Loz

That made me laugh, rah. didn't watch that, but I did watch Question Time. When Peter Hitchens is the most reasonable voice on a QT panel, something has gone badly wrong with the country.

Selclene Southeast Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If people like Loz ( who uses a fake name to hide behind) are going to use this forum I would prefer > it, if they would not troll every post with acidic and trollish remarks. Atleast read the previous > posts before commenting. I should of guessed you was an avid Viz reader who never really grew up > and probably still lives at home with his mother, or is married with a wife who hardley notices him > at all, as he plays video games constantly and ignores her when he's with his mates. I can see > that your pseudonym ''Loz'' sounds like slang for ''loss'' or ''lost''- either way get a life. And 'Selclene' sounds like it's a name conjured up by some illiterate who wants to come in, 'clene up' all your valuable goods and 'sel' them on eBay. But, in one way you are correct - I am, indeed, anonymous. Whereas you are making your business look like an bunch of intolerant and abusive idiots. Just the sort of people you really don't want holding the keys to your house. This *is* going well for you, isn't it? It's like a crash course in 'destroying your business - marketing for imbeciles'. Does Selclene know you are tarnishing their brand so deftly?

Angelina Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gentrification tends to be a cleansing of an area > making it slightly sterile. Or a cleaning of an area to make it safer and nicer. All a matter of perspective, really.

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm in an at risk group and have already booked a > flu jab at my doctors for free. When I was in > Lloyds the other day, they promoted their flu jabs > but the charge is ?10. I asked if I would get it > free if I qualified to get it free at my GPs and > the assistant didn't know. Actually, ?10 is quite > a good deal. I had mine done at my local chemist (not ED). They know my regular medication, so know I qualify for a free shot. Offered to me with no doctor involved at all.

Or find a Metrobank. The Sainsburies on charges a commission.

Got mine on the NHS yesterday (as I'm part of the at-risk group). I hate needles, but as you say, they are expecting it to be bad this year.

Is today's Bombardier issue a sign of future things to come once we leave Europe, especially if Corbyn gets in and starts subsidising some struggling industries, as he's promised?

DK_87 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have Terroirs always owned it or did it used to be > independent? It used to be a nice indie wine bar/wine shop called Green and Blue. Before that it was a terrible restaurant called... was it Reynolds or something? But AFAIK they have all rented the premises.

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > shoot them with a geotag sticky thingy (anyone invent one ) :) A mobile phone strapped to a bowling ball ought to do the trick...!

I've not used them, but looking at the site, it seems like a useful idea with some decent prices that looks like it fills a niche in the market. But, it is geared to enable landlords to manage their own properties. So, a bit of a different service to what agents offer.

Possibly from Viz's Top Tips...

Wimpole Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Keep in mind - their costs are set by the regulator (PCO) ... and ... > Finally the latest MyTaxi app is almost as good as > Ubers and allows excellent advance booking and has > plenty promos. They have offered 50% discounts on > black cab fares this week and it is very reliable IMO. If black cab costs are set by the regulator, how can they offer 50% off?

The AfD are but an irritant. Merkel main job will be to get a coalition together. The best bet seems to be CDU (Merkel's party), the FDP and the Greens. Which is a bit like a Tory/LibDem/Green coalition - unthinkable in the UK. Sounds like Germany's politics are a bit more grown up than ours. But, yes, Merkel will be busy for a few months and Brexit will move to the back-burner for her.

The coming week should be interesting. Uber are claiming they passed a compliance audit in April. Also, a series of meetings with TfL since then were cancelled. More interestingly, they say they have been trying to meet with Khan for a few months, but to no avail. If TFL and Khan are seen to be trying to shut Uber out in any way unfairly, this may be quite telling at the appeal. Plus, I think the groundswell of opinion will have taken Khan a little bit by surprise. I suspect a few meetings will be held PDQ between Uber and TFL (but not with Khan). Uber will make a few concessions (the reporting of allegations about drivers to the police being the main one) and TFL will claim victory and grant a new licence, probably for a limited time of one or two years. And then the next day, black cabs will hold a protest and block Trafalgar Sq up again.

