morning rush hit action bus

And being married – I didn’t have to worry about being picked up!

I had no trouble with root69 thismorning!

Route 36 has the same problem in the morning – no pickup in Civic. ACTION does not have the as much difficulty in the afternoons because the school buses are available during the peak period.

VY, I’m sure even a bogan can still afford a shitty old petrol gobbling commode.

Agreed.

Bogan is about mullets VB and old fords or holdens, sheilas, blokes durries stubbies and flannies, Booner is more metalhead iron maiden megadeth black jeans flannies and boots – cool stidded belts – chains faux bullet belts and spikes – though there is a bit of crossover between the two, they still deserve the respect to be called two autonomous entities.

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“Ahh, VY Berlina V8, the chariot of the bogan.”

It’s certainly a chariot many of them aspire to. Unfortunately, most of them can’t afford one. Aha. Haha. Aaaahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Chuck Taylors for the win!

\m/ Metallica! \m/

Oh yeah. I forgot about Pantera. Hardcore Booner Style!

That’s right. It has always been “Booner”. But I think that the term “Bogan” has been floating about here in Canberra and the likes for longer. It all adds up. I spose it’s really a combination of everything. We should treasure our usage of the word “Booner”!

Oh and about the Desert Boots and Flanny. haha! It brings back memories. I was a “Skeg”. And yes, I do remember the days of Booners V Skegs. Then the Booners and the Skegs got to know each other by way of friends of friends, commonalities etc.

“Skeg”. Now there’s another word that has been lost in the ages…

Personally. When I hear the word “Bogan”, I think of Mullet hair cuts. When the word “Booner” is mentioned, I think of exactly what you said “Desert Boots, Metallica Shirts, Flannies etc”.

This topic should be discussed further 🙂

Lets try that again…

\m/ Pantera! \m/

\m/ Panera! \m/

I remeber when I was booner kid – stomping through civic fri and sat nights with desert boots pencil cut black jeans pantera t-shirt and not one but 2 flannos – wearing one and another around my waist…oh wait hangon – that was just last week.

Yeah long as I have known a bogan in canberra was called a booner, but I spose the rise to promenance of shows like “The Wedge” and “Kath and Kim” that are filmed in Vic have brought teh word Bogan into mainstream in ACT.

It was always booners v/ skeggs when I was a booner (Circa 1990 to 1997)

I’m not a bogan – There is not ONE flannie shirt in my wardrobe. (Nor, on my floor either..)

What ever happened to the word “booner”? As long as I can remember, Booner’s were a NSW/ACT species. Bogan’s, on the other hand, were a southern dwelling species (VIC etc).

Thats a bit rich coming from a Ford driver

Id rather catch a bus than be a bogan.

I’d rather a VY Berlina V8 than shanefos’s EB Falcon 6

Nice one ShaneFos. It’s a Berlina, so that makes it classy. Bit like Jerra is classy Queanbeyan!

Touché

Ahh, VY Berlina V8, the chariot of the bogan.

Ahh buses – the chariot of the peasants.

I am only interested in what SGS has to say on this matter.

Hmmm – If you really want them to be in front of the rest of the pack, increase the delay from 5 seconds to 15…

Hmmm

WTF is a Bus. Are they those big orange things that I have to floor it at the lights to get in front of? Strange, they appear to have their own lights because they are special and important!

Kind of fun when I win!!

I charge a flat per word rate for translation services OYM2.

I’ve never had much trouble reading Chester’s posts myself. Tried remedial reading?

My daughter has been late to school several times since it started because of this.

The 313 – which she also catches – will arrive at the scheduled time and drive on, leaving several high school and primary school students awaiting a second bus.

They WON’T run a bus in the morning for these kids to go to specific schools (but they will in the afternoon).

Idiots.

OYM2 – leave CC alone. FFS.

I just wonder if the translation service offered by neanderthalsis can be used on other RA posts. Imagine what he could do with a Crazy Chester posting?

No Russians?

Can someone be so kind as to transtlate the driver’s words: “no rush on”?

Could it have been “don’t rush in” or “no rush, hon”, perhaps “no rushing”, or was it an unsuccesful attempt at a palindrome?

I agree, Barney.

A similar issue (albeit on a far larger scale than in our fair town) has been building momentum in Melbourne.

Something I read in a letter to the editor in The Age a few weeks back about the crowding and poor quality of public transport in Melbourne made me think of the situation here: if people stop using public transport because of the poor service and drive to and from work instead, the state government (or in our case, Legislative Assembly) will feel justified in a) their spending on roads and b) the cuts/restructuring of Action timetables.
So, people should grin and bear it, stick with the overcrowded and infrequent buses (as painful as it may be) and continue to express their disatisfaction to Action and/or the government until something gets done about it, otherwsie nothing ever will.

ACTION buses are a pain in the arse at peak times. Not enough of them, and they don’t hold enough persons. Then you have the issue that almost nobody uses them outside peak times.

I wouldn’t blame the driver, but when you need to get somewhere and a bus just cruises right on by (I have seen it thousands of times), one tends to get fairly irate.

It would be great if more people used buses to get to work, but they instead choose to drive their car with nobody else in it. Surely if more people used the service it would be forced to get better. But what would I know…

By the way. If this is the first time this has happened to you, then where the hell have you been!? It’s been like it for almost 2 years now.

The coroner on college street is dead easy to find.

Hope they don’t work at the library!

Stories are meant to have a begining, middle and an end/conclusion….

Haven’t you met the coroner on college street?! You don’t know what you’re missing out on!

After the ‘timetable improvements’ in March Bus 38 from Civic won’t even exist – yet it sounds like lots of people are using the service. Wierd.

This is also the bus that goes from Civic to Russel (then Kingston etc). Russell parking is a joke, and on rainy days you can drive around the back streets of Campbell for nearly an hour, waiting for someon to leave their carpark. They need to be increasing busses to Russell, not cancelling them.

No, the font’s different! 🙂

stemp oot bed speling

I hope that the work you were late for didn’t require any sort of written communication skills.

The Coroner of College St? Nice…

With all that extra time to think about it I would of expected a better constructed story.

omg! thank you neanderthalsis!!!

Sorry is the word of the day. It also explains why the bus was so full this morning.

Rest assured, as the crowds dwindle through the coming week, you will get your empty bus back.

If you read it a number of times and restructure the post, it does make sense.
Day 1:
Person went to catch bus, bus was full, person one got on bus but driver turned away rest of peasants in queue.
Day 2:
Bus was full, drove past without stopping leaving peasants wailing and gnashing teeth at the bus stop.

Person 1 changes bus in Civic to go somewhere else and it too is full. More wailing and gnashing of teeth…

Leave home earlier perhaps.

Why does this story not make much sense?

At least the driver said “sorry”.

That makes it alright.