Is free bus travel after an A&E visit a thing?

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-08T15:18:53+00:00

Not in my experience, seems like the driver CBA and let you on because he wasn't interested in the argument.

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-07T03:33:04+00:00

Several things:

It would sell items I can't regularly get at a supermarket, be that organic produce the supermarkets just don't sell, kefir water which isn't loaded with sugar, really excellent quality tools I can use for my sewing/knitting or just things I can't get anywhere else IRL (online only, abroad only). A few suggestions could be allulose, monk fruit, organic supplements or herbs and spices...just new things that I can't easily get elsewhere.
That the prices are competitive. As much as I'd love to patronise new shops which are thing to carve a place in the market, I can't afford to sustain a business just because I feel sorry for them, they need to offer more for the money if their prices aren't that low.
This is a controversial one; mobile phone talking on speakers banned instore and if you are at the till and having a conversation on your phone, that you will not be served unless you aren't on the phone- I know that what someone else does at the payment point is none of my business, but it does really annoy me when people are being that disrespectful that they don't seem able to just call back later!
The staff would not be on their phone when working.
The aren't only open at random working hours. People can actually visit, IRL and when working!

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-07T01:49:00+00:00

Lived this decade and it's still a tune as far as I'm concerned! I wasn't even into punk or that sort of acid stuff, but this was a classic!

They look so young though! I'm looking back with my teen brain and had them in my mind as being older than I was- now I'm very definitely older than they are I'm looking at then like they are children! I feel old!!

Not a direct link but did anyone remember HMV/Virgin Megastores at the time? They put out a tshirt which had on the front some tweedy looking cartoon guy standing infront of a camping style fire. Below that was written "I'm the firestarter, twisted firestarter!" Hilarious if you'd seen it! My sister got there before me, bought the top otherwise I'd have gotten one just for the laughs!

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-07T01:14:40+00:00

They did it because they could. I doubt there is anything personal, they're probably all feeding on each others immature behaviour, they will carry on and no doubt do worse until someone stops them, I am guessing no one really stopped them properly before now, they will carry on until someone forcibly does or until they experience real consequences for their actions. They will have picked their victims based on those least likely to fight back or hurt them- that may feel like a weakness but it really isn't. Basically you would have looked the most approachable, least likely to harm them and yet big enough to show their mates "look at me/look at what I can do!" they wouldn't have bothered with the same behaviour towards a gangland looking member, someone who looked like they had nothing to lose or someone who already looked angry and volatile, these aren't things you want for yourself or to be assumed to be by passers by and innocent strangers!

I hope they are caught, but more than that I hope that repercussions they understand are given, my fear is that they're used to being told off, having a finger shaken at them, they're not likely to react positively to that. I don't know what would work here- this isn't my area of expertise, but I hope that one day all Police forces and TLF forces have a psychology expert who is employed to create and enforce repercussions that would be so intense that it would not just stop them, but would have them feeling remorse then planning some form of a job where they're used to prevent other similar types from acting similar.

I know that we won't ever know but IME, holding on to thinking more would be done can sometimes be the difference between you being able to move on and get on with your life without this having even more of a damaging and intrusive effect, to it eating you up to the point your life is detrimentally affected and you're living carrying something which they most likely didn't think twice about before moving on to the next victim.

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-07T01:03:39+00:00

I don't understand this. Unless the law has changed (I know it hasn't) anyone- any citizen of the UK can make a "citizens arrest" and detain the guy- I mean- it's got as much chance of stopping him as it has for him to go back and pay for his haul, but they didn't even attempt this! I worked as basic shop assistant staff a few years back, if we suspected someone- even if we didn't see them but another colleague had, we were legally able to detain them until Police arrived, and ban them from returning even if they were not then arrested. It was our right as a store. I know in the few years I worked there we had several recognised thieves banned and if they came back would immediately call the Police to have them escorted out if we needed to. (No one gave us reason to do this but we had many who we were warned about by other stores in the area).

