear about how London has been paralysed by 2cm of snow or whatever on the evening news whenever something like this happens. Is the place totally filled with gurning fools?


zac510

5,546 posts

212 months

Tuesday 7th July 2009
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People definitely like to use anything to hang st on TFL.

toasty

7,709 posts

226 months

Tuesday 7th July 2009
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I work opposite Victoria station and it start raining hard for about 10 minutes and then eased up for a bit so I rushed to catch my train.

So around 15 mins from complete dryness, I was inside the station and there was a river running through it.

Water was coming through the roof in a number of places.

I got on my train and the evacuation alarms started going off and we were told to get off the train.

I managed to squeeze onto the train on the opposite platform and probably was on the last train out of Victoria for a couple of hours.

And yes, people are that stupid.

Edited by toasty on Tuesday 7th July 21:24

ewenm

28,506 posts

251 months

Tuesday 7th July 2009
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One of the problems of being the first city to have an underground railway is that the system is now old, leaky and creaking. Major investment needed, unlikely to be forthcoming sadly.

Timberwolf

5,374 posts

224 months

Tuesday 7th July 2009
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Yes.

No matter how low you set your imaginary "bar", I can guarantee that only a day amongst the general public (especially if you expose yourself to anything produced by the Queen Elizabeth Trust For Lives Impacted By Childlike Naïveté a.k.a. BBC web journalists) will see it undermined.

That said, I haven't yet tried going out with said internal bar set to, "everyone around me will manage to keep breathing for an entire day." Maybe I should...

CDP

7,526 posts

260 months

Tuesday 7th July 2009
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ewenm said:
One of the problems of being the first city to have an underground railway is that the system is now old, leaky and creaking. Major investment needed, unlikely to be forthcoming sadly.
The underground is in perfect condition. This problem was caused entirely by global warming brought about by evil motorists.

Jimbeaux

33,791 posts

237 months

Tuesday 7th July 2009
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CDP said:
ewenm said:
One of the problems of being the first city to have an underground railway is that the system is now old, leaky and creaking. Major investment needed, unlikely to be forthcoming sadly.
The underground is in perfect condition. This problem was caused entirely by global warming brought about by evil motorists.
Now we are on track....drive on! biggrin

m3jappa

6,561 posts

224 months

Tuesday 7th July 2009
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CDP said:
ewenm said:
One of the problems of being the first city to have an underground railway is that the system is now old, leaky and creaking. Major investment needed, unlikely to be forthcoming sadly.
The underground is in perfect condition. This problem was caused entirely by global warming brought about by evil motorists.
Your right, i said today that if we didnt work we would be better off because we have to use a DIESEL van for work ! omg!

We are also guilty because i do driveways, this i am told is a cause of flash floods, i mean how dare people improve their property! They should pay a lot extra for loads of drainage because they are greedy and want somewhere to park their cars.


ewenm

28,506 posts

251 months

Tuesday 7th July 2009
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CDP said:
ewenm said:
One of the problems of being the first city to have an underground railway is that the system is now old, leaky and creaking. Major investment needed, unlikely to be forthcoming sadly.
The underground is in perfect condition. This problem was caused entirely by global warming brought about by evil motorists.
Sorry, I slipped off-message there. Won't happen again sah! paperbaggetmecoat

HOGEPH

5,249 posts

192 months

Tuesday 7th July 2009
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Are people really this thick?


Generally....yes.

Cpn Jack Spanner

2,632 posts

211 months

Wednesday 8th July 2009
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Sorry, what is the question - is it "Why are people so stupid that they work in London?"

Seems you could avoid all the problems by not going near the place.

(And people are VERY stipid, some were so stupid they voted for Labour, some were so unbelievably stupid they voted TWICE. Some (who voted once or twice) are so think they don't think they are partially to blame for all the financial crap.

Davi

17,153 posts

226 months

Wednesday 8th July 2009
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Cpn Jack Spanner said:
Some (who voted once or twice) are so think they don't think they are partially to blame for all the financial crap.
As a typo, that made me chortle. (in a "he he, plonker" way, not an "I'm a PH spelling Nazi" way)

Spiritual_Beggar

4,833 posts

200 months

Wednesday 8th July 2009
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m3jappa said:
CDP said:
ewenm said:
One of the problems of being the first city to have an underground railway is that the system is now old, leaky and creaking. Major investment needed, unlikely to be forthcoming sadly.
The underground is in perfect condition. This problem was caused entirely by global warming brought about by evil motorists.
Your right, i said today that if we didnt work we would be better off because we have to use a DIESEL van for work ! omg!

We are also guilty because i do driveways, this i am told is a cause of flash floods, i mean how dare people improve their property! They should pay a lot extra for loads of drainage because they are greedy and want somewhere to park their cars.
It's all your fault!!!!!

Putting all those driveways down! You should be ashamed of yourself!



It's has nothing to do with the shoddy state of London's infrastructure due to lack of funding and improvements. But this is the same problem across the country. We pay all these taxes which are SUPPOSED to be spent on improving infrastructure and services, and yet we still have incidents like this?

What are we paying taxes for, if none of the money is being used where it should be used!

Munter

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31,326 posts

247 months

Wednesday 8th July 2009
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Spiritual_Beggar said:
We pay all these taxes which are SUPPOSED to be spent on improving infrastructure and services, and yet we still have incidents like this?

What are we paying taxes for, if none of the money is being used where it should be used!
If this was serious. rolleyes (We humans will never be able to cope with everything nature throws at us. Even in big cosey citys where nature has almost been banished...it'll still get you occasionally)

If it was still in joking mode then hehe