Can't they get their food delivered to their door then? :rolleyes:

 

I'd rather give it to students who need to learn.

 

Having it delivered to the door costs money, Asda and Ocado both charge £5 or something around here, may not sound a lot but on a £65 a week pension it sure is

 

Most Uni students are p***ing away their money on booze, if they drink less and put more money towards travel etc then they have nothing to complain about

Student loans, if you get a good job they are paid back in no time at all if you don't get a job they are paid back at about £1 a week :)

 

If a student has 20 pints a week instead of 30 he can afford more bus journeys ;)

 

well for a start i'm tee total so I don't get affected by that ;)

 

and why should students be burdened with debt just to get from a to b to receive an education they have to pay through the nose for too now

well for a start i'm tee total so I don't get affected by that ;)

 

and why should students be burdened with debt just to get from a to b to receive an education they have to pay through the nose for too now

 

Yeah I wasn't referring to you in person more in general lol but I stand by my point that there is always room in a students wallet for beer so there should be for bus fares

Edited January 6, 200718 yr by Kimi Raikkonen

Most Uni students are p***ing away their money on booze, if they drink less and put more money towards travel etc then they have nothing to complain about

 

For gods sake. What about the ones that aren't like that? You can't just say that as a solution to the situation.

Yeah I wasn't referring to you in person more in general lol

 

:lol: I know but I just thought I'd let the world know I'm sweet and innocent :cry:

For gods sake. What about the ones that aren't like that? You can't just say that as a solution to the situation.

 

A minority if my town and area are anything to go by lol

 

 

A minority if my town and area are anything to go by lol

 

sound like my kind of ppl :lol:

:lol: I know but I just thought I'd let the world know I'm sweet and innocent :cry:

 

I was more playing devil's advocate to Lucy lol as opposed to deliberately stereotyping every uni student ;) she was giving an example about pensioners so I reversed it

I was more playing devil's advocate to Lucy lol as opposed to deliberately stereotyping every uni student ;) she was giving an example about pensioners so I reversed it

 

What example?

 

I just don't like old people. We had a load of them come to our school for a party/play thing and they wouldnt accept my help or anything, and I just felt intimidated the whole time. So I left early. Dunno why I bothered.

What example?

 

I just don't like old people. We had a load of them come to our school for a party/play thing and they wouldnt accept my help or anything, and I just felt intimidated the whole time. So I left early. Dunno why I bothered.

 

Old people like independence, my grandmother (died at 87) right up to the last year of her life when cancer took a hold insisted on doing everything for herself and any offer of assistance even from me lol was met with some rather harsh words, I know other old people who are the same way, they feel it is a loss of dignity if people do things for them as it makes them feel that the person offering thinks they are incapable

 

Old people like independence, my grandmother (died at 87) right up to the last year of her life when cancer took a hold insisted on doing everything for herself and any offer of assistance even from me lol was met with some rather harsh words, I know other old people who are the same way, they feel it is a loss of dignity if people do things for them as it makes them feel that the person offering thinks they are incapable

 

We put on a whole party/buffet and play, one woman went 'I don't like it at all'. <_<

I won't be helping out next year.

We put on a whole party/buffet and play, one woman went 'I don't like it at all'. <_<

I won't be helping out next year.

 

That's 1 out of how many though ? If it was 30 or 40 then that is a tiny minority

elderly can be hit and miss bless them :lol: some of the more independent ones are very set in their ways. But the elderly are about the only people at a bus stop who are socialable enough to start conversations with you.

That's 1 out of how many though ? If it was 30 or 40 then that is a tiny minority

 

But why tell us that? It's rude.

 

I just don't like them, the same as some don't like young people.

elderly can be hit and miss bless them :lol: some of the more independent ones are very set in their ways. But the elderly are about the only people at a bus stop who are socialable enough to start conversations with you.

 

Yeah my grandmother was very typical of a lot of old people lol, even "would you like me to make you a cup of tea" would usually be met with a rather abrupt "I am capable of doing it myself you know!" but she was anything but a battleaxe lol would do anything for anyone but woe betide anyone that tried to take her independence away :P

But why tell us that? It's rude.

 

I just don't like them, the same as some don't like young people.

 

I agree that it is rude and was uncalled for but there is good and bad in every sector of society, if you had put on a thing for a group of single mums or a group of dentists or whatever there is always going to be at least 1 grumpy one who is going to moan

Am I the only one who thinks it is wrong that over age people are defrauding the system by travelling half price ?

 

Maybe if the "real" prices were less blatantly over-priced, we'd be more inclined to pay full price, rather than find cheaper alternatives. It's their own fault. If they were more resonable, people would comply.

 

As a regular train user, it hacks me right off.

 

 

public transport prices in london are ridiculous, the prices are continually going up and there are no service improvements to justify them (imo)! and its now £2 for a friggin' bus ride in london, WTF?!?! :angry: :angry:

QUOTE(Kimi Raikkonen @ Jan 6 2007, 12:04 AM)

 

Most Uni students are p***ing away their money on booze, if they drink less and put more money towards travel etc then they have nothing to complain about

 

Well shows what you know! As a student, I'm a million times more inclinced to buy a new pair of shoes or save to go to a gig than go out on the razz. Please don't make claims that most uni students p*** their money away on booze, when you can't support it with anything more than assumption. Yes, you're correct that student's do drink a lot, but so do 30-somethings ... look no further than Bridget Jones! It's pointless to claim that students spend their bus fare on beer.

and its now £2 for a friggin' bus ride in london, WTF?!?! :angry: :angry:

 

It's completely ridiculous.... And so is paying £4 just to travel into Zone 1 on the Tube... It's all very well claiming that you're trying to persuade people to get Oyster Cards/Season tickets, but what about tourists or occasional visitors...? I didn't care about the Congestion Charge, I actually thought that was a good thing, the less cars on London's busy streets the better, but then to just go and totally undermine the whole idea to get people more inclined to use Public Transport by putting up fares to this ludicrous level smacks of sheer stupidity... Bad move Ken...

 

When I arrived in London four or so years back a single bus fare cost 80p, and in that time it's gone up 120%!!!???? Do me a favour, inflation's nowhere near that bad....