This British Facebook Page Is Sharing 40 Pictures That Prove ‘Random’ Is A Daily Thing On ‘The Tube’
We have to admit, there’s just something about the tube that makes us consistently fascinated with the odd and wacky things happening down there. Think about it, the moment we step foot on the platform to catch a train, we immediately notice how laws of order stop working. Millions of people use the underground system to get from point A to point B every day, so naturally, life over there is anything but boring.
Thanks to the Facebook page called 'Overheard On The Underground,' we can witness these shenanigans firsthand. "Enjoy sitting on the tube instead of paying for a Sauna?" the creator asked. "If you use the tube on a daily basis, 'random' is probably a daily occurrence. From the woman with a suitcase of false teeth to a monkey in a wheelchair." Just as they stated in the description, the page shares the most amusing and hilariously bizarre pictures of things people spotted below the surface.
We at Bored Panda have gathered some of their best posts that represent the weirder side of humanity and give us a glimpse into the underground world. And as it turns out, it’s stranger than fiction. Scroll down and upvote the ones that made you burst out in laughter! And if you believe you can handle even more content about commuters and their antics, take a look at our earlier posts right here and here.
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1st interview question. Explain, in your own words, exactly how do I f**k myself?
I had a similar experience on Reddit where one of the mansplainy dudebros went off on me for not knowing ___ and ___, splitting a bunch of semantic hairs, and then linked to a book in which I was one of the research scholars and contributors. Moron.
Lol, this is awesome! that must've felt good to point that out.
Load More Replies...Karma is not always a b***h , Its a b***h when you are one
Load More Replies...Last time I read this it was a space in a car park. Milked this one to death, eh?!
It also is a story that’s been going around NYC for decades. Guy pushes another guy out the subway door, only to find out that’s his interviewer.
Load More Replies...Wouldn't it be, You Meta Twit, though now, lol.
Load More Replies...Follow their socials page....called ontheboard ...they post some lovely things on there that are put on tube station notices around London .....a really worthwhile follow actually ;)
Seems like this is somehow not outside the realm of possibility.
I have four sites I visit every day and when I enter it in my Daytimer it is FatFaceYouTwit
I loved these signs while in London. I looked forward to them every morning.
i saw Kermit and had to scroll back up to check the "boobs" HAHAHAHAHA
Load More Replies..."Yuuuuuuuuuup yup yup yup yup yup rrrrrrrring! Rrrrrrring!" Loved those guys...when I was four.
It's no secret that many of us are used to our routines and usually spend our daily commutes with eyes focused on the ground. Thankfully, the 'Overheard On The Underground' Facebook page offers us a fresh look into the London tube system and showcases everything we might have missed out on. Over 16.4K people seem to enjoy the content they share, whether it’s pictures of hilarious messages on notice boards, questionable ads on billboards, or people proudly embracing their truly vivid colors. After all, the metro is certainly a tense environment. Think of all the pressure that accumulates the moment you enter the station: people running around, rushing to their platforms at lightning speed, and shouting at whoever gets in their way.
Or, here's a thought: how about we stop pretending that one kind of labor is better, harder, more important, and/or more valid than all other kids of labor?
It is true that all labor is valid...but some labor is more valuable than other labor (search up the Subjective Theory of Value).
Load More Replies...Nah man. My husband just went from 10 yrs in manual labor to an office job. Comes home twice as exhausted now
My eldest came home from school yesterday and said they taught them how to say "no" because teens don't know how apparently... It wasn't really linked to consent so I don't really get what they were trying to do. They used the scenario of being asked to give up a seat on the bus. The teacher role played and each of them had a turn, they get to my kid and the teacher says "ok, here's a curly one... I'm 8.5 months pregnant and feeling poorly, may I have your seat please?" My kid says yep and gives it to them only to be told "YoU NeEd To LeArN hOw To SaY nO!" 🙃 Please ma'am stop trying to make my kid an AH!
Either that or the dad is saying to the kid "Look, just wear the costume please. I'll get you ice-cream later if you do. Daddy just wants to wear his dress today and feel like a princess."
Load More Replies...Which nobody can deny—-or better not. Looks like Elsa could have a mean left hook.
When kid needs Elsa and wants to be Olaf, then you are Elsa. No questions asked.
