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A Disturbing New Trend

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    A Disturbing New Trend

    Just when you though the current prediliction for the fitness obsession couldn't get any worse, I now notice more and more fellow rail travellers arriving at Temple Meads in lycra with pain etched on their faces, dripping with sweat.

    That's right - they run from home to the station and proceed to sit and fester in a hot, cramped railway carriage with absolutely no regard for the olfactory senses of those in close proximity to them.

    It's bad enough the fact they don't even get changed - I had some bloke's spandex clad packet about 6 inches away at eye level the other day on a busy standing room only service - but the overpowering aroma of sports vomit in the carriage is just downright antisocial.

    Haven't they heard of deodorant?

    Sod health and fitness.

    I'm more likely to be seen trudging along platform 11 with a copy of Health and Efficiency hanging out of my back pocket.

    #2
    What? In First class?

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      #3
      Welcome back Gricer!
      Vote Corbyn ! Save this country !

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        #4
        Originally posted by stek View Post
        What? In First class?
        WHS.

        Were you travelling in cattle class? Are you a contractor?

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          #5
          Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
          WHS.

          Were you travelling in cattle class? Are you a contractor?
          It's an Arriva Trains Wales sprinter unit.

          There is no first class accommodation.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Martin Scroatman View Post
            It's an Arriva Trains Wales sprinter unit.
            Fair enough. There aren't schools in that part of the world. What was I thinking?!

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              #7
              Originally posted by zeitghost
              Indeed not, it's all sheep class.

              Normally one is grateful it's not a Class 14X.

              Though the Class 150 is a close rival.
              FTFY
              Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

              No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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                #8
                Sockie

                60

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by zeitghost
                  Indeed not, it's all cattle class.

                  Normally one is grateful it's not a Class 14X.

                  Though the Class 150 is a close rival.
                  Isn't that the Pacer?

                  Took a ride in one of those from Gloucester to Maesteg a few weeks ago.

                  Progress eh? Bring back metro cammell.

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                    #10
                    Fresh sweat doesn't reek.

                    Unfortunately loads of people don't wash their kit between training sessions.....
                    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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