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Black Wizard
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I'm on a train.
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
In on a chair on a train.
phantomoftheicarus
Bleeding Freak
I'm on a bed. Which is not available on the vast majority of trains
Edington
Last Son of The Miracle
A Virgin train? Faster than the speed of cheetah, you know.
I'm on a sofa. Which as far as I'm aware is also not available on a train, but maybe I'm getting the wrong trains.
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
No, it was a GWR train.
Edington
Last Son of The Miracle
I misread that as GWAR train. Where ya headin'?
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
I'm in London. Now on tube to Kentish Town. Its like Kent, but only a bit.
It's Kent...ish.
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
The Raven Age will be on soon. 
I once attended an inquest on the death of an elderly lady who was thrown down the aisle of a bus when it applied its emergency brakes. She slammed into a bulkhead and fractured her neck, back, and skull. She'd been sitting down when the bus braked, but didn't have a seat or a jawbreaker bar (they actually call them that in the coachbuilders industry) in front of her. They reckon even someone young and in full health could have been killed by the forces involved. Two other people who'd been seriously injured under similar circumstances contacted the paper after reading about it.
It's Papa Christmas. What could be confusing about that?
Edington
Last Son of The Miracle
The bar would probably have saved her life, stopping her being thrown all the way down the bus aisle.
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
Why don't buses have seatbelts?
Wogmidget
Shitpost bot
Natural selection
People probably wouldn't use them if they're just going a few stops, plus buses are normally travelling quite slowly in built-up areas, and it would cost manufacturers a small fortune. There was a campaign to get belts installed on seats that don't have a barrier or seat directly in front of them.
So, this is really interesting. Many probably heard about the Humboldt Broncos bus crash earlier this year that took out a small town hockey team, most of whom were killed by being ejected from the bus and the related difficulties this caused. It turns out that there was quite an extensive study on the use of seatbelts that occurred in the 1980s on busses and that they would be much safer with them, but the report was buried. It's a minor scandal right now.