To think that "standee" is not a real word?

[MrBloomsMarrow]

I was on the bus this morning and there was a notice saying that the capacity of bus was 48 passengers - 30 seated and 18 standees. Surely they've just made this up? Should I complain?

This dictionary says YABU

Where are these buses that are so peaceful that all there is to complain about are the signs?

How do i get a life so peaceful, that means i give a shit about such matters?

I think you need to take it all the way to the CEO.

Oh no, I was wrong. I am devastated as will now have to stand down as spelling and grammar champion at work (sad but true - it's the only talent I possess). I actually only noticed as I was looking around trying not to catch the eye of either of the women who were hurling
random items of shopping at each other. It may be grammatically correct but I still think it sounds stupid.

Never mind "standee" - who were the women and why were they lobbing shopping at each other?!

Ahem - still waiting to hear about the Shopping-Throwing-Women!!

I live in a rough-ish area of sarf London and fights on buses are fairly commonplace. This one started because one of the women accused the other of deliberately running her foot over with her trolley at which point all hell broke loose. Neither of them had a very good aim so passengers had to duck to avoid bags of frozen veg and potato waffles. The funniest one I saw was two respectable women on their way to church whacking each other with their bibles.

So am I Salmo
Come back op, even though you were wrong and feel silly!

oops

MrBloom you must tell us more! Never mind the sign, this is the real story here!!

Hahahahaha! - frozen veg and potato waffles. Love it!

And, and... Actual real bible-bashing! LOL

Am off to pick up DCs but will give full details re bible incident later. In a nutshell, the driver tried to break up fight and one of them kneed him in the balls and them the Police got called.

Noooooo.

The DCs can sort themselves out surely?!

...... Just kidding!

This sounds fab.

Wow throwees on the bus...

Didn't the drivee tell them off?

So the driver ended up a kneeee?

And the woman became an arrestee - that is grammatically correct isn't it? I actually had to give a witness statement which one of the most surreal experiences ever eg . Policeman: "And approximately how large was the bible?"

No wonder you were staring at the signs so intently!

Imagine hitting each other with bibles!

Weird sort of juxtaposition - if that's the appropriate word!

And verily, there was much smiting on the number 34. The smitee was smote upon the head and lo, the smitee did not turn the other cheek in case it was whacked with Luke, Chapter 6, Verse 2. And God saw the smiting, and was displeased. And God said

"FFS you two, what do you think this is, Jeremy Kyle? Don't make me come down there. It's all fun and games until someone gets turned into a pillar of salt."

LOL

Stuntgirl, yes I did get very engrossed in reading the signs when they progressed onto chucking tins and I really didn't want to catch their eye in case they turned their food throwing wrath onto me. I didn't have my phone with me to pretend to be engrossed in and it would have been difficult to try to read a book as I was a standee.
It made the rows about buggies seem very tame.
I'm wondering if it will get into the local paper.

Oh yes, with a sad faced throwee nursing a bump from a frozen Brussels sprouts bag!

Classy.

A standee is also another word for a cardboard cut out.

YABU!

When you go to the hairdresser, are you a hairdressee? So the bus has room for 18 cardboard cutouts? They wouldn't have lasted long against the flying potato waffles.

I've just read a book that says that in Istanbul everyone is an "ist" - a man selling tangerines is a Tangerinist.