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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2013, 06:14:57 PM »
What do you consider a sweetie?
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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2013, 06:17:28 PM »
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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2013, 06:20:03 PM »
Those look like the second most delicious things I see in your post.
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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2013, 06:25:32 PM »
We would be the envy of all the other passengers!
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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #19 on: April 29, 2013, 11:21:27 PM »
I'd guard my seat jealously, like the grumpy old man I am. :zoinks:
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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #20 on: April 30, 2013, 12:09:32 AM »
^ Then you would likely be sat on, too.   :orly:
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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #21 on: April 30, 2013, 01:27:53 AM »
Elderly, middle aged women, small children, pregnant ladies, people carrying large unstable packages, disabled, very beautiful young ladies, and family.
Can't you guys even just imagine it?

Forget practicality, or your experience....can you just....imagine?

It's there. It always was.

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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #22 on: April 30, 2013, 04:44:41 AM »
I would have left long before the bus got that full
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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #23 on: April 30, 2013, 12:23:54 PM »
I always offer my seat to old people

Would do the same for pregnant women, little kids etc too.

It's difficult to know whether you "should" sometimes though. As in some women would take offence to being offered a seat, and maybe some disabled people would too?

Offering your seat to old ladies or pregnant women / women with babies though? That's always safe and everyone should do that

tbh I'd rather stand in that situation anyway. Unless all the people standing were other young guys, then I'd feel slightly uncomfrotable sitting down while others had to stand.

Also I can handle fairly long journeys stood up so it's not a major inconvenience for me. I once gave my seat up to an old lady on the train down from Edinburgh to Manchester and had to stand/sit on my suitcase for most of the journey, and it wasn't as uncomfortable as I'd expected.

It pisses me off to see other young people sitting down in those situations tho, not offering their seats to older people or whatever. I know there can be "invisible reasons" ie a disablilty we can't see, but in most cases it's pretty obvious they just don't want to stand up for them. Which is sad.It's just common fucking decency.

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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #24 on: May 01, 2013, 02:54:35 AM »
^ Then you would likely be sat on, too.   :orly:

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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #25 on: May 01, 2013, 05:18:57 PM »
^ Then you would likely be sat on, too.   :orly:

They'll taste my cane first! :oldman:

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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #26 on: May 01, 2013, 05:20:17 PM »
I always offer my seat to old people

Would do the same for pregnant women, little kids etc too.

It's difficult to know whether you "should" sometimes though. As in some women would take offence to being offered a seat, and maybe some disabled people would too?

Offering your seat to old ladies or pregnant women / women with babies though? That's always safe and everyone should do that

tbh I'd rather stand in that situation anyway. Unless all the people standing were other young guys, then I'd feel slightly uncomfrotable sitting down while others had to stand.

Also I can handle fairly long journeys stood up so it's not a major inconvenience for me. I once gave my seat up to an old lady on the train down from Edinburgh to Manchester and had to stand/sit on my suitcase for most of the journey, and it wasn't as uncomfortable as I'd expected.

It pisses me off to see other young people sitting down in those situations tho, not offering their seats to older people or whatever. I know there can be "invisible reasons" ie a disablilty we can't see, but in most cases it's pretty obvious they just don't want to stand up for them. Which is sad.It's just common fucking decency.

  Adam, today there was a young dude on my bus who looked a lot like you!  :orly:
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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #27 on: May 04, 2013, 04:34:19 PM »
^ Then you would likely be sat on, too.   :orly:

They'll taste my cane first! :oldman:

  Goddamn whippersnappers, you tell 'em!   :tantrum:

In my day they had respect for their elders!
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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #28 on: May 04, 2013, 05:09:33 PM »
^ Then you would likely be sat on, too.   :orly:

They'll taste my cane first! :oldman:

  Goddamn whippersnappers, you tell 'em!   :tantrum:

In my day they had respect for their elders!

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Re: Who would you give up your seat for?
« Reply #29 on: May 04, 2013, 05:11:10 PM »
^ Then you would likely be sat on, too.   :orly:

They'll taste my cane first! :oldman:

  Goddamn whippersnappers, you tell 'em!   :tantrum:

In my day they had respect for their elders!

  Alas, our day has passed, we sit as relics on the sidelines of history.   :oldman:
you have been hanging around old folks, too much