One thing that commuters all dread,
Is a gentleman who likes to spread,
His legs. If you please,
Just pull in your knees,
Or you’ll have the police seeing red.
John Moynes
(Jezebel)
Everything. As It Happens.
One thing that commuters all dread,
Is a gentleman who likes to spread,
His legs. If you please,
Just pull in your knees,
Or you’ll have the police seeing red.
John Moynes
(Jezebel)
Shove that f***er back in his place
That would be a ballsy move, and the crotchety old man may give her trouble she doesn’t kneed. It might be better to skirt around the issue, just leg it go and seat what happens.
Stuck on a kneeling
mind the lap
also hate it when the bus is busy and the guy is sitting about six inches from the wall so you have to perch on the edge of your side of the bench. lads! become aware of others!
So very annoying. Although sometimes you really do not want to touch the wall (wall boogers). But they could point that out.
No excuse for it on subways, but looking at the photo you’ve picked to illustrate this, it might not be the best example, it looks like the man has longer legs than the female passenger, and that the seat in front is too close for him to put his knees right in front of him.
I’m over 6ft tall myself, so I always pick my seat carefully on the bus so I don’t have to contort myself.
+72″
+77″
There are only a select few seats where I can sit on the bus without taking up the whole seat.
Are you tall, fat or both?
I have a real problem with fatties taking up two seat on the bus every morning.
Tall, or normal height as I like to say.
+1
This is all just heightist propaganda.
His ass looks like it’s on the edge of the seat to me.
Just like to point out that above poster is not the same “Sam” that posted at 9:20
it’s not exactly hitler annexing Poland.
I can see in the context of how women are often made to feel less than welcome in public spaces that this would be hugely annoying. But the fault lies with transit engineers who don’t leave space in front. The legs are there, they have to go somewhere, either forwards into a gangway (annoying standing people, those sitting across), or to the side. The only way this doesn’t happen is reduce the recommended passenger load and allow more space for seats, or remove seats altogether.
the only sensible solution is to develop humans with detachable legs.
I’m over 6’2″ and it’s impossible for me to put my legs straight in front of me without pressing hard against the seat in front, which is highly uncomfortable, so this bothers the poo out of me. Having said that, I definitely do not sprawl my legs apart like some pervy fupp.
In addition to being tall, I’ve quite broad shoulders (I’m not fat, just over 14 stone) and I’m very conscious of taking up more space than necessary. There’s f all I can do about it if I’m on a bus unless I stand for the whole journey.
Engineers to blame for it. People should definitely take the situation into consideration. It’s smelly people that bug me.
+1
I despair when I have to sit in a window/middle seat on a bus or plane.
I hate manspreading. Guys who do it should be shot.
Or perhaps, told to cop on.
I’ve seen similar with women and handbags, preferring to put the handbag next to them on the neighbouring seat rather than on their lap.
In cases where someone says “can you move that please” the problem tends to be corrected fairly quickly.
So maybe rather than just taking a picture, people need to assert themselves a bit more.
I was on a train in Germany last week and this big muscular guy was taking up 2 seats (one for his duffle bag) on a train out of Berlin Hbf at rush hour, the small lady next to him, asked him to move the bag and let someone else sit down, and the woman on the other side of him chimed in as well. And he put the bag on the floor so another passenger could sit. Took about 5 seconds for the problem to go away.
Perhaps in America, they’re worried that the guy will pull out a couple of handguns and shoot up the whole train in defense of his ‘territory’.
agree completely
some people are just thoughtless or preoccupied – remind them that they’re in a public space
+1
If they didn’t buy a ticket for it, then it’s coming off the seat.
kind of a cunty move.
If you’re really too big to sit down in a space reserved for one person then purchase two tickets.
I make a point of shoving them out of the way.
Also when I see lazy individuals taking up two seats in the train I always try to sit down beside them.
If their stuff is in my way it gets moved.
After they do all this then I sit down somewhere else.
Soon I am actually going to sit on top of such a person.
That will show them.
maybe they should all be made to wear some sort of identifiable symbol, like a yellow bicursal star?
Fantastic idea
Fancy your chances do you shortarse?
Haha
You sound like one of those Japanese men who molest women on trains, rubbing against everyone.
