"Barebackers" Are the plague of the tube network

"Barebackers" Are the plague of the tube network

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vixen1700

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26,068 posts

285 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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Cannot stand the Metro and never read it when I commuted at rush-hour but this 'story' popped up today and realised what total bks it actually is.

https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/31/barebackers-commute...

So people sitting there minding their own business, not playing their ste music loudly, or speaking loudly on their phones, or eating stinking food, or staring at their phones are the worst kind of commuter? confusedlaugh

Not letting people off the train before you get on sat at number four, while prematurely getting ready to alight took the number three spot. People who sit with their legs spread were his second most hated commuter stereotype, just behind barebackers.

Wow! I'm the worst kind of train traveller. frown


airsafari87

3,078 posts

197 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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Barebackers?

People bucking without wearing a blob?

On the train???

Yertis

19,058 posts

281 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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airsafari87 said:
Barebackers?

People bucking without wearing a blob?

On the train???
I thought that too but turns out it's normal people with sufficient imagination not to need continuous third-party stimulation.

boyse7en

7,592 posts

180 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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airsafari87 said:
Barebackers?

People bucking without wearing a blob?

On the train???
I've no idea what that means, but "Barebacking" on a train is the equivalent of Rawdogging a flight.

Hoofy

78,528 posts

297 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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??? Life must be pretty good if people are annoyed with others who aren't on their phones. Staring at others not good of course but nothing like a bit of mindfulness watching the world go by.

Skodillac

7,748 posts

45 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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A newspaper, funded purely by advertising, attempting to shame people into reading their newspaper in order to keep as many eyes on those adverts for as long as possible? Surely not. Tell me it ain't so.

What a load of old st.

valiant

12,293 posts

175 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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Totally made up thing turns out to be bks shocker.

Hold the front page (of a decent paper that is)

Byker28i

75,215 posts

232 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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Do they still give the Metro away free at tube stations?

untakenname

5,134 posts

207 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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Tbh I don't like the setup of tube and overground where the seat placement means you inadvertently make contact with others without meaning to.

Females may consider this 'intrusive staring' when it could just be someone zoned out.

airsafari87 said:
Barebackers?

People bucking without wearing a blob?

On the train???
Terms change with time, was shocked last year when 'raw dogging for hours' on planes went viral before realising the meaning had changed and it just meant not using earphones on a flight.

InitialDave

13,219 posts

134 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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untakenname said:
Terms change with time, was shocked last year when 'raw dogging for hours' on planes went viral before realising the meaning had changed and it just meant not using earphones on a flight.
Oh, it's still the same term, it started getting used in memes in the context of things like going to work without your morning coffee, basically anything to do with dealing with normal life without anything to take the edge off.

Which is where the "flight without distraction or entertainment" use came from.

But the origins of it meaning unprotected sex are unchanged, and people using it in the wild without being aware of that original meaning just makes it funnier.


119

11,824 posts

51 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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Can someone explain what I am supposed to be outraged about?

Buttery Ken

21,106 posts

202 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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boyse7en said:
airsafari87 said:
Barebackers?

People bucking without wearing a blob?

On the train???
I've no idea what that means, but "Barebacking" on a train is the equivalent of Rawdogging a flight.
You've just explained something that didn't make sense by using another term that doesn't make sense. At least to me. laugh

FourWheelDrift

90,937 posts

299 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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I'm actually scared to google barebacking and rawdogging.

RicksAlfas

14,065 posts

259 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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FourWheelDrift said:
I'm actually scared to google barebacking and rawdogging.
Next time you are on a train or bus, ask a fellow passenger.

FourWheelDrift

90,937 posts

299 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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RicksAlfas said:
FourWheelDrift said:
I'm actually scared to google barebacking and rawdogging.
Next time you are on a train or bus, ask a fellow passenger.
Haven't been on either for at least 25 years. So I don't know what kind of stuff goes on these days.

Chris Peacock

3,083 posts

149 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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119 said:
Can someone explain what I am supposed to be outraged about?
The rise of click-bait, non-story, lazy "journalism".


andy43

11,541 posts

269 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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untakenname said:
Tbh I don't like the setup of tube and overground where the seat placement means you inadvertently make contact with others without meaning to.
I’m exactly the same which is why I drive a car instead paperbag

eharding

14,530 posts

299 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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FourWheelDrift said:
Haven't been on either for at least 25 years. So I don't know what kind of stuff goes on these days.
You've been missing out - GWR have been giving away free champagne and canapes to all passengers plus a complementary goody bag stuffed with £20 notes since at least 2015, and as for the Stagecoach "Bang" Bus service, well.....

Camoradi

4,535 posts

271 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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How the hell do they get a horse down the escalator?

boyse7en

7,592 posts

180 months

Wednesday 2nd April
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Camoradi said:
How the hell do they get a horse down the escalator?
They make it stand on the right