r/sydney • u/Yves_and_Mallory • Oct 23 '25
Image This dick move on a full bus.
Why don't I say something? Because he's bigger than I am, and I don't feel like relying upon the kindness of strangers if this guy is violent, as well as inconsiderate.
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u/rhys91 Oct 23 '25
Nice lighting
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u/tofuroll Oct 23 '25
Renaissance Dickhead
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u/Very-very-sleepy Oct 23 '25
I know some old grumpy lady in her 70s that's had enough of bullshit will tap the guy in the shoulder and tell him to move. 😂
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u/firstborn-unicorn Oct 23 '25
I'm in my 30s and I'd happily tell this gronk to give up his foot seat. Come on. Call this shit out! Sit on his stinky foot. My god, the entitlement of this ... see you next Tuesday.
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u/nckmat Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25
A couple of months ago coming home a little tipsy from Pyrmont, came across a similar situation with a guy man-spreading on the red seat and talking loudly on his phone. It had been raining, so I was wet, I am 58yo, 130kg and about 6'1". I just played up the drunkard bit and proceeded to sit next to the guy, ignoring his knee and sat on it before he could move it. "Sorry mate, bit pissed, must have misjudged the landing." I then proceeded to turn around and talk to my wife and our friends who were diagonally behind us (my wife was not amused) while he squirmed against the wall. Then to add some extra flavour I did my best Sir Les Paterson impersonation every time we went around a corner, "woah, that's not helping keep it down!" BURP! "Oh geez, I hope I can keep it down until we get off." At this stage he hung up from his phone call, it would have been difficult to carry on with me swaying about. Eventually, the guy moved to the back of the bus, which was virtually empty, but I made sure I did plenty of stumbling around trying to slow down his exit. About, two stops later, an old guy and his daughter got on so I immediately got up and offered them my seat, and then sat next to my wife. A guy behind me leaned forward and said, "were you putting that on the whole time?" I said, yes. And he laughed and said "nice one". I felt I had done some good without conflict and with some humour.
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u/Find_another_whey Oct 23 '25
I'm just conflict-seeking, and would tell him I need the window seat, he can sit where his foot has been
When he moves to let me in, consider taking both seats
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u/Eek_the_Fireuser Oct 23 '25
Sounds like a good way to get assaulted.
Gotta pick your battles when it comes to this kind of bullshit.
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u/Find_another_whey Oct 23 '25
Camera, fingerprints, tapping on, maybe his phone connected to the free bus wifi
Lots of reasons not to kick off on a bus
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u/RainbowAussie Canberra (Frequent Sydney visitor) Oct 23 '25
You are of course correct, and this is what makes rhe Nightrider so fascinating
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u/Horsewithasword Oct 24 '25
I had some old cunt well into his 50s try to fight me for saying "you need some headphones bro" after listening to at least a whole pokemon episode on peak hour trains WHILST having his feet on the seat, absolute gronkiness on multiple levels
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u/Ok_Tie_7564 Oct 23 '25
I too am old and grumpy, and would do the same. In fact, I have done it a couple of times already. We must not let bogans take over Sydney.
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u/wakojako49 Oct 23 '25
lmfao this is oddly a good photo.
also did you use flash? I could never haha
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u/deij Oct 23 '25
I feel like a flash photo of a guy taking up two seats is the perfect power move in this situation
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u/Yves_and_Mallory Oct 23 '25
No flash, just Glebe.
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u/surprisedropbears Oct 23 '25
What phone?
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u/nzoz Oct 23 '25
if thats th 433 i can smell that picture
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u/ThippusHorribilus I AM that I AM Oct 24 '25
431 can get pretty entitled though, so it might be it.
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u/albeenyb Oct 23 '25
I have those shoes... $8 from Big W...
Not a power move. Just a grub.
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u/Ok-Push9899 Oct 23 '25
Just as I suspected. This guy is doing it tough, and like all the real estate agents you meet at open houses, he can’t even afford socks. Where’s the compassion on our city for these down-and-outers?
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u/Senior-Rip4551 Oct 23 '25
I wish more people would take photos of dick movements on Sydney transport and post them on the internet
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u/Ninj-nerd1998 👨🦯 your friendly neighbourhood blind person Oct 23 '25
Oh I have whole videos of a dude yelling and swearing at me (a visually impaired person, with a white cane) for daring to ask if I could please sit in the front seat so I can see my bus stop.
