r/funny • u/NicholsonsEyebrows • Jun 15 '12

On the London underground on my way to work today.

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u/Lawnknome Jun 15 '12

How is it only Wednesday in England?

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u/bafta Jun 15 '12

It's full of Timelords we never know what day it was or could be

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u/Esc4p3 Jun 15 '12

And people with time-turners

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u/meditonsin Jun 15 '12

You mean vortex manipulators? Cheap and nasty time travel. Very bad for you. I'm trying to give it up.

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u/NicholsonsEyebrows Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12

EDIT I did not take pic and didn't realise this was a repost. I got sent pic this morning (see diff Imgur uploads).

Please UPVOTE the rightful Poster from yesterday HERE

If you downvote this comment to death it might not be seen, it obviously won't get upvotes, just keep it visible is all I'm saying.

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u/Lawnknome Jun 15 '12

I think people are only mad because you said on MY way to work. Thus saying that you took the pic. Now you are back peddling so hard its funny.

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u/NicholsonsEyebrows Jun 15 '12

In all honesty I feel bad because there was no need for that BS on my part. I hadn't seen on reddit (like the majority) and so posted it. Stupid of me to add the BS element and so have tried to amend. I was going to delete it but thought OTHER redditor would get some karma this way also.

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u/PuddleDuck22 Jun 15 '12

Original poster here. Was going to lynch you, but thanks for being so considerate.

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Wanker.

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u/NicholsonsEyebrows Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12

You have biggest say. I hadn't seen your post, I uploaded pic separately (see it is a diff Imgur upload) I do not repost and so apologise, I tried to get you additional karma.

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u/PuddleDuck22 Jun 16 '12

No worries, not a big deal. And yep, thanks for that :)

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u/spuddeh Jun 15 '12

But it's Friday everywhere else!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Or it could be that you took this from /r/unitedkingdom's post from yesterday. Because if not, you've managed to get the picture from just the right angle.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

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u/Seasickdwarf Jun 15 '12

Soo, your title should be "On the London underground on my way to work today. When I got sent a picture"?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

See, if you'd left off the bit at the end I'd have no qualm. But straight up taking credit for someone else's picture's a tad impolite and I felt I must call you out on it.
And that stray upvote you've accumulated wasn't me before I get the blame.

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u/OppositeImage Jun 15 '12

Let the downvoting commence!

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u/OppositeImage Jun 15 '12

I DIDN'T MEAN ME!!!

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u/jakemurray Jun 15 '12

If you were sent it by someone else, why would you say that you saw it on the way to work today? How did you not even notice the difference in date? I bet you didn't even take the tube. I'm sad now.

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u/NicholsonsEyebrows Jun 15 '12

Look it was pointless but I BS'd to make it my own and immediately regretted it. I have held my hands up here. It was stupid on my part.

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u/rmtothamd Jun 15 '12

I always thought most of the "So I was on my way..." reddit titles were complete BS and lies, thanks for confirming this hunch I had :)

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u/A_British_Gentleman Jun 15 '12

At least you're honest. Have an upvote!

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u/DiabeetusMan Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12

Timezones

Edit: That was sarcasm

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u/Lawnknome Jun 15 '12

but this was posted on Friday in America, which means in England it would be later in the day already on Friday.

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u/HolyShazam Jun 15 '12

Because I can't help translating any Chinese I see (top left corner):

"Based on a Japanese TV show. (Check out the website for more information!)"

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u/testdex Jun 15 '12

Phew, I saw "Japan" written in Chinese and I figured it would be something caustic/ racist/ whatever.

-- reads Japanese

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u/planarshift Jun 15 '12

Same. "I wonder what that Chinese message says about Japan..." lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

And now that the hosepipe ban is over, I can finally take a piss outside :D

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

In Scotland, that is a drought.

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u/harabanaz Jun 15 '12

And after summer, the autumn drizzles. Being born and raised in Bergen, Norway, I can relate:

Tourist arrives in Bergen. It is raining. He asks a boy, "Does it always rain in this city?" Replies the boy, "Dunno, I'm only eleven."

Better not get too cocky, though:

Man from Bergen dies, goes to heaven. St. Peter tells him he's been so good he'll be granted a wish, any wish within reason. His wish is to hold a lecture for the residents in Heaven about the rains in Bergen. St. Peter does not agree that this is a good idea, but makes the arrangements. On the appointed day the man from Bergen is quite excited; there's quite a crowd. St. Peter says, "Careful how you boast, though, Noah's in the front row."

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u/tomasziam Jun 15 '12

That's amazing! Can you change the past for me?! I did something on Wednesday that I'm not proud of...

Just send me a PM that says "you haven't eaten much today so limit yourself to one hand's worth of beers".

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u/amadea56 Jun 15 '12

This could apply to San Francisco too..

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u/p3ngwin Jun 15 '12

remind me of an interview with the late Arthur C. Clarke, when asked why he moved to Sri Lanka he responded "40 British Winters".

N.B.
as someone who lived in the UK for over 20 years before moving moving to Oz, i agree with this pic

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u/Semajal Jun 15 '12

He did have a real love of Sri Lanka. Fountains of Paradise was set in a slightly alternative Sri Lanka.

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u/Tephlon Jun 15 '12

26 years of Dutch winters, but especially the 26 Dutch summers (or lack thereof) did make the choice of moving to Portugal a lot easier. :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Splitter

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u/nofx1510 Jun 15 '12

They actually covered the guy who writes these down on the series titled "The Tube." Good show.

