Transport Mysteries

Despite living in London since March 1984, I have never quite got used to the transport system.

Whether it is the Tube, buses or taxis (overland rail seems to be exempt), they all have one thing in common - the ability to accelerate to a halt. I don't know how they do it; it defies the laws of physics, and yet they manage it. Drivers for London Buses and Taxis especially must take their lessons from the Bronco Billy School of Motoring. Their standard techniques are too similar to have been learnt elsewhere. There has to be a single point of origin.

Whatever the truth of the matter, each of these modes of transportation has the ability to rattle and jolt the passenger to puree and then squelch them against the nearest bulkhead after gaining as much speed as possible in the shortest available distance before clapping the brakes on.

I hope there's a rush on somewhere to develop Inertia Dampeners. Make life so much simpler. In the meantime, my arm is a bit sore.

Transport Mysteries

Despite living in London since March 1984, I have never quite got used to the transport system.

Whether it is the Tube, buses or taxis (overland rail seems to be exempt), they all have one thing in common - the ability to accelerate to a halt. I don't know how they do it; it defies the laws of physics, and yet they manage it. Drivers for London Buses and Taxis especially must take their lessons from the Bronco Billy School of Motoring. Their standard techniques are too similar to have been learnt elsewhere. There has to be a single point of origin.

Whatever the truth of the matter, each of these modes of transportation has the ability to rattle and jolt the passenger to puree and then squelch them against the nearest bulkhead after gaining as much speed as possible in the shortest available distance before clapping the brakes on.

I hope there's a rush on somewhere to develop Inertia Dampeners. Make life so much simpler. In the meantime, my arm is a bit sore.

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I need to find another interest to bring my list back up to 150. In fact, I think I may need to find another three interests.

I haven't started the edit yet, but "new world order games" cannot now be considered an interest now it has finished and the boards are locked. It remains, in a way, under the wider heading of "history".

At the same time, I feel that I need to replace larp and free-form, too. It's the End of an Ear¹ and time I consigned all that to the past. I have no remaining enthusiasm for traipsing around fields in funny costumes displaying institutionalised schizophrenia, though I remain willing to sit at home with a bottle of beer or a good cup of coffee being narratively schizophrenic. In fact I shall be going home shortly to indulge in precisely that.

Time for new things. Or old things resurrected. But not that; not any more.

So, suggestions?


¹Typo or Robert Wyatt reference? You decide.

(no subject)

I need to find another interest to bring my list back up to 150. In fact, I think I may need to find another three interests.

I haven't started the edit yet, but "new world order games" cannot now be considered an interest now it has finished and the boards are locked. It remains, in a way, under the wider heading of "history".

At the same time, I feel that I need to replace larp and free-form, too. It's the End of an Ear¹ and time I consigned all that to the past. I have no remaining enthusiasm for traipsing around fields in funny costumes displaying institutionalised schizophrenia, though I remain willing to sit at home with a bottle of beer or a good cup of coffee being narratively schizophrenic. In fact I shall be going home shortly to indulge in precisely that.

Time for new things. Or old things resurrected. But not that; not any more.

So, suggestions?


¹Typo or Robert Wyatt reference? You decide.