OMG, you’re right! Wonder if Gru and Fester have some, um, paternity in common. I mean, Gru’s Mom seems like she was a wild thing in her youth, and Fester… well, Fester…well, you know.
Load More Replies...Kind of cruel to post this guy's picture on here. It's not his fault he looks like that and I'm sure he didn't give permission.
True!!! I hadn't thought about that (the most important thing).
Load More Replies...Messed up to take a photo of someone without their permission and then mock them
With so many people stuck in a small confined space, some folks are bound to stand out like a sore thumb, and we certainly love watching them. Apparently, The London Underground welcomes around 1.35 billion passengers every year, Statista reports. The busiest station on the network is King’s Cross St. Pancras, where over 90 million entries and exits were recorded annually over the past few years.
Maybe nobody in that carriage was happy. Or perhaps they were happy but they didn't know it. 🤪
To everyone asking: it's nothing to do with being happy or not, it's the London Underground, where it's forbidden to speak to each other or even acknowledge anyone else's presence.
I accidentally talked to someone on the Tube in 2013, and I'm still cringing.
Load More Replies...My husband is British, so I too would’ve been shocked if everyone (or almost everyone) actually clapped their hands. In the US, there would’ve been a huge round of applause (even on the subway in NYC) after the kid said it. It’s just how we are over here.
This is a spin on an actual quote by British Rail for their constant and catastrophic lack of punctuality: there were the wrong kind of leaves on the track....
The original was "the wrong kind of snow"
Load More Replies...Is there a fansite of the service informations? I think I want to be one!
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Load More Replies...COMMON SENSE IS KNOWING KETCHUP ISN'T A SMOOTHIE (I was looking to find this, and I had to complete it!)
Load More Replies...Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein is the monster.
Ordered a fruit salad in Shanghai at a take-away place. To my horror it had mini-marshmellows and cherry tomatoes in it: bites of sweet mush with sour squirts, ack! I wish their chef had read this useful thought of the day before making salad. On a happier note the veggie steamed dumplings were fantastic.
I was thinking this exact thing as I was cutting up an apple, a banana, some grapes, some strawberries and a tomato for my nephew who asked me to toss it all together because he likes it better that way.
The London Tube was established as the Metropolitan Railway which began operating in 1863, being the world’s first train service operating underground. It was built as a way to reduce street congestion, and while there was plenty of interest in this novel method of transport, it wasn’t the most comfortable way to get around. The original trains were driven by steam, so the heavy air and intense smell would engulf the tunnels, making it unhealthy for the passengers and the staff.
A few decades later, electric trains followed, with The City and South London being the first. Because the tunnels were tubular, here’s where the term "tube" emerged and eventually became used as a nickname for The London Underground. In the 1930s, a public organization called London Transport took over. They would run the entire underground system and continue to do so every day. They began making huge expansions with new line stations that served and sometimes even created new suburbs. In 2021, London boasted the longest metro network in Europe with over 460 kilometers in length.
And the desire for my personal spontaneous combustion switch was born
Sir Terry Pratchett was taken from us far too soon! He is one of the greatest authors and observers of human nature ever.
I was so looking forward to a new Discworld every year or so. Thankfully, Sir Pratchett was such a phenomenal author that each and every book in the series has endless reread value. I've read each one multiple times, and I still catch things I missed.
Load More Replies...I cried, when I read that some fans send ghost messages out into the internet like in going postal. Don't know how the right term in English, sorry.
Good Omens was my gateway book. I know it's not discworld, but his writing (and Gaiman's, tgc) just tweaked my interest.
The Discworld series is a continuous history of a world not totally unlike our own, except that it is a flat disc carried on the backs of four elephants astride a giant turtle floating through space, and that it is peopled by, among others, wizards, dwarves, policemen, thieves, beggars, vampires and witches. Within the history of Discworld there are many individual stories, which can be read in any order, but reading them in sequence can increase your enjoyment through the accumulation of all the fine detail that contributes to the teeming imaginative complexity of this brilliantly conceived world.
There are few stronger words appropriate for a Tube sign in London. Just make sure you read it as "twAT," not twOT."
Load More Replies...However, the passengers themselves are less satisfied with the London metro than transport users elsewhere, naming safety, cleanliness, and passenger behavior as the main issues they face daily. Transport Focus and London TravelWatch surveyed commuters for three weeks in 2020 to learn more about their attitudes to the public transport system. They found that 70 percent of London Underground passengers were satisfied with the cleanliness of services compared to 76 percent of train passengers outside of London.
