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I play by my own rules, nobody else's, not even my own!

  • 24-03-2010 12:32AM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭


    Remember when you were young and didn't care about anything?! Then in college you notice people who can be a bit sticky on certain things. Well at what point and where do people come from who get all up on rules and regulations?!

    Started a thread in the Galway forum about a bus driver who wouldn't let me off at a stop as it wasn't an official one but there is a bus bay there, he was stopped for a red light and people get off there all the time.

    A lot of the responses go on;

    -it's the law
    -expressway buses can't, regional ones can
    -you shouldn't distract the drivers attention
    -why would you get off at a major intersection
    -passenger safety comes first
    -insurance
    -would you risk your job
    -etc.

    Is it just me or does the whole situation stink of "the man"?!

    "DUDE, THE BUS ISN'T MOVING -PEOPLE ALWAYS GET OFF HERE. LET ME OFF!"


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 479 ✭✭ball


    You asked to get off, and he said no.

    Get over it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I don't care - I have a car. When I want to stop somewhere, I hit the brakes.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,566 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    I've never heard someone describe a bus driver not letting them off between stops as an expression of the encroachment of a autocratic government into the inalienable rights of man before.

    It seems to me that other people just want to get home on time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    OP , rules is rules, now get behind the white line


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    G'wan ya rebel ya! You tell 'em!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    "DUDE, THE BUS ISN'T MOVING -PEOPLE ALWAYS GET OFF HERE. LET ME OFF!"

    Picture the scenario... He obliges you, and then five other people see the door opening and decide that they want to get out too. Meanwhile, the lights turn green while they're rummaging around in the luggage bay. Everyone else, including the traffic behind, gets pissed off.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    If your thread in the Galway Forum didnt go the way you wanted it to, it certainly isnt going to go your way here


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭duckygalway


    Stee wrote: »
    If your thread in the Galway Forum didnt go the way you wanted it to, it certainly isnt going to go your way here

    Haha -no it's not like that, just an observation! I'm not getting hung up on it but just thought about people who really follow things to the line!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,723 ✭✭✭Cheap Thrills!


    Eh, fire exit.

    Screw the man, man.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Buses are like taxis for the underprivileged & beggars can't be choosers.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭duckygalway


    Eh, fire exit.

    Screw the man, man.

    That's what I'm talkin bout!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I play by my own rules, nobody else's, not even my own!

    Perhaps he couldn't understand your alien tongue.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 601 ✭✭✭masseyno9


    lonad wrote: »
    OP , rules is rules, now get behind the white line

    Don't make me tap the sign...


  • Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Had this before, wrecked my tits to be honest..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    Ever notice how holier than thou people become on this forum. No fcuking way they're like that in real life.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭racso1975


    or the fact you called him dude? That prob wasnt the 90's stop!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭duckygalway


    racso1975 wrote: »
    or the fact you called him dude? That prob wasnt the 90's stop!

    I didn't actually say that -more for dramatic effect on here... no?!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Ever notice how holier than thou people become on this forum. No fcuking way they're like that in real life.

    Bless you my son.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,755 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    I always use the red button when I want to get off a bus.....it has a wicked theme tune that goes with it....and it never fails.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭mink_man


    same with boards really..different rules for different people mostly people who lick up to mods.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    If I was there and he let you off I would have karate-chopped the driver in the neck, grabbed the wheel, spun across the traffic, over the embankment into the oncoming traffic and killed everyone in a firey ball of death.

    Is that what you wanted to happen OP? Is it? Cause that's what happens when drivers let people off when they're not supposed to!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    Remember when you were young and didn't care about anything?! Then in college you notice people who can be a bit sticky on certain things. Well at what point and where do people come from who get all up on rules and regulations?!

    Started a thread in the Galway forum about a bus driver who wouldn't let me off at a stop as it wasn't an official one but there is a bus bay there, he was stopped for a red light and people get off there all the time.

    A lot of the responses go on;

    -it's the law
    -expressway buses can't, regional ones can
    -you shouldn't distract the drivers attention
    -why would you get off at a major intersection
    -passenger safety comes first
    -insurance
    -would you risk your job
    -etc.

    Is it just me or does the whole situation stink of "the man"?!

    "DUDE, THE BUS ISN'T MOVING -PEOPLE ALWAYS GET OFF HERE. LET ME OFF!"

    What you do is press the little red button over the door. SFA they can do then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    Ever notice how holier than thou people become on this forum. No fcuking way they're like that in real life.
    Yes they are, people always give out about others when they are breaking the rules, but make exceptions for themselves when they do. Notice how every other driver is either a lunatic aor a snail?!

    People are hypocrites. Boards.ie is populated by many of them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭duckygalway


    What you do is press the little red button over the door. SFA they can do then.

    Hehe -would you actually do it?!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    Remember when you were young and didn't care about anything?! Then in college you notice people who can be a bit sticky on certain things. Well at what point and where do people come from who get all up on rules and regulations?!

    Started a thread in the Galway forum about a bus driver who wouldn't let me off at a stop as it wasn't an official one but there is a bus bay there, he was stopped for a red light and people get off there all the time.

    A lot of the responses go on;

    -it's the law
    -expressway buses can't, regional ones can
    -you shouldn't distract the drivers attention
    -why would you get off at a major intersection
    -passenger safety comes first
    -insurance
    -would you risk your job
    -etc.

    Is it just me or does the whole situation stink of "the man"?!

    "DUDE, THE BUS ISN'T MOVING -PEOPLE ALWAYS GET OFF HERE. LET ME OFF!"

    Someone's gonna make a movie out of this some day.
    "In a World where Expressway bus drivers just keep on going...
    One man... had had enough
    From the creators of Speed
    and the director of Falling Down
    comes a road movie like no other..."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 739 ✭✭✭flynnlives


    'A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure' -Margaret Thatcher


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭duckygalway


    flynnlives wrote: »
    'A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure' -Margaret Thatcher

    Only 24!! Sold car to raise funds for travelling... I'm cool, really.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    flynnlives wrote: »
    'A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure' -Margaret Thatcher

    A politician who spouts that kind of shite can count herself as a cúnt.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    tell him you are a bomb, unless he lets you off you are taking him with you


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Maybe there was already a bomb on the bus, ala Speed & that's why he didn't want to stop?


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