Comments on: All About Buses Dot Com http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/04/28/all-about-buses-dot-com/ An award winning group blog, written by some of Dublin's best, most prolific, witty and engaging bloggers about the life and goings on in and around Dublin City Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:21:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: The Midnight Court » Blog Archive » Dublin Community Blog http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/04/28/all-about-buses-dot-com/comment-page-1/#comment-434 The Midnight Court » Blog Archive » Dublin Community Blog Mon, 29 May 2006 13:58:37 +0000 http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/04/28/all-about-buses-dot-com/#comment-434 [...] I’m delighted to have become a contributor to the Dublin Community Blog. I know it’s very fashionable to knock the place, but I really enjoy living here and am looking forward to posting about all the things there are to do and see on the horse-dunged cobbles of the metropolis. Of course, the city has it’s problems and it is inevitable, given my propensity to indulge in what was referred to in Sideways as “neg-head downer shit”, that I will tap the odd irate posting into Wordpress. Check out the blog and maybe even think about how, as the play of Dublin life goes on, you too might contribute a verse. Summer’s here and the city is coming alive. In the meantime, I leave you with my biography cum apologia as a Dublin Community contributor: Copernicus is a Dublin-based civil servant and law student (at least until after he fails his forthcoming exams) who has lived in the capital for five years and two and half months. Although he was born a startlingly beautiful child in the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street Dublin 2, Copernicus does not consider himself a Dub. Not a wet week in the world, he was transplanted post haste to Munster where he was reared on the creamiest milk produced by contended Fresians on a cud of lush Golden Vale grass, fatted on Kerry lamb each spring and derived many boyhood-enhancing minerals from the swift, clear waters of the Shannon whose music may be heard in crystal cadence over the rocks at Doonas Falls below the ancient Limerick keeps and raths of his Norman and Gaelic forebearers. On attaining a tender but serious three years of age, he entered Tullyvaraga Playschool to begin a programme of education which continues unabated some 29 years later at the Honorable Society of King’s Inns. However, he has always been a poor scholar and continues at his books more in hope than expectation. Copernicus maintains blogs at The Midnight Court and Cruiskeen Eile and as made guest contributions to Fústar dot org to relate dark tidings on freemasonry, Christmas monsters and the inscrutable doings of the wee people. He received a best commenter nomination at the 2006 Irish Blog Awards and he would have won it too if it wasn’t for these pesky kids. Despite an aristocratic mein and sedulously cultivated patrician air, Copernicus prides himself on being approachable and often condescends to respond enlighteningly to those members of the lumpen proletariat who comment on his posts. [...] [...] I’m delighted to have become a contributor to the Dublin Community Blog. I know it’s very fashionable to knock the place, but I really enjoy living here and am looking forward to posting about all the things there are to do and see on the horse-dunged cobbles of the metropolis. Of course, the city has it’s problems and it is inevitable, given my propensity to indulge in what was referred to in Sideways as “neg-head downer shit”, that I will tap the odd irate posting into Wordpress. Check out the blog and maybe even think about how, as the play of Dublin life goes on, you too might contribute a verse. Summer’s here and the city is coming alive. In the meantime, I leave you with my biography cum apologia as a Dublin Community contributor: Copernicus is a Dublin-based civil servant and law student (at least until after he fails his forthcoming exams) who has lived in the capital for five years and two and half months. Although he was born a startlingly beautiful child in the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street Dublin 2, Copernicus does not consider himself a Dub. Not a wet week in the world, he was transplanted post haste to Munster where he was reared on the creamiest milk produced by contended Fresians on a cud of lush Golden Vale grass, fatted on Kerry lamb each spring and derived many boyhood-enhancing minerals from the swift, clear waters of the Shannon whose music may be heard in crystal cadence over the rocks at Doonas Falls below the ancient Limerick keeps and raths of his Norman and Gaelic forebearers. On attaining a tender but serious three years of age, he entered Tullyvaraga Playschool to begin a programme of education which continues unabated some 29 years later at the Honorable Society of King’s Inns. However, he has always been a poor scholar and continues at his books more in hope than expectation. Copernicus maintains blogs at The Midnight Court and Cruiskeen Eile and as made guest contributions to Fústar dot org to relate dark tidings on freemasonry, Christmas monsters and the inscrutable doings of the wee people. He received a best commenter nomination at the 2006 Irish Blog Awards and he would have won it too if it wasn’t for these pesky kids. Despite an aristocratic mein and sedulously cultivated patrician air, Copernicus prides himself on being approachable and often condescends to respond enlighteningly to those members of the lumpen proletariat who comment on his posts. [...]

]]> By: copernicus http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/04/28/all-about-buses-dot-com/comment-page-1/#comment-194 copernicus Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:47:17 +0000 http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/04/28/all-about-buses-dot-com/#comment-194 You know, except on a bus. You know, except on a bus.

]]> By: copernicus http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/04/28/all-about-buses-dot-com/comment-page-1/#comment-193 copernicus Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:46:39 +0000 http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/04/28/all-about-buses-dot-com/#comment-193 That's a bit of a problem on Cavendish Row on Parnell Square, Dick. I had to run into the street to get the 46B to stop just because there was a 122 already at the stop. Hey guys, these are different bloody routes!! A mate of mine got into an altercation with a driver who was second or third in a "convoy" when the guy got snotty that he hadn't got on the bus in front. Following a frank exchange of views, the driver coughed "asshole" into his hand when my chum was disembarking. It was like being back in school! That’s a bit of a problem on Cavendish Row on Parnell Square, Dick. I had to run into the street to get the 46B to stop just because there was a 122 already at the stop. Hey guys, these are different bloody routes!!

A mate of mine got into an altercation with a driver who was second or third in a “convoy” when the guy got snotty that he hadn’t got on the bus in front. Following a frank exchange of views, the driver coughed “asshole” into his hand when my chum was disembarking. It was like being back in school!

]]> By: Dick OBrien http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/04/28/all-about-buses-dot-com/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Dick OBrien Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:29:58 +0000 http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/04/28/all-about-buses-dot-com/#comment-190 <em>After this massive, frustrating hiatus in the service, it is a regular occurence to be passed by a full bus (surprise, surprise, the passengers built up at the stops) whereupon three more come along in convoy. The last two will be completely empty for the trip to town. Why weren’t they staggered? What are the drivers up to at their terminus?</em> Well, if I were a cynical group of bus drivers sharing the same route (and I'm not suggesting there are <em>any</em> in Dublin) I'd bunch up too, taking turns in each run along the route to go in front. Why? Because it's a pretty sweet number just driving the bus and not having to deal with passengers and all that. My current pet gripe with buses is when you're waiting at the bus stop for bus X. Bus Y comes along, followed by bus X. Because bus Y is at the stop, the driver of bus X often just steams on by and ignores the stop. After this massive, frustrating hiatus in the service, it is a regular occurence to be passed by a full bus (surprise, surprise, the passengers built up at the stops) whereupon three more come along in convoy. The last two will be completely empty for the trip to town. Why weren’t they staggered? What are the drivers up to at their terminus?

Well, if I were a cynical group of bus drivers sharing the same route (and I’m not suggesting there are any in Dublin) I’d bunch up too, taking turns in each run along the route to go in front. Why? Because it’s a pretty sweet number just driving the bus and not having to deal with passengers and all that.

My current pet gripe with buses is when you’re waiting at the bus stop for bus X. Bus Y comes along, followed by bus X. Because bus Y is at the stop, the driver of bus X often just steams on by and ignores the stop.

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