[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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[David9694]

It’s only for a minute

It’s only for a minute

Nobody minds 

It’s not on a yellow line 

there’s plenty of room

why don’t you fuck off and mind your own business  

Bus company attacks ‘masterpiece’ of parking and threatens to withdraw from village 

Lloyd Coaches criticised ‘another masterpiece’ of parking which left one of their drivers struggle to pass on a regular route

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/bus-company-attacks-masterpiece-parking-32569576?int_source=nba

[David9694]

Ah, the world of the Time Out

The 39 coolest neighbourhoods in the world in 2025

We quizzed our global network of local experts to rank the coolest pockets of the world’s best cities. Did your neighbourhood make the cut?

Ah, the world of the Time Out devotee with a funky gallery here and a trendy café there (or should that be funky café/ trendy gallery?) but all of it car lite or car free. 

https://www.timeout.com/travel/coolest-neighbourhoods-in-the-world-2025

pic: 22. Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montréal

 

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Fears Eastgate Street gates are turning area into a ‘ghost town’ as cost to taxpayers revealed

‘Since the old Liquid nightclub has closed, it is deserted. No traffic, no people’

[…]Not quite sure what councillor ghost town is saying

Exactly the video needed:

“All the clubs have been closed down”!

[David9694]

Fears Eastgate Street gates

Fears Eastgate Street gates are turning area into a ‘ghost town’ as cost to taxpayers revealed

‘Since the old Liquid nightclub has closed, it is deserted. No traffic, no people’

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/fears-eastgate-street-gates-turning-10512296?int_source=nba
 

Wow, a whole night-time weekend road gate arrangement in Gloucester (we’re at the far end of Eastgate Street) and I missed it. Not quite sure what councillor ghost town is saying – cars (I.e. not closing the gates?) will fix it? 

[David9694]

Residents forced to park on

Residents forced to park on street after charity takes away their parking spaces

Coastline Housing said the parking spaces are only for its tenants

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/residents-forced-park-street-after-10505719

So the moral of the tale is don’t assume that the communal parking will be forever useable by you without some kind of licence when you buy your rented house. 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Gpte61CF5C7kYTuy8

[David9694]

‘Horror’ at plan to concrete

‘Horror’ at plan to concrete over Thanington Recreation Ground in Canterbury for new park and ride

“The idea that it can be concreted over for car parking is simply horrifying and once it’s gone, it’s lost forever.

“There’s also the threat of air pollution from all those vehicle movements and during the construction phase.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/horror-at-plan-to-concrete-over-recreation-site-for-park-a-329971/ (Paywall) 

Cars are fine until (a) there’s a lot of them (b) they’re in your back yard and (c) your dog walking field has gone. Whatever you, do cars are going to consume space.  

[David9694]

Genuine question – I wonder

Genuine question – I wonder what the traffic count today (with by pass) is vs “obscene” 1985?

[chrisonabike]

Yup. The reality of big
Yup. The reality of big politics.

(Perhaps – given they all shared the same friend – they should have pulled the Andrew formerly known as Prince out of the closet for the occasion? )

This is realpolitik – where you realise that the state’s duty is to itself to the big picture for the nation. And that if eg. the Chinese are visiting and the government desperately want/need good trade deals with them, then for a day or so we act a bit like like the Chinese and sweep any inconvenient but otherwise-lawful protests off the streets. (Though hopefully without the violence / rest of the protestor’s lives restricted / consequences for their family etc…)

[Hirsute]

Can’t protest against a

Can’t protest against a facist, racist, narcisist, authoritarian criminal.

An advertising van displaying a photograph of Donald Trump with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was taken away from the scene by police after travelling around Windsor

Trump Protest Van Highlighting Epstein Links Was Blocked by Police Within Minutes of Approaching Windsor Castle

 

Thames Valley Police told @bylinetimes.bsky.social
the protest van was taken out of the area for being “at risk” of breaking the Road Traffic Regulations Act, though it’s not clear what part of this act they were referring to. The van was later returned to the activists – and sent away from Windsor.

[Rendel Harris]

Mrs Ware later became

Mrs Ware later became suspicious when her husband started organising demonstrations in favour of the bypass bi-weekly, even for several years after the bypass had actually been built.

[David9694]

HoarseMann wrote:

David9694 wrote:

So did Mr Ware go elsewhere from 1986 to 1992? 

Sadly, I believe he was trapped in his home due to the obscene levels of traffic.

I’ve remembered where I’d seen sex-starved Richard before – presumably Mrs is played by Paul Whitehouse? I honestly did expect their segment to segway into a “today, oi be mostly shredding cabbages” moment. . 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108771/characters/nm0931247

[HoarseMann]

David9694 wrote:

So did Mr Ware go elsewhere from 1986 to 1992? 

Sadly, I believe he was trapped in his home due to the obscene levels of traffic.

[David9694]

HoarseMann wrote:

Archive: Village’s women ban sex before bypass demo

The demonstration was held after a bypass around the village was delayed, with Mrs Ware’s husband Richard saying through-traffic had “grown to a level of obscenity”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ce3y9lg3d00o

So did Mr Ware go elsewhere from 1986 to 1992? 

[HoarseMann]

Archive: Village’s women ban

Archive: Village’s women ban sex before bypass demo

The demonstration was held after a bypass around the village was delayed, with Mrs Ware’s husband Richard saying through-traffic had “grown to a level of obscenity”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ce3y9lg3d00o

[David9694]

The good news for José is

The good news for José is that he hasn’t broken the law now. 

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