I wanted to share a few photos showing what the tube looks like right now, because it is WEIRD. There have been a few cries from Transport for London saying that they are hugely in debt and need money from the government to carry on. However, I don’t think this is just due to the lack of passengers, but also the lack of advertising, because there is very little.
Instead there are posters telling us to be kind or mind the gap. I think they’re just putting up whatever they can find.
Maybe this is what a post-capitalist world would look like. Instead of every step we take being filled with BUY THIS! maybe we could get rid of these posters all together and have murals, or large photos of the sky.
With this and the talk about changing statues, it feels like London is getting a whole makeover this Covid season. I get why people find it frightening, but I think it’s exciting, like moving to a new city.
Note: sorry I’ve been kind of absent recently. I don’t have a good reason, I just don’t have anything to say 🙂
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No one in the tube. Any crime problems? New York City looked like that for a few weeks. Passengers, if any rode in the front near the conductor, just in case.
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Hmm, I don’t think so. It didn’t feel unsafe. Civilization seems to be hanging on for just a bit longer. Are you in NYC? Did you have any problems from anyone?
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I live in what is called the tri-state area. That just means I live close by NYC. I heard petty crimes like snatching phones or hand bags were common. Seems to be resolved with homeless people watching and sleeping out.
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You mean the homeless people stopped it?? They should get paid!
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Sleeping in the tubes solved one issue, but created another. They don’t want to leave… doing a public service job without pay.
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Nice that you’re back though. Any books on the way?
PS – just as an insight into my life at the moment, I have just trimmed my eyebrows with my beard trimmer. I set it incorrectly. I have shaved them off. I could not be surprised if I tried…
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😂😂 Then this is the time to get the eyebrow pencil out, you can have any expression you want!
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I was thinking of the elderly lady arched and half way up the forehead. What do you think?
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Do you mean eyebrows like an old lady has? (well that could mean like mine, which are quite scattered and rebellious) or do you mean an old lady drawn onto your forehead? If it’s the second one, I say YES!
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I did mean eyebrows, but my grip on the English language has become so tenuous of late… As for drawing an old lady on my forehead, I’m not doing THAT again…
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😂
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😨 You are missing this look, Colin? Sorry about the eye brows. I haven’t got them trimmed since last November. I look like a tiny bear.
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I look like Yul Bryner in a ginger wig!
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Or Lord Voldemort?
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No, I definitely have a nose
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I’m just sick of all this. Bullied by 3 different people yesterday because I couldn’t wear my mask. whatever.
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I’m sorry about that 😦 People are all very angry at the moment.
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I like your comment about post capitalist society of no longer ubiquitously advertising all the trashy merchandise we don’t really need. 😀
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Thank you, it would be great!
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There’s nothing much to say really, is there, that most of us aren’t thinking. I post local autumnish photos on Instagram, blog about books as a distraction, tweet my political dissatisfaction along with like minds, but what else is there to do other than state the obvious?
But thanks for sharing these Underground posters, so colourful that I wish that this is the sort of stuff that should be up there all of the time.
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I lived in Mexico City for a bit, and one of my favourite things about their Metro was it had only adverts for museums and colleges, it felt much healthier.
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For a bit of what? I hope it was guacamole. I love guacamole!
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I definitely made the most of the guacamole 🙂
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