[David9694]

A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don’t quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes. 

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[wtjs]

Telegraph readers have a

Telegraph readers have a collective meltdown. Is there a max iq to read the telegraph?

“the all-too-powerful cycling lobby”!

These people are both malevolent and dim. You will recall the Torygraph fashion journalist declaring that she’d like to kill all cyclists. The ‘cycling lobby’ has achieved virtually no improvement in cycling safety over, say, the last 10 years, in Lancashire at least. The best we can say is that close-passing is not becoming less popular, and in Lancashire driving schools are even teaching it as the right thing to do: 

https://upride.cc/incident/ej65pff_greenpass_closepass/

 

[Hirsute]

Yes but there are only 3 or 4
Yes but there are only 3 or 4 main apps and I find mipermit and ringgo cover where I go.

[brooksby]

Hirsute wrote:

Not sure what apps you are using then. I used ringgo after christmas – enter 5 digit loation, select tariff, confirm – less than 30 seconds and I could extend the stay.

No need for change or if the machine is working and accepting the coins.

I presume that you have to register and set up an account first?  So you’d have to know what app was being used in the particular town or area or even just car park where you intended to park, and register ahead of time?

[brooksby]

chrisonabike wrote:

stonojnr wrote:

Those apps are a pita to use even for tech literate folk, it can take good 5mins of app wrangling normally to ensure you’ve got a valid ticket vs 30secs for just dropping coins in a machine and it print a paper ticket.

But in the ads they’re more far more convenient and quick though?

In the ads, the roads are all empty.

[stonojnr]

It was Ringgo, I hadn’t used
It was Ringgo, I hadn’t used the app for a while and it insisted on reauthenticating EVERYTHING !!! But only after downloading an update.

Took at least 5mins to go through all that with the texts it sends & verification pins, and then the bank wanted to authenticate payment. All for 2 sodding quid.

[Hirsute]

Telegraph readers have a

Telegraph readers have a collective meltdown. Is there a max iq to read the telegraph?

“It’s woke transport nonsense run amok.”

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting they call for French levels of taxation and motorway roadtolls to provide good roads .

[Hirsute]

Not sure what apps you are

Not sure what apps you are using then. I used ringgo after christmas – enter 5 digit loation, select tariff, confirm – less than 30 seconds and I could extend the stay.

No need for change or if the machine is working and accepting the coins.

[chrisonabike]

stonojnr wrote:

stonojnr wrote:

Those apps are a pita to use even for tech literate folk, it can take good 5mins of app wrangling normally to ensure you’ve got a valid ticket vs 30secs for just dropping coins in a machine and it print a paper ticket.

But in the ads they’re more far more convenient and quick though?

[stonojnr]

Those apps are a pita to use
Those apps are a pita to use even for tech literate folk, it can take good 5mins of app wrangling normally to ensure you’ve got a valid ticket vs 30secs for just dropping coins in a machine and it print a paper ticket.

[David9694]

Secret_squirrel wrote:

How can you own a car and not have access to regular banking services?

What a dumbass comment.

This must be one of the many “I insist on using cash in the parking meter” articles, usually based on the person being old and infirm and unable to use an app / smartphone, but is somehow perfectly safe to drive? 

[David9694]

Drivers and their problems

Drivers and their problems

Couple outraged as personal number plate is deemed ‘offensive’ by DVLA

The married couple have had the registration plate for almost three decades

Jackie explained: “We still have the receipt, no mention is made of inflation. We are incensed that we are to lose our treasured car registration and it is seriously affecting our mental health.”

…the Agency adopts a clear policy of withdrawing potentially offensive registration numbers, either from normal issue or from its sales scheme. Such marks are withdrawn if they are likely to cause offence or embarrassment to the general population in this country on the grounds of political, racial, and religious sensitivities, or simply because they are in poor taste.

https://www.devonlive.com/sport/football/bristol-rovers-fans-banned-numberplate-9857571

[David9694]

wtjs wrote:

Patients react after Royal Stoke lodges overflow car park plan

As you say with your cartoon: I demand to be able to drive and park where I like, when I like- it’s all those other drivers and the lack of roads, and the bloody cyclists, that are the problem

I think the Spider-Man meme is relevant to a great many of the news stories we have on this column. Head over to favourite funny for more cartoons. 

[brooksby]

wtjs wrote:

I wasn’t ‘getting at you’ at all

[wtjs]

I wasn’t ‘getting at you’ at

I wasn’t ‘getting at you’ at all

[brooksby]

wtjs wrote:

Non-anecdote for you:

https://upride.cc/incident/st23fhf_audi_closepass/

We need a new feature ‘Predict the Anti-Cyclist Excuse 2025’, and this could be the first entry- open for comments. I could get them effort-free by putting it on YT, or even just asking the b*****d police- here they wouldn’t respond, just like their policy with the reports

My own anecdote was not an excuse.  Or wasn’t intended as such.  I was horrified that I had completely failed to see the cyclist in my case: I’m glad that I had slowed right down anyway, but somewhere out there is a cyclist complaining to all their friends (possibly on this very site, though I haven’t seen them) about a b*****d in a Beetle close passing them… 

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