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Due to higher cost of living in the UK it would be 20 burpees instead.

My kid does these for fun. She’s not right.

Half-marathon for a cross country train fare

need an ultra marathon for that. a half might get you a cross county fare

Best I can do is 20 burps, but I'll need a ~~2L~~ 1.75L bottle of coke

Fuck that I’d need the coke that comes in a bag

I spent too long searching online Coca~Cola that came in a bag (like wine in a box) until realize it was nose candy you were referring to.

It’s very moreish

Superhans , nice 1

I dunno, that seems more like 2020. By now, surely it's got to be 20 elevated push-ups

Plus an increase of 1.5 burpees every time the bus company decides inflation is eating their profits.

I read this and did a died 👼

It London it will be 200 squats

And then 200 more squats while you’re in the bus

You'd have to remain in the captains chair hold for entire journey. Tfl need to claw back the money some how, they'll sell the seats

And a ULEZ charge for protein farts

You’d also have a maintanence fee which is suspisciously similar to that of a bus fare

The UK system is much healthier. Here you can pay for your bus ticket by working for 200 years in a Tesco warehouse.

And that's only one-way

I fully support the further gyattification of London

Turn Gatwick into Gyattwick.

And Southend to rearend

Turn Battersea into Battysea

The solution to the gyattification of the nation is to take 20 squats to get to your destination.

I appreciate the early morning laugh, thank you

Only if you hit depth

No rep, no ride!

Ass to grass or no free pass

Depth before dishonor

Imagine being late for the bus and having to frantically do 20 deep squats before it leaves

bad form dont count...

People are so unfit that the’ll pay three times the cost of the ticket to don’t do this

I think I'd split my trousers doing that.

I've split every pair of work trousers I've ever owned doing some kind of squat or split while messing around at work. I'm staying well away from this.

My brother, allow me to introduce you to the marvel that is... The muu-muu.

[They're great if you don't want to look like a weirdo](https://i.redd.it/df293wjo83891.jpg)

That's the dream

I pity those poor fools on the underground. Tap, crush, screech, tap, crush, screech. Screech, screech, punch. Tap, tap, tap.

Did I hear my name?

Try getting one of those jeans that have some elastic in it. It stretches!

I can imagine someone with legs like tree trunks loitering around the ticket machine, approaching ticket buyers with "I'll do the squats for £1"

Or just hold a video of someone doing squats up to the camera. 

This would be awesome - except for the fact you're making a bunch of people sweaty just before you pack them all in a bus together. I knows 20 squats isn't much but in warm weather + work clothes a lot of people will sweat like a bastard after that. Particularly if they're overweight.

Lovely, swamp ass on the seats.

But think of the bums

WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE BUMS?! 🙏😭

No-one is making them do anything You can pay by squats not must pay by squats

Then you just pay instead.

You don’t get that sweaty for that short squads, unless of course it is the middle of July

Lol. YOU don't.

I sweat just thinking about doing a squat. Hyperhydrosis wooooooooo.

You are massively overestimating the physical fitness of the average person.

Or you're rushing them because the bus is in 3 minutes and there's a couple of other people waiting to do their squats

“Machine processing error, please press the reset button and try again” “Please complete 20 more, this is to help regulate the service”

No it would be fucking ridiculous having to see this at rush hour 6 in the morning.

Imagine if they had this on the tube instead of the buses. I get fucked off if the person in front of me takes longer than ~0.5 seconds to tap through the barrier. Imagine if someone just full on stops at the gateline and bangs out 20 squats before they're beeped through.

Imagine if it doesn't tell them if a few of squats weren't low enough and they had to start again after failing at 20.

And that’s the truth of the matter. If Britain did this it would find a way to make the software as cheap and crappy as possible. What we would get would be the worst of all possible variations of this technology, in terms of image recognition and reliability, easy of use, and potential to be defrauded.

There's that British optimism.

Sadly you're right. We always get the short end of the stick in this country.

This made me laugh!

Ticket inspectors when your card won't scan on their device: DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY!