Or the worst. If she's reading that book and sleeping on the train, then she's probably not sleeping well at home.
Load More Replies...Surely such a book should be so boring it puts you to sleep. In this the book seems to have succeeded admirably
Load More Replies...Not the best since probably shes cant sleep at night. This is why she fall asleep in there
how do you make the bloody kerb? We use concrete over here. Just curious
Load More Replies...Yeah, but also: "How many joys are trampled underfoot, because most people only look up and ignore what lies at their feet."
My friend's dorm was across from his offices. It was such a trip to look over and be "Lights're on, Dr. Hawking's working!"
Was he looking out of the window up to the stars, then?
Load More Replies...Except if you are on a treacherous path. Then look down at your feet before you fall and break something.
Easy for him to say...he was sitting in a bloody wheelchair. I on the other hand trip over everything if I don't look down....
Wonderful quote. I love it that the British Underground promotes a love of literacy and great writing. Last time I was on the subway in Baltimore I think I remember an ad for the Yellow Pages phone book. I had to explain to a younger friend what the Yellow Pages were; in fact I had to explain what the telephone book was.
I love adverts like this, here people would be offended and start a petition to remove them!
Clearly no one here has ever ridden the underground at rush hour in Hong Kong.
Like, in Rome you must get in at all times because you are not quite sure if and when there's going to be another one
Moreover, just over half of Londoners were pleased with the behavior of other passengers, and 76 percent were content with the ease of finding the information on when the services were running. However, train passengers outside of the capital revealed greater satisfaction on nearly all of these points. "These results again show significant differences between London and the rest of the country." Arthur Leathley, London TravelWatch Chair, said.
And bonus points for their correct spelling of "you're"!
Load More Replies...Awww... this strikes home. Lately, my cat has been starting with the "you're not my real mom...."
I used to yell this at my husband when the cats would start the nightly food routine. "Take time to be a father today!"
Load More Replies...For the confused, it a TV show called House. Be sad that you haven't seen it and remedy that immediately.
"Yeah, can't you read the sign? Now get up and give me that seat! " Dr. House
Looks to me as if he has been to, or is going to, work and catching five on the tube to eat his sandwich.
Load More Replies...This is a Nihang from the sikh religion. They are warriors that date back to 1699. The word Nihang translates to alligator, sword and pen as they were fierce warriors afraid of nothing! Unfortunately, they are now a fragmented community as they are often misunderstood.
And why do I always find him AFTER the boss has completely depleted my inventory 😑
Load More Replies..."It is good that people feel they can get travel information easily, but the results also highlight the need for TfL to make sure bus and Tube passengers feel safe and reassure them about the work they are doing to keep services clean," Leathley continued. "We will continue to work with TfL to highlight the improvements that passengers want to see. The survey work we are doing with Transport Focus has provided us with some useful data and as more people start traveling, it will become even more valuable."
I love comparing US and UK commerce. So much of what is normal in England would cause all sorts of pearl-clutching here, and so much of what is standard in the US is baffling to folks from the UK. We're offended that there is a shop called "Fatface." They're put off by medicines being advertised on TV with a whole rapid-voice rigamarole of possible side effects.
This could never happen in US. People would be standing in the tracks, boycotting the train and threatening the lives of the CEOs grandchildren
Load More Replies...See, THIS kind of pedantry is how you woo your perfect partner! Yes!
Load More Replies...That’s grown adult conversation heading out to work, “what’s for dinner tonight “
Well, if there’s one thing we’re sure of, commuters are a difficult crowd to please. Fortunately, they find themselves in entertaining situations around the clock, ensuring that the time spent underground flies by. Have you ever encountered something extremely weird yet hilariously amusing while catching a train? We’d love to hear it, so be sure to tell us all about it in the comments!
False. In 1995 people would use papers and books to avoid talking to people.
And knitting. I was a teenager and learned to knit so I wouldn't have to talk to people on the bus.
Load More Replies...I was alive in 1995 and no one liked talking to eachother then either.
In 1995 we were too busy playing the Super Nintendo for any of that nonsense.
Considering I was born december 1995, pretending I don't exist on the tube sounds about right. Who tf talks to each other on the tube anyway.
Nobody talked to each other in 1995, we just read books or stared out the windows.
