black humour is the best

July 31, 2005 12:44 AM

Glad to see that, despite all the recent tragedies, Londoners still have a sense of humour...however sardonic.
posted by randomstriker (18 comments total)

I AM FUCKING TERRIFIED
posted by matteo at 12:54 AM on July 31, 2005

It was a bomb, you stupid fucking mutt.
posted by puke & cry at 1:09 AM on July 31, 2005 [1 favorite]

Seems to me this is just sensible advice with none of the rhetoric or euphemism it is normally surrounded in. Can you imagine Tony Blair telling people that 'look a bit foreign' to be careful? This is good stuff.
posted by Acey at 1:27 AM on July 31, 2005

This is real. And funny.

I saw it at the Notting Hill tube station last week... although by then someone had removed the "look a bit foreign" part. Cowards.
posted by three blind mice at 2:13 AM on July 31, 2005

This is real. And funny.

Wow, really? It's been doing the rounds at work and I just assumed it was a Photoshop job.
posted by TheDonF at 3:05 AM on July 31, 2005

LGF serious and false - with their usual standard of accuracy.....
posted by quarsan at 3:21 AM on July 31, 2005

Real? Nah . . .
posted by caddis at 6:44 AM on July 31, 2005

While this is a fascinating catch, I have to say that my eye was caught by the fact that there is (at least one) blog out there named for, and presumably inspired by, a Fiona Apple song that has never been (officially) released.
posted by mmahaffie at 6:58 AM on July 31, 2005

As far as I know.
posted by mmahaffie at 6:59 AM on July 31, 2005

From a read of the blog it seems like the young lady in question is a USian based in London. Either way, she should have cottoned on to the fact that in London a subway is an underground walkway and the subterranean train system is called 'The Underground' or 'Tube'.
posted by i_cola at 8:07 AM on July 31, 2005

I am particularly appalled by whichever dickhead created jeancharlesdemenezes.biz.ly.
posted by tapeguy at 10:54 AM on July 31, 2005

EVEN THE FISH IS FUCKING TERRIFIED
posted by matteo at 10:58 AM on July 31, 2005

great find tapeguy.

best of the web, worst of the web.
posted by three blind mice at 10:58 AM on July 31, 2005

It is real. There is a bit of a subversive culture amongst the tube staff. The drivers make their own announcements, and they can be pretty funny at times. (Mind you, I'd be in a laugh a minute myself if I earned £GB31,000/$US55,000 a year for sitting with my finger on a "stop" button all day).

Of course, there is a 95% chance the writer of the note "looked a bit foreign", and will therefore have had his/her subversive streak stimulated even more than usual.
posted by RichLyon at 11:12 AM on July 31, 2005

Pretty sure it's a fake, sadly. Look at the background on the bottom right of each picture - it's the same, just cropped slightly differently.
posted by tapeguy at 11:34 AM on July 31, 2005

Yes, fake. The background is the same, you can see a bit of a person's hand in both of them, and an oblong highlight above the printed word "date"
posted by delmoi at 2:36 PM on July 31, 2005

tapeguy whois listing
posted by quarsan at 1:58 AM on August 1, 2005

My eyes played tricks on me. I thought the "r" in rucksack was an "f".
posted by NemesisVex at 10:35 AM on August 1, 2005