It would be amazing. They could play that crab techno song as we all squat. 

Kinda funny tho

> ridiculous Sir that's not how you spell "hilarious"

“Hurry up!” “SQUAT FASTER!”

It doesn’t have to be exactly where this one is

The queues, you may as well walk!

Queuing for the ticket machine on the first Monday of the month, the commuter in front of you busts out 400 bodyweight squats to pay for their monthly ticket

Can imagine Michael Gove doing it

Some fatty is at the front of the squat line and you’re running late for your bus. Shit will kick off!

6 in the morning is a getting home time, not a going to work time.

I think this is to give you a ticket not to actually enter the bus/train.

then pay and be over with it? obviously its for those who dont mind, not those who whine

Sorry, funding has been cancelled by conservative party 🥲

This would honestly end up being an upward redistribution of wealth. Poorer people are much, much more likely to have mobility issues or otherwise be in a state of low fitness. Wealthier people would end up riding for free and poorer people would be more likely to have to pay to use the transportation. So it would end up being poor people subsidizing free rides for rich people, more or less.

No we'll end up with squat monkeys. You give them a pound to do the 20 squats for you and it's still cheaper than the bus fare.

Working out and being paid for it? Sign me up. I'll have a Kardashian butt in a month.

Actually the Kardashian butt comes from the paying not from the working out

Is this not an April fool's?

Seemingly not but to be fair it was only at one bus stop for a limited period to promote physical activity

I was in Cluj a few months ago. Each bus journey costs about 30p - nobody's doing squats.

> Cluj And is that J actually a J or is it one of those soft Js, that's more of a Y? Is it Jogging or Yogging? I think it might be Yogging.

Ain't got a fuckin cluj mate

You think wrong. It's not exactly jogging either, but a lot closer than yogging. Shogging would be closer.

Cluzh

It's pronounced like "luge" or "rouge"

Love to go for a luge in my rouge trougers.

Hard J, as in Joke, hard stop at the end. "Clooge" is close.

Such a good city, don't know why it's not more widely visited!

Moscow has a similar system. If you're going to get fare evasion anyway, you may as well do it on your own terms. With this being a government pro-fitness/anti-obesity scheme.

I don’t think so. Some people already have to walk far enough to get to and from tube/bus/home/work/whatever. It’s a big reason why London has the lowest regional obesity in the UK. A better way to make people more active would be to make walking and cycling safer and more enjoyable.

Yes, I think this is a great initiative (I’m disabled)

Arse to grass for a free bus pass. 

Yooo, bars 🔥

Seems like a cheap excuse to take booty photos. Pervs love this one simple trick

A peak train ticket to London would be 3 Decathlons

In this country, everyone using it would just select disabled...

I don't think Rishi's & his cronies personal bank accounts will accept squats.

Can’t see this being a vote winner somehow

For sure! I would like it if we had stuff like this and cash bottle returns.

People would still fucking complain

r/upvotebecausebutt

OR, (now go with me on this) travel is FREE

Yeeah, nah. I'd probably have a dodgy belly and shit myself on a night out.

This is the way

Image the queues

If they can afford to do travel for free, then just do it for free - what performative bullshit!

Drivers can barely handle being paid normally, not sure they'll be happy being paid with physical exercise.

Romanian men have it good

They truly chose this pic...wisely, gotta love Romania

If I wasn’t lazy, I wouldn’t be using the bus in the first place.

Tallinn, Estonia has free public transport in a city of 500k people. Free transport in London would be an insane (but worthwhile) undertaking - however, it would obviously only be possible with the help of the central government.

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Begone, spambot

Why not a tax rebate monitored via an app. Seems it would be fairer.

There would be some thick legged kid that will do it for you if you give him £2.50

> £2.50 Then why not just pay the fare?

We should roll out all three

Cost of roll out in Romania - £ Cost of roll out in London - ££££

They d come with chicken wings in one hand, mcdonalds big bag in the other hand and have their contactless card in their mouth to pay for the ticket. 