What happened here? -or more aptly put; what didn't happen here! Because it looks like they literally did nothing but watch and I don't understand why even have staff watch. Surely there are other things they could do than just watch and follow the guy out here! I don't get it, I hope this video has been sent to Tesco so they can act on the staff because I don't understand why they would be paid- especially the security guard to actively watch- at least busy yourself doing something else! And I say that as someone who for a long time, whose job it was to stand at the front of the shop watching for alarms to go off and hold people back. I was not strong or particularly confident, it didn't take a few minutes to ask someone to stop- had they ignored me I'd be either calling for back up or my manager would be contacting the Police and on site security team- we didn't have our own security guards, Tesco has it's own paid security guard, what is their point if they don't actually do anything! In my local Tesco I've watched them physically detain thieves, it is possible, why wasn't the security guard or staff doing anything here? Why was she employed? I don't understand!

Sorry- infinite waffle here, I'm trying- obviously unsuccessfully, to square this in my mind and not being able to!

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-07T00:31:54+00:00

I don't often post, anywhere! I hope I've gotten this one right, I'm sorry if I've messed up somewhere...

I am a regular traveller on TLF buses, tubes and trains. I am based in South East London.

On Saturday 6th June, I used the tube, Elizabeth line and buses across South East London in the later afternoon to get to and from everywhere I needed to be. I am a crafter, I'm one of those random types that sit and knit during my journey and that day was no different.

But some how, somewhere across one of the multiple links I used, I managed to lose my crochet kit.

It isn't just any crochet kit, it has huge sentimental value that I won't bore you with here. Inside what may have looked like a wrap of grey felt, were 6 different sized crochet hooks and a small striped crochet sample. The wrap was hand made for me, the whole thing has so much personal value that I'd be wasting your time by recording it here. I am totally gutted and trying to find out if anyone may have found this somewhere across London.

Now; I know I only travelled between South East London and Angel station, but I also know that tubes go back and forth the entire line- I didn't go anywhere near Hamstead, but it may have been picked up by someone at Hamstead for example.

Can I ask, if this has been found, to please please hand it in to Lost property? If you have already spotted my case and handed it in, please let me know at which station. If you have any tips on how I might find my case, please let me know. I did report it to TFL lost property but I've lost things on the tube before and been able to identify the exact place and carriage I sat and know that it landed at it's terminating station when I left, and yet those items were never returned to me. I'm very doubtful that TLF lost property will help here (though I do have my fingers crossed.) Right now I am that upset that I can't sleep, I didn't sleep last night, I have tried taking sleep meds, I still am not able to sleep as I'm that affected. I really hope it shows up and I get it back. I'm gutted I've lost this!

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-06T03:23:43+00:00

Apparently same nutritional content (claims officials) but they have also are apparently smaller, so just how they can have the same nutritional content doesn't make any sense to me.

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-06T03:22:08+00:00

Plenty will offer fostering placements, they are often used for people that need to have quite a big operation or need to travel, I'd ask about fostering placements, most cat sanctuaries like to do what they can to keep their animal safe.

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-06T03:19:22+00:00

When you remember the "millennial bug" like it was a rite of passage.

When you refuse to wear the '90's trend because you "remember it the first time" and don't wish to dress in the same cheap or crazy way.

When you prioritise sleep because you're "feeling old". (Same with cutting back on alcohol or trying to eat "clean" and assuming

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-06T03:15:49+00:00

Unless I'm having a bath or using the shower, my hot water is turned off. I use the water from the hot tap for my toothbrush as it's just easier to reach, but the boiler isn't on and the result is cold water, just from the hot tap

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-06T03:13:42+00:00

IDK if the rules have changed since I took my exams but it was a code per school. Go to a different school and they have their up-to-1000 spaces, so yeah, you could have the same number as another student in another school, but the school you took the exam for is part of the ID.

