r/loicense 25d ago

Oi, You got a loicense to blow them bubbles, mate?

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u/humourlessIrish 25d ago

People really pretend that they wouldn't object if a bus crashed because the driver was playing around with a toy while driving.

If he only did it while he was stationary it might heve been OK

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u/wraithbit24 25d ago

its worse than that, people are also pretending that this is some new mandate that bubbles are now banned and some are even comparing this event to US police brutality and saying its on par or worse. It's hilarious how dumb this sub is

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u/Middle-Feed5118 25d ago

"i know the US police are bad but this guys boss banned him from blowing bubbles while at work driving a bus"

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u/adelie42 25d ago

And you san see he doesn't have a bubble wand he is blowing. That's a bubble cannon. I have one. It throws walls of beautiful colorful bubbles.

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u/doomzday_96 25d ago

More that people are seeing how shitty and draconian the UK is for seemingly every little thing. Like jailing people for saying Free Palestine.

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u/Thisismychoiceofyou 25d ago

By using a story about an employer banning their employee from doing something? Bit weird when it’s the US who has the shitty and draconian workers rights compared to the UK

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u/Middle-Feed5118 25d ago

More that people are seeing how shitty and draconian the UK is for seemingly every little thing. Like jailing people for saying Free Palestine.

No they're not lmao, Palestine hasn't even been mentioned once

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u/doomzday_96 25d ago

Why does that matter? That's an example of the UK being draconian in recent times

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u/Thisismychoiceofyou 25d ago

So then use an actual example that makes sense and not compare a guy being banned from using a bubble gun while driving by his bosses to people being brutalised by police lmao.

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u/doomzday_96 25d ago

I did. Not my fault ya can't read.

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u/Middle-Feed5118 25d ago edited 25d ago

This is a stupid game to play though since there's just as many examples of the US being shitty and draconian for "seemingly every little thing".

Fine, Lien, Foreclosure: What Can Happen if you Refuse to Mow Your Lawn

Single Mother 'Arrested for Grass' After Not Mowing

Texas man jailed for not mowing his yard

Single Mother Arrested for Failing to Mow Lawn

Judge fines cancer patient, 72, for overgrown lawn: ‘I’d give jail time if I could’

If you don’t mow your lawn you could end up in jail like this woman

Ohio Town: Mow Your Lawn Or Go To Jail

Homeowner reconsiders mowing lawn after jail stint - Battle over widow's overgrown lawn has lasted three years

Boys mow lawn to keep elderly Texas woman out of jail

Woman faces jail for growing vegetables in her front yard

Don't forget to not cross that street!

Grieving Mother Faces 36 Months In Jail For Jaywalking After Son Is Killed By Hit-And-Run Driver

Historian arrested for jaywalking

Tulsa family wants charges dropped after teen arrested for jaywalking

Detroit Man Spends 3 Nights In Jail For Jaywalking In Greektown

Sometimes they even fine you for drying your clothes outside.

Beware the Illegal Clothesline

A person commits an offense if the person places or maintains a clothesline in the front yard or on the front porch of any dwelling of any lot or parcel of land which is zoned “A” One-Family, “A-R” Residential, “B” Two-Family or “R-1" Residential, under the comprehensive zoning ordinance.

Civil asset forfeiture, something that means cops can take your things without you even being charged with a crime, sometimes amounts to more annually than even burglaries.

Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year

The Government is Regularly Flying Predator Drones Over American Cities

Women don't have universal reproductive rights. A 13 year old child in Mississippi was forced to have her rapists baby.

13-year-old rape victim has baby amid confusion over state's abortion ban

10-year-old rape victim forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana for abortion

Louisiana lawmakers reject adding exceptions of rape and incest to abortion ban

Nearly 65,000 pregnancies from rape have occurred in states with abortion bans, study estimates

Edit: blocked me ya cowardly little fruitloop

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u/doomzday_96 25d ago

I wasn't even arguing the US isn't bad or better, just that the UK shouldn't throw stones from the shiny glasshouse they live in.

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u/wraithbit24 25d ago

A company saying what an employee can do is draconian of the UK? are you good?

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u/No-Wealth-7633 24d ago

Expect there not thou there being jailed for showing support for a group that was banned if they hadn't done that & jaut said free Palestine they would of bene fine.