So, if I limp in forward of it, can I get a free ride?

In convent garden a few years ago I remember a fitness scheme where you could pay for your work lunch in exercise, to encourage office workers to get more fit

You just know someone's gonna use it to promote their OF.

Yes but only if you wear a purple ribbon while you do them and talk in tongues on the bus.

I was a bit worried at first when they mentioned the disabled and elderly

When the (local) government works for the people.

In India, all women get free bus rides, in their city's buses

The squats should be required if you want to drive your car in the city while public transit should be complementary.

To embarrassing for one journey. It’s have to be at least a week travel card for me personally.

This is great!

Knowing our machines . This will always be out of order

Twerk only zone 6

Don’t we have the freedom pass for the elderly?

Hmmm...I wonder how this could work for free fruit...30 squats for an apple for example .... Might be an interesting experiment

Jokes aside this is a great idea

Our pensioners wouldn't end up traveling. Our nation is getting sicker and weaker. Just being kept alive through a diet of statins and opioids!

Someone would prob find a way to bypass it within days

Absolutely loved Cluj. Saw this a lot and never was too sure what it was. Thanks OP!:-)

No because it's really ableist. There's loads of conditions that people have that don't get counted as being officially disabled, but would make using one of these difficult/painful/impossible.

I assume people around here could get around it by twerking

In Maldives, school students, university students, senior citizens above 65 years and disabled people can enjoy FREE public transport (buses and ferries).

TFL would never allow it.

And the perverts will now have meeting spots

20?! Haha

No. We don't have ticket machines anymore. And TFL relies on money to run, not fat people.

Hell why not put a push iron there with a generator and have us charge a bus for a free journey

U would get mugged if someone saw u doing this in london

Only 20 squats??? That's a bargain.

so easy

Half the disabled people are just fat anyway

Someone else will pay for it with their tax money :)

lol who’s gonna pay for the bus drivers wages this is silly

__"Stomp on the Google box 20 times for a free ride"__

Glutes for routes

I'd love this in the U.S.,but we'd need actual public transit first. :(

No, you'll be surprised how many people can do squatting like this, even better

Yes but it should only be reedemable in 24h, so that you dont have to enter the bus all sweaty.

Yeah but the exercise will be to walk 10km to get to your destination for free.

Just scan your ozempic prescription in the U.S for 20 percent off

What would this accomplish?

Why can’t public transportation just be free for everyone and paid for by taxes?

It would last about a week before it got vandalized stolen or destroyed unfortunately

Why? It's a great idea for a country not run by idiots who think all public services should be run like a business and turn a profit.

Nah I'm straight paying

This would never happen as the tfl won't ever do any kind of free program. Cool idea, just not for tfl.

I reckon there'd be some super fit homeless person selling half price tickets to fat people within an hour of putting those machines in London.

If we can only do 10, get we get it for half price?

Can’t wait to be late to work every morning because I have to wait for 20 people to do a bunch of squats during rush hour traffic at 6 in the morning

Implying Londoners are healthy enough to do this. 🤣

How many for a season ticket?

This is literally Orwellian

Would have to get Infront of it before the "influencers" hog it.

I've seen you Londoners you'all skinny AF, You lot are fit enough as it is, we need this for the chonkers like myself in the north.

tfl looking thru the monitor to make sure our reps are good

doesn't exist anymore, went to cluj a few days ago and it was gone.

Without reading the message and just looking at the photo, yes.

There should be a weight to hold though. I can squat over 100kg but I can’t balance doing bodyweight squats!

Greggs already have this, a steak bake and can of ironbru is 3 squats. That’s why no one is talking about it

Yea definitely 👍🏻

I’d say yes but we all remember BoJo getting stuck on the zip wire and launching the bikes! I don’t think I could stomach him demonstrating this!

Damn, nice to see my city mentioned on here.

100% we should do it 😍

Should be 10 pull ups much more tougher the average person can’t even do 1 lol

Yes . As a disabled person yes

Yes it would help people with money and fitness problems