can' even edge on the train these days

If someone does this on the tram I make a point of climbing past them to get to the window seat.

This is literally every train in Belgium, I'm pretty sure it has been for a long time. We are anti-social

Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masterbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masterbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.

This wasn't a thing in Canada until COVID, we've also have a huge wave of immigration and a lot of immigrants think it's chill to pretend you own public space.

To me, it's the biggest indicator you are a conceited asshole.

lot of immigrants think it's chill to pretend you own public space
Of course sweetie, it is all these pesky immigrants fault 🙄
- Not what I was saying, also do you really believe migrants don't have culture clashes when they move to other countries?

There’s a free space by the window. But someone’s already sitting in the aisle seat, avoiding eye contact at all costs.You’re left with an awkward decision, do you ask them to budge up?

It is not awkward at all. Tell him to move his backpack (if there is one) and sit there.

If you don't want someone to sit beside you, sit on the window seat then eagerly look at everyone walking past and pat the seat beside you. Nobody wants to sit beside that guy.
- This works 98% of the time. When it doesn't, oh boy! You're in for an "interesting" conversation!
  Use at your own risk!
- Or if you don't want to do the eager look thing just sit there picking your nose and examining what you dredge out.
It’s so outrageous that at some point I will ask to sit where the bag is even if there are empty seats available. I will burn this place to the ground.
I just move in and put my crotch in his face and then say "sorry" and people usually move the bag.
Stand really close facing him, with your bulge (male or female) at eye level, in silence, and wait.
Maybe his backpack has a ticket.
I envy your social skills. ^^'
- Its actually a lack of them.
  "Hey, can you move your bag so I can have that seat?"
  Is a profound lack of give a damn about how uncomfortable I make other people. They know what they are doing, quietly signalling that they dont want anybody sitting there. Other people who do have social graces will stand around quietly staring daggers and silently judging, Im just gonna make this shit awkward for the both of us.
I go straight there if your bag is on the seat.

Don't cum on the train!

Don't edge on the train!

What do you people want from me?

...like, ON the train?
- you want him to cum into it?
Not edging or cumming, for starters.
- Well what am I supposed to do on the train to pass the time? You can't get close and talk to anyone anymore, people get pissy and say I'm "ViOlAtInG tHeIr PeRsOnAl SpAcE".
- What is he, a monk?
- That sounds like more of a fetish.

You’re left with an awkward decision, do you ask them to budge up? Or do you just accept defeat and stand up for the next 30 minutes?

What's awkward about this situation? Just ask them to move and sit there.

They've got headphones on
- Wave in their face and point. Rude people aren’t entitled to politeness.

The worst are those who edge while rawdogging the journey

'Edgers' are the cheeky commuters invading the National Rail network

Posted on c/okmatewanker

Stand in the isle directly beside them. Occasionally swing a hip into them as you go over a bump. Maybe fart a little bit.

Username checks out
Maybe fart a little bit.
That's my secret Cap

So annoying when the guy next to me is edging the whole time

Just come on and get it over with
Don't be shy, help out.

I like to sit next to those even if other seatsare empty.

Yes! Punish them with my unwelcome presence.

https://metro.co.uk/2025/06/09/edgers-cheeky-commuters-invading-national-rail-network-23348791/

This has literally always been a thing. Who's "invading"???

I edge because that empty space usually get me trapped by rank mofos who dont know hygeine. Wash you rank fuckers

That's public transport for you. You pay for one ticket, you get one seat; you don't get a whole row to yourself just because you don't like other people.
Pay for first class if you want more space and a seat on your own.
- Seems like you really understand the experiences of the person you're replying to
If this is such a problem for you, then you are not at all ready for any of the other problems that public transport can throw at you
You're getting downvoted, but as a woman I have been and have seen other women hemmed in by creepy men for sitting in the window seat. I'd rather be rude than at risk.
- Stay on the aisle then. Just move the bag so someone can sit down.
- This. I am tired of people slotting next to me and thinking thats gives them the right to act like a creep.... Or deciding that washing is optional.
- You are welcome to stand.
So you leave your place when someone smelly sits there?
- Sometimes dangerous. I once moved when someone at the station smoked close to me, and he took it as offense and on the train he sat across the aisle from me and stared at me the whole ride until he luckily got off 2 or 3 stations earlier than me. I just kept pretending to read in my ebook reader while watching out of the corner of my eye and plotting my escape should he get off at the same station as me.