NationStates Jolt Archive

Mauro Brunetti, a teacher who travels by rail every day to his job in a school in Savona, says he is so exasperated by the constant uncertainty of whether his train will arrive on time that he sometimes wonders if his life has any value or meaning.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1673937,00.html

Hilarious. Couldn't stop laughing when I read that. :D

Especially as at the time, I was sitting on a Central Networks train standing still in the middle of a field somewhere outside Peterborough, running two hours late. :headbang:

I had a patient that wanted sick leave for existential anxiety. I denied, saying it was too Sarte pour moi, he went to my superior, who signed the papers to get rid of the loser, knowing full well that it would never be approved by the social security authority.

So, people suck.

Hahaha :p

One recent example involved a train to Florence, which was first posted as 25 minutes late, then flashed up as 10 minutes late, then went back to 20 minutes late. The train actually arrived on time.

Damn them, damn them to hell for making me think that I might have been late! But wasn't. But could have been. Needlessly flabbergasted? Can you sue for that? :D

You know, sometimes when I am stuck in traffic on the way to work, I wonder some of the same things. Maybe I'll sue the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority.

Existential damage? Brilliant! :D I am so going to use this in my daily life. Leave it to the Italians! Bravissimo!

Existential damage? Brilliant! :D I am so going to use this in my daily life. Leave it to the Italians! Bravissimo!
Didn't the Japanese pioneer this, though? Let's say an accident on the tracks makes a commuter train late, doesn't the person at fault owe money to just about anyone and everyone who is inconvenienced by the delay?

Didn't the Japanese pioneer this, though? Let's say an accident on the tracks makes a commuter train late, doesn't the person at fault owe money to just about anyone and everyone who is inconvenienced by the delay?

If so, I'm going to start suing each and every one of you goddamn people from the South and Midwest who come up to New England every fall and drive 20 miles an hour down the Mohawk Trail looking at all the pretty leaves. Make me late, will you? I'm suing. I could probably sue for medical costs due to the 30 point rise in my blood pressure that these people cause me. :D

(not directed any particular person here, but fellow posters from the area know what I'm talking about)

Needlessly flabbergasted?

thank you. would you now please consent coming here to tell my highschool english teacher that he lost his bet and people actually do use this word?

and i'm..somewhat..lost for words on the OP. but gives me ideas for my social sciences paper. i could try to establish a link bewteen germany's raising unemployment numbers / number of people on early pension due to ailments and the increase in the percentage of delayed trains.

Didn't the Japanese pioneer this, though? Let's say an accident on the tracks makes a commuter train late, doesn't the person at fault owe money to just about anyone and everyone who is inconvenienced by the delay?
Is it existentially possible to compensate for existential damage, though? I suppose it depends on the extent of the damage (the greater the damage, the less compensatable), but, as with existentialism itself, I think the real value is simply in complaining about it. :D

You know, sometimes when I am stuck in traffic on the way to work, I wonder some of the same things. Maybe I'll sue the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority.


I have to say I resent the traffic in NJ on the Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway that is caused by toll booths. You couldnt even measure the anxiety it causes on a day to day basis. Or the rear-end collisions it contibutes to.

If so, I'm going to start suing each and every one of you goddamn people from the South and Midwest who come up to New England every fall and drive 20 miles an hour down the Mohawk Trail looking at all the pretty leaves. Make me late, will you? I'm suing. I could probably sue for medical costs due to the 30 point rise in my blood pressure that these people cause me. :D

(not directed any particular person here, but fellow posters from the area know what I'm talking about)
Not me. I have been to Boston at least a dozen times over the last four years to visit my daughter at BU. I have yet to rent a car. But you've given me some good ideas, though. A nice leisurely drive through the Ted Williams tunnel, then some sight-seeing up the MassPike. Where do I find this Mohawk Trail?

He'ss obviously never been running after the last 508 Lakeshore streetcar of the night, during a snowstorm.

I have to say I resent the traffic in NJ on the Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway that is caused by toll booths. You couldnt even measure the anxiety it causes on a day to day basis. Or the rear-end collisions it contibutes to.

Yes, I have no doubt that my activities on the Massachusetts Turnpike have taken a good five years of my life.

If so, I'm going to start suing each and every one of you goddamn people from the South and Midwest who come up to New England every fall and drive 20 miles an hour down the Mohawk Trail looking at all the pretty leaves. Make me late, will you? I'm suing. I could probably sue for medical costs due to the 30 point rise in my blood pressure that these people cause me. :D

(not directed any particular person here, but fellow posters from the area know what I'm talking about)
I suggest that tourists are actually the Lost Tribes of Israel. That's how they got lost -- staring at some dumbass thing they could have picked up and taken with them.

Any sane judge should toss such crap out of court.

Any sane judge should toss such crap out of court.
You clearly have no poetry in your soul.

Heh. Existential dmage. Seems easy to disprove:

Judge: "Is the defendant here?"
Defendant:"I'm here, Your Honor."
Judge:"Then you exist. Case closed."

:D

I should sue the The Guardian for making me laugh so much that my lungs almost collapsed!!:D I heard of crazy lawsuits but this, this, "existential damage", oh my god.

You clearly have no poetry in your soul.

Maybe his soul has suffered too much existential damage.

Maybe his soul has suffered too much existential damage.

Hey, my soul is just fine! People like him waste the time of courts for more important matters.

Didn't the Japanese pioneer this, though? Let's say an accident on the tracks makes a commuter train late, doesn't the person at fault owe money to just about anyone and everyone who is inconvenienced by the delay?


I think that was more to do with people commiting suicide by jumping in front of an oncoming train. The government there started to fine/invoice the remaining family for the clean up job and inconvieneice the suicidee had caused to try and discourage people from leaving their guts on the tracks.

Well, existentialism is cool and late trains aren't.:mp5: I think I've found my new excuse:sniper: :sniper: :sniper: :D

Edit: Ok, maybe that was a few too many smilies.

Well, existentialism is cool and late trains aren't.:mp5: I think I've found my new excuse:sniper: :sniper: :sniper: :D

and the one for using 4 sniper smileys in one 15-word post would be? ;]

edit: recognizing that is the first step to recovery..

Hey, my soul is just fine! People like him waste the time of courts for more important matters.
What could possibly be more important than existence? And how's that for an existential question? ;)

Not me. I have been to Boston at least a dozen times over the last four years to visit my daughter at BU. I have yet to rent a car. But you've given me some good ideas, though. A nice leisurely drive through the Ted Williams tunnel, then some sight-seeing up the MassPike. Where do I find this Mohawk Trail?

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out in Western Massachusetts towards the New York border. You'd have to go at least two hours out of Boston to get to it.

http://www.mohawktrail.com/html/maps.html

I guess it's hard for me to get mad at the leaf peepers. They do advertise as a tourist destination. Damn Western Mass.

Originally posted by The Guardian
One recent example involved a train to Florence, which was first posted as 25 minutes late, then flashed up as 10 minutes late, then went back to 20 minutes late. The train actually arrived on time.

I like it! :D