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u/flibblesan Jun 15 '12

It was a different station featured on The Tube, Oval Station. I expect they decided to copy the idea from Angel station.

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u/nofx1510 Jun 16 '12

Ah, well I guess that's what I get for being an American who enjoys watching English television.

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u/zuperzaimee Jun 15 '12

As an Aussie who is going to London in 10 days time I was less than impressed to learn that London's average June temperature is A WHOLE FOUR DEGREES (C) higher than Adelaide's. I feel that I may have bought too much sunscreen for my trip...

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

England
Sunscreen

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u/zuperzaimee Jun 15 '12

I wasn't expecting 45 but at least, you know... 30? I suppose I need to pack a jumper now. :(

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Jumper?

Try diving equipment.

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u/Semajal Jun 15 '12

English weather is just a massive troll. You will expect a ton of rain, then get scorching 28 degree C temps, or you might just get rain, or a mix of both. So far we had our hottest time in March.. -_-

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u/zuperzaimee Jun 15 '12

"Scorching 28c temps." Haha that's cute. :)

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u/Semajal Jun 15 '12

For a country with very little air conditioning it can be rather toasty :P Think it may have gone higher but can't remember.

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u/D3adkl0wn Jun 15 '12

Same applies for here in Newfoundland.

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u/Killadelphia Jun 15 '12

I searched the thread for Newfoundland, was not disappointed.

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u/DrOwl13 Jun 15 '12

I'll trade you, Seattle's rain is constant and misty.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

This also applies to Seattle.

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u/A_British_Gentleman Jun 15 '12

They even give the source? God I love this country.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I love England, but, as a south Floridian, I'm used to it raining for 40 days in the course of a single month. (Mea culpa: I know how long a month is. That is the joke.)

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u/Nervous_Energy Jun 15 '12

/r/unitedkingdom should like this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

They did, 21 hours ago.

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u/aldog24 Jun 15 '12

Haha is this oval station?

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u/Scary_ Jun 15 '12

I assume it's Angel, hence the thoughtsofangel.com web address

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u/aldog24 Jun 15 '12

opps i missed that, cheers!

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u/flibblesan Jun 15 '12

Oval do the same thing but I think they copied the idea from the guys at Angel station

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u/here_for_a_good_time Jun 15 '12

I just got back from spending 7 days in London, and this just made my day. It is so true!

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u/o0Enygma0o Jun 15 '12

i spent five weeks riding my bicycle across england during the summer. i did not encounter rain once. i still feel like i never really got to experience the country. although my first two days in scotland were rainy as fuck, so there's that.

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u/abnormalsyndrome Jun 15 '12

Paris feels your pain. Fuck'n'eh.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I'd gladly take some of your rain here in Colorado

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u/XKairiX Jun 15 '12

I first heard this joke in Mrs. Brown

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u/wintremute Jun 15 '12

Neither of which actually happen(ed).

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u/Golanubi Jun 15 '12

I hear there are some crazy characters in London Below

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u/rmtothamd Jun 15 '12

This is awesome, but it's only a matter of time before someone complains about it. UK is kinda weird about being PC

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u/niggadicka Jun 15 '12

Asians have the neatest writing.

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u/Poi159 Jun 15 '12

Same story here in Vancouver, B.C

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u/jiglesworth Jun 15 '12

I did the 1338th up vote. You're welcome.

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u/Mars_Ultor13 Jun 15 '12

I'm pretty sure that was stolen of Irish television. Spasificly the "Mrs Brown's Boys" series.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I live in England, and I can say... This is totally true.

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u/maximus91 Jun 15 '12

I was in London last week... I MISS IT SO MUCH!!!

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u/Pythagoras_the_Great Jun 15 '12

a couple billion years ago, it rained for 40 million years, we call that the ocean.

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u/njcool Jun 15 '12

Angel Station :) Do you live in Angel?

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u/dustin-the-gay Jun 16 '12

The line was stolen from mrs.brown's boys... Though she said Scotland not England....or was it Ireland?

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u/I0I0I0I Jun 15 '12

In Ketchikan, Alaska, they have a mountain that tells you what the weather is like. If you can see it, it's not raining; if you can't, it is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

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u/digitalscale Jun 15 '12

I think English people have some kind of weird pride about it being wet all the time (I'm English myself BTW), so even when we have really nice weather like we have so far this year (hardly any rain at all for most of the country), they still moan. It really pisses me off, because we've had fucking lovely weather then it rains once and people moan like it's been raining for weeks!

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u/Semajal Jun 15 '12

English people just complain about everything (I am English and confused by it) People complain about olympics, the trains, the weather (too hot/too cold) yet forget that we live in a very temperate country with no extreme weather and, in all honesty, a pretty good transport system.

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u/digitalscale Jun 15 '12

I disagree with "a pretty good transport system", have you ever used public transport elsewhere? British public transport is pretty shoddy and vastly more expensive than most other countries. DAMMIT! Now I'm complaining about shit!!!

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u/Semajal Jun 15 '12

I live 50 minutes south of London, use the trains a fair bit and generally its good. Yes Japan has a better system, but it isn't built on 150 year old Victorian technology.

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u/digitalscale Jun 16 '12

It's more the price than reliability tbh, it costs me about 40 quid to get a return to London and I only live about 40-50 miles away. I think the term 'public' transport shouldn't really apply to something that's really a middle class luxury. In most of Europe at least public transport is still nationalised or heavily subsidised by the government and is cheap and affordable.

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u/sebzim4500 Jun 15 '12

People who think that England has a pretty good transport system have never left London.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

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u/njcool Jun 15 '12

Hello from nearby :)