Someone's only gone and tried to get Lundunners to talk to each other

[subaqua]

I hav seen better ones. but this was the safest I could find !

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Jonathan Dunne, who is originally from the US, says it was "difficult" to even get commuters to take one of the free pins.

Since when do we have 'pins' in the UK, pins are used in dressmaking not worn on your outer garments, is this just sloppy journalism again copying & pasting off the numb nuts website or publicity info?

 

[nickyboy]

It's not just Londoners

The last thing I would want is some randomer engaging me in conversation on my Glossop - Manchester train. Same if I go on a local bus, just don't talk to me.

I might have a chat on a long train journey like London - Manchester but only after some ice breaker situation has occurred like someone getting thrown off for having the wrong ticket or suchlike

 

[Deleted member 26715]

It's not just Londoners

The last thing I would want is some randomer engaging me in conversation on my Glossop - Manchester train. Same if I go on a local bus, just don't talk to me.

I might have a chat on a long train journey like London - Manchester but only after some ice breaker situation has occurred like someone getting thrown off for having the wrong ticket or suchlike

That's the problem with your lot at other side of the hill

 

[AndyRM]

I struggle to hear people when there's a lot of background noise, so my Metro commutes are usually done in silence.

I reckon the loudest system I've been on is Glasgow's clockwork orange. You could always tell when someone didn't know where the stops were as they'd be yelling into their phone/at their friend incredibly loudly for a couple of seconds before realising silence had descended.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Three...

Come off it, there's more than that in Leicester. At least double that surely.

Only 3 left he's still allowed in. Banned for life from the other 25.

 

[Mugshot]

If this is some sort of marketing campaign, it's worse than those QR codes on adverts above the urinals in the gents at service stations...

Ah yes;
"Honestly officer, I was just scanning the QR code above the urinal of the gentleman standing next to me."

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Seems to be a homophobic slant to this post, people insinuating other people are gay & there being an issue with it, maybe it needs moving to SC&P

 

[ColinJ]

The last thing I would want is some randomer engaging me in conversation on my Glossop - Manchester train.

Well, thanks to you organising the Leeds to Scarborough ride which we did last Saturday, @Littgull and I ended up being given a very detailed breakdown of the carriage purchasing plans for the entire UK rail network, timetable variations, ticket prices etc. by a random stranger sitting opposite me. (Apparently, the reason why a lot of our local trains still run tatty old carriages made from single decker buses is that them Lundunners grabbed all the new properly designed ones!)

When he ran out of railway news, he fired up his iPad and started reading out all the football results!

 

[Gravity Aided]

Since when do we have 'pins' in the UK, pins are used in dressmaking not worn on your outer garments, is this just sloppy journalism again copying & pasting off the numb nuts website or publicity info?

Cut and pasted as an example of sloppy journalism.

https://www.koolbadges.co.uk/make-tea-not-war-pin-badge-p-5603.html

 

[marknotgeorge]

Ah yes;
"Honestly officer, I was just scanning the QR code above the urinal of the gentleman standing next to me."

You're supposed to be using a smartphone, sir, not an SLR with a telephoto lens...

 

[ColinJ]

If you need a telephoto lens then what you're 'scanning' really isn't worth it....

Wide-angle lens though - yes!

 

[Markymark]

Even better is the need for a panoramic lens.....

Photos of mine can only be sent by Dropbox.

 

[marknotgeorge]

If you need a telephoto lens then what you're 'scanning' really isn't worth it....

I bow down to your experience in these things.