[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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[mark1a]

The Young Ones – way ahead of

The Young Ones – way ahead of its time…

 

[brooksby]

chrisonatrike wrote:

ktache wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/11/pentagon-head-of-space-p… (link is external)

Hope the kids are alright.

I’m guessing he needs it for work.

Wonder if he’ll stick around for trial here?  The US tends not to support prosecution of its military and associates overseas.  (Just like the UK of course, but more so).

That was my first thought. Like that killer driver a couple of years ago  who definitely wasn’t from a three letter agency and definitely did have diplomatic immunity, who forgot which side of the road we drive on here and who was shipped back to the US before you could say, “No extradition treaty”…

[chrisonabike]

ktache wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/11/pentagon-head-of-space-p… (link is external)

Hope the kids are alright.

I’m guessing he needs it for work.

Wonder if he’ll stick around for trial here?  The US tends not to support prosecution of its military and associates overseas.  (Just like the UK of course, but more so).

[ktache]

https://www.theguardian.com

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/11/pentagon-head-of-space-policy-appears-in-harrogate-court-after-boys-injured-in-collision

Hope the kids are alright.

I’m guessing he needs it for work.

[David9694]

I was just thinking that

I was just thinking that looked like Young Ones territory.  Overwrought and practically unwatchable now – TV sitcom was never the same again. 

[chrisonabike]

I thought it was the same one

I thought it was the same one as last week – “poor car”, I thought, “it has only just got over its last accident”.  It’s a different one though so must be the occult effects of the Bristol triangle, or the road or something.

[ktache]

I learned this week that

I learned this week that Volvo will no longer import saloons or hatchbacks into the UK, only those pointless vanity behemoths.

[ktache]

Nice to see a bike in the

Nice to see a bike in the library pic of the court.

[Hirsute]

Just saw this mock up

Just saw this mock up

[hawkinspeter]

David9694 wrote:

Driver crashes wheel through parked car’s window in baffling images

You can’t park there, mate

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-crashes-wheel-through-parked-8671109?_ga=2.150271734.1172514368.1691566738-27458962.1674163282

That road looks quite familiar – I wonder what area that’s in.

Edit: they’ve posted it under “Horfield”, so not that close to me. Though I did live for a while on Broadway Rd – just a couple of houses away from The Young Ones house. (They’d turned Neil’s grave into a fishpond)

[David9694]

Driver crashes wheel through

Driver crashes wheel through parked car’s window in baffling images

You can’t park there, mate

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-crashes-wheel-through-parked-8671109?_ga=2.150271734.1172514368.1691566738-27458962.1674163282

[HoldingOn]

Can’t park there

Can’t park there

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-66468326

[SaveTheWail]

A spot of nominative

A spot of nominative determinism going on here:

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-08-09/motorist-ignored-police-warning-and-drove-with-sofa-and-mattress-on-car-roof

[David9694]

sorry sorry sorry 

sorry sorry sorry 

There once was a man from Bonecastle

Who drove like an absolute arsehole

He flew round a curve 

Into a wall he did swerve

And failed to deliver his parcel

[David9694]

The great car insurance con:

The great car insurance con: Premiums soar to record high as prices hiked 50% in a year

According to James Daley, managing director of the consumer group Fairer Finance…

“Premiums have been driven up by two main factors – inflation and changes to regulation. The cost of car repairs and car parts has risen just like everything else over the past year – as has the cost of personal injury claims. All of this pushes up the cost of insurance,” he said.

The growing number of electric vehicles may be playing a part too, as repairs to these can be a lot higher than to a standard car. The insurer LV added that “new high-tech vehicles equipped with sensors, cameras and high-voltage systems are raising the cost of replacement parts and also require specialist labour to fit”.

drivers and their problems 

https://apple.news/AXOPbhOF2SVy77Z6xZAEbsA

 

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