[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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[chrisonabike]

Yup.  You can add to “sudden

Yup.  You can add to “sudden unexpected events” things like “in winter sometimes the roads are weirdly slippy”.

Then the perrenials of “sometimes lots of water falls out of the sky and this impairs vision and makes the car handle funny”, “some mornings and evenings the sun appears right on the horizon in front of you, depending on which way you’re heading” plus “at night it can get dark and hard to see!”

All that is irrelevant however because “I had to drive“.

[brooksby]

Rezis wrote:

Again it wasn’t the drivers…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67204993

Events like this do seem to happen surprisingly frequently: “Yes, it’s thick fog (and smoke). No, I can’t see more than a car length in front of me. What’s that crunching sound? No matter – I’ll just keep on trucking, I’m sure everything is fine!”

[Rezis]

Again it wasn’t the drivers..

Again it wasn’t the drivers…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67204993

[Jogle]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

”the bus company should use shorter buses ” !!

Well they don’t need such big buses. Whenever I pass them while I am driving on my own in my MPV, they only have a couple of passengers on them. It’s such a waste of space and fuel!

[Hirsute]

“the bus company should use
“the bus company should use shorter buses ” !!

[David9694]

 a “save my bacon” tax from

 a “save my bacon” tax from Rishi Soonout*

*Private Eye

[David9694]

Ah yes, One of capitalism’s

Ah yes, One of capitalism’s most useful useful idiots. – the reason why we have crap water, crap public transport and try live out the fantasy of domestic energy competition.

She seems to embody the selfish greed thing, it became emblematic but I still wonder to what extent she actually created it and whether she was more of a reflector of how things were going more broadly. 

[chrisonabike]

hawkinspeter wrote:

Sriracha wrote:

Well, it’s not just a human thing. That loveable Labrador turns into a snarling attack-dog if you try to pet it through the open window of its car.

I don’t even know why they’re allowed to drive

At least squirrels (red ones) drive slowly.

[chrisonabike]

It starts with a Bacon Tax –

It starts with a Bacon Tax – then before you know it some officious oink is saying “can’t pork there mate”.

We’ll all end up like Jack Sprat.  I’ve never heard of a rasher policy.

[hawkinspeter]

giff77 wrote:

So the shopkeepers aren’t happy with the prospect of customers living directly on their doorsteps. Thats pretty forward thinking. 

It’s something to do with Bacon Tax Sunak’s new anti-15-minute cities  – customers have to live more than 15 minutes away.

[giff77]

So the shopkeepers aren’t

So the shopkeepers aren’t happy with the prospect of customers living directly on their doorsteps. Thats pretty forward thinking. 

[Jogle]

‘Entitled’ BMW driver blocks
[b]’Entitled’ BMW driver blocks bus route and gets service cancelled[/b]

There is something very worrying about the comments. There are far too many people saying that “you could get a bus through there” (which clearly you couldn’t, otherwise there wouldn’t be an article) and that the BMW driver did nothing wrong as there are no parking restrictions….

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/entitled-bmw-driver-blocks-bus-8850098

[hawkinspeter]

David9694 wrote:

The car makers and their ads. This is what I don’t get, without claiming to be any sort of Mother Teresa, having either worked all my life in public service or sold bikes in holiday jobs – if you’re not aiming generally at doing good (or at least not harm) in people’s lives and/ or leaving the world a better place than you found it, then WHAT ARE YOU FOR?

It’s selfish greed as popularised by Thatcher amongst others

[David9694]

The car makers and their ads.

The car makers and their ads. This is what I don’t get, without claiming to be any sort of Mother Teresa, having either worked all my life in public service or sold bikes in holiday jobs – if you’re not aiming generally at doing good (or at least not harm) in people’s lives and/ or leaving the world a better place than you found it, then WHAT ARE YOU FOR?

[Rendel Harris]

essexian wrote:

Oh Hi Loser. 

Half term I see. 

Is that the Loser who whines continually claiming that other people follow him around leaving negative comments?

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