101 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 1 hour ago, Dons_1988 said: Anyway, this alcohol ban isn’t really serious is it? More of a confiscating off the neds etc but us sensible adults will just be a nod and a wink, yes? Im ok with that. This is the thing old guys on the train probably won't get any hassle, young folk probably will. I guess some of the drink seized was off kids or folk causing hassle but you just know when the rugby rolls round posh folk pissing in the street won't have their hippers confiscated. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Anyway, this alcohol ban isn’t really serious is it? More of a confiscating off the neds etc but us sensible adults will just be a nod and a wink, yes? Im ok with that. But neddish behaviour should be policed as such, and it shouldnt suddenly become illegal to be in possession of a can or bottle with a % in it because I have stepped onto a nationalised rail service we are being pushed towards using in lieu of cars. Pre empting anti social behaviour based on the fact you want a beer and literally taking it off people is lunacy and even in your scenario, it becomes a nonsense gamble for even Jack with 4 sealed cans of Fusilier to go and see Victor 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Before the ban they used to, eh, ban, drinking on certain services. The Sunday night to Aberdeen east coast was one. When Scotland played at Murrayfield was strangely one. Trains to/from Ayr when the races were on was one (got caught out coming back from Stranraer on that one! had had a couple of cans from Stranraer to Ayr and had a 30 minute stop at Ayr, so fired in to the town centre for more cans for the onward legs; had to chuck them all in the bin or the police wouldn't let me through the barriers!). Certain trains when Scotland were playing at Hampden were another. And of course trains to Ayr beach were always targeted in the summer. All very silly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 6 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: But neddish behaviour should be policed as such, and it shouldnt suddenly become illegal to be in possession of a can or bottle with a % in it because I have stepped onto a nationalised rail service we are being pushed towards using in lieu of cars. Pre empting anti social behaviour based on the fact you want a beer and literally taking it off people is lunacy and even in your scenario, it becomes a nonsense gamble for even Jack with 4 sealed cans of Fusilier to go and see Victor I wasn’t actually being particularly serious. I’m getting a train this week for the first time in ages and quite fancy a couple. The rule is absolutely shite and is quite typical of Scotland where we just ban things at the expense of actual customer experience. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 13 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said: I wasn’t actually being particularly serious. I’m getting a train this week for the first time in ages and quite fancy a couple. The rule is absolutely shite and is quite typical of Scotland where we just ban things at the expense of actual customer experience. Yeah I know, but your jest genuinely is the attitude a lot of folk have, which is why we get nonsense laws passed 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 13 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said: I wasn’t actually being particularly serious. I’m getting a train this week for the first time in ages and quite fancy a couple. The rule is absolutely shite and is quite typical of Scotland where we just ban things at the expense of actual customer experience. You'll be absolutely fine. The ban is not enforced save for publicity like the photo above and the odd conductor. I've been on plenty of trains back from the football since the ban came in to place and never had any issues with having a few cans, and have seen plenty of other folk openely drinking too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eez-eh Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 2 hours ago, Clown Job said: Unopened ffs The confiscating of it is bad enough but to then stand there beside it grinning like a pair of gormless clowns, as if this is what they got into policing for, is really the cherry on top. Fucking gimps. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 The confiscating of it is bad enough but to then stand there beside it grinning like a pair of gormless clowns, as if this is what they got into policing for, is really the cherry on top. Fucking gimps.Though I don't disagree with your point if that constitutes grinning to you I'd hate to see the sour faces you hang around with... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Did enjoy Scotrail piping up about how the ban has reduced anti social behaviour. I'd be stunned if ASB was at pre 2020 levels given that there are less people using trains than previously, there was a period where you couldn't travel into town for a pint because indoor drinking was banned, and they've not been running anything close to a functioning train service for months. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Larbert to Glasgow return 8 quid. Upgrade the return due to it falling on peak time, 5.40. Il be pleased to recoup that via future bumpings. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 13 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: Larbert to Glasgow return 8 quid. Upgrade the return due to it falling on peak time, 5.40. Il be pleased to recoup that via future bumpings. Not this again! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VincentGuerin Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 I'd actually forgotten that on Cup Final Morning back in May me and a few mates had started with a few cans and a fry-up in a friend's house. We then got the train into Glasgow late morning to go to the pub. East Kilbride to Glasgow. Openly drinking cans and the conductor's only comment was that he hoped our team won. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 3 hours ago, VincentGuerin said: I'm confused about this. I thought the ban was simply a Scotrail policy rather than the law. For example, I was on a non-Scotrail train up to Inverness a few weeks back now and people were openly drinking with no issue as it wasn't Scotrail. So, on what basis are the police confiscating these drinks? As far as I'm aware this is policy rather than law, but I'm legally clueless, so can anyone advise? Confiscated from Neds probably. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 There's one woman one the Aberdeen to Glasgowine who makes a great show of wandering up and down the carriages shouting about alcohol being banned but does nothing about it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 On the train from Inverness to Glasgow on Saturday morning, there were quite a few folk openly drinking, but they were all behaving absolutely fine and the conductor was happy to turn a blind eye. The air con had failed on our carriage, so I could have done with a can or two myself by the time the train got into Queen Street. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 2 hours ago, Bairnardo said: Larbert to Glasgow return 8 quid. Upgrade the return due to it falling on peak time, 5.40. Il be pleased to recoup that via future bumpings. If bumping is the same as jooking, gaun yersel'. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busta Nut Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 5 hours ago, invergowrie arab said: There's one woman one the Aberdeen to Glasgowine who makes a great show of wandering up and down the carriages shouting about alcohol being banned but does nothing about it. Pretty sure I met her last year in Queen street. Shouting she isnae allowed to see my can but jokingly. Again last season conductors were fine leaving ye be as long as you kept the cans under the table and were cool. It's when the polis get on ye wanna hide it. They tend to follow the yoofs on busier trains. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishBhoy Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 10 hours ago, eez-eh said: The confiscating of it is bad enough but to then stand there beside it grinning like a pair of gormless clowns, as if this is what they got into policing for, is really the cherry on top. Fucking gimps. Standing there like they’ve just bust a Colombian cartel and took 500 kilo of cocaine off the streets. What a genuinely sad profession the police must be if they find taking bottles of alcopops and Mad Dog off teenagers worthy of a picture. Someone has actually taken the time to collect them all, take them to a police office, line them up neatly on the table and then shout a couple of bottom feeder officers in for a picture. Just clocked that it’s the Transport Police too, even the normal police look down at them. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 Its been an absolute party on the weekend Fife-Edinburgh trains for months. Would say % of punters drinking on Fri/Sat trains may be higher than pre pandemic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 Something to think about for Royal Mail workers who are going on strike over pay. The unions are saying the company is bluffing. The striking workers had better hope their unions are correct because it won't be the unions leaders facing the dole queue if they are wrong. Royal Mail threatens to split up business as it reports £1m a day loss (msn.com) I have to say that if I was an employee there and read this from the CWU general secretary it wouldn't fill me with any confidence that this guy knew what he was talking about. Thinking he can directly compare an increase in stamp prices with their latest wage rise offer should be a red flag in that regard. The CWU’s deputy general secretary, Terry Pullinger, said Royal Mail’s purported 5.5% pay offer actually amounted to a 2% increase at a time of soaring inflation, which last month reached a new 40-year high of 9.4%. Pullinger added: “They put the price of a stamp up 11%, but they’ve offered a 2% pay rise to their workers. The extra money they make on that doesn’t come back into the industry, it won’t go back to the workers. It will go straight out the window into shareholders’ pockets.”Wrong thread? What has any of that got to do with Scotrail ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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