This one is a fake and has been debunked by snopes.com (if you want to google it). The original ad reads "Hannah still giggles at Cockfosters" (which apparently is the name of a suburb of London).
"Qatxha eating hannah?" "U-uh...nothing" GODDAMN IT HANNAH I TOLD YOU TO STOP MICROWAVING YOUR BUTTERFLIES!!
Roasted Bogong Moths taste like peanuts if that's any guide.
Load More Replies...It's a new rule brought in by intense lobbying from the British Shellfish Association. You either have to have a ticket or the appropriate mollusc. It's mussels for taxis and cockles for buses.
Load More Replies...Seriously . . . you can just look it up. It's a pre-paid travel card.
Obviously you need to tell it it’s smart and pretty to validate it.
Load More Replies...Change here for mainline services to the Minotaur’s Labyrinth
Load More Replies...Ooooh baby! If my morning commute included a good looking half naked guy, well then, commuting would finally be an enjoyable experience.
If this is the spot I think it is in King's Cross, it's a decent pub but the important things are 1) loos and 2) wifi!
I understand lift and it’s an elevator but can someone tell me where the word pram comes from since we call it a stroller.
The word pram is short for an old word, perambulator. ('ambulate' means to walk.)
Load More Replies...It's not warm. It's in kegs in a very cool cellar. It's just not the ice cold p**s water you call beer.
Load More Replies...This lady has printed out a facebook post...and is reading the comments
Doing this right now, just writing in the reply box with a pencil :)
Load More Replies...Speaking of Facebook, does anyone know how you can make all comments default to ALL COMMENTS instead of RELEVANT COMMENTS. I understand if there's a bunch, but 4 comments & you only think 3 are relevant? Stop making my decisions for me, Facebook!
So we can print out the internet. Take that know-it-all guy on Progressive ads
and he failed to even look at this -- it's the brain-worms... they're winning
You go girl! He is rude, dishonest, a bit of a bully and has really bad hair. This is from one of the colonists. 🇺🇸
Well, maybe he really needed the money back then and it doesnt matter what its worth today.
That sounds about the time frame when a friend of my dad’s turned down an offer to buy 50% of a small audio electronics store for $10,000. (his wife thought it was too risky) That small chain of stores once called The Sound of Music is now known by its current name : Best Buy
Well, back then Apple was just another start up company, like thousand of today's. How many of them will be worth 58 billions in 40 years?
Ugh my parents did the same [to a lesser extent and a later date]. We don't talk about that.
If my son hadn’t been ripped off by Bitcoin at 89 bucks a share, this wood be funny.
well most of the men at the met gala could take a lesson from him
Yep! The Rainbow Fish! That's my childhood right there :D
Load More Replies...The battery went on the Don's limousine, and he decided to go back underground, to remember his roots, so to speak.
I snorted coffee out of my nose when I read this
Load More Replies...I find myself unnecessarily fascinated to learn what "it" is. And did they give it a try? WAS it impossible, risky and pointless.
Actually this is based on a poem by Erich Fried "Es ist, was es ist, sagt die Liebe" (It is what it is says love)
Actually it is a rudimentary quote of a poem written by Erich Fried "Es ist, was es ist, sagt die Liebe" (It is what it is says love)
At certain times when there is a problem on the platforms or the trains aren't coming, they simply stop the barriers to avoid incidents due to overcrowding.
Given the number of people behind SDBag man, I think the gates might have failed and he's taken things into his own hands. Or on to his own knees.
Load More Replies...Most likely Victoria or Liverpool Street Stations in London. When the platforms become to crowded ie dangerous they close the "gates" to stop more passengers crowding into the platform. The other reason could be it is a SouthWest and they have cancelled services for the 100th time in 3 months
I'd say the first guy went under and out. The second one followed suit but got stuck?.
He is crawling under the barrier because they are locked probably because there is an incident on the underground. The gap is very small hence the comment.
It does,that little girl is about to kick the shite out of him😆
Load More Replies...No one on the tube's judgment will ever be as harsh as his wife's, so he will continue to look at his magazine there,lol.
Load More Replies...Ew. I've got nothing against these mags, porn etc but viewing them on public transport, ew.
Actually illegal to read them in public. Indecent Displays (Control) Act
Load More Replies...I don't think that's what people mean when they say "Keep on hustling!" KM-Jaspree...a75a18.jpg
He should have put a white cover on it. Children might have been on the train
He's actually reading Newsweek. This was less embarrassing for him.
