Nostalgia has reached critical mass and will shortly implode.
The "bring back the Routemaster" crowd has been supplanted by the "bring back exploding Bendy Busses" crowd. My head hurts and I need to have a lie-down.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/11/bendy-buses-london-boris-johnson
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Monday, 12 December 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
i never thought there was anything wrong with bendy buses!
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Monday, 12 December 2011 12:03 (twelve years ago) link
Well, apart from their tendency to explode and their tendancy to become entangled when two of them attempt to go through the same narrow Stoke Newington intersection at the same time... once people discovered they were essentially free, people fell in love with them and TFL fell out of love with them.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Monday, 12 December 2011 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
the only times i've witnessed buses getting tangled up in each other to the point of actual accident, all involved were double deckers! my actual experiences with bendy buses were all unproblematic; i felt there was a slight tendency to ascribe bendy bus accidents to inherent faults in the design whereas double decker/routemaster accidents were one-offs. obv i don't know what it was like for cyclists, but preston's point about bendy buses being better for the infirm rings true.
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Monday, 12 December 2011 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
They're better for the infirm if they can actually get a seat... which normally one can't because you'd have to batter your way through all the ppl crowded by the doors.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Monday, 12 December 2011 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
ah, but which is the funnest to pronounce?
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Monday, 12 December 2011 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
I say root-master, you say rowt-master, let's call the whole thing off.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Monday, 12 December 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
more: bendybus vs double-decker bus
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Monday, 12 December 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
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― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Friday, 16 December 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
yes, no, yes, no, maybe, yes, christ no, yes, no, no
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Friday, 16 December 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
Starting bottom left going clockwise?
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
yes, no
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Friday, 16 December 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
G2 will remain, but Friday's Film & Music supplement will be merged with its features section
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/16/guardian-redesign?newsfeed=true
Oh well I guess I won't be buying the Guardian on Friday either. I know there already is huge discrepancies between the internet coverage and the paper version - the year end albums list was not on Friday's paper - but I and others do actually spend the weekend reading the paper version :(
― danzig, Monday, 19 December 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
I stopped buying the Thurday edition when the dropped the science and technology section, think Friday's will be going too.
― Billy Dods, Monday, 19 December 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
i don't read g2 or any of the weekday supplements. they are by far the worst thing about the paper.
they should replace them with that column in money on saturday where they get insurance companies to send complaining readers £150 and some flowers. i love that.
― caek, Monday, 19 December 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
who is the sufjan guy (pictured)
― Never translate German (schlump), Monday, 19 December 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/paullewis
― Number None, Monday, 19 December 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
ty, writing fanmail
― Never translate German (schlump), Monday, 19 December 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
MusicMorrissey and meHow an ordinary Asian fell in love with the Smiths
― Never translate German (schlump), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
tbf the really racist stuff happens in his solo career
― Nemanja Vmić (Julie Lagger), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
He needed a new schtick
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
found some chicken in a Lentil Dopiaza in 1986 and went fully mental
― Nemanja Vmić (Julie Lagger), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link