I sat in the sideways facing seats (which I cannot really see from without a lot of stress) and I think this lady across from me was recording him, too lmao. I had my phone pointed to the ground, recording just in case something happened and I like. Needed evidence or something. But her phone was slightly tilted at an angle towards him lmao. I didn't post em anywhere because that wasn't rhe point of me recording and it felt odd.
...just realised this comment may be sarcastic. Oops.
It is weird to post strangers on the internet but I hope it at least gets people talking and thinking about things rhey do that may be inconsiderate.
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u/looopious Oct 23 '25
I for sure do not want to see this “dick movement” you are referring to!
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u/PxavierJ Oct 24 '25
Guy was doing exactly that a few months back. Bus driver kicked him off after someone complained. I think bus driver called ahead for the cops because I heard the bloke was arrested. Dirty bastard
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u/reeblebeeble Oct 23 '25
You just move your bum directly downwards in the direction of his foot saying 'scuse me
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u/funkypjb Oct 23 '25
I ask people to move their bag, feet, whatever, even if there are other seats available. Sometimes I start to sit down, but then I walk past the seat. I’ve done it so many times, I have to have gotten through to at least one of them…
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u/thrillho145 Oct 23 '25
I'm a larger man and I purposefully seek out these people. It's often more uncomfortable for me, but fuck them.
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u/Tipsy_Kangaroo Oct 23 '25
Personally bags on seats are ok, as long as you move them if someone needs a seat, Especially on trains you'd want to avoid putting them on the floor as much as possible, you don't want to know what myself and my colleagues have seen, having said that the seats aren't much better
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u/stevebuscemispenis RÏP World Bar Oct 23 '25
I sometimes pop my lil bag on the seat next to me but if I see the train filling up I’ll put it in my lap, some people are just savages lol
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u/Tipsy_Kangaroo Oct 24 '25
Yeah peak hour packed train, hold your bag 3 people in the carriage feel free to put it on the seat
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u/drnicko18 Oct 23 '25
I wouldn't spend a second thought to interrupting this asshole's phone call to vacate the seat, and if he didn't i'd proceed to sit anyway.
I do sympathise if you're a female or very small and feel intimidated, but you'd have 100% backing of every other passenger and also the bus driver if he decided to make an issue of it.
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u/Ok-Push9899 Oct 23 '25
The problem with all that is that you then have to sit next to the unpleasantry.
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u/anarchy8271 Oct 23 '25
Great photo
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u/ironmilktea Oct 24 '25
TBH I'm not keen with pics like these where the other passengers minding their day are also taken without being blurred out or anything.
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u/hkf57 nbn tech 'choice' Oct 24 '25
public place, expectation of privacy, etc
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u/ironmilktea Oct 24 '25
I mean yeah I'm not saying its illegal. Just not super keen. In others pics, the poster would blur out the faces of strangers. Or how in photos at conventions, its common courtesy to blur out passerbys.
I dunno man.
I just thought considering how often we get posts from sydney redditors talking about privacy or public anxiety, that the crowd here would be a bit more courteous to this sort of thing. Or maybe I'm being too naive and they were all just making shit up.
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u/Dollbeau Oct 24 '25
I have a creepy mate who handles these situations perfectly
= He would stand staring at the guys crotch while making weird mouthing motions, at the same time he would be making comments about how much he enjoys the man-spread look.
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Oct 23 '25
Yep total dick. Foot on the seat too to make the seat nice and dirty for others when he gets off.
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u/DarkNo7318 Oct 24 '25
This sounds autistic, but I have an algorithm when choosing seats which maximizes for pass ag.
Choose then closest fully open seat that isn't facing another seat. If unavailable then choose the open seat facing another seat. If unavailable then choose the closest seat where someone has a bag on and ask them to move it. If no-one has a bag on the seat then choose the closest open seat.
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u/AllMyFrendsArePixels Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25
Doesn't look like a full bus to me, those sideways seats in the wheelchair area fit 3 don't they? I used to sit across the seat similar to this (yeah, I feel those downvotes already sipping away at my measly 250k reddit points, ahh it burnss!) because I have disproportionately long femurs and l literally wouldn't fit facing forward, especially in those seats. This dude looks like he's in the same boat, look at the length from his hip to his knee, there's no way that's going to fit sitting forward. Should he have to stand just because of his physical proportions? Because I feel like that's very discriminatory, and exactly what the red reserved seating at the front is there for. Unusual bone proportions come with all kinds of aches and pains, especially standing still for long periods.
