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to complain about Londoners?

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NearlyMrsCustardsHardHat · 14/04/2012 00:45

I have just gone from brixton to Liverpool street in tears and with a very heavy limp. I am in agony right now and not one person has stopped to ask if im ok.

Considering the time (midnight) if you saw a woman limping through the tube network in tears would you stop her and ask if she's ok? Or aibu to think someone might have helped me?

disclaimer: i met people at both ends of the journey so am home fine just pissed off at how people will just walk past someone in such obvious difficulty. Aibu to be disgusted by it?

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EmpressOfTheSevenOceans · 14/04/2012 00:48

Yanbu but don't judge all Londoners by the ones you met. I'd have stopped and have before on similar occasions. I'm glad you got home ok.

FizzyLaces · 14/04/2012 00:49

Poor you, I doubt that'd have happened anywhere else in Britain. It's a funny place, London.

TheNightIsDarkAndFullOfTerrors · 14/04/2012 00:50

YANBU. People can be cunts.

Poor you. I would certainly help!

WorraLiberty · 14/04/2012 00:50

Yes of course it's just us Londoners who are cunts

Despite the fact that if I travelled on public transport at midnight I'd no doubt stumble across many limping drugged up drunks.

But I would of course stop and ask each and every one of them if they were ok.

On the other hand if someone asked me for help....

Oh what do I know? I'm such a London cunt.

kilmuir · 14/04/2012 00:51

Bit harsh. Counts are widespread

TheFarSide · 14/04/2012 00:52

I might also have assumed you were drunk, especially as it's Friday night.

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NearlyMrsCustardsHardHat · 14/04/2012 00:53

Scuse me worra while i remove the needle from my arm the powder from under my nose and hide the can of special brew.

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TheNightIsDarkAndFullOfTerrors · 14/04/2012 00:53

Counts Grin

Oh if only!

TheFarSide · 14/04/2012 00:53

Anyway, are you OK? Why are you limping and in tears?

FizzyLaces · 14/04/2012 00:54

Worra, do Londoners not have a radar for who's a drugged up drunk like the rest of us? Hmm

RobynLou · 14/04/2012 00:54

what did you want people to do?
carry your bag? give up their seat? I would offer to do those things, but a crying and limping woman late on a friday night is likely to 'just' be drunk. If there's no obvious way to help and she didn't ask me to help then I would leave her alone.
One of the things I love about London is the fact people generally leave you alone!

ChickenSkin · 14/04/2012 00:55

I didn't come across many Londerners when I was in London.

WorraLiberty · 14/04/2012 00:55

Can you imagine the OP thinking black/Asian/Irish/Scouse/Glaswegian/whatever were all cunts?

So this happened tonight on one journey and suddenly Londoners are cunts?

FFS Grow up.

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NearlyMrsCustardsHardHat · 14/04/2012 00:55

Fair comment on the possible pissed headedness front. It is London after all. But still. Is it not a sorry state of affairs that a lone woman can be written off like that through a city?

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TheNightIsDarkAndFullOfTerrors · 14/04/2012 00:56

WTF? So if a woman appears to be drunk then she is not worth helping?

That is when you should help IMO.

I might not help a ranting and abusive drunken man who is big and scary but a woman who is vulnerable - why not?

WorraLiberty · 14/04/2012 00:56

I didn't come across many Londerners when I was in London

Try Soho and a pack of baby wipes Wink

TremoloGreen · 14/04/2012 00:58

Poor you Sad
Yes, London hardens you a bit, but I like to think I would have helped you. I don't get that train though. Eventually one person helped me when I fainted on a train last year...
There's no excuse really. What happened? Are you OK now?

WorraLiberty · 14/04/2012 00:58

WTF? So if a woman appears to be drunk then she is not worth helping?

Not if she hasn't asked for help no.

Or do you suggest us Londoners hang around the tube stations all night and force ourselves upon women who can't handle drink regardless of whether they want help or not?

Weird.

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NearlyMrsCustardsHardHat · 14/04/2012 01:00

Well considering by the end of the journey i couldn't walk even calling for help from a passing btp or guard to help me walk would have been sufficient. Mind you. Had i fallen over what would have been done then? Yes a seat on the tube would be great. Never gonna happen. Who'd honestly give their seat up?

To those who've asked im okish. Drugged up now (legally) and waiting for them to kick in so i can sleep. Thanks for asking.

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WorraLiberty · 14/04/2012 01:00

Either way OP I do hope you're ok

I also hope you sort your prejudiced attitude out

One incident does not make a whole city full of cunts.

Wafflepuss · 14/04/2012 01:00

You must have crossed the path of literally thousands of people on that journey, they can't possibly all be cunts but all showed you the same response so perhaps you didn't give off the 'vulnerable and in need of help' vibe that you thought you did?

FrankWippery · 14/04/2012 01:01

Well I am a Londoner and in the unlikely event that I was on the tube late at night and saw a person in distress I would absolutely see if I could help.

Therefore I take umbrage at your comment that all Londoners are cunts Wink 'cos I ain't one. but I can be if necessary

Wafflepuss · 14/04/2012 01:02

Do hope you're ok though!

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NearlyMrsCustardsHardHat · 14/04/2012 01:02

Oh and the limp. Not drink related. I have fibromyalgia and spinal problems and, due to my own fault, worked too many hours this week and my body went "Fuck you" and gave up on me.

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WorraLiberty · 14/04/2012 01:02

Exactly Frank!

My son was mugged by a group of black teenagers

Does that mean I think all black teenagers are cunts?

No, of course it fucking doesn't.