Drivers and their problems

Below 10mph?? Rubbish!

According to the mot it has had the same advisory for the last 2 years

Oil leak, but not excessive (8.4.1 (a) (i))

So much for pride and joy !

David9694 wrote:

Triggered. I'm not a pensioner, but I am old enough to remember when cheques were a thing in shops (and when shops were a thing).  I remember debit cards becoming a thing (credit cards already were, but M&S and John Lewis didn't accept them for a long time.) 

It must be a blast in the quaint shops of Cirencester.  My blood pressure is better these days:

"that's £74.99" Rummage for cheque book, rummage for pen, items moved to create writing space, "how much again?" "£74.99" "what's the date today? / Do you have stamp/who's it to?" "Bloggs ltd". Rummage for cheque card, assistant hand-writes the number on the back. In Halfords, the till had a slot on it which imprinted more info on the back. "can I change it if it's not right?" 

I remember the original credit card machines that used carbon paper to imprint the details onto paper that you then had to sign

Maybe they should get an old Leyland van, screw a TV aerial to the roof and pretend it can detect VED dodgers while actually using the DVLA/DVSA database to catch people.

Can't think where I got such a laughably stupid idea like that from.

Tempting, isn't it?  The "but you moved to a lovely (but isolated) rural location", or the "but maybe there were jobs which weren't 50 miles away", or "you could move closer to school / work"...

There is definitely a "tragedy of the commons" being played out e.g. "if only we didn't all drive our children to school we wouldn't all feel we have to drive our children to school".  But also happening over time e.g. "I've lived here all my life - there were shops and even a library when I was growing up.  Then the school closed, the local hospital was merged with the one in the city..."

The flooding thing for me is another long term example of this.  Where our collective actions will (by their summed tiny contributions) make life hugely more problematic - but not equally.

Some pretty damning stuff about the Met. Absolutely rotten from top to bottom.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/17/david-carricks-cri...

Sian Norris paints a similar picture for Byline Times: "It’s not a bad apple, it’s a rotting orchard"

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/01/16/violent-misogyny-in-policing-violent-...

I'm old enough to remember such things also,and the carbon paper card imprint machines,and I'm not a pensioner either yet but East Suffolk council car parks have swapped to this cashless system and I've alot of sympathy with these OAPs if their system is as convoluted as ours.

Ive spent longer navigating the phone system,its speech recognition needs more work, than Ive needed time to park. No one can convince me that it's easier than just popping a 50p in a machine & printing a ticket.

With all the ANPR cameras there are, surely it should just be automated! One strike with no MOT or VED, the registered owner gets a letter as a polite warning. 2nd strike is 3 points etc. 

The next issue would be the masking of plates like they are apparently suffering with in NY but that should just be a ticket from either a Policeman or Parking Enforcement. Again, letter the first time, points after that.

it would appear that the head of the IOPC had to resign, and not quickly enough, over serious allegations, sex with a minor

And when he was appointed as the first Director General of the IOPC, during the fanfare about how the police compaints process was to be radically overhauled, the BBC article stated:

Director general of the IOPC Michael Lockwood said: "Public confidence in policing is best served by robust and independent oversight

Of course, people in public life are proved innocent of scurrilous accusations, but that requires diligent impeccable police work, so it was impossible for him to remain in charge of the body overseeing complaints against the police. All this is important to me, of course, in my ceaseless quest to sort out Lancashire Constabulary.

I had assumed it was nothing to do with it being easier. It's cheaper for the council, because they don5 have to pay staff to go around emptying machines, and That Is All That Matters.

Not just that, machines get vandalised and the money is stolen too. Gets a bit expensive after just 2 events.

Yes it's absolutely about saving the council money, but they always claim its "easier" to use, to sell it to people.

The apps work well -easy to use.
Apps - you can extent your time with no hassle, you can pay ahead eg station , you can pay from your bed if you have parked overnight and the charges kick in from 8.

They do,once you battle through all the registration parts, but you need a good data signal still which is not always guaranteed.

I hate it when you're expected to download an app or register on a website for what's basically a one off transaction (ordering a snack in a cafe, parking a car, etc)

Eh?

Delivery van drivers finds out that his vehicle is not amphibious after all. Walcot Ford again, water level is not far below the 4' marker.

Here is street view - with low flow.

And "some expensive cars being towed out" of the floods on the B4213 in Gloucestershire:

https://twitter.com/Oskar_Brennan/status/1614355504121380864

That's weird, this morning it as definitely showing as "Vehicle details could not be found". I withdraw the something fishy allegation, though I still reckon she's trying for replacement rather than repair!

Delivery van drivers finds out that his vehicle is not amphibious after all

It's time to paraphrase Apocalypse Now again:

The Joy! TheJoy!!

Wouldn't filling the void with huge amounts of concrete and aggregate be an effective solution?

And what on earth is wrong with running more freight trains?...

hirsute wrote:

Seasonal one. Not a good ad for armoured personnel carriers though ! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-64082342

I hope that "wedged in a hedge" takes over from elf on a shelf

Isn't the idea to park with wheels angled so it does not go onto a road?

Update - hilarious, she was still standing next to it, and seems to have left the parking break off. Hit 3 vehicles.

Which Arndale Centre, you say it like there is only one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arndale_Centre