jimlad48

I am not surprised to hear this - the gym in Camberwell suffers from no equipment being replaced, lazy and disinterested staff never bothering to be in the gym (I've raised several times concerns that the gym is unstaffed) and at times I have real security concerns - particularly after being threatened by an individual who acted so aggressively to me that the police had to be called by a private personal trainer due to the lack of any staff. I won't miss EA in anyway.

C - I'm double jabbed and relatively relaxed about COVID so happy to just crack on with life and not worry too much about things. I'll keep a mask handy for the odd rare occasion, but otherwise intend to live life as normal.

George Orwell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No help in this case of course but . . . . In > advance of filming on location I've seen people > putting out cones and keeping one man on the site, > usually in some sort of fake official yellow > jacket, staying in his car for maybe 24 hours - > even overnight. He jumps out and moves cars along > as needed. If I observed that, I would not only park there for a day or two but would also report them to the council - totally appalling behaviour and probably illegal.

I'm not being unneighbourly, I'm being pragmatic. There has been a big growth in many areas with 'bin staking', particularly by builders, or in some cases residents reserving what they perceive to be their space for parking during the day. These arrangements are not legal, and the car owner is entirely within their rights to see a pegged out area, and move them so that they can park. I absolutely understand that its frustrating, and I also get that its causing a lot of problems, but I must stress that legally the car owner has done nothing wrong, even if morally they are on more dubious ground.

It may be annoying, but you have no legal right to block the spaces. Sorry, I get the frustrations, but ultimately the parker is in the right, not the OP.

Sorry, I'm not going to sound sympathetic here. If you want guaranteed access, then pay to suspend the parking bay for a fixed period. If not, then you have no right to ad hoc reserve a space, nor do you have the right to deny other people spaces. They were perfectly entitled to park there if it was a legal parking space. While frustrating, if its not suspended, they are entirely within their rights to park there whether its convenient or not to you.

Although a little further, I have used Kennington Chiropody for many years and found them to be absolutely excellent.

I try to wake up just in time for my morning nap.

"My comment was in direct response to your comment about people 'dont have to wear masks and visors and they shouldn't be forced to'" I think you misunderstood my entire point. My post was making the point that not all people have to wear masks and visors, and it is totally inappropriate to expect someone who shouldn't have to to call them out for doing so. I am very tired of mask shaming, and constant attacks in some quarters against people who have done nothing wrong by not wearing a mask.

Was the person in question afro-caribbean? I'm asking as there is an individual in the SE5 area who is clearly suffering from mental health issues who does wander around a lot and can be extremely verbally aggressive and very rude to people - but is also clearly suffering from significant challenging mental health issues too.

NewWave Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > jimlad48 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > > They don't have to though, and they shouldn't > be > > forced to. > > > > God I hate and despise the mask facists. > > Wearing a mask protects others from catching YOUR > germs if you have the virus and are asympomatic. > I H**E and D*****E people like YOU who are > contributing to the rediculous death toll in this > country and the loss of many thousands of jobs and > businesses. > You are selfish and ignorant. > I wear a mask for 12 hours a day at work and on my > daily commute-I hate wearing a mask but I would > hate even more knowing that I may unwittingly > infect someone who goes on to lose their life or > that of a loved one because I "dont want to wear a > mask' > Friends of mine have lost their jobs, Friends of > mine have lost family members-And people like YOU > JIMLAD48 make me feel nauseous I wear my mask where I need to actually you terribly judgemental person. What I despise is the horrid nasty people who go out of their way to shame people who may have perfectly good reasons for not wearing one. Its your judgemental attitude trying to shame people, who have done nothing wrong, and in the process shame business struggling to survive for the sake of the perceived moral high ground. Given that most of the area is practically COVID free, those that are vulnerable are vaccinated, and those who aren't have little to fear, perhaps we could lose the creeping fascism of shaming those who cannot avoid being different and accept that the world isn't going to end, that actually the risk is incredibly low, and that we need to get on with our lives, and not act in terror of something that poses very little threat to most people now due to vaccines and age profiles. Instead we're seeing people shaming individuals who may have personal circumstances that mean they can't wear one, and that we should publicly shame and humiliate them for the crime of being different. Thats a really horrid thing to do - to target someone for no reason other than your own prejudice and desire to be outraged that people may not be able to conform, even if they desperately want to. 'Adhere and belong or be shamed' - that sort of attitude would fit in well in Berlin in the late 1930s. Its not nice, its a horrible way to isolate and shame people who have done nothing wrong - don't assume that because people aren't wearing, they are somehow doing something wrong. .

