The overheard thread - The Bear and Badger

Mod74

He was nice as pie with the other customers, and even this customer, until he opened his mouth.

Paul the sparky

The police?

Edit: Out of the way Mod you racist scumbag.

equinox_code

If I were a ticket inspector I genuinely can't imagine giving half a fuck about anything. Wrong type of ticket? I don't care. Let everyone on for free. Keep those tickets in your pockets, because I don't want to see them. Make some noise. Smoke in the toilets. Smoke in the carriages. The only people who'll get an earfull are those complaining about the sound coming from other peoples' headphones.

Moot_Geeza

adkm1979 wrote:

Taxi drivers. Bus drivers. Couriers.

Agreed, agreed, agreed.Â

equinox_code

adkm1979 wrote:

Taxi drivers. Bus drivers. Couriers.

I don't have problems with the first and last as I can't afford taxis or to buy stuff.

But yea, bus drivers are usually twats. I'd hoped people would assume they were included in the ticket checkers category, as I already had them in mind.

The custom in Germany is not to say hello, good bye, or thank you when boarding or exiting a bus. I've started to feel this is part of the reason why the bus drivers here are so much friendlier. It must get a bit tiring repeating the same old "thanks, thanks, thanks, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye" a thousand times per day.

igorgetmeabrain

Bus drivers have to put up with all kinds of crap from their passengers though, so I have some sympathy for them. It's a pretty thankless task. That said, no bus driver's ever been rude to me either.

Moot_Geeza

Bus drivers do have to put up with a lot, but the worst of the bunch seem to take it out on the wrong pasengers.Â I was on a diverted bus last month, which two middle aged women had boarded, not knowing it was on diversion.Â They immediately started (politely) pleading with the driver to be let off as it started to go round the houses.Â He completely blanked them, driving straight past two stops on the diversion that I know the buses usually stop at, as I'd had to put up with the diversion for weeks.Â Eventually he did reply, after they started pointing out the stops he was speeding past, by saying "are you trying to tell me I don't know my fucking route?"Â I piped up with something about a power trip, why not just stop the bus, which obviously irritated him further as soon after the two women had got off (roughly a mile away from where they got on) he ignored me pushing the bell for my stop and drove straight past that.Â # Bus driver victory.

Brooks

Pretty sure this

... was playing in a supermarket yesterday.

adkm1979

Paul the sparky wrote:

The police?

Absolutely. Â If not, then just stupid.

[Deleted User]

equinox_code wrote:

Bouncers

Absolutely. Bunch of 'roided up twats who are more interested in throwing their weight around than doing their job which is ensuring the safety of customers.Â

A bouncer once clocked my female friend right in the face while he was swinging at a guy that had done nothing wrong bar being a bit too drunk, kind of staggering, swaying drunk but not aggressive in any way. I could spend all day listing stories like that too.

equinox_code

Think i mentioned this before, perhaps on the old forum, but my brother was brother was making a video in the smoking area of Fabric in London and just so happened to catch footage of a bouncer randomly walking up behind some guy and punching him in the back of the head for literally no reason whatsoever. Of course, they then chased my brother down, took his camera away, and deleted every single thing saved on the memory card

acemuzzy

A uni friend of a school friend of mine literally lost an eye courtesy of a bouncer. Another case of perceived power translating to thinking they can do whatever they want. I guess that's what these jobs have in common - a smidge of power in a public-facing role.

Mod74

Feel like I've said this before but when I worked in a nightclub at about 01:55 (peak kicking off time) the bouncers (who we'd never see all night) would gather near the bars. Following week I realised it was because when the lights came up they were hunting for dropped coins.

I was working there when the new local authority regulations came in that prevented anyone with recent criminal records doing the job. Mysteriously half of them disappeared the week after. Thugs the lot of them.

regmcfly

Those who can't do, bounce?

Kow

The Spanish word for a bouncer is gorila. Makes sense.

Mod74

I suppose a Spaniard learning the English word is 'bouncer' might have a similar reaction.

Kow

Except they'd have to look it up in a dictionary, fret over the pronunciation and then have someone explain it to them.

equinox_code

For all the complaints I could make against bouncers, the ones I've encountered in Hamburg have actually been really nice. This might owe to them working for drug dens rather than your average club with the pissed up aggressive type of customer.

Matt_82

I was lucky that when I was a bouncer the company I worked for were pretty good at not hiring bastards. You'd still get the odd dickhead showing up for a shift that was more interested in women than doing his job, or that was happy to wind up arseholes rather than talk them down but we never had any real animals.

What I will say though is that almost any time someone was asked to leave or removed, we'd get folk up telling us that the guy was simply minding his own business and that we were out of order. Â In one case a guy was 'bounced'. Â It wasn't violent as he didn't really struggle but he was held by the arms and walked briskly out the door. Â Straight away I had some woman screaming at me that I was a power tripping nazi and all the usual nonsense that folk come out with. Â I pointed to the guy on the ground that the ejected guy had glassed a few minutes earlier. Â It shut her up but I was annoyed at the way she decided to jump to conclusions rather than find out the facts if she was that bothered.

In fact my experiences on the door opened my eyes to how unreliable eye witness accounts can be, in all walks of life.

pantyfire

I used to frequent the Krazyhouse in Liverpool years back (I know spelling is amaze), it was a metal/indie nightclub and people used to go mental on the floor when Rage Against The Machine or Nirvana used to come. But there was never any trouble.
I remember the bouncers being absolutely great there.
They would get a heads up off the DJ when some particularly trashy track was going to play and they would just scan the floor but not interfere.Â
One weekend after Uni a few years later me and a couple of friends came up to Liverpool and fresh off the train and a few beers later I dragged them into the Krazyhouse. We where spazzing out on the dance floor getting all moshy etc... When this one guy, who I had noticed being a bit of a dick earlier in the night, got bumped into by me. He turns around and faces up to me giving it all the bent neck/slightly spread arms shit, so I tell him to fuck off over the music, but he keeps giving it the neck, and my mate steps in and just puts his hand on the guys chest to tell him to back off. The next thing is the guy just literally disappears, one second he is there the next he is gone. It actually took me a few seconds to realise what had happened.
A bouncer just walked through the throng on the dance floor picked the guy up and marched him off the premises, without anyone noticing. No drama, no he said, she said, just gone. The bouncer came back in later walked past us on the floor and said "Sorry about that."
Excellent bouncers there.

[Deleted User]

A few months back myself and a few mates were out in town for a mates leaving do. The mate who was leaving got quite trashed quite quickly, so at the first bar we were in he was pretty drunk already.

He went off to the toilet, next thing he comes back and says a bouncer had asked him to leave, obviously we asked what he had done.Â
He said "Nothing, I was at the urinal, some guy stood at the one next to me, I thought it was one of you guys so I said 'I'm so wrecked'"
The guy next to him was however the bouncer now throwing him out.

I approached the bouncer, apologised on my mates behalf and said I will make sure he isn't problem and that it was a bit harsh to throw someone out because they said "I'm so wrecked".
At this point the bouncer folds over laughing, eventually through the laughter he says "I thought he said 'I'm so erect'"

beano

Amazing.

Out last night and I was making my way to the sink to wash my hands however someone had chucked up in the sink. A lad remarked. "Well that's ruined it for everyone."

handsofblue

Surely commenting on the state of his penis isn't grounds for being kicked out? Just a bit forward.

Yossarian

Simply talking to strangers while using a urinal is already breaking etiquette. Talk about your penis and you may as well start trying to take pictures for the reaction it's going to get.