Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Good banter though.

I'm supposed to be doing a half marathon in about March, but I got bored of my summer training so need to get back out there/do some parkruns.

 

Apparently, [and I for one, am not going to be taking up the opportunity] there is a free entry to an open 5km run every Saturday on the Common. All you do is register, turn up, and you get to do a timed run which is recorded and published so that you can keep tabs on your progress.

Now if they did one for motorcycling, I wouldn't mind chucking my VFR around a track for free. I'd pay for my own petrol.

 

For everyone's amusement:

Caught the train home from the football, fell asleep, woke up, looked out of the window and thought "I don't recognise this." Ended up missing my stop, getting off in Warminster, getting on a train back the other way with plenty of Pompey fans on their way back from the West Country.

Oh, and to the the Pompey fan who felt the need to get off the train at Salisbury to shout "you scummer c**t" at a Saints fan, and in the process make the Saints fan's little girl cry - stay classy you prick!

 

Nothing else for them to shout about.

As for falling asleep on public transport, I've done it a couple of times on trains, just because of their lulling nature. But I once did it on a Southampton No.5 bus, whilst coming home from school from Millbrook to Woolston. At one stop before the right one I felt myself nodding off [I'd gone night fishing the previous evening and had had no sleep], only to wake up as the bus did a one-eighty to start its back journey from Woolston. I got off apologetically, and got a free passage across the floating bridge [that ages me] and took a walk from the town side back to Hollybrook and home. I think I got home at around 6.30pm or later. Nobody blinked an eyelid until they discovered I'd crawled off to bed.

 

I don't generally fall asleep on trains, but I have been known to completely zone out and miss my stop. I'm awake, just I'm completely out of it. Good times.

 

I'd fall asleep on the bus home from college about 75% of the time, it was an hour journey so I just couldn't be arsed with it. Only missed my stop once in two years. I had some divine talent for waking up at just the right moment. I figure it was probably conditioning from when my friends would wake me up if they were on the bus with me - that or dumb luck.

 

There is one curious phenomenon [amongst several, according to Einstein] that occurs when one is aboard a train, and that is that if one concentrates on the opposite line, one can become slightly hypnotised by the rails discrete movements, relative to the line one is travelling on. So much so that the opposite rails can appear to levitate and move independent of the ground they are attached to.

Don't worry, I'm not the sole witness to this, it's well recorded, but I wonder wether anyone else here has noticed it. It actually helps if you're slightly less than wide awake.

 

Just missed the last train home because my phone remembered the clocks going back and First Capital Connect didn't. So pissed about that. Spent a ton on a cab instead. But yay we won and I got drunk in a banana costume.

 

I think I might have found a bar which stayed open and then caught the first train home, having a good moan at the guard, after typing in a bitter entry to Not606 Southampton.

 

Yeah unfortunately everything in St Albans is shut by midnight, and I basically haven't slept in two days. My options were either spending £20 on a cab, or an hour and a half walk home down roads with no pavements and no lights.

A train would have been £3.50 and then a 25 minute walk to my house. Basically missing the last train royally ****s me over whatever choice I make.

 

OK, sounds like you were caught between a rock and a hard place. One day we'll exchange tales of terrible experiences of train travel, because I've had a couple of beauts in my time.

 

The public transport system in this country does make it quite easy to accumulate tales of misery. We're so much worse than the rest of Europe. For those on here who don't quite appreciate how bad our transport can be: the buses in Southampton are the best in the country. Next time you get pissed off trying to get somewhere by bus in Southampton, just remember that the rest of the country has it even worse.

 

Onto a more pleasant subject, how was the game from your point of view today..?

 

Unfortunately I only caught about 15 minutes of it. Fortunately that included both goals. We looked the most dominant than we have been since our promotion, but that's just an analysis of the brief part of the game I managed to catch. I spent all day helping my mate set up for a Halloween party which turned out to be a massive disappointment. First game I've missed this season and I'm pretty pissed that it wasn't for a good cause.

The one positive was a very sexy girl in a very sexy costume. Would still have preferred to watch the game though.

 

Seems like a day that is personally best forgotten.

 

That's because First Capital Connect are ****, as are any train company which name begins with the word 'First'. There's a reason why that rhymes with 'Worst'.

 

It's wierd, I used to fall asleep on the train comming down from gigs in London, I would always wake up as the train is pulling away from my station. The choice between jumping out of a moving train, slamming the door behind me and combat rolling onto the platform, or having to walk 45 minutes home from Brighton St, is no choice at all!

This was back in the day before trains had electric doors, obviously.

 

I might need some rep. Suggested to Hull that the Spurs penalty was "what goes around comes around" for their one against West Ham. Some of them have literally exploded.

 

I think you have plenty.

 

Apparently lou reed has died, sad news