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Posted
7 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Just say no? Contracts are contracts.

That might be the law but not ebay law , if i make him complete all that'll happen is he'll say is it's arrived faulty , ebay will initiate the return which i'll pay for and it'll arrive back in 27 pieces because he just threw it in a box , I'll claim from ebay and they'll reject it because I could've sent it like that, instead of having a £1000 worth of hifi i'll have £100 worth of spare parts

Been there, got the T shirt

Posted
7 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Yea, you wish! 🤣

In the late 70s a mate of mine was a builder , he was 20 and really good looking , he dreaded the shoe factory jobs, it was all middle aged women in the machine rooms, they'd be touching him up, showing him boob cleavage and cat calling him as he walked around.

A 100 women in a group were way worse than anything 100 men would do

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Posted
18 hours ago, Fumbler said:

To be fair, I always get the shivers going past a speed camera even if I'm going 5MPH below the limit. I think that's mainly down to the New Driver Act.

I managed to get three points three months after passing my test back in 2006.  They'd turned a speed camera around that I had been been there for over a decade facing the other way.  40 in 30.  Bang to rights.

Luckily it didn't have that much of an effect on my insurance but I really did take it slow until the probationary period ended.  I still take it easy.  Was in South Wales a couple of weeks ago and there was a camera van on a 50 stretch that must have caught a lot of people - but fortunately not me doing 50...

Good luck mate.

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I got flashed by a camera in my seat leon about five years ago. It took about 6 weeks for the nip to come through the post. The letter had a picture of my car heading towards them from miles away. I wrote back saying there's no way I can remember who's driving from six weeks ago. They sent another letter with the photo zoomed right in showing me behind the wheel.

Fucking good cameras those fuckers.

It's also bollox about them having to contact you within two weeks. I saw a solicitor about it at the time.

Posted
9 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Just say no? Contracts are contracts.

Distance selling regulations mean, that they have a right to change thier minds. 

Posted
1 hour ago, paulplom said:

It's also bollox about them having to contact you within two weeks. I saw a solicitor about it at the time.

It's written in to law that the NIP must be sent out to arrive with the registered keeper within 14 days of the alledged offence.  There is case law where the NIP arrived on day 16 and it was thrown out of court.  It's not bollox at all.

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43 minutes ago, Talbot said:

It's written in to law that the NIP must be sent out to arrive with the registered keeper within 14 days of the alledged offence.  There is case law where the NIP arrived on day 16 and it was thrown out of court.  It's not bollox at all.

Talbot QC 🤣🤣🤣

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42 minutes ago, sierraman said:

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But even he had to defer to She Who Must Be Obeyed 

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5 hours ago, New POD said:

Distance selling regulations mean, that they have a right to change thier minds. 

Not when buying from private sellers , if it's not as described they can send it back but in reality it's just easier to cancel it even if you don't have to because eBay is so weighted towards the buyer if he wants his money back he's getting it. 

Posted
5 hours ago, paulplom said:

I got flashed by a camera in my seat leon about five years ago. It took about 6 weeks for the nip to come through the post. The letter had a picture of my car heading towards them from miles away. I wrote back saying there's no way I can remember who's driving from six weeks ago. They sent another letter with the photo zoomed right in showing me behind the wheel.

Fucking good cameras those fuckers.

It's also bollox about them having to contact you within two weeks. I saw a solicitor about it at the time.

Years ago my mechanic got a ticket in a customer's car , neither of them could remember what time it was picked up so they asked for proof of who was driving 

They got a picture of the mechanic driving a robin hood sports car looking over the top of the window frame so there was no disputing that one 

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Could the people of Milton Keynes stop coming up with new and creative ways to be utter assholes?

Sitting in the middle lane of a signal controlled roundabout, patiently waiting for the lights to change.  Windows are all open as I had the dogs in the car.

Suddenly it sounded for all the world like I was under automatic gunfire.  The guy in the red Seat Ibiza immediately to my right had decided that sitting and bouncing his car off the rev limiter was a good way to pass the time.  Of course he's one of the pop and bang bunch who we have to listen to every night from down by the train station where they race each other, do burnouts, etc every single night.  It's about a mile from us but you can still clearly hear it.  Loud enough that my ears were ringing afterwards.

Good job I had the handbrake on or I'd have ended up in the roundabout probably with a bus in the side of my car as I just ducked and holding my foot on the brake was about the last thing on my mind.

One of the dogs (who was harnessed in) I discovered several seconds later had materialised in the passenger footwell and was cowering there, sans both harness and collar which were both still in the back.  She has serious, serious anxiety problems at the best of times...and is now terrified of getting into the car.  Oh what fun.

I'd have noted the reg and reported it (for all the good that would do) but they had one of those greyed out plates and it was completely unreadable from anything more than about two feet away.

Why the fsck did I ever move here?

 

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1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

... ... they had one of those greyed out plates and it was completely unreadable from anything more than about two feet away....

That's the whole point.

