Public transport day.

It started with the farcical news that NSW had constructed, as part of a multi-billion-dollar underground rail link, a gradient which is too steep for its new trains.

Then Values Australia boarded a Millennium train for a trip to Bankstown. [The fares on Sydney's CityRail were recently increased. We looked forward eagerly to the additional and/or improved services we could clearly expect. Silly us. There are none. Just more of the crappy, smelly, dirty, low-life, out-of-service service we already know too well.]

Our gentle reality-denial – our immersion in the SMH crossword – was shattered by a group of male school students who proceeded to talk loudly and play ever-so-funny foul-mouthed audio clips on their mobiles and so for the second half of the journey the carriage was fuckinged and cunted and haw-hawed all the way through the seamy grossness of the Bankstown Line.

On our arrival at Bankstown Airport we were not really particularly chuffed and relived our journey for colleagues, one of whom brightened our day considerably by playing the following remarkably apropos You-Bute clip:

And then another colleague blew away our bad mood completely with this (well, it just makes so much sense):

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