Drivers and their problems

David9694 wrote:

“Come off it, Mr. Dent,” he said, “you can’t win, you know. You can’t lie in front of the bulldozer indefinitely.” He tried to make his eyes blaze fiercely but they just wouldn’t do it.

Arthur lay in the mud and squelched at him.

“I’m game,” he said, “we’ll see who rusts first.”

“I’m afraid you’re going to have to accept it,” said Mr. Prosser, gripping his fur hat and rolling it round the top of his head; “this bypass has got to be built and it’s going to be built!”

“First I’ve heard of it,” said Arthur, “why’s it got to be built?”

Mr. Prosser shook his finger at him for a bit, then stopped and put it away again.

“What do you mean, why’s it got to be built?” he said. “It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.”

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what’s so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what’s so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/670/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the...

Are you suggesting that really we shouldn't be worrying about new roads being built in Earth and that the greater danger is that a hyperspace bypass might be being planned?

The Young Ones - way ahead of its time...

mark1a wrote:

The Young Ones - way ahead of its time...

A curious notion, this idea that some sort of current event is not really current but a visitation from the future. Generally something described as "way ahead of its time" means only "I was surprised at this event as its unusual in my own generally mundane experience".

Mind, modern cultural artefacts and constructions can be time-confused, as there's the imagined-futures (a la Star Trek et al) as well as the "historical" novel and filum. But in fact, both tend to be very much reflections of current concerns, assumptions, prejudices and other ways of thinking-as-we-do-now in the mass media-constructed noosphere.

But humans love to create "heroes" and "special ones" - in the case of "ahead of their time" generally meaning only that "I liked it's apparent novely (to me)" rather than some truly new, innovative and entirely made-by-the-hero item magically created out of nothing but their immaculate mind like an Ayn Rand character.

"The Young Ones" can be traced back through centuries to Diogenes emitting his body fluids upon others in the market-place and similar - and probably further back, if we had anything written to navigate by.

Whilst it may be an exageration to suggest that, "There's nothing new under the sun" a case can certainly be made that today's novely consist of 99.9% of the familiar with 0.1% added glamour, PR or grasping attempt to make some intellectual copyright as feedstock to making some more money.

But I digress.  (I forget from what). 

It's not likely to be a fine but a Penalty Charge Notice, if the car park is a private one, as this one appears to be.

If you do not met the conditions of the contract you enter when parking in the car park, then the company have the right to request a fee from you, something which has been tested in court countless times with the vast majority of times, the company winning.

However, before it gets to court there is likely to be an independent challenge scheme which the driver can use if they believe they have a case to the PCN to be cancelled. If they chose not to take this route, and if they ignore any court paperwork including any judgement against them, then and only then will the matter be placed in the hands of debt collectors.

I note from Google Maps that the local Citizens Advice office is on Canal Street. May I suggest he pops in their and gets some advice before he ends up with a judgement against himself. 

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.

They need to encourage active travel as in the famous Australian lion safari park: "Car with up to five people: $20. Poms on bicycles: free admittance."

One of the local fb communities had some guy kick off about roadworks at a junction being war on motorists. I pointed out that a stretch of grass and the pavement on two of the roads was being sacrificed to create a filter lane on them. He wasn't having it. Apparently it is a secret attack. 

David9694 wrote:

"You had to input your registration. I tried all that with no joy and gave up. I'm 67 and my eyesight isn't great."

Poor man - I think drivers with visual impairments should also be given more leeway with speeding offenses as they may not be able to read their speedo or the signs.  Same with traffic lights, and ...

chrisonatrike wrote:

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.

Probably something to do with the balloon festival. The predatory autonomous vehicles are trying to snatch low-flying balloons out of the sky.

hawkinspeter wrote:

chrisonatrike wrote:

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.

Probably something to do with the balloon festival. The predatory autonomous vehicles are trying to snatch low-flying balloons out of the sky.

A thrilling spectacle of nature.

chrisonatrike wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

Probably something to do with the balloon festival. The predatory autonomous vehicles are trying to snatch low-flying balloons out of the sky.

A thrilling spectacle of nature.

hawkinspeter wrote:

chrisonatrike wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

Probably something to do with the balloon festival. The predatory autonomous vehicles are trying to snatch low-flying balloons out of the sky.

A thrilling spectacle of nature.

'Ere, that seems to be Hambini excitedly greeting his hairdresser! He seems ready to ream something, anyway.