Standing on an overcrowded commuter train

Watching the clouds roll away

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What about if you’re travelling by boat, but spending some of the time indoors and some outdoors, how would you describe that?

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Yeah baby!

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i’m in a boat

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So he’s ‘standing on a train’. Count how many times you hear that said. Truth is he’s simply ‘on a train, standing’.

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stereophonics’ early draft of a thousand trees needed some work, eh

can’t stop thinking about ham faced throats

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Thought about this and still reckon I’m right, basically.

If you phoned someone or messaged them it would be highly weird to launch in with “I’m standing on a train”. Convention dictates you would say you’re on the train, and if standing was unusual you’d follow up by stating you’re standing, presuming it was worth mentioning but even then that’s unlikely. If it was because you had a broken leg or something, the style would be more likely, “I’m having to stand,” making the point that this is an injustice.

:grinning:

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Theo: I’m sorry Kurt, you might not be able to complain, but I’m going to have to take issue with your assertion that you are “on a plane”

pretty much half a song written here fellas

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for fucks sake

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Is Theo ok?

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i’m in a plane
standing again

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Am I the only one who’d say they were stood on a train?

So there was this Disser and
She was, uh, standing on an overcrowded commuter train and
She’s travelling to that there London
Travelling along the fifth most-used railway system
In the world and she was standing
Next to this Tory looking prick in a seat who
She had unavoidably brushed his seat with their hand or arm
And really the only thing
She’d seen him do was to read a book on hedge funds
and give her dirty sideways glances
From his ham faced fucking throat
And she’s sitting there and she’s
Got her face wedged in someone’s armpit
She’s feeling very bored and very despondent
And then, suddenly there’s this huge mechanical failure and the brakes gave out
And they started just careering down the rails out of control
And the driver’s on the microphone and he’s saying
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, Oh My God, I’m Sorry”
And apologising and she looks at the prick and she says
“Where are we going?” and he looks at her and he shrugs aggressively
And then, uh, he starts humming this little tune and, uh, it kind of goes like this

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its alright mate I’m getting off at the next stop

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:smiley:

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Excellent thread

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