Actual conversation...LOL Re stuck at Union

[DareU2]

Yesterday a freight train came off some trackes in Milton....65000 stuck at Union Station
Actual conversation between a Large woman with a large stroller with 4 very hyper kids and a GO transit Ticket agent beside me......

Lady what do you mean all trains are cancelled?

GO A freight train derailled in Milton

Lady Milton ? I'm trying to go to Newmarket

GO All GO Trains are cancelled

Lady Differant direction...differant track.... differant train ?

GO All trains are cancelled untill we find out the cause

Lady Where are the replacement busses

GO No extra busses added

Lady WHAT ?

GO Take subway to Finch. There you can get a bus to Newmarket.

Lady Are you serious. I have four kids and a big stroller, that will take me two hours.

GO Thats OK, there is a two hour wait for busses at finch to newmarket.

Lady Holy shit

GO Please don't swear at me ma'm, this is for your safety

Lady Safety, you better worry about your safety telling 50000 people it's OK

GO guy taps glass between them and says "bullit broof"

Lady reaches in bag retrieves very soiled diaper, shoves it through the money hole and said
"shit still flows through it though doesn't it" and stormed off.

ROTFL......

 

[kooley]

lol.....

 

[rama putri]

Sucks to be poor and dependant on public transportation to get around, eh? Then again, why do the poor breed like rabbits too?

 

[papasmerf]

Sucks to be poor and dependant on public transportation to get around, eh? Then again, why do the poor breed like rabbits too?

Ya just might want to rethink that breeding comment

 

[buckminster]

bullet proof but not shit proof - beautiful.

 

[spatial_k]

Sucks to be poor and dependant on public transportation to get around, eh? Then again, why do the poor breed like rabbits too?

GO service is hardly cheap. A monthly pass for Newmarket-Union would be like $220.

 

[goodtime]

Sucks to be poor and dependant on public transportation to get around, eh? Then again, why do the poor breed like rabbits too?

What a dork!

 

[SPQR]

Sucks to be poor and dependant on public transportation to get around, eh? Then again, why do the poor breed like rabbits too?

Uhm I'm not poor, and I choose to be dependent on public transportation.

Must suck to be rich with a bloated ego and have no conscience at killing environment just so you can drive an over priced libido mobile.

Grow up.

 

[TheNiteHwk]

Sucks to be poor and dependant on public transportation to get around, eh? Then again, why do the poor breed like rabbits too?

I'm a TTC person by choice. I could afford a car if I wanted one but choose not to due to traffic and parking etc I don't want to put up with. I'm not the only one I' sure that makes this choice.

Also many people from the burbs or outling areas have cars, SUVs etc but choose to take public transit when they come to downtown Toronto for same reasons. They don't want to put up with traffic and parking etc.

 

[Moraff]

Sucks to be poor and dependant on public transportation to get around, eh? Then again, why do the poor breed like rabbits too?

Wow, at what point did ignorance become a point of view?

 

[fuji]

There's actually a reasonable answer to "why to the poor breed like rabbits" and it boils down to this: The costs of having kids outweigh the benefits if you are rich, but not if you are poor. If you are rich you likely have a good job, and the impact to your career could be severe. If you are poor you don't have a career, so there's very little negative effect on your life to having lots of kids.

That's a valid economic choice both for the rich and the poor, and if we were smart people as a society we'd support that. It's a sensible division of labour: Let those who have excellent skills spend their time working. Let those who don't have so many skills function as baby machines. The missing bit here is that the baby machines ought to receive better funding to help them raise the next generation.

Anyway, whether we tinker with it or not, those are the economic incentives, and it explains why the poor are the ones raising kids.

 

[TheNiteHwk]

^^^hogwash^^^

You don't really believe that do you?

 

[biog]

You don't really believe that do you?

I do believe there are many young pregnancies influenced by the ability to draw financial assistance.

