"Barebackers" Are the plague of the tube network
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Cannot stand the Metro and never read it when I commuted at rush-hour but this 'story' popped up today and realised what total b
ks it actually is.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/31/barebackers-commute...
So people sitting there minding their own business, not playing their ste music loudly, or speaking loudly on their phones, or eating stinking food, or staring at their phones are the worst kind of commuter? 
Not letting people off the train before you get on sat at number four, while prematurely getting ready to alight took the number three spot. People who sit with their legs spread were his second most hated commuter stereotype, just behind barebackers.
Wow! I'm the worst kind of train traveller.
ks it actually is.https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/31/barebackers-commute...
So people sitting there minding their own business, not playing their s
te music loudly, or speaking loudly on their phones, or eating stinking food, or staring at their phones are the worst kind of commuter? Not letting people off the train before you get on sat at number four, while prematurely getting ready to alight took the number three spot. People who sit with their legs spread were his second most hated commuter stereotype, just behind barebackers.
Wow! I'm the worst kind of train traveller.
Tbh I don't like the setup of tube and overground where the seat placement means you inadvertently make contact with others without meaning to.
Females may consider this 'intrusive staring' when it could just be someone zoned out.
Females may consider this 'intrusive staring' when it could just be someone zoned out.
airsafari87 said:
Barebackers?
People bucking without wearing a blob?
On the train???
Terms change with time, was shocked last year when 'raw dogging for hours' on planes went viral before realising the meaning had changed and it just meant not using earphones on a flight. People bucking without wearing a blob?
On the train???
untakenname said:
Terms change with time, was shocked last year when 'raw dogging for hours' on planes went viral before realising the meaning had changed and it just meant not using earphones on a flight.
Oh, it's still the same term, it started getting used in memes in the context of things like going to work without your morning coffee, basically anything to do with dealing with normal life without anything to take the edge off.Which is where the "flight without distraction or entertainment" use came from.
But the origins of it meaning unprotected sex are unchanged, and people using it in the wild without being aware of that original meaning just makes it funnier.
boyse7en said:
airsafari87 said:
Barebackers?
People bucking without wearing a blob?
On the train???
I've no idea what that means, but "Barebacking" on a train is the equivalent of Rawdogging a flight.People bucking without wearing a blob?
On the train???
FourWheelDrift said:
Haven't been on either for at least 25 years. So I don't know what kind of stuff goes on these days.
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