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Bus driver chucks chained goth couple off his bus

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UnquietDad · 22/01/2008 22:47

article here

What do we make of this?

I imagine they were paying fares like anyone else, and the bus-driver doesn't have "fashion police" on his job description.

I mean, I think they look pretty daft, but then they might think I looked daft as well. (There's probably some truth in the comment on the DM page about looking back on it in 10 years and finding it embarrassing.)

Although...

Dani Graves. Chortle.

(Do they take the chain off at night, I wonder? Or when one of them needs a shit?)

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MyManorIsWankered · 22/01/2008 22:51

It's her culture?!

Driver shouldn't have chucked them off the bus.

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PeachesMcLean · 22/01/2008 22:52

Oh FGS.

At being treated as a pet (even ironically)
At the driver's behaviour.
At the way the DM reports it. "they're on benefits and are thinking of starting a family."

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moondog · 22/01/2008 22:52

lmao

Love the Daily Fascist Mail pointing out that they
1.live on benefits

  1. live in a council house
  2. want to start a family all in one sentence. Brilliant
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UnquietDad · 22/01/2008 22:53

I must admit I don't get the whole "pet" thing. What is that all about?...

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moondog · 22/01/2008 22:53

A Goth comes to my gym and jogs with a huge padlock around his neck. That cracks me up every time.

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UnquietDad · 22/01/2008 22:55

Leaving aside the issue of the bus-driver being a tosser, what would you think if she was your daughter?

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expatinscotland · 22/01/2008 22:55

Now on a rational level, I know this isn't supposed to be funny.

But somehow, it is . . .

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MyManorIsWankered · 22/01/2008 22:57

My first thought, actually, UD, was "I wonder whether their parents are proud of them?" [fogey]

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serenity · 22/01/2008 22:57

at the driver at the DM reporting (for the same reason as Peaches quotes)

Apart from the leash, I don't think they're dressed particularly OTT tbh. It's quite conservative for a pair of teenage goths I thought (kids today, no idea how to dress provocatively!)

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moondog · 22/01/2008 22:58

Shell catch her death though.

Folk like that are generally soft spoken and harmless althoguh usually have terrible taste in airbrushed art.

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louii · 22/01/2008 22:59

PMSL at the whole article really.

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expatinscotland · 22/01/2008 22:59

glad i'm not alone, louii.

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serenity · 22/01/2008 23:01

If she was my daughter? I'd say 'FGS put some slap on girl, call yourself a goth? I've seen better goths shopping in boden. Queen of the night my arse. Pah, you kids today'

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SorenLorensen · 22/01/2008 23:02

They're all silly arses - Daily Bile, bus driver and silly girl who lets her bf walk her round on a lead (I have nothing against their clothes and hair - in fact once upon a time I looked a bit like that - less cleavagey though...but I really don't like the whole "dog on a lead" thing).

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UnquietDad · 22/01/2008 23:05

Agreed, the clothes and hair aren't especially outrageous when you compare with some. He looks desperately like he wants to be Wayne Hussey or that bloke out of Fields of the Napalm or whatever the hell they are called.

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madamez · 22/01/2008 23:06

Erm, just a bit of FYI here... The 'pet' thing is BDSM rather than just gothic (though you can get away with a lot more BDSM trappings if you are also a goth). But what a pillock of a bus driver - he's got no justification for kicking them off the bus if he lets on: people with big awkward bulky items, or actual woofing barking pissing dogs, has he?

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serenity · 22/01/2008 23:10

Fields of the Nephilim (sp?) or Napalm Death UQD Wayne Hussey, fugly but

I'd imagine you get a lot of fairly 'normal' BDSMers, but it just looks more stylish with the Morticia look.

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donnie · 22/01/2008 23:11

Wayne hussey!!! I actually saw the Mission once as well....he used to wear a lovely white dress.

ps UQD I think it was fields of the nephilim?

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donnie · 22/01/2008 23:12

now that girl, the bass player in Sisters of Mercy; she was the bollocks as far as good looking goth girls go IMO.

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PeachesMcLean · 22/01/2008 23:14

BDSM???

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pukkapatch · 22/01/2008 23:15

hmmm, does she take the pet thing to the extreme where she refused to pay, as she is a pet?
if so, he is well within his rights to chuck them off.
this sounds lieks some sort of sexual thing. and consenting adults are fine, but could they please do their consensual sex acts elsewhere, and not on public transport.

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Disenchanted · 22/01/2008 23:16

Its got NOTHING to do with the bloody bus driver how they choose to dress or live!!! And he has no right WHATSOEVER to dictate who gets on that bus decided simply by someones clothing or lifestyle choice!

Somehow it seems 'OK' to some people to react that way towards this young couple just because they are young and goths.

Well its not

There would be bloody uproar if he refused a young asian couple on because she was wearing a headdress or him a turban.

But people dont see discrimination the same way when it comes to young people.

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pukkapatch · 22/01/2008 23:19

calm down disenchanted. calm down.
its not something to get so het up about. the bus driver did act rather like a twunt.

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Carmenere · 22/01/2008 23:20

She has a great body though, doesn't she?

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serenity · 22/01/2008 23:20

BDSM

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