please empty your brain below
Feeling bored this morning so thought you’d prompt a bit of ructions in the comments?

Messiah | 10.01.26 - 7:14 a.m. | #

I’ve always wanted the 222 to go to Tooting!!

because then, the onboard announcement would say “This is the two, two, two .. to .. Tooting” 😜

Brian | 10.01.26 - 7:38 a.m. | #

I don't recall there being a burial ground in this area visible from the bus. The nearest one I can think of is on a different road, Harmondsworth Road. You've commented on it before.

David | 10.01.26 - 8:02 a.m. | #

I refuse to believe "Cowley Peachey" is a real place.

Scott | Homepage | 10.01.26 - 8:31 a.m. | #

Compared with events on other continents, in threatened countries and on seas, they are less significant, but crikey all those flags are depressing.

Noel | 10.01.26 - 8:34 a.m. | #

It's not TO.OTING?

The AI bus looks like a Northern Counties Palatine 1 bodied half cab.

Perhaps TfL could hire the England flag enthusiasts to keep their stop flags updated.

22222 vs 60, as Stalin supposedly said 'quantity has a quality all its own'.

But at the end the bus arrived bang on schedule - the definition of every journey matters.

Still Anon | 10.01.26 - 8:41 a.m. | #

Just a shame it wasn't on a Tuesday geddit? Happy 2s day.

Debster | 10.01.26 - 8:45 a.m. | #

Nothing so clearly represents the proud nation of In-ger-land than cheap imported flags zip-tied to street furniture, usually at half mast, and often hanging limply.

From recent travels, I can confirm they are cheerfully welcoming visitors to diverse places such as Thetford and Harlow.

Andrew | 10.01.26 - 8:52 a.m. | #

Celebrating the big 22222 with a classic dg bus post!

Ewan James | 10.01.26 - 9:04 a.m. | #

Should have taken flight LH2222 to Toulouse (I kid you not)

Barry's mate | 10.01.26 - 9:21 a.m. | #

My,my. Now getting AI to create fake images (specifically, the card and the 222 bus to Tooting), eh? Oh, dear.

sheepdog | 10.01.26 - 9:34 a.m. | #

I celebrated my 11111 in place of a 30th - it's about 5 months forward so my normal winter birthday turned into a lovely summer party. Would recommend to any younger DG readers

Nathan | 10.01.26 - 9:36 a.m. | #

I'm afraid Temple Fortune has been bedecked by flag morons, too. Looks dreadful, but not as bad as hillingdon, obviously.

Steve | 10.01.26 - 9:39 a.m. | #

So annoying when buses pause to keep to time, almost as bad as when you are turfed off because the bus is running late, so they are turning it round here and you must board the one not far behind.

mikeH | 10.01.26 - 9:43 a.m. | #

As an Uxbridge resident I can confirm that any main road without flags is unusual. I think the gap is more likely to be where they've blown away. After the initial flurry of putting them up, no-one seems interested in maintaining them, not surprising given their inability to put the Union ones the right way up.

Andrew S | 10.01.26 - 10:19 a.m. | #

Intrigued by your picture of the 222 to Tooting which as you say, doesn't exist. Appears to be a recent font but also looks like a routemaster bus. If it is a doctored photo I can't see the joins, which is worrying.

kev | 10.01.26 - 10:49 a.m. | #

Congrats on the milestone dg!

Since we're all investigating the photos now, I'll note that I'm sure the card image is AI, as it's a bit too clean and glossy.
The bus image looks like a real bus with slices of "Tooting" and "222" added from photos of other real buses. There's a light rectangular outline around each, and plus I find that AI still struggles with producing realistic reflections.

TW | 10.01.26 - 3:22 p.m. | #

Sadly many of Yiewsley's backstreets are equally be-flagged. It came as quite a shock when I was there recently, having not seen any others except in the southernmost parts of Bexley & Croydon.
A good indicator of where not to move to, if one was looking!

Toodles...!

Cornish Cockney | 10.01.26 - 4:32 p.m. | #

I hope we all quite relaxed about dg's use of AI to create those two images.
If he had used "older technology" to create them nobody would have even commented. It's not as if dg is trying to pass them off as real.
It's just a better image of the "joke" he is making.
Perhaps you will use it more in the future to create some of tables/maps/diagrams you sometimes make and then sort of apologise to us that they are not better!!

MikeK | 10.01.26 - 4:36 p.m. | #

Pauses to "even out the service" are usually ordered by the remote route controller with the driver merely following orders.

I believe this is to help the bus companies meet TfL's all important performance indicator of "service interval" which has financial effect.

I recently had a bus journey with two such pauses, one of about 5 minutes, followed by the bus eventually being turned short and having to walk the last bit!

Chris Atkins | Homepage | 10.01.26 - 4:56 p.m. | #

What a painful way to spend your special day.

Anyoldname | 10.01.26 - 5:09 p.m. | #

And this is comment number 22.

Malcolm of Kent | 10.01.26 - 5:38 p.m. | #

One end of the 222 is quite close to Hounslow East and soon passes Hounslow West. The other end is at Uxbridge station. From either end of the 222 route it is thus possible to catch a Piccadilly line train to Bounds Green ... which is Labyrinth station 222.

DavidC | 10.01.26 - 10:03 p.m. | #

At one time, half of all the 2–20 routes, along with all their suffixed supplementaries from 220 to 225, were located at Uxbridge. The current 222 is, in fact, the second (2) incarnation of that number to be used at Uxbridge.

Steve | Homepage | 11.01.26 - 9:52 a.m. | #

Last time I was on a bus that waited at a stop to regulate the service (the 202 as it happens) it was no more than four stops before the end of the route. Who benefits from this?

A G | 11.01.26 - 11:28 a.m. | #

Back in the early 1960’s we lived in West Drayton, my dad moved us to Ruislip as he didn’t like West Drayton much. Things have not improved and I think the council takes pride in the flags.

Roger Stocker | 11.01.26 - 12:06 p.m. | #

Yes, it's the Fat Controller who orders " wait here for 10 minutes", one stop short of the hospital everyone's aiming for - personal experience.

Bruce Perkins | 11.01.26 - 2:22 p.m. | #

Jobsworth is an ugly word. Developed by those with power to describe those without. Who HAVE to follow rules set by someone else whether the public like it or not.

Matt | 12.01.26 - 12:11 a.m. | #











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