Lack of manners

Leilak

In our ancient land of Hibernia when Finn Mc Cul was a lad, people stood at bus stops in an orderly manner. Nowadays they stand as if they are standing around a totem pole, when the bus arrives any person who is standing legitimately at the stop is almost rugby tackled by a people who have just arrived. I recently saw an elderly lady who was first in the queue and was almost pushed under the bus by people who just arrived. Can we please return to the old days when folks stood at bus stops in a civilised manner where the first was first on etc. any thoughts?

DontThankMe

Leilak wrote: »

In our ancient land of Hibernia when Finn Mc Cul was a lad, people stood at bus stops in an orderly manner. Nowadays they stand as if they are standing around a totem pole, when the bus arrives any person who is standing legitimately at the stop is almost rugby tackled by a people who have just arrived. I recently saw an elderly lady who was first in the queue and was almost pushed under the bus by people who just arrived. Can we please return to the old days when folks stood at bus stops in a civilised manner where the first was first on etc. any thoughts?

Welcome to the rat race I'm afraid. I would usually wait to get on last if was the last person to arrive at the bus stop. It's a free for all these days no one cares they all want to be the first on so they can try and get a seat especially if it's a busy route.

fonecrusher1

Its actually a disgrace.


I like cheese burgers.

Leilak

DontThankMe wrote: »

Welcome to the rat race I'm afraid. I would usually wait to get on last if was the last person to arrive at the bus stop. It's a free for all these days no one cares they all want to be the first on so they can try and get a seat especially if it's a busy route.

It is the rat race but manners should not go out the window when particularly an elderly person or woman with a pram is first in queue.

Charles Babbage

you can take your manners and fú*k off.

Donald Trump

What are these bus things that you speak of?

Perhaps one of those contraptions used by the plebs?

Disgusting things

Plebs that is

:pac:

WoollyRedHat

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Its actually a disgrace.


I like cheese burgers.

What kind of cheese though?

Donald Trump

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

What kind of cheese though?

knob


just like his oul' wan



allegedly

worst manners at bus stops: aul wans and wans with baby carriages

freshpopcorn

Some people are mannerly and some people aren't.
Even elderly people who often come out we were raised with them/respect can be rude and push past everybody.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Leilak wrote: »

It is the rat race but manners should not go out the window when particularly an elderly person or woman with a pram is first in queue.

Older people are the worst. I was knocked back into a dart by a cabal of old people motoring on in before anybody got off.

Anyway Ireland has always been like this.

fonecrusher1

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

What kind of cheese though?

Nice bit of cheddar although the OP has a point the classic cheese single is good on a burger as well.

So anyway back to the OP's original question, is pulled pork in sandwiches / burgers just a phase we're in or is it here to stay?

r93kaey5p2izun

It's just not practical to queue or form an orderly line at many bus stops on a busy footpath and with 10-15 different routes stopping. People have to stand back and move away to make space. But I can't say I've encountered many problems with people pushing or shoving to get on in the 40-50 journeys I take every week.

bodhrandude

What was the bus service called in Finn McCul's time.

Widdershins

I think this only happens on bus eireann buses. I took a private coach recently and everyone seemed much less tense and there was no sense that the bus could leave people behind.

On the other hand, the last time I took a train, a man got up and started pressing the door open button before the train had even pulled into the station. Maybe some people just think they have to get in front of everyone at all times.

I have a theory, it's a birth order thing....

B0jangles

Not just in Ireland; years ago on a family holiday in Spain, my mother was literally picked up and thrown away from the opening doors of a train by a stubby little aul fella - 80 years old and about 5 feet tall and STILL able to sweep a grown woman clear off her feet.

It was genuinely impressive tbh.

Zorya

Widdershins wrote: »

I think this only happens on bus eireann buses. I took a private coach recently and everyone seemed much less tense and there was no sense that the bus could leave people behind.

On the other hand, the last time I took a train, a man got up and started pressing the door open button before the train had even pulled into the station. Maybe some people just think they have to get in front of everyone at all times.

I have a theory, it's a birth order thing....

Haha You mean us first borns?

I stood up recently on a train to allow a very elderly man to sit down and in the space of the second it took me to straighten up a very young scut slithered into my vacated seat and left the two of us - me and the oul lad - looking at each other like goms.