Pugwash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If people are exempt from wearing masks, they can > wear visors which will give some protection. They don't have to though, and they shouldn't be forced to. God I hate and despise the mask facists.

I 100% agree. Its also worth noting, for all the concern on COVID deaths (many of which involved very elderly people, who had pre-existing known health conditions), over 800,000 people have lost their jobs since this started. I'm vastly more worried about how we get can those 820,000 (and rising) people back to work, than I am about a bug that on most people will have a mild impact. vmdgg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Government guidance allows street markets such as > North Cross Road to operate, and there is no UK > guidance that says to wear a face mask outdoors. > It seems to me that the people I see at the market > are indeed "following really really simple > guidance". > > Street markets are a very safe way for people to > socialise, shop and get a bite to eat without the > worries of poor ventilation and close physical > contact indoors. If you do not think the market is > a safe place for whatever reason, my advice to you > is to not go to the market.

I'm sorry but I'm afraid I'm of the view that life needs to go on. If you're at risk then shield, if not then crack on. Sorry, its a bug that does bad things to people in way that other illnesses have done since time immemorial. The more we hide from it, the more we destroy the economy and make life more difficult in the medium term to pay and support those that need future help. I'm prepared to wait till vaccines have been offered to all those who are vulnerable, but once thats done, I want all restrictions immediately lifted and let people choose whether to get on with life.

"But my question still stands = Why Bother ?" Because we are a social species that has put up with a year of increasingly onerous restrictions, and who feel that we need to see people in order to keep going. For the overwhelming majority of people the virus is incredibly low risk, so there is nothing to worry about.

So in other words you think we can tax the living daylights out of the online high street and thats all thats needed? Thats a very 'optimistic' approach that will end in tears. If you want a world class NHS then you need to open the economy up - every day you delay is making it harder and harder to recover from this self-inflicted disaster.

Its all well and good saying we need to pay more taxes for COVID, but where is the tax revenue coming from? I took flak for this on this very forum back in April making this point. We can lock down for as long as we like, but if we destroy private industry in the process, we won't have the means to fund an NHS that we want in the medium term. Private industry needs to be given as much ability as possible to work, because without it, the tax revenues won't exist.

We could just pause a moment and go - this is a bug with a roughly 99.96% survival rate, that is unpleasant but which like many other bugs causes harm. There is nothing wrong with exercising a little bit of common sense, but we've lost it completely over COVID. We're running scared, and we're destroying our economy and society for something that will have negigible if any impact on the overwhelming number of people it touches. The actual number of people dying only from COVID is tiny and if you look closely at the DH announcements, its clear usually almost all of those who die had significant pre-existing health conditions - COVID was merely one other thing. Some people will always be at risk of something - I'm sorry, but thats the reality of the world we live in. I'm afraid we need to get on with life, not live scared of something that for most of us is harmless. If you feel this is grim, then I'd point out we do this every year by imposing a risk based decision on all manner of illnesses and viruses, and the population at risk from them. We accept annual fatalities every year from flu, pneumonia and other illnesses, yet accept this as part of life. COVID isn't nice, but its no reason to destroy our economy and way of life. We need to get on with life, not live in fear. This Spectator blog sums up how I feel - traffic lanes, not traffic lights. Let people choose themselves what they want to do, and let them live their lives appropriately. https://unherd.com/2020/11/the-covid-tiers-cant-go-soon-enough/ Having spoken to plenty of people recently, all of whom myself included have followed the rules, there is growing fatigue among many about the draining impact of these regulations that make seemingly little difference. We're tired of ever changing goalposts, of not being able to see people inside, of elderly relatives who are dying in distress and loneliness because to 'protect them' we've been forced to abandon them. The utter inhumanity and pure evil of some of what is being done here appals me. We're taking decisions on the basis that we must only protect life, without asking those at risk what they want - hearing stories of friends whose grandparents are confused and feel they've been abandoned and don't understand why they cannot be visited is heartbreaking.

