London Buses Go the Way of London Tubes!

No, no, no!

You know tube journeys: Really annoying way of travelling in London whereby you're clattering and bouncing through bumpy dark tunnels in a sardine can packed full of sweaty folk all trying to avoid each others gaze for fear of being knifed, etc. And then just before you get to your destination an irritating female "voice" blurts out the next stop and where your tube will "terminate" at.

Well it's now happening on London buses! Yes - it's true. I was sat on a bus last week merrily absorbed in my own pessimistic thoughts when a female "voice" blurted out that this was bus number so and so going to so and so and that the next stop would be Warrington Avenue. Sure enough the bus stopped just past a turning entitled Warrington Avenue. Well how bloody annoying is that?! I can understand the usefulness of this for blind people and also the fact that bus doors now "beep" in a sequence when opening and closing. Yet there's so much noise pollution on a bus nowadays: One also has to put up with the constant "BEEPING" of Oyster cards being slammed onto the Oyster reader as passengers board the bus. Selfish of me, I know, but all this contrives to take me out of my dream-like state and bring me crashing back to the reality of being with dirty, sweaty folk jabbering away in whatever lingo and interrupting my thoughts! Rant over.

SPURS ARE ON THEIR WAY TO WEMBLEY!!!

A 5-1 thrashing of the auld enemye Ars*nal after 9 years of trying to beat those tw*ts!!! Well done the lads. Yet here's the problem. If we get Chelsea in the final we will secure a UEFA Cup spot next season, ,which we're probably not going to do through the League. We'll most likely lose the game. Yet if we get Everton in the final, we may win the game (and therefore get a UEFA Cup spot?) Can't predict anything but the greatest thing is having finally got one over on the Arsenal and kicked them out of a competition which they claim to have no care for yet would love to put the trophy in their cabinet!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Will I be published on BBC website???

This is an experiment:

A few months ago I joined BBC message boards under a militaristic-sounding pseudo-name. Often I've made very valid comments in reply to other posters but needless to say I have never had my comments published. So, I have just joined again under an Islamic-sounding pseudo-name. If I get anything published I will let you know!!!

You may find this a bizarre time-waster but I have a friend who lives in a multi-ethnic area. When he wrote to his local council for planning permission he was turned down. So he wrote to them under an ethnic pseudo-name and guess what? The council agreed.

There's method in my madness!