This bothers me. So it would be humiliating to look like a women? To look trans? To look like you're in drag? Really... this is what should be embarrassing in our societies? There is far better of what we should be embarrassed about.
Load More Replies...Couple reasons, laundry day, bolt out door and first thing he grabbed when girl’s boyfriend came home, got pissed drunk and his clothes was stolen
I want to know when all the rug shops “going out of business” will be closed for good.
There was a store near me that had a banner outside that said "clearance, store closing" for, no lie, two and a half years. It eventually did close.
Load More Replies...And why would anyone buy a mattress from, or sell their house to, a person advertising with a "handwritten" sign in the median?
Going out of business sales are a ploy to make people think they are getting a good deal
I'm Welsh,not sure where I'd have to go...
Load More Replies...I'd like to see someone try to launch my dog down the escalator. He's a big boy and will definitely try to bite if you attempt to pick him up
Interesting. So you drive on the left, but walk on the right? I think we should make a deal, UK. You agree to drive on the right, and we (the US) will agree to switch to the metric system. This is a win-win!
I did not like clowns even as a child, for the same reason I didn't like dolls. Uncanny Valley.
Load More Replies...Run. Run fast. You’ll get some exercise before the clown kills you. On second though, just go home to your cats
“We all float down here….” *slowly descends* gets his balloon string stuck in the bottom machinery of the escalator, shatters your immersion as you have to watch him scream “SH*TE” for thirty seconds trying to pull it out, but by the time he looks up, you’re a,ready out the door….
Thanks, Hannah - I was trying to work it out. I knew it was something along those lines.
Load More Replies...I thought at first this referred to Grenfell towed but the date seems wrong. I'm thinking Westminster bridge attack and tried googling but I'm still not sure. Any one know?
Looks like my dad got dressed without my mum's supervision again.
People wearing their flag or flying the flag is normal in the US. In the UK people will eye you with suspicion..
This is one way we in the UK can tell an American tourist from a mile away.
That awkward moment when you finally escape the flag factory and have to take public transportation home.
Looks like a bouquet to me, the way she's holding the bottom suggest it.
Load More Replies...It is still a piece, it just happens to be a larger one
Load More Replies...most of these are amusing, but i don't like the pictures taken of random people without their permission. it just feels weird, they don't even know they're on here
Yes, thank you, I agree! I would hate to see myself on internet without knowing I've been photographed, and my face not even being blurred.
Load More Replies...I know it doesn't really matter but the title explicitly says "things people spotted on the subway" and then they are all from the London underground, or tube. But we never call it the subway!!
Who took the pictures of the signs, are they all right? When I first visited London my friend warned me to: never stop to look at signs in the underground, never move slower than the mob, only stop moving if you’re on (the correct side of) the escalator, and have your ticket ready well in advance of the turnstiles, or be lynched.
It depends when you travel. If you're not in the peak travel time, you shouldn't need to worry.
Load More Replies...Many of these are photoshopped to provide amusement I presume to the US.
Tuna Fish, so smug. Unfortunately, people who sit on their @$$ all day do get paid more than people who I don't know? Build your house. The OP's comment was ridiculous, but yours is smug.
I don't often lol, but these are really funny (unless you are in the pic)
most of these are amusing, but i don't like the pictures taken of random people without their permission. it just feels weird, they don't even know they're on here
Yes, thank you, I agree! I would hate to see myself on internet without knowing I've been photographed, and my face not even being blurred.
Load More Replies...I know it doesn't really matter but the title explicitly says "things people spotted on the subway" and then they are all from the London underground, or tube. But we never call it the subway!!
Who took the pictures of the signs, are they all right? When I first visited London my friend warned me to: never stop to look at signs in the underground, never move slower than the mob, only stop moving if you’re on (the correct side of) the escalator, and have your ticket ready well in advance of the turnstiles, or be lynched.
It depends when you travel. If you're not in the peak travel time, you shouldn't need to worry.
Load More Replies...Many of these are photoshopped to provide amusement I presume to the US.
Tuna Fish, so smug. Unfortunately, people who sit on their @$$ all day do get paid more than people who I don't know? Build your house. The OP's comment was ridiculous, but yours is smug.
I don't often lol, but these are really funny (unless you are in the pic)