If you're genuinely concerned about the welfare of children, then call 999. No police officer will ever chastise you for doing what you genuinely felt was the right thing to do. Perhaps a good test is 'if I wasn't prepared to call 999 as the risk seemed genuine, why am I prepared to conduct an online anonymous character assassination of someone that I didnt feel needed action to be taken at the time". Either the risk is real, in which case call the police, or the risk is imagined, in which case there is no need to share further.

Did you observe any laws being broken? Are there any byelaws preventing this person being there? Did you call the police at the time? If the answer to the above 3 questions is NO, then How dare you post allegations, online, implying that someone is a Paedophile if you had no intention of doing anything practical to stop it. How would you like it if your father was the man in question, and you logged into discover someone calling your father a paedo? I really hate the people who think its okay to not do or say anything practical, but its perfectly fine to post the gravest possible inference online and character assasinate someone without having the moral courage to confront them or do something about it. Next time, intead of logging into EDF either dial 999 or heaven forbid, speak to them.

In the toastrack, some of the people who complained against the CPZ introduction to the Council confirmed they were driving in from Kent each day, parking up and then commuting the final part by train/bus. Where free parking exists, some people like to use cars where convenient. In our area, since the CPZ came in, day to day parking takeup has declined by about 60-70%.

first mate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, well you might but it was always argued that > commuter parking was the central issue, this could > have been dealt with by the time limited option. > Goodness, we had tales of commuter stalkers in > cars harassing householders and all sorts. The > health centre and schools were never mentioned. > The all day CPZ has facilitated CPZ creep in a way > that was never necessary. The stalking ocurred in our area. I knew several female residents who were very upset at the way that commuters worked out when they would leave in the morning, parallel park to their cars, and then wait for them to go out - it was something that made a lot of them uncomfortable, particularly when the commuter got a bit aggressive if they were running late. So not fantasy, but fact. In this case it was in an area used by commuters for bus, train and hospital facilities.

roywj Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I live in the new CPZ zone, neighbours and I are > already very happy with the effect it has had. > However I can understand people in other areas > being unhappy with the knock on effect, we > suffered the same here when neighbouring zones > were introduced. > > > Abe_froeman Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Can we request the removal of a parking zone to > > put things back to how they were? That would be > > far better. This is the inevitability of CPZs - they dislocate traffic and make you realise just how many people who aren't residents are parking in some areas. I suspect many areas that voted 'no' for a CPZ will soon rue the day this happened.

Ontherun Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DadOf4 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Me too. > > The site says "Automatic name and address > > verification has failed: We automatically > attempt > > to verify your residency" > > > > I've lived here for 20 years, am on electoral > > role, have a Southwark council tax ID and my > > driving license is at this address. My > suspicion, > > therefore, is that the automatic verification > > NEVER works. I also suspect that the photo of > my > > driving license is currently in a queue at an > > offshore processing centre > > Don't wait once you've uploaded your ID - send a > follow up email to Southwark parking services at > [email protected] attaching your document > and requesting they verify your address. > They need to respond within 3 working days but I > received my verification first thing the following > morning. I'd previously uploaded ID via the portal > whilst trying to set up a permit a couple of weeks > ago and had heard nothing. > (And Jimlad - people are struggling with a > problematic website, really no need for sarcasm.) I'm not being sarcastic. I'm just tired of the assumption that because one person is having problems, the entire site is to blame. The vast majority of people clearly have no issue with it, given that the wardens are not handing out tickets across streets, so it seems to me that the more likely issue here is not the site, but the user.

Meanwhile tens of thousands of residents manage to sort out CPZ permit applications every year without the slightest issue. Maybe its the workman, not the tools at fault here?