Why do people in London walk so fast / push past etc?
Does it matter if they arrive 3 minutes earlier for their desk jobs?
In some cases yes as they are docked pay for being late and the like.
Far less obnoxious than the mini driver who sat behind me on the M25 flashing their lights while I overtook traffic before then undertaking me and swerving into a tiny gap in front of me. Went on to do the same to a white van and a mile later was only 100 yards ahead of me when I turned off.
the great london paradox is the rushing / pushing past other than:
on the tube escalator where it seems no-one walks and everyone prefers the very slow ascent / descent by standing on the right
with lifts where everyone is super polite (other than on lifts on the tube)
It's not that we walk fast, but slack-jawed yokels, tourists and out-ot-towners suddenly stop to gawp at the tall buildings/the shock of a ticket hall having ticket barriers/a shoeless man shouting obscenities in the street
Couldn’t get ahead.
Chapeau to cookie's Larkinesque post. Reminds me of "drowning not waving".
It takes 2-3 times longer to cover any given distance in London than anywhere else so people have to work harder to get there.
I was thinking of The Fall actually, but I’ll take Larkin gladly.
As a slack-jawed yokel myself, I'm glad I'm now out of there.
Smell ya l8r, lozerz!
Did you not look in at your club?
No time today.
Maybe if you’d walked a bit quicker…
I think it should be perfectly lawful for a London pedestrian needing to get places to use a scythe to rid the pavements of wandering sloths, phone zombies and short little plump oompah loompah toffs in their bowties and tweeds whose little legs are so short that they cannot move fast and have to call themselves a duck, but aggrandise themselves for self-assurance purposes by claiming they are three - yes, not one, not two, but a mighty three- ducks.
A scythe, shotgun or taser. Not in the public interest to prosecute those acts which are for the wider good. I think there should be an automatic street sweeping device that roams the city picking up bits that have been scythed aside. Feathers and all.
I walk fast and if I try to walk slow my body and brain just say wtf are you doing and I speed up. I just have one comfortable speed and it has been thus since teenhood. If I have to walk somewhere I'm not taking all farking day about it.
I am also a fast walker. That's deffo an L in that word u jokers.
This has lead to #3 who is still quite small having a very amusing speed walk like speedy gonzales.
The idea that this is just a London thing. New York, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul all have this and many other major cities. I'm a fast walker anywhere I am so get raged by people being slow or worse still standing in a bottleneck oblivious to everyone else
Surely if you know you walk unusually fast, that's a you problem.
Likewise. You just have to be prepared to weave thru the slackers. But pref avoid them completely.
I walk fast everywhere and always climb the escalators
I get my access card / document ready way before I have to scan it so as not to lose time at the door / gate
But I am not a pushy or aggressive walker
Walking fast inside big law firms is also a thing — shows that you’re busy and in demand
Obviously everyone strides around the office looking important and busy.
— shows that you’re busy and in demand
Or need the toilet urgently
Couldn’t get ahead.
Thanks nickers; it's been a while since I listened to that one:
Walking fast inside big law firms is also a thing — shows that you’re busy and in demand
Better still walk at a reasonable pace and with a confident stride preferably with the Imperial March from Star Wars playing as you move down the corridor.
In some cases yes as they are docked pay for being late and the like.
Far less obnoxious than the mini driver who sat behind me on the M25 flashing their lights while I overtook traffic before then undertaking me and swerving into a tiny gap in front of me. Went on to do the same to a white van and a mile later was only 100 yards ahead of me when I turned off.
the great london paradox is the rushing / pushing past other than:
It's not that we walk fast, but slack-jawed yokels, tourists and out-ot-towners suddenly stop to gawp at the tall buildings/the shock of a ticket hall having ticket barriers/a shoeless man shouting obscenities in the street
Couldn’t get ahead.
Chapeau to cookie's Larkinesque post. Reminds me of "drowning not waving".
It takes 2-3 times longer to cover any given distance in London than anywhere else so people have to work harder to get there.
I was thinking of The Fall actually, but I’ll take Larkin gladly.
As a slack-jawed yokel myself, I'm glad I'm now out of there.
Smell ya l8r, lozerz!
Did you not look in at your club?
No time today.
Maybe if you’d walked a bit quicker…
I think it should be perfectly lawful for a London pedestrian needing to get places to use a scythe to rid the pavements of wandering sloths, phone zombies and short little plump oompah loompah toffs in their bowties and tweeds whose little legs are so short that they cannot move fast and have to call themselves a duck, but aggrandise themselves for self-assurance purposes by claiming they are three - yes, not one, not two, but a mighty three- ducks.
A scythe, shotgun or taser. Not in the public interest to prosecute those acts which are for the wider good. I think there should be an automatic street sweeping device that roams the city picking up bits that have been scythed aside. Feathers and all.
I walk fast and if I try to walk slow my body and brain just say wtf are you doing and I speed up. I just have one comfortable speed and it has been thus since teenhood. If I have to walk somewhere I'm not taking all farking day about it.
I am also a fast walker. That's deffo an L in that word u jokers.
This has lead to #3 who is still quite small having a very amusing speed walk like speedy gonzales.
The idea that this is just a London thing. New York, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul all have this and many other major cities. I'm a fast walker anywhere I am so get raged by people being slow or worse still standing in a bottleneck oblivious to everyone else
Surely if you know you walk unusually fast, that's a you problem.
Likewise. You just have to be prepared to weave thru the slackers. But pref avoid them completely.
I walk fast everywhere and always climb the escalators
I get my access card / document ready way before I have to scan it so as not to lose time at the door / gate
But I am not a pushy or aggressive walker
Walking fast inside big law firms is also a thing — shows that you’re busy and in demand
Obviously everyone strides around the office looking important and busy.
— shows that you’re busy and in demand
Or need the toilet urgently
Couldn’t get ahead.
Thanks nickers; it's been a while since I listened to that one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj5Ra9C5D_8
Not sure about Brix though
Walking fast inside big law firms is also a thing — shows that you’re busy and in demand
Better still walk at a reasonable pace and with a confident stride preferably with the Imperial March from Star Wars playing as you move down the corridor.
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