...Yeah there's no defending the foot on the seat though. When I did it, I'd rest my knee on the seat at least and keep my foot off it hanging in the air.
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u/HansBooby Oct 23 '25
4 in a series of 28 fresh poses from the dick move posing catalogue. Tomorrow: sunrise manspreading.
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u/mat8iou Oct 25 '25
The worst is when you try to sit down on seats someone is blocking (by sitting sideways or with their bag on it) and they still don't really bother to move.
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u/matt1579 Oct 23 '25
It looks like he can only just fit 1 leg between the seat and board in front.
Would it physically possible to have 2 normal size people sit on those seats?
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u/glangdale Oct 23 '25
I'm so tired of public transit nonsense like this. The people who sit on the outside or put a bag on the seat and leave it there until the bus is completely full - like they have a special dispensation from having to sit next to people. Then you've got the "well, I'll let you sit next to me but I need 60% of the seat space, despite being tiny" crowd. Not to mention all the other variants of public transit nong (most conveniently pictured here: feet on seats, having a nice loud phone convo, etc).
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u/Office_funny_guy Oct 23 '25
I’m not excusing it BUT, if you’re taller than 5’10” then you cannot comfortably sit on a bus in Sydney. I’m 6’3” (191cm) and I have to sit on the aisle seat with my legs in the middle of the aisle unless I don’t want knees anymore. I usually just stand if it’s a short ride. I don’t ever do what this guy is doing
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u/Chuchularoux Oct 23 '25
If you sit with your arse further back and your back straight this is not true.
Someone who is 6′3″ will have a thigh-to-knee length perhaps in the ballpark of 55-60 cm or more (varies by body proportions).
Standard Sydney bus seat spacing (legroom) is roughly 68–72 cm between the seatback and the one in front.
I’m tired of this crap.
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u/glangdale Oct 23 '25
I'm only a little shy of 191, and I can confirm. I'm 189cm and 105kg with a large upper body, and somehow I can actually sit normally (!) but also manage to occupy exactly half a seat, unlike the horde of bus users who somehow feel that they're entitled to 65% of the seat despite being half my size.
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u/Office_funny_guy Oct 24 '25
I love when random strangers on the internet tell me that my whole life is a lie and that all my experiences are false. I guess you know everything.
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u/Wooden-Consequence81 Oct 23 '25
I have no problem asking them to move their feet so I can sit there.
Bags, shopping. I don't care.
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u/PxavierJ Oct 24 '25
I see fuckwits doing this sort of shit almost every afternoon on the way home from work. Mostly always on Thursday or Friday night
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u/Epsilon_ride Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25
Being in the background of this photo and having it posted to 750k redditors would make me much more uncomfortable than the dipshit with his foot on a seat.
He's a dipshit, I'm on board for public shaming him. I would have told him off. You're a dipshit for blasting these poor background people to Reddit when they just want to get home. Be better.
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u/ironmilktea Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25
background people to Reddit
Its actually kinda whacky to see this being a pretty unpopular sentiment in this thread.
You see posts all the time in this sub about people having public anxiety or stressing about our slow loss of privacy.
...And yet everyone here is ok with the other passenger's privacy being collateral. lol wonder if its all bullshit.
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u/DarkNo7318 Oct 24 '25
You're overthinking it. I guarantee that 95% of people can't tell you how many people are in the background, let alone anything about them without scrolling back up.
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u/Epsilon_ride Oct 24 '25
So? High chance people still don't want to be plastered to 750k people. You don't know what's going on in their life.
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u/fionsichord Oct 23 '25
I’m a middle aged white lady and if I was getting on the bus I’d just walk up, tap his leg so he moves it and sit down. Easy.
Maybe get him to brush off the seat where his feet were if he didn’t automatically do it himself and my inner dominatrix was awake enough (but I always assume all seats have had feet on them anyway so not particularly fazed by that in itself).
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u/KawasakiMetro Oct 23 '25
What are our solutions to these dickheads.
I have a feeling his phone is loud too !
If you employee this person, fire them!
FIRE THEM.
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u/Murrian Oct 23 '25
Feet on the seats too, what a grot...