 

[Diode]

There's actually a reasonable answer to "why to the poor breed like rabbits" and it boils down to this: The costs of having kids outweigh the benefits if you are rich, but not if you are poor. If you are rich you likely have a good job, and the impact to your career could be severe. If you are poor you don't have a career, so there's very little negative effect on your life to having lots of kids.

That's a valid economic choice both for the rich and the poor, and if we were smart people as a society we'd support that. It's a sensible division of labour: Let those who have excellent skills spend their time working. Let those who don't have so many skills function as baby machines. The missing bit here is that the baby machines ought to receive better funding to help them raise the next generation.

Anyway, whether we tinker with it or not, those are the economic incentives, and it explains why the poor are the ones raising kids.

Hmmmm....Harsh, but a grain of truth.
Perhaps the rich are too selfish to give up the niceities that having lots of kids requires.
I must say we planned each pregnancy, and each child has been an added cost.
I wish we had more...But the costs are truly high.

 

[TheNiteHwk]

How do you define many?

I do believe there are many young pregnancies influenced by the ability to draw financial assistance.

That is true except I would not say many, I would say ther are some or a few.

It does not make sense to have more kids to get a bigger government assistance cheque these days because they only get barely enough to survive. In fact in most cases not enough at all. So in reality there is no benifit to parents to have more kids for more money because whatever extra they give you when kid is born is not even enough to feed the poor kid. Leaving nothing left over for the parents.

 

[biog]

That is true except I would not say many, I would say ther are some or a few.

It does not make sense to have more kids to get a bigger government assistance cheque these days because they only get barely enough to survive. In fact in most cases not enough at all. So in reality there is no benifit to parents to have more kids for more money because whatever extra they give you when kid is born is not even enough to feed the poor kid. Leaving nothing left over for the parents.

I love quantitative words as they are subject to interpretation.

I know the text book definition of many probably requires a majority. However IMO, if you had a group of say 100 late teen girls where 10 - 15 of them have children, I would consider that to be a lot, while others may not find that number to be "many".

And I hate to stir the pot, but I do believe economics play a part. You drive through poorer neighborhoods and it seems (perhaps I'm just more conditioned to notice) that there are more teenage mothers then in more affluent areas.

As for the fact that gov't assistance isn't enough, I think you'd find many of the people doing it for that reason still live with THEIR parents, so it would cushion the blow. I never said it was smart, just that it occurs

I'm sure you could have quite the sociological study on this subject.

 

[twentynine]

perhaps I'm just more conditioned to notice

Is that the new definition of bigoted? lol. Just kidding, not enough evidence to call you that. Although...

that there are more teenage mothers then in more affluent areas.

Then what in more affluent areas? Or did you mean THAN, Mr. Edumacated?
lol.

 

[biog]

Is that the new definition of bigoted? lol. Just kidding, not enough evidence to call you that. Although....

A poor comparison: I didn't really notice a type of car on the road. I purchased that car and suddenly there seem to be many more around then I remember seeing.

I say conditioned because I have worked in places with concentrations of lower income famlies. I've noticed that those areas SEEMED to have more teenage mothers than other areas. But maybe I noticed them more because I spent 8 - 10 hours a day there. Who knows?

Then what in more affluent areas? Or did you mean THAN, Mr. Edumacated? lol.

Clever. You'll excuse me now. I'm going to go find my sword THEN fall on it as punishment for my grammatical mistake

 

[Moraff]

And I hate to stir the pot, but I do believe economics play a part. You drive through poorer neighborhoods and it seems (perhaps I'm just more conditioned to notice) that there are more teenage mothers then in more affluent areas.


Poorer neighbourhoods => lower rental and or purchase prices
teenage mothers => usually lower income

Put the two together and of course you find more teenage mothers there than in other areas.

 

[emvee]

GO All GO Trains are cancelled

Lady Differant direction...differant track.... differant train ?

GO All trains are cancelled untill we find out the cause

Lady Where are the replacement busses

GO No extra busses added

Apparently GO has no contingency plan for events like this. This is inexcusable. Just another reason why more and more people are turning their backs on public transit when they have a choice.