[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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[JustTryingToGetFromAtoB]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Demand whatever you like. You must want that cheeseburger real bad. 

The menu is dire and beside the point (exception made for cheese bites when I am pissed)

What gets my goat is firms making up rules under false risks. Whether lazy or discrimination, when firms do this you cannot rely on them to get the big stuff right. Discrimination against protected characteristics, using data protection to be lazy, denying service because of an incorrect application of anti-money laundering etc, well worth my time in challenge.

In this case, it appears people with a protected characteristic are denied a service, because they have a protected characteristic. It may be OK, but there would need to be a rigorous and documented thought process underpinning it. I would bet my next pay packet there isn’t.

I’m not about to suggest that cycling becomes a protected characteristic… but when firms start thinking rather blindly denying, the world will be better for cyclists.

[chrisonabike]

Ah, but “poor” is relative

Ah, but “poor” is relative isn’t it?  We’re normally comparing up or down deliberately e.g. with those we aspire to be or those we don’t want to be.  Plus poor also relates to what you can get.  Given that running a car appears – to many people – to be about as optional as paying tax or your mortgage – that expense is a “must be found”.  (A bit like smoking those who quit are often struck by just how much they were forking out for the priveledge.)

So in the UK we can almost all easily be in the top 10% of the world’s income and a surprising number of us are in the wealthiest 1% in the world (we’re the super-polluters) –  but lots of us are also poor and struggling amid a cost of living crisis.

[David9694]

The second car had an

The second car had an argument with the sea and they’re not speaking.

[David9694]

I don’t normally shout, but

I don’t normally shout, but IF YOU ARE RUNNING A CAR, YOU ARE NOT POOR. 

[Awavey]

some of the quotes from

some of the quotes from locals they found for this   https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/last-ditch-attempt-halt-devastating-7778873

where do you begin, the owner of a pub who bemoans people wont be able to drive to his pub ? an owner of a shop who clearly doesnt understand what a cost of living crisis is?  another shop owner who supports people driving along the road, but worries with less cars that it will be more dangerous as cyclists will hit pedestrians ?

[chrisonabike]

Free charging, it’s like free

Free charging, it’s like free parking – it’s a basic human right!  Or at least, I’ll boycott them that don’t provide it.  (Unfortunately I’m not able to extend this analogy to McDonalds and drive-thrus as it’d be a cold day in hell that would see me cycling there specially).

A perspective from a neighbouring country shows that – if there are alternatives – even free parking just ain’t that big of a draw.  So presumably with a slight change in direction now we could avoid having to take up sizeable chunks of the streetscape / trip up pedestrians by putting charging facilities everywhere.

[ktache]

Them Victorians couldn’t get

Them Victorians couldn’t get enough of those pointless “status symbols” SUVs, didn’t they?

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

Tesco shoppers threaten boycott as 28p electric car charge branded ‘disgusting’

It was previously free to charge electric vehicles at the supermarket

but my free charge-up

Another shopper said: “I was using the free charging as an incentive to shop at Tesco, the only supermarket around my way to offer free charging. Now I’ll spread my wings a bit and shop at other places too.”

https://www.devonlive.com/news/uk-world-news/tesco-shoppers-threaten-boycott-28p-7779261?int_source=nba

I wonder: did those people expect free petrol from Tesco when they were shopping there (before they bought an EV)? If not, why do they expect free charging?

[David9694]

And what they are derfending.

And what they are defending. Very Victorian.
Would it be unfair to suggest that if you are a trader reliant on parking you should provide it yourself, or doesn’t it work that way? 

[David9694]

Last ditch attempt’ to halt

Last ditch attempt’ to halt ‘devastating’ changes to seafront

“The lack of parking will just give people, at a time of a cost of living crisis, another reason not to come out and spend money. The demographic of Clevedon means there are a lot of older people, some who have mobility problems who need convenient parking.”

“The system along the seafront has always worked well – The Victorians got it right – and most see no reason to change it.”

[David9694]

Demand whatever you like. You

Demand whatever you like. You must want that cheeseburger real bad. 

[JustTryingToGetFromAtoB]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

non-story alert here, but welcome to our world, guys. I admire the courage of whoever went out of their way to intervene here as this article would follow as surely as a burnt mouth from biting into an apple pie too fast: 

‘Humiliated’ pensioners on mobility scooters turned away from Lincoln McDonald’s drive-thru

“I felt as if I was discriminated against because of my age”

“I am 71 and I have had a stroke. That’s why I find it difficult standing and walking around sometimes.” 

“I felt really upset about it all. I have got a license plate on the front of mine. It’s all registered.”

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/humiliated-pensioners-mobility-scooters-turned-7780712

If i were the individuals here, I would take a different approach (and I’m banking it for when I end up on a scooter cos a dickhead driver has wiped me out)

I’d be demanding the name of the name of the insurers and the wording of the exclusion.

Next steps depend on the response (insurers have more options to go after them) but either way, this is questionable legally.

Sometimes I wish I wasn’t this sad, but complaints like this are my hobby. Gonna have to change my name to CyclingKaren.

[David9694]

non-story alert here, but

non-story alert here, but welcome to our world, guys. I admire the courage of whoever went out of their way to intervene here as this article would follow as surely as a burnt mouth from biting into an apple pie too fast: 

‘Humiliated’ pensioners on mobility scooters turned away from Lincoln McDonald’s drive-thru

“I felt as if I was discriminated against because of my age”

“I am 71 and I have had a stroke. That’s why I find it difficult standing and walking around sometimes.” 

“I felt really upset about it all. I have got a license plate on the front of mine. It’s all registered.”

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/humiliated-pensioners-mobility-scooters-turned-7780712

[David9694]

Tesco shoppers threaten

Tesco shoppers threaten boycott as 28p electric car charge branded ‘disgusting’

It was previously free to charge electric vehicles at the supermarket

but my free charge-up

Another shopper said: “I was using the free charging as an incentive to shop at Tesco, the only supermarket around my way to offer free charging. Now I’ll spread my wings a bit and shop at other places too.”

https://www.devonlive.com/news/uk-world-news/tesco-shoppers-threaten-boycott-28p-7779261?int_source=nba

[IanMSpencer]

Try for the proper
Try for the proper pronunciation of VW while we are at it.

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