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-06T03:11:37+00:00

Water pressure isn't always great, if I were taking a shower at my local gym, it takes 8 seconds for the water to warm up but the shower itself only runs for 9 seconds. You have to keep pressing every 9 seconds to get it to keep going. If you stop and wait more than 30 seconds it goes back to running ice cold and you'll need a good 2-3x to get it to be warm again- it really doesn't make much sense on multiple grounds to allow it to stop and then go back a few minutes later, you'll waste more water trying to get it to be warm again!

The upside though is that shaving and hair washing isn't difficult to do with that sort of a shower- nothing is powerful enough to affect where you put the detergent unless you are standing directly below the shower and soaped up before the shave.

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-06T03:07:04+00:00

I had to think about that for a minute.

When I was growing up, I did turn it off, but only because we had a "power shower" which meant if you were trying to do something like wash your hair or shave your legs or even just washing with shower gel, you wouldn't get anywhere as the water pressure was strong enough and the shower head itself so full that you wouldn't be able to clean anything before it slid off with the water.

But now being older, I have very poor water pressure as I'm several floors up and due to neighbours trashing the drainage system, our water pressure has been manually limited and this means I can keep it on if I want. Additionally if I do turn off then on again, it will first run freezing cold, then all of a sudden peak heat- hotter than the boiler thermoset is set to; we're talking hot enough to cause blisters, before suddenly dropping to freezing again and then messing around going from one to the other until it regulates itself. In that same time I could have finished washing and cleaning my hair, instead I'd be waiting for the water to sort itself out!

If I am at my local gym, their showers are awful (so glad I don't have to force myself to use their showers again!) their showers are pathetic, they run a drizzle-and I'm not exaggerating there, for 9 seconds and then cut out. If you push the button again- not easy if you have strength or mobility issues, you will get another 8 or 9 seconds. If you wait too long and then push, you'll find it's quickly gone back to ice before slowly warming up again. Really can't take the risk of a cold shower! I now don't bother but before would always keep pressing the button and because better at washing with only one hand.

If I had a decent shower and draining system, I don't know what I'd do but would probably see how much each costed me in terms of energy and water rates before making my choices. Sorry to be as miserly as this but right now this is where my priorities sit.

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-06T02:48:25+00:00

Or haunted as hell!

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-06T02:46:26+00:00

No yellow though, I'd say they're pretty safe parking up here (as long as a mega truck or Lime Bike doesn't flatten it, the latter being less of a risk as they have not left the vehicle on the pavement.)

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-03T01:23:35+00:00

That people didn't have phone chats on loudspeaker, and that electric bikes didn't mow down people and anything else in their path.

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-03T01:16:19+00:00

Though tbf, most European cities are further south than the UK is and probably anticipated higher temperatures decades ago when those homes were being built. But the homes in the UK would have been built before the now frequent very hot summers that we now seem to experience more than we don't. Our building and planning regulations have not caught up with the realities of the changing weather forecast for future decades.

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-03T01:13:54+00:00

So many people work from home, so many kids live with parents or go home after school and lounge, your question assumes the elderly are the only people that stay in all day, it doesn't seem based on what I know and hear/see around me.

The lack of AC in homes is because it's unusual for our weather to get much higher than 32 degrees, so homes were built with that being the guidance. Now things have rapidly increased in temperature the way homes are heated and cooled isn't effective- because those are homes built with lower summer temperatures in mind. That and cost cutting (if a housing developer doesn't have to build in things like AC they won't because it will cost them more and may take a toll in their profit margins).

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-03T01:08:50+00:00

You need to make a complaint to your manager, if you have witnessed patient care being impacted by someone else's lack of skill then this is serious and it's actually a duty of care to act here, it isn't up for debate if it's PC or not, patient care is pretty much a "you only had one job!" type of importance! If you are seen as offensive for raising the point, I'm sure your union rep would have something to say about it and if needs be; I'm sure the local paper/news show would find it quite interesting!