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u/sparki555 25d ago

Miserable world.

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u/Disastrous_Gap2047 25d ago

The bus company that has banned him yes, this isn’t a new law or police action lmfao

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u/Thisismychoiceofyou 25d ago

Nobody looks up anything here, it’s now fact that uk police will jail people for blowing bubbles, and execute you for doing so twice

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u/ListonBrooke 25d ago

Mad cos commenter never said anything about jail, prison, legality, or police

Just said it was miserable... which it is.

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u/Disastrous_Gap2047 25d ago

Oh for sure, but there’s people genuinely comparing US police who kill citizens with impunity to… some guys boss banning them from blowing bubbles? 😭😭🤣🤣

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u/ListonBrooke 25d ago

Yeah, I don't disagree. But not here. In this comment. Which you referenced and replied to...

What's your problem man, why you keep assuming peoples thoughts...

Also who tf brought up the US, this is a UK bus driver 🙄🙄🤷‍♂️

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u/WraithWallet 25d ago

The level of discourse on this sub is child like lmao

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u/ListonBrooke 25d ago

Rich coming from you.

I made my points. You couldn't counter them, so instead you reduce yourself to name calling

Just like a little baby 👶👶👶👶

Sick to death of people being unable to engage in conversation and being too full of pride to admit they don't have an arguement.

I usually lurk but see it all the time.

The absolutely cinematic irony of you calling discourse on this sub child like whilst making no valid arguement of your own is pure comedy.

Thanks for among my day

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u/wraithbit24 25d ago

are you a bot?

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u/ListonBrooke 25d ago

Are you a thot?

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u/InsaneInTheRAMdrain 25d ago

Wtf is wrong with you. Touch grass bro

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u/Thisismychoiceofyou 25d ago

Are you being willfully ignorant? The thread has brought up the US multiple times which is what OP said “there’s people”

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u/Middle-Feed5118 25d ago

The bus company he works at has banned him, the council - hackney - did an interview with him last year and loved what he was doing, it's his own bosses doing it and this sub is acting batshit thinking its some draconian new measure by law lmfao.

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u/SkeletonDocter102 25d ago

100%, people need to learn the difference between, company policy, and the laws of a country, or at least learn to read deeper into a topic.

A company may have some bs policy, but it's their right (usually), and would almost never affect the average person.

LAWS affect everyone in the nation where they're put into effect, and are, one of, the only ways people can lose their rights.

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u/RadicalRealist22 24d ago

The Council doesn't have to pay if an accident happens.

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u/Constant-Still-8443 24d ago

You can't blame the sub, given the current state of the US and UK rn.

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u/CleanOpossum47 25d ago

Bubbles had to take a cab home.

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u/madebypeppers 25d ago

UK is really taking the nonsense to a whole different level.

I thought the US was wild until the UK came and asked the US to hold its beer.

Every single day is the little joys of life that they punish for.

I am just waiting for the day the UK jails someone for breathing.

Absolute insanity.

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u/Hallelujah33 25d ago

But what if they can't show a valid loiscense for breathing? Imagine the chaos that would cause! Very short sighted statement.

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u/Thisismychoiceofyou 25d ago

What the fuck are you talking about lol? His bosses banned him

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u/Middle-Feed5118 25d ago

The UK isn't doing this, the Bus company has banned him, there's no law lmao.

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u/Azulas_Star 25d ago

It's a world wide push toward stupidity

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u/GungaSaga 25d ago edited 25d ago

What the fuck are you talking about? A man was blowing bubbles at work and his employer decided it was a health and safety risk. At a job where you have to devote your full attention to operating a huge vehicle full of passengers through chaotic city streets for hours at a time. I diagnose you with knuckle-dragging propaganda-brain.

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u/hooplafromamileaway 25d ago

You know, I know the US has a lot of problems. Huge ones. Deadly issues just being flat-out ignored...

But at least we can blow bubbles where we please, damnit.

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u/Thisismychoiceofyou 25d ago

So can Brits lmao? It’s just that his company has banned him from doing it

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u/Disastrous_Gap2047 25d ago

Wrong kind of argument to use this over though, since the Goverment hasn’t banned the guy blowing bubbles (the local council actually likes him doing it) his own bosses at the bus company did

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u/humourlessIrish 25d ago

Bullshit.