Sections 59 and 60 of the 2002 Police Reform Act are supposed to cover antisocial driving and seizure of vehicles driven in an antisocial manner, but it needs the fuzz to get loads of complaints about the driving in the first place and for the police to witness it themselves. 🤷‍♂️

Report it here

Posted
21 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Why the fsck did I ever move here?

Beats me. I went there once and hated the place, have never been back.

Posted
27 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Beats me. I went there once and hated the place, have never been back.

Could be worse. Could be Lutonistan or Peterhorror.

Posted
17 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Could be worse. Could be Lutonistan or Peterhorror.

Or, even worse:

The citadel of Basingrad.

Posted
5 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

Or, even worse:

The citadel of Basingrad.

Is that the same as Blazingbroke?

Posted
3 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Is that the same as Blazingbroke?

I believe so. We went through it once. It tried to absorb us.

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Posted
1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Beats me. I went there once and hated the place, have never been back.

Sadly the answer is a boringly sensible one of "because it's where the work was." My husband had spent well over a year looking for work in Aberdeen and anywhere local to where we were without any luck.  Then Cranfield Uni offered them a job at nearly twice what I was on.  Ticked all the right boxes.

Just hadn't realised how much this area had gone downhill in the intervening ten or so years since I'd spent any real time here.  It used to be quite a laid back town.  Strange as all hell layout, but the place quietly, unexcitingly just worked.  The amount of vandalism and antisocial behaviour these days and general impatience and assholery you see every day has increased by several orders of magnitude since I started visiting the area in 2003.

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

That's the whole point.

Sections 59 and 60 of the 2002 Police Reform Act are supposed to cover antisocial driving and seizure of vehicles driven in an antisocial manner, but it needs the fuzz to get loads of complaints about the driving in the first place and for the police to witness it themselves. 🤷‍♂️

Report it here

Did I mention there was a police car two cars behind me, so one car to the left and behind him.  Closer to the exhaust than I was.

Unless they intend to just use their dash cam footage to send them a summons in the post, they ignored it.

Given the tone of every experience I've had with the police since moving here I've just stopped bothering even trying now.

Sooner we can bugger off 400 miles north of here again the better.

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Posted
18 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Presumably though in the case of automated speed cameras (rather than a copper at the side of the road with a radar gun) it's now become more complicated since Brexit for EU police forces to pursue UK drivers?

As far as I know, nothing has changed. You will not get points but you will receive a fine.

 

Posted
10 hours ago, Wack said:

In the late 70s a mate of mine was a builder , he was 20 and really good looking , he dreaded the shoe factory jobs, it was all middle aged women in the machine rooms, they'd be touching him up, showing him boob cleavage and cat calling him as he walked around.

A 100 women in a group were way worse than anything 100 men would do

But they of course would get away with it and he'd be laughed at if he complained, because sexual harassment only works one way and men cannot be victims...

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YouTube's video voting system is now broken. First they took away down votes for comments. Now it is for videos too.

What is the point of voting?

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This is the only entrance/exit to our housing estate with 200+ homes in it. It is totally blocked.

What the fuck were they thinking?

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Doing the job they were told to do . Not sure what they are doing in that pic but most likely a repair / upgrade for the residents . 
People just gotta moan ! Hope you sat there on your horn ! 

Posted
1 hour ago, twosmoke300 said:

Doing the job they were told to do . Not sure what they are doing in that pic but most likely a repair / upgrade for the residents . 
People just gotta moan ! Hope you sat there on your horn ! 

It looks like drain repairs and maintenance, which is rather invasive looking at the pile of roadsurface in the bottom corner. I bet they're replacing collapsed drains.

It's a bit of a Catch 22 for them: Do it during the day and block access to the estate, meaning residents cannot get in or out. Do it during the night and there's no access issues, but instead the noise will be the cause for complaint. Nobody wins.

I'd happily let them block our road (a main road) to fix our drains once and for all. They've been blocked for 16 years. I can also understand why people wouldn't be happy to see their new estate get torn up because of some issue that was glossed over during construction.

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Posted

We can't see what signage is at those road works but if there is no alternative route then all they can do is 15 minute delays and let cars through when they can. 

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The wider context is that a) it's tarmacing the road by Bloor Homes, and b) there is an alternative entrance to the estate but Bloor Homes has bollarded it and it's not in use. 

I have no quarrel with the workmen. I have an issue with their paymasters

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Posted
2 hours ago, Remspoor said:

....What is the point of voting?

To keep the current tyranny in control?

Posted
On 11/22/2021 at 7:58 PM, lesapandre said:

He's lucky to have got his bike back. Above a certain level of infringement (I have never tested it I drive like Monsieur Hulot) they confiscate and crush. No question.  But like I say they run their country differently - I'm a guest I go with the flow and enjoy the cheese.

The police told him he could have his bike back, but could not ride it until he had gone through controls at the port. So I drove my van up from Spain to transport it and my brother to Calais.

20 minutes before we got to the police station, they rang him to say that the Magistrate hadn't signed the documents within 72 hours of the offence, and so he could ride back to Calais as he could not be banned.

When he got home, he got the letter to say he had been banned from driving in France for 6 months. C'est la vie

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