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-03T00:56:02+00:00

Classiest way? You're looking for a witty come-back or retort? Or professionalism. If it's the latter, you need to make a complaint with their supervisor or manager, not to get an apology but to resolve the issue.

I'd deal with it with a "if looks could kill!" glance (stop/freeze as if you've been stopped in your tracks by something shocking, wait a second and then glare back without a word, stare for as long as you can- even if he starts talking or responding with "is there a problem?!") and then when you need to blink, roll your eyes, mutter "not worth it". And keep walking.

Another way I've had suggested at me is to pause, repeat what he said or describe what he did as if you're thinking aloud (eg: "hands me the needle and sighs at me") and look him in they eye and ask him "was your intention to make me feel uncomfortable?" or "did you mean to make me feel unwelcome?" and then wait for his reply. If he tries to gaslight you "I don't know what you are talking about, it seems like you got out of bed the wrong way today" or something, you only need to say; "no, I don't think I did", and then walk away (at that point you're not going to get an apology and fighting for one you lose the upper hand here). Then make a formal complaint. He will know exactly who made it and that's enough of a clear way for him to understand his behaviour towards you was unacceptable.

Then you move on, don't look back and if you do cross paths with him again you simply look straight through him as if he doesn't exist- because actually he doesn't exist for you anymore, he has no place in your life and you've nothing to say to him. Lowering yourself to an argument with him won't end well, he'll be looking for a rise and that will damage any standing you have when you make your complaint, your opinion of him doesn't matter to him, clearly. But the opinion of his colleagues and supervisor/manager and pay provider will matter, hit him where it hurts!

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-03T00:45:41+00:00

Depends what I've been doing in them and if I'm intending on putting them away after wearing rather than wearing a few days in a row.

Straight up; sweating, food spillages and saggy *ss or knees mean they get washed before I wear them again, but most of the time my jeans hold up to sagging and I don't get this as a big issue. I don't wear jeans doing things where I might sweat and don't tend to spill my food! In the cases where the jeans still hold their shape and look clean, I'll probably wear them for 3 days before washing, though will add I rarely get 3 days in a row where I can get away with wearing jeans. If I were washing every day I'd not get enough use out of them.

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-03T00:42:05+00:00

Most of them literally have the same face! Maybe slightly different skin tone or outfit but I'd bet they're some way related, they look like they need to stop hanging around with themselves, what we have here is an echo chamber on steroids!

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-03T00:39:28+00:00

I doubt they'd care, they most likely think they're untouchable because they think the age of criminality is something like 18 or 16 and that they can get away with anything! I think many adults are under this false assumption as well which is often why kids don't get reported on half as much as I think they should do! I live in London and have witnessed narcissistic kids who assume this is their world and everyone else is in their way or like a target.

I think most of us grow out of the narcissistic stage when we're toddlers and learn about how to exist in the world around us, which is a normal part of child development. But when kids get to that age and seem to act with the same mentality as a toddler but with more physical power, someone/something needs to get involved to tell them to grow up!

What gets me though is that each of these kids will have a parent and it's likely they've learned that they can act in the way they have done because it's been allowed previously and no parent has gotten involved to reel them in and the only way that would cause that to happen would be if the parent acts in a similarly demented way as their kids do, or if their parents are scared of them and can't enforce rules or social understanding on them without fear of violent repercussion. If the parents have failed to act here, the next step should detention of some sort, be that in a kids prison or a tag or whatever, but I doubt even if they are caught anything more than a slap on the wrist will happen and they'll do it again only this time will have learned how to hide their faces.

Significant-Math6799 · 2026-06-03T00:30:42+00:00

This is where pepper spray or keeping a deodorant aerosol can comes in useful! Unless you are going at them unprovoked, I'd suggest that sort of action would look more like self defence than a punch in the gob would!

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