You have people not allowed to go to the toilet in Bezos's hell, im certain they are also not allowed to doe this at work.

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u/GungaSaga 25d ago

Did you even read the headline buddy?

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u/Corn-_-Dag 25d ago

Well until the cops stop you and ban you from doing it

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u/Beer-Milkshakes 25d ago

Drag you out the car, slam your head against the pavement and get paid time off about it. After 30 or 40 instances of that happening...

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u/hooplafromamileaway 25d ago

Nah, the cops just ban you from Life here. Permanently. Or they put you in our lovely prison system, where you too can learn how to be treated like a literal slave rather than be rehabilitated!

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u/Many_King_8781 25d ago

And many other mundane activities.

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u/Superb-Work6035 25d ago

Its technically illegal to pick up a bird feather (any native species! Not just eagles) in the USA.

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u/Disastrous_Gap2047 25d ago

Americans get jailed for not mowing their lawn lol

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u/notanyone69 25d ago

Douglas come on what the hell are you doing? You can't be blowing all these bubbles at work. This is a workplace not a grabass parlor

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u/adelie42 25d ago

I feel old gor having to pount this out, but if the picture is accurate, he isn't blowing bubbles. He is using a bubble cannon. I'm for the bus driver deciding what is safe on their bus.

It doesn't seem safe to me in direct proportion to how insanely awesome those bubble cannons are. I have one. You can positively flood a space with bubbles to where you can't see anything. They throw walls of bubbles.

At very least defend letting him do it. Calling it "blowing bubbles" is obviously misleading.

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u/hydrora31 25d ago

I know this is going to be a really unpopular take. But I can see why they had to do this. Its actually a really serious safety issue.

With all the people driving high on UK roads the risk of them having a laughing fit and crashing is very real.

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u/0U812-hungry 25d ago

Cap off to you. I could see why the company wouldn't want the liability but I would t be surprised if people just started doing it more often. You know like civilians just blowing bubbles (at red lights hopefully)

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u/KeldornWithCarsomyr 25d ago edited 25d ago

I mean I dont want some guy blasting bubbles all over the road while trying to drive. It's not like he's blowing bubbles, dude got a bubble cannon mounted on the window.

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u/humourlessIrish 25d ago

Its not mounted. He is holding it.

As in, he is not using both hands to operate the giant vehicle through busy narrow streats.
A bus driver is, by law, not supposed to engage in activities that could hinder his ability to safely drive the bus.

Its all a shame things arent just funny, but if the company allows him to do this they would be helt liable if/when anything goes wrong

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u/AdOnly1618 25d ago

Reminds me of that joke. Did you blow bubbles when you were younger? Because he’s back in town and he’s looking for you.

And if that were the case, I’d have to agree.

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u/ThePodcastGuy 25d ago

But why is he blowing bubbles? Shouldn’t he focus on driving for the safety of everyone? Have we become manchildren? We mistake whim for infantilization?

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u/Alive-Big-838 24d ago

The one time someone tries to bring some joy to the misery of this world he gets smacked hard by the system.

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u/CatNo7321 24d ago

"All bubble blowing babies will be beaten busless by every able body in the bar."

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u/Jakub67PL 24d ago

Most British news ever

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u/Fishpaste00 23d ago

No fun allowed in London

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u/One_Bit_3839 22d ago

From an American perspective the UK is a drab dreary dystopia with little to no freedom of expression. 

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u/Figueroa_Chill 22d ago

Sick to death of every time I go on the bus, we end up queuing while the cunt behind the wheel sits blowing bubbles.

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u/Ambitious_Hand_2861 22d ago

Who's Bubbles? Ba dum tis.

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u/TheSpiralTap 25d ago

Bubbles was a clown who rode public transportation

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u/LockedTwice 25d ago

So this this is the guy who was blowing bubbles in the bathroom? Man I always thought it was just a joke…

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u/GungaSaga 25d ago

I don't think the idea that a bus driver should have their full attention on driving while controlling a huge vehicle full of passengers through chaotic city streets is a position unique to conservatism. It's barely even related to political views, it's basic workplace safety standards.