Being 6 foot 5, public transport (and flying) is always hilariously uncomfortable. If someone is tall it obviously cannot be helped/altered unlike someone say who is morbidly obese and takes up two seats. I do my best to shuffle up and put my knees together but then on the bust this bulges the seat in front forward – not ideal – but if someone insisted I buy two tickets well then expect abuse back.
LOL @ If someone is tall it obviously cannot be helped/altered unlike someone say who is morbidly obese and takes up two seats
Brilliant, thanks for the laugh
Oh FFS, prissy girl thinks everyone wants her.
I’ve had the really long hair of the person in front of me constantly preened and waived over the bar of the seat and onto my knees, hairs shedding onto my clothes. So yes – just tuck everything in passengers!
next time set fire to it
The bus?
Can’t do that again Joe…..
Once had a guy on a bus keep nodding off, & dropping his head onto my shoulder each time.
Sounds like a post-lunch Eamon Dunphy.
dial a fax machine
put your phone on loudspeaker
then put it up to sleepy’s ear
that is an AMAZING idea
Was this in the late nineties on the 46A? Twas me.
People who sit on the outside of a seat to discourage others from sharing the seat are selfish little dicks.
In our defence we so it to avoid sitting next to insightful tw*t nozzles such as yourself.
I’d say you rarely engage with real people. You’re quite the snide little mean spirited creep. You think you’re funny but all your comments are barbed and aimed at someone.
You’re a coward. And tight.
Great, to top it all off you’re going to make him do his ugly crying face.
That would be my rest face, thank you.
I’d try to respond with a similarly retarded psychological profile but I’m at least 5 seasons behind on Criminal Minds and Radharc.
I would have had you down as more of a Hands devotee mani
this, public urination and breastfeeding. scourge on society.
hell is other people.
breastfeeding is necessary. public urination (by any gender) and manspreading are not.
since men don’t have as wide of hips as women one could argue that it is necessary as sitting with the legs together is uncomfortable for men.
Let’s all beat up on the tall people for getting comfortable on a narrow seat.
Stupid example in that pic.
+1
There are people who dont need to ‘spread out’ and do it anyway. Was subject to this by a particularly repulsive individual only last week on a plane.
Oh you poor thing. The big selfish tall man should of stayed off the bus altogether. Did you go home and cry on Daddy’s lap?
Should have*
A language bully, nothing insightful to say just a sly comment that has nothing to do with the issue.
As opposed to you, who appears to be a very angry person
Rarrrrrrr…… I’m just tall, and this annoys me. There is nothing i can do, someone being precious over this is just annoying.
Tall people annoy me too.
This was the largest transport seat he could afford. Should he therefore be made the subject of fun?
Ah, no Don, big, tall men are gorgeous, the bigger the better, I say.
As a person of smaller stature, tall people frequently annex my space, gorgeous or not. Its mine and I will fight you for it, even if I am a shorta****
ahh armrest wars, the best part of flying
In fairness, when you ride a bus or the luas or what have you, you’re not actually paying to sit down, you’re paying to be transported from one stop to another. Getting to do it sitting down is a bonus, but it’s not guaranteed in he price.
People should be aware when hey are taking up two seats, but most of the time they’ll happily reposition themselves, or their bags, when asked.
The chap spreading his legs to sit comfortably is bad enough … but I would say the picture taken of his manspreading regions is a worse breach of bus etiquette.
So seats on a bus are reserved for people under 5ft? Are you serious? What if they had a weight problem? Should they stand for their sins too?
they should only be allowed to sit down if they produce a medical certificate to say that their weight gain was due to a medical condition and not cos they are salad-dodging pie-freaks.
Yes
What a silly comment. Who said that seat is for two people? Why not three?
The guy has every right to sit in that seat. The seats should have more room. The girl’s complaint should be aimed at the transport company, not the tall guy having an uncomfortable journey.
Problem is everyone has lost the ability to survive among others and tolerate others. All the frustration with real life situations are expressed online in places like this.
It’s absurd.
Nobody realizes that they too are being tolerated by others.
http://www.stroke.ie/iopen24/fast-campaign-t-483_487.html
Haha!