What do you make of ‘No Trouser Tube Ride’?

That's gross too - but the existence of something worse doesn't automatically make something less bad magically totally fine.

Grow the fuck up.

Them, not you OP.

Is that you, the 1950s?!

Public transport drivers, conductors, guards, admin staff... people on their way to or from one of the very many workplaces that is open/operational on a Sunday, and maybe trying to work on their commute?

Ironically, vicars often live locally in their parishes, and so are probably less likely to need to use public transport to get there - unlike people who work in city centre shops but could never hope to afford to live in walking distance!

You'll start seeing Tango's walking around from that comment. Half of the women you see looking orange will be from Mumsnet.

Really? Wearing commonly recognised outer clothing doesn't cover any more than underwear does? If that's the case, why have a special day for people to be out in public in their pants; why not just make underwear as outerwear the everyday norm?

Is that you vicar?

Do you really think that nobody using public transport on a Sunday is on their way to work, or even in the process of working?

And that's the whole point: location matters greatly when it comes to what is or isn't appropriate. Everybody on this thread will almost certainly have been naked or very partially clothed today, when in their own homes; but very few of them will have been out in public that way.

Yes, a beach is still a public place, but you can usually find your own patch that's sufficiently away from others; and people are often just lying there, minding their own business. It's completely different with public transport - where you're unavoidably very close to other people and often have your face up close to parts of other people's bodies.

Well, what about the annual naked bike ride? Isn’t that far worse ?

Would you rather the men clean shaven down there. You saucy minx

It’s only an age of competitive hygiene on MN. Nobody I actually know comes anywhere near the ridiculous levels I see here.

Nail on head

How I’d love my small child to witness this and start thinking that it’s okay to take your trousers off and sit in your underwear in public 🙄

Boundaries boundaries boundaries. Please.

No legs are gross. It takes a special snowflake to be offended by legs that are a little different to their own.

Yep. Liberal used to mean Tories with a conscience, now it means getting undressed in public.
Surprising in this age of competitive hygiene that people want to do it on the tube, maybe they're topping up their microbiomes, though perhaps better in January, the tubes in summer are grim enough.

I'd worry about getting ringworm. Nasty thing to do.

Still, it’s a completely different environment to a beach. You can’t just move away from these people participating. You’re trapped on a carriage with them. I think we have to have a certain level of respect for our fellow passengers.
Just the thought of a man’s hairy arse near me on the tube makes me shudder.

Bunch of middle class attention seeking dickheads

And in this case we also have to contend with instances of the number one MN transgression.

For future reference here’s the top five, culminating in the horror that has already been cited a couple of times in this thread.

5 Dropping by unexpectedly
4 Sauvignon on a school night
3 Refusing to despise all your exes
2 Children sitting on the front wall

….all of which pale in comparison to…

1 Attention seeking

Is a Sunday afternoon rush hour?

And what about in summer when it's shorts and skirts? They don't really cover much more...

Exactly. At least the pearl clutchers got an outing.

In fairness, this isn't in rush hour. It's done on a Sunday afternoon, so it's considerably less crowded.

Yeah, but that's a beach where you're not expected to wear much. Not the grotty London Underground.

Bunch of attention seekers.

The difference is the proximity and confined space. A tube in rush hour is a completely different environment to a beach. I don’t want someone’s smelly bum near my face on the tube. It’s grim enough with the smells coming off people.

I think it’s great. Makes me laugh every year.

How about not introducing irrelevant comparisons and sticking to what’s under discussion? It’s a tube train on a Sunday and nobody’s doing the job they’re paid for.