Congratulations, First Great Western, you dismissed a woman - and just lost a regular customer.

[Bidisha]

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/bidisha/first-great-western-_b_3839118.html

I don't recall ever having read a bigger pile of bollocks.

I got to the end of the second paragraph and found it full of unnecessary words, yet boring. References to people which were bitchy, yet tedious. Name drops and self serving links which were yawn worthy, yet mindnumbing.

(see what I did there )

Where are you OP?

I think you're all treading on very thin ice here. You really should show more respect for a woman, like Bidisha, who will not be dismissed. If you aren't careful she'll write a long rambling piece about MNers who are vipers, yet sarcastic; insulting, yet not impressed by wibble. Then she'll post a link to it somewhere completely irrelevant, like the camping section. You see if she doesn't!

And you're a journalist? Really? REALLY???

I best First Great Western are holding a party right now knowing you're never going to travel on their trains again.

Fucks me off actually- i was good at English at school but no one from my bog- standard comp really did things like journalism, you were aiming high if you went into teaching!

She had all the privileges of a Haberdasher Aske's education yet STILL writes so badly.. And gets away with it ? Nothing like useful school contacts, hey?!

I'm sure she will be back. After all she is not the type of person to crawl like a nobody, into her nobody hole.

Saskia, sadly you're probably right! Probably only need to copy & paste and job done!

I'm torn. I do want to read it because the quotes make the OP sound like a total knobber and that's always good for a laugh, but on the other hand I'm not sure it would be good for my rage.

So you see I'm tempted, yet trepidatious.

It's bloody hilarious. I've read it three times.

I am amused, yet flabbergasted.

Christ on a bike you're like the most dull writer ever.

Read it Randall, you will think what the fuck is this nonsense,yet highly amused.

Can someone sum up please? I couldnt get past the first sentence

She asked the guard to ask some passengers to talk more quietly.

He said "you can't stop people talking"

Therefore she is never going to Bristol again.

Some poshos in suits were talking in the quiet carriage,guard didn't give a toss.

Err, that's it.

And he only said that because she's a woman

I don't think Bidisha ever engages does she, just throws us poor downtrodden mothers a little intellectual stimulation.
In case you do though- why did you post in etiquette? The whole concept of manners/ rules/ etiquette is anathema to a feminist surely?

Toys it is a major storm in a tea cup, written incredibly badly in a style I can only describe as crap.

HTH.

She was in the quiet coach. Some noisy young people got on at Reading, and were noisy for 45 minutes (despite the journey time to Paddington being only 30 minutes). Eventually she told the guard that the nasty people were being too noisy, and he refused to do anything about it because she is a woman and he was a passive-aggressive sexist person.

Thanks, SDT for putting me straight. I stand corrected. Obviously my innate sexism came to the fore. Obviously not having the benefit of a Habs (is that similar to Hogwarts) education has left me unappreciative of the finer things in life, such as the OPs writings, and, indeed, the OP herself.

E for etiquette comes before F(eminism), like i said, dogs next if she's going backwards!

flipchart did you mean what planet is the OP on?