British People: Stoic or Stupid?

[stek]

Guard announced on the train this morning;

"Will the owner of the luggage with the car battery attached to it, please report to the rear of the train"

Nobody batted an eyelid.

Guard got off at next stop and paraded up and down the platform on his mobile, then the driver got off and all the doors closed!

Nobody moved...

All well, driver and guard got back on and off we chiffed.

Makes you proud to be British......?

[Mich the Tester]

I think that's quite cool.

I remember back in the days of IRA bomb threats, standing at Birmingham New Street station on a Friday evening. Station was busy and the tannoy announcer said there's a bomb threat (the umpteenth in a few weeks) and the station had to be cleared. Everyone just stayed standing and waited for trains. A couple of policemen started remonstrating, and people said 'bring a train and we'll all get on it and the station will be clear'. Eventually they gave in. That's how you beat terror; don't be scared.

[DimPrawn]

15 years of New Labour.....there's your answer. Terminally thick as pigtulip.

[Arturo Bassick]

Stoically stupid or did I mean stupidly stoical.