In article ,
tims_new_home@yahoo.co.uk (tims next home) wrote:

> "Roland Perry"  wrote in message 
> news:xoF9PS5ccnQIFAer@perry.co.uk...
> > In message , at 09:38:16 
> > on Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Neil Williams 
> >  remarked:
> >>I'm surprised the various authorities didn't find some way to prevent
> >>it happening, such as registering a one-off alcohol ban for 31/5 but
> >>not (as the railway does) publicising it until the last minute.
> >>
> >>Actually, it did surprise me that the rule was not introduced with
> >>immediate effect, anyway...
> >
> > Bringing it in after a Saturday night seems a bit odd. Other 
> > rules that co-incide with the start of months at weekends often 
> > wait until Monday to take effect.
> 
> I am sure that the office of the mayor never thought that anything 
> like this would happen.
> 
> After all, there wasn't a history of parties on the tube so I doubt 
> that anyone thought that someone would arrange one on the last day.

We knew that Boris isn't the brightest spark, didn't we?

-- 
Colin Rosenstiel

On Jun 1, 3:08 pm, rosenst...@cix.co.uk (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
> In article ,
> tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk (tims next home) wrote:
>
>
>
> > "Roland Perry"  wrote in message
> >news:xoF9PS5ccnQIFAer@perry.co.uk...
> > > In message , at 09:38:16
> > > on Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Neil Williams
> > >  remarked:
> > >>I'm surprised the various authorities didn't find some way to prevent
> > >>it happening, such as registering a one-off alcohol ban for 31/5 but
> > >>not (as the railway does) publicising it until the last minute.
>
> > >>Actually, it did surprise me that the rule was not introduced with
> > >>immediate effect, anyway...
>
> > > Bringing it in after a Saturday night seems a bit odd. Other
> > > rules that co-incide with the start of months at weekends often
> > > wait until Monday to take effect.
>
> > I am sure that the office of the mayor never thought that anything
> > like this would happen.
>
> > After all, there wasn't a history of parties on the tube so I doubt
> > that anyone thought that someone would arrange one on the last day.
>
> We knew that Boris isn't the brightest spark, didn't we?

Perhaps he thought more of the average londoner than they merited.
After all, would you expect a bunch of twats to deliberately get
pissed on the tube just because a ban is coming in? I don't remember a
smokathon the night before the smoking ban came in , but then we
didn't have Farcebook and Myfuckuglyface for all the no life losers of
the world to organise stuff on then.

Not. Its no wonder all the jobs are going to the Poles in this country
if saturday night is an example of the mentality of the 20 something
brit. What a complete bunch of sad wankers.

B2003

On 1 Jun, 17:46, thagor2...@googlemail.com wrote:

> On Jun 1, 3:08 pm, rosenst...@cix.co.uk (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
>
> (snip)
>
> > We knew that Boris isn't the brightest spark, didn't we?
>
> Perhaps he thought more of the average londoner than they merited.
> After all, would you expect a bunch of twats to deliberately get
> pissed on the tube just because a ban is coming in? I don't remember a
> smokathon the night before the smoking ban came in , but then we
> didn't have Farcebook and Myfuckuglyface for all the no life losers of
> the world to organise stuff on then.
>
> Not. Its no wonder all the jobs are going to the Poles in this country
> if saturday night is an example of the mentality of the 20 something
> brit. What a complete bunch of sad wankers.
>
> B2003

More Boltar, more! I want to stoke your never-ending fire of fury!

On Jun 1, 6:57 pm, Mizter T  wrote:
> More Boltar, more! I want to stoke your never-ending fire of fury!

Derision more like. Though if i'd been a normal passenger caught up in
it I'd probably be more than a bit p1ssed off.

B2003

On 1 Jun, 17:46, thagor2...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Not. Its no wonder all the jobs are going to the Poles in this country
> if saturday night is an example of the mentality of the 20 something
> brit. What a complete bunch of sad wankers.

Hmm. Have you ever been out in a Polish town on a Saturday night?
Makes last Saturday look like a tea-and-cake picnic...

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 07:36:18 -0700 (PDT), John B 
wrote:

>Hmm. Have you ever been out in a Polish town on a Saturday night?
>Makes last Saturday look like a tea-and-cake picnic...

Yes, I have (Poznan[1]), and it was as civilised as any other European
country.  A breath of fresh air compared with the UK, and an
experience that seriously lifted my perceptions of the country and its
people.

[1] Not exactly environmentally-friendly, but one of my mates had an
idea that, if we booked way in advance and flew on Ryanair, we could
probably manage a night out somewhere in Eastern Europe for less than
the price of a night out in London...

Neil

-- 
Neil Williams
Put my first name before the at to reply.

On Jun 2, 3:36 pm, John B  wrote:
> On 1 Jun, 17:46, thagor2...@googlemail.com wrote:
>
> > Not. Its no wonder all the jobs are going to the Poles in this country
> > if saturday night is an example of the mentality of the 20 something
> > brit. What a complete bunch of sad wankers.
>
> Hmm. Have you ever been out in a Polish town on a Saturday night?
> Makes last Saturday look like a tea-and-cake picnic...

Quite possibly. But then the polish drunks or chavs probably wouldn't
come over here and wouldnt get a job if they did. Doesn't change the
fact that plenty of jobs are going to immigrants because the bone idle
wasters in this country can't be arsed and would sooner chuck some
tenants or strongbow down their gobs.

B2003

thagor2008@googlemail.com wrote:
> 
> Quite possibly. But then the polish drunks or chavs probably wouldn't
> come over here and wouldnt get a job if they did. Doesn't change the
> fact that plenty of jobs are going to immigrants because the bone idle
> wasters in this country can't be arsed and would sooner chuck some
> tenants or strongbow down their gobs.
> 
> B2003

One of the few bits of immigrant scaremongering that has any basis in 
fact is that Polish immigrants tend to increase alcohol related crime. 
They are decidedly fond of the falling down water.

Tom

On 2 Jun, 20:59, Tom Barry  wrote:
> > Quite possibly. But then the polish drunks or chavs probably wouldn't
> > come over here and wouldnt get a job if they did. Doesn't change the
> > fact that plenty of jobs are going to immigrants because the bone idle
> > wasters in this country can't be arsed and would sooner chuck some
> > tenants or strongbow down their gobs.
>
> One of the few bits of immigrant scaremongering that has any basis in
> fact is that Polish immigrants tend to increase alcohol related crime.
> They are decidedly fond of the falling down water.

Indeed - last Saturday aside, the majority of people I've seen
drinking on the Tube over the last couple of years have been Polish
workmen enjoying a tin of Zwiec or Tyskie on their commute home.

[at least, I'm hoping they were heading home...]

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

On 2 Jun, 20:30, wensleyd...@pacersplace.org.uk (Neil Williams) wrote:
> >Hmm. Have you ever been out in a Polish town on a Saturday night?
> >Makes last Saturday look like a tea-and-cake picnic...
>
> Yes, I have (Poznan[1]), and it was as civilised as any other European
> country.  A breath of fresh air compared with the UK, and an
> experience that seriously lifted my perceptions of the country and its
> people.

Hmm. I've been out in Gdansk and Wroclaw on Saturday nights, and both
towns featured the same kind of good-natured-but-utterly-drunken-
carnage that we do so well in the British Isles.

(I've also been out in Warsaw on a wet Wednesday. This was somewhat
less riotous...)

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org