http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38138 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 06:32:45 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38138#post-107881 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:19:58 +0000 godly1966 107881@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>excellent. 5 stars me duck. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38138#post-107879 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:23:07 +0000 Golgo13 107879@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thank you, my lovers.</p> <p>Cup your balls for you? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38138#post-107850 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:07:58 +0000 dvo4fun 107850@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Had to google it as missed the story. genuine laughs </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38138#post-107836 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:12:48 +0000 Perks 107836@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Love this, very funny, 5stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38138#post-107820 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:41:21 +0000 Midfield Diamond 107820@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yeah, very good. I thought about writing something along the lines of elderly lady passengers in nearby Worthing being ordered to refrain from calling the bus drivers 'my dear'. But this is better. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38138#post-107800 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:21:09 +0000 Al OPecia 107800@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Super. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38138#post-107781 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:07:18 +0000 waylandsmithy 107781@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This is awesome. Very awesome. What a brilliant expansion on the news story! People call each our 'shug' up here. It's short for 'Shergar', a thinly-veiled threat to drive you to Ireland and mince you for dog food.</p> <p>Although my neighbour says it's also short for 'Sugar'.</p> <p>Ta-ra a bit. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38138#post-107767 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:10:46 +0000 Golgo13 107767@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The friendly snog with the driver could become a thing of the past on Brighton's public transport network, as busy-body bus bosses have told employees that intimate contact with passengers is no longer acceptable.</p> <p>Just days after being told that "some of our customers may take offence at having terms such as 'love', 'darling' and 'babe' directed towards them", Brighton's bus drivers are again being taken to task for their overly familiar manner with passengers, with cuddles, fondles and lobe-nibbling being branded as 'out-of-date' and 'potentially offensive'.</p> <p>But how offensive are these seemingly harmless, friendly gestures?</p> <p>A spokesman for the bus company, quoted in the Brighton Argus, acknowledged that such complaints were rare. But over the past decade there have been moves by a number of hospitals and councils to stop their employees touching, licking and gazing longingly into customers' eyes. </p> <p>In 2006, managers at Newcastle City Council instructed staff to think carefully before using such techniques as "petting" or "nipple tweaking" when dealing with women, for fear that they may be interpreted as sexist. </p> <p>But critics of the move argued that such terms were part of the region's behavioural heritage, and that people were simply employing traditional Geordie signs of endearment. </p> <p>So when bus drivers, cabbies and shopkeepers use moves like stroking, fingering or the reach-around, they are being "affectionate, not rapey", says Tony Thorne, editor of the Dictionary of Contemporary Public Foreplay.</p> <p>"It's folksy - part of a tradition in this country, a momentary affection between strangers. I know people who don't live in Britain any more and when they come back they say how much they like to feel the hand of a greengrocer down the front of their trousers. They know they're home."</p> <p>However, the bus company assured customers who have bought monthly passes that the 'happy-ending with every journey' offer would still be honoured. </p>