Comments on: Atheist buses. For God’s sake

By: andi

andi — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:35:42 +0000

nuthin compared to dublin bus drivers, the favourite is waiting at terminus with doors closed in the middle of winter till just before he’s due out, or just as ppl rush cross a rail bridge to catch his connecting bus, pull out and next is not for an hour

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:54:32 +0000

Glasgow’s bus drivers are one of the things I’m never going to miss about the city. Utter, utter scum.

My favourite is the way they drive like utter bastards to shave every last second off their lap times all day but then just end up ahead of schedule and wait for five minutes at every stop and read the Evening Times for the last twenty stops of their shift. Always nice to get one of those buses.

By: tm

tm — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:45:59 +0000

Err, by the bus driver, not the bus – though that would be a better story.

By: tm

tm — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:44:46 +0000

Ah, this takes me back to the time one of my colleagues in glasgow was assaulted (no, seriously, punched in the face) by a bus for commiting the henious crime of getting on the bus and attempting to show his ticket.

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:19:44 +0000

And god forbid you try to board a bus with a baby in one arm and some sort of wheeled baby-moving apparatus in the other. You instantly unleash the driver’s 40 years of pent-up mummy issues. “Fold that stroller up and WHY’D YOU LEAVE ME ALANE WI MA GRANDPARENTS FOR TWO YEAR?”

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:13:32 +0000

The single best argument for the existence of God is that believing in him enables you to disassociate yourself from these arses.

By: Tony Kiernan

Tony Kiernan — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:14:08 +0000

But there’s something really punchable about the bus campaign

It’s the ‘probably’.

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:44:44 +0000

Is annoying a few crazies and offending a lot of non-crazies really the best atheism can do, though? What does it achieve, beyond smug “they’ve annoyed us so we’ve annoyed them back” playground shite?

Had the campaign been inspirational rather than petty then, yeah, I can see the point: “Life is precious and short. Don’t waste a moment”, say, or something along those lines. But there’s something really punchable about the bus campaign, IMO.

By: Flick

Flick — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:28:59 +0000

Anything that has the religious nuts up in arms is a winner in my book.