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A Labour SNP coalition is less likely to remove us from the SM > and CU than a Tory/ DUP one. That's a thought. Sturgeon would run rings around Corby in a coalition.

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Tory Party will rip itself apart in the process. Labour is hardly looking like it has any party agreement on Brexit either. I'm still hoping that both the Tories and Labour split, with the centre-left and centre-right coming together to form a new Macron-style party (dare I say Blair-style?) and save the country from the morons on both the further right and further left.

Jules-and-Boo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wouldn't be surprised if TfL has it's own version to replace Uber. There's Hailo/myTaxi and Gett already. Black cab drivers have long rallied against apps and card payments. I suspect they don't like the paper trail. It also means they have had their big privilege nullified... being able to pick up from the street. But since Uber, who stands on the street in the vague hope some black cab is going to be passing (and, as others have pointed out, deem your journey to be acceptable to them)? Open app, book journey, sit inside until you get buzzed. Uber does have one big advantage, though - you can use it in places across the world.

keano77 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > JohnL Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Looks like JP Morgan has started down the long > > road of moving to Warsaw. > > > > > https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2017/09/22/busines > > > s/22reuters-jpmorgan-poland.html > > > > May just isn't seeing whats happening. > > They'll be back, cap in hand. > > We ought to levy a punitive relocation corporate > tax rate. Desert Britain now, beg to come back. That's really taking delusional to new heights. If we lose the banking passport there will be a stampede to get out. There was a Brexiter on the Victoria Derbyshire program this morning trying to say Britain would not drop off the cliff edge "because there was no cliff". It's like a new attempt at reality...

ali2007 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Uber encourages 'dumbing down' > what about Black Cab drivers who have spent years > learning 'the knowledge' only to get priced out by > cab drivers who don't know one street name. > London is special because of Black Cab drivers who > can get you from A to B without having to use an app. Providing A and B involve the limited area around the City and the west end. Outside there, a black cab driver will turn to satnav as well. In this day and age, the Knowledge is not a big advantage.

edcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blackcurrant Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > > they won't stop running until the appeal process > > is exhausted, which could be years away. > They'll have to when their licence runs out. > Nope - Khan has already said if they appeal they can keep going until the legal process is complete.

This could be a rare political mis-step for Khan if Uber do actually stop operating in London. It would be tremendously unpopular.

My experience was that arranging a tradesman via a managing agent was always much more expensive than calling them yourselves. I never quite worked out if the agent was tacking on a percentage, the tradesman was inflating the fees to agents or there was some sort of kick-back agreement operating.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------ > > ETA looking back at the reports, the prosecution case was that Mrs.Briggs stepped in front of > Allinson when he was 6.53 metres away, and that had he had a front brake he would have been able > to stop within three metres (this is nonsense as any cyclist will tell you, stopping in three > metres from 18mph would throw you straight over the handlebars). I know those aren't your figures, but 6.53m at 18 mph is less than one second. I can't believe he had time to shout twice in less than one second. Nor do the 'left-right-left' thing as you describe. Something doesn't add up here. > Interesting to note that had she stepped in front of a car doing that speed at that distance > there is no way it could have stopped - and on that basis a prosecution of the driver would never have happened. I suspect that if it was an illegal car with no brakes, I think they would have.

Spaceat61 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The library staff were kind at the time and helped me to phone the police (obviously I had no phone > to do it myself) but the library has no CCTV in the bathroom lobby area so there was never any use > in the police looking over the library CCTV anyway. You could have a high-definition picture of the person holding their passport id page in one hand and their drivers' licence in the other and the police still probably wouldn't take any interest... Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BTW, this has made me realise how utterly helpless and unsupported you are as a victim of crimes that > don't involve violence, lots of money or something media-worthy. ... because, in my experience, that is pretty much the criteria they decide what is worth sending someone out to investigate.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > (He wasn't on the pavement, incidentally, and he wasn't speeding, and the woman stepped into the road in > front of him, which is why he was cleared of manslaughter. By his own testimony, he had time to shout at her TWICE ?get the **** outta my way? before he ploughed into her. So she must have 'stepped in front' of him at quite a distance.