Trains

[Polari]

I like trains.

I recently took a train down to Christchurch to visit some friends and it was pretty awesome. No-one told me, but only freaks travel on trains here. Fucking mormons and monks, that's it, and the open-air carriage is non-smoking, which was pretty lame considering it's open-air and all. The mormon part was actually sort of cool because I ended up having to sit across from this really shy mormon making a feeble attempt to "get in" with a mormon chick (who was pretty ugly). You could tell he wanted to pork her so bad, and at one point he was all "Wouldn't it be funny if they paired us together?" (mormons attack in pairs as you'll know if the fuckers have ever woken you up on a Sunday morning). She was all "Oh, um, yeah" and I (being quite drunk, 'cos they serve alcohol on trains and had a special on wine) laughed at him really hard. The guy looked really gutted and chick sort of sniggered. It was awesome. Apart from that the guy across from me had a cellophone and was playing some rubbish game at full volume. I would've bitched him out if he hadn't already looked so sad.

But yeah, despite the awful, awful people and the awful, awful service it didn't diminish my appreciation for trains. You get scenery, a bed (if you're not on some rubbish New Zealand train), drinks and the opportunity to read and/or play Lumines. I wanna go on the Trans-Siberian Express sometime, but going across the United States on a train would be pretty rad too. Anyone done extensive travelling on trains?

[brawndolicious]

I once took a 12 hour train ride in Iran, I just slept and played cards.  Bathroom would be SCARY if you weren't peeing.  I could barely aim.  Could you aim?

[Polari]

Yeah, had to lean against the wall though.

They serve the best Devonshire Tea on trains.

[Polari]

That should be "Saturday morning". Mormons don't come around on Sundays, do they?

[TVC15]

Stereotypical mormon dudes are pretty attractive.  They don't appear to go homo much, though

[brawndolicious]

I thought mormons didn't go door-to-door.  Just missionaries in jungles and online viral marketers?

[Polari]

This one was fat and pasty. You wouldn't have missed much.

[Polari]

I thought mormons didn't go door-to-door.  Just missionaries in jungles and online viral marketers?

They do around here.

[Christopher]

is whiteman really gay I'm so confused it's like one day he's gay and one day he's not.

[brawndolicious]

I thought mormons didn't go door-to-door.  Just missionaries in jungles and online viral marketers?

They do around here.

You could just fuck around with them and ask what they think of divinity or some obscure thing.  Jehova's Witnesses don't know this but mormons are more religious I think (church most days of the week).

[Polari]

I thought mormons didn't go door-to-door.  Just missionaries in jungles and online viral marketers?

They do around here.

You could just fuck around with them and ask what they think of divinity or some obscure thing.  Jehova's Witnesses don't know this but mormons are more religious I think (church most days of the week).

Last time I just sniggered a "No" and slammed the door. I felt a bit guilty afterwards, perhaps laughing at mormons is one of my bad habits?

[Christopher]

when the mormons use to come I was always nice.  morons are pretty nice people I have no reason to disrepect them I just tell them that I'm happy with my religion, and that I would glance over the material.

It's no point in being rude to them, they really are in their minds doing nothing wrong.

[etiolate]

I like trains as well.  I love the smell of trains. I feel safer in a train even if I don't know if it is safer than a plane or not.  I just know falling off a track is less scary than plummeting down from the sky.  I also enjoy the view from a train.

One thing that I wish the US had was some bullet trains.  Public transportation where I live is shite.

[Polari]

I like trains as well.  I love the smell of trains. I feel safer in a train even if I don't know if it is safer than a plane or not.  I just know falling off a track is less scary than plummeting down from the sky.  I also enjoy the view from a train.

One thing that I wish the US had was some bullet trains.  Public transportation where I live is shite.

Bullet trains are great. People here are always banging on about how nobody takes trains these days, but if the rail company actually invested in their networks, you'd get a lot more people on trains. They almost cancelled the one between our two main centres the other day, thankfully a big petition saved it at the last minute, but if they continue to run it the way they have been I can't see it being around for much longer. On the city trains they're talking about ripping out the seats because there's enough demand to fill a carriage, just supposedly not enough to buy new ones.

[BlueTsunami]

A hispanic gay guy once wacked off on a train, in the seat across from me, while looking at me. Trains are awesome.

[Christopher]

ew

[Polari]

A hispanic gay guy once wacked off on a train, in the seat across from me, while looking at me. Trains are awesome.

You should have taken a picture with your cellophone and shamed him by posting it on the Internet. That's what I would have done.

[BlueTsunami]

I was freaking out when it happened, I didn't have anything to take a picture with either. I should have, that would have been awesome. I just ran away.

[etiolate]

A hispanic gay guy once wacked off on a train, in the seat across from me, while looking at me. Trains are awesome.

He was probably imagining this

[deadfish]

Ive spent a day on a train going from melbourne to the gold coast. Was good cause was with a group of mates and they served alcohol on the way. . . 24 hours was a little too much. Schoolies was awesome fun though.

The trains in Thailand are also pretty good, or atleast the overnight ones are, they have cool beds that fold out and make the trip shorter, and also the scenary is quite cool. Depressing when getting into bangkok though, with all the poverty and people hanging out around the train tracks.

[Polari]

Ive spent a day on a train going from melbourne to the gold coast. Was good cause was with a group of mates and they served alcohol on the way. . . 24 hours was a little too much. Schoolies was awesome fun though.

That would be a good journey, I'm surprised it only takes a day. I used to live in Melbourne, makes me wish I'd used it instead of flying. I'd love to take the Indian Pacific one day too.

[deadfish]

$170 return, the way back we had a stop in sydney for a few hours so we got to look around there aswell.

Mostly just slept on the way back, was a big week of drinking.

[whiteACID]

I love trains but I have never been on one! My new apartment has a track about 100 yards behind it, I can hear a train go by about 3-4 times a day. I love hearing that, especially when its raining