RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Joseph_Pestell said: My car is worth £800 (according to insurers) and ULEZ compliant. Last year my (ULEZ compliant) car* was valued at £1500 by 'We buy any car' . This year its £1800 and I've been offered £2200 for it but at the moment its not for sale. *08 registration Hyundai i10 one owner from new, low mileage and FSH. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2023 1 hour ago, steve1 said: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/31/vandal-ulez-camera-tory-mps-protest-criminal-damage-police steve Aaaah The Grauniad, my mistake, I forgot that left wing politics is fine rather than no politics 🙄 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2023 13 hours ago, chris p bacon said: Considering Richmond is a Lib Dem council I don't think your political post works. Are you suggesting that local councillors are going round putting bags over cameras? 🤣 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2023 (edited) My (diesel) Yeti is only 'Euro 5' but, since gaining BR privilege travel facilities in 1992, I've not driven inside the M25 anyhow. My last car involved was old enough that it wasn't Euro anything, and would likely be exempt now, despite being a bit of a smoker! I've seen most of the galleries, museums, and grockle traps years ago. I'm not into theatre, opera or ballet, and the last shop it was worth visiting the capital for was Victor's! Having carried a CD player from Tottenham Court Road to Waterloo back in the eighties, anything I can't carry with one hand has since been sourced from stores I can park outside or delivered. My last regular reason for going to London was the Ally Pally exhibition, but getting there and back started to feel too much like hard work almost a decade ago. TBH, I don't think I was ever really that impressed with our glorious capital, and it won't bother me in the slightest if I never go there again, with or without paying £12.50 for the privilege. John Edited September 3, 2023 by Dunsignalling 1 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CameronL Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 (edited) 15 hours ago, The Johnster said: If you put a battery in a torch the wrong way around, why doesn't it send out a concentrated beam of darkness into the light? Just asking... If you put the batteries in a radio the wrong way round, why doesn't it fill the room with silence? Edited September 3, 2023 by CameronL Typo 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi-Jiff Kenobi Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 Depends which station you’re listening to. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 3, 2023 30 minutes ago, CameronL said: If you put the batteries in a radio the wrong way round, why doesn't it fill the room with silence? With some radio stations, silence would be an improvement! 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 3 hours ago, chris p bacon said: Aaaah The Grauniad, my mistake, I forgot that left wing politics is fine rather than no politics 🙄 And an ex Tory party leader applauds vandalism in that well known left wing publication the Daily Mail… steve 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2023 3 minutes ago, steve1 said: And an ex Tory party leader applauds vandalism in that well known left wing publication the Daily Mail… steve I couldn't possibly guess which one.....🤣 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2023 20 minutes ago, steve1 said: And an ex Tory party leader applauds vandalism in that well known left wing publication the Daily Mail… steve Which part of 4 hours ago, chris p bacon said: no politics was difficult to understand? ULEZ is a contentious subject for a lot of people, posters putting a political spin on what is supposed to be 'Jokes' thread doesn't help anyone. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2023 (edited) 46 minutes ago, chris p bacon said: Which part of was difficult to understand? ULEZ is a contentious subject for a lot of people, posters putting a political spin on what is supposed to be 'Jokes' thread doesn't help anyone. Perhaps more about yet another twist being consciously added to the cost-of-living spiral than pure politics? TBH, the ULEZ expansion seems to be "contentious" among the politically unaligned, and across most of the political spectrum, and even if stronger support/criticism may be loaded towards either end of it. If I were affected (which I'm not) and owned a non-compliant car I wanted to keep (which I do), I'd just buy the cheapest compliant banger I could find to use when I needed to enter the zone. At £62.50 a week for a 5-day-a-week commute, running such a second car would be way cheaper.... Edited September 3, 2023 by Dunsignalling 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2023 17 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said: Perhaps more about yet another twist being consciously added to the cost-of-living spiral than pure politics? TBH, the ULEZ expansion seems to be "contentious" among the politically unaligned, and across most of the political spectrum, and even if stronger support/criticism may be loaded towards either end of it. If I were affected (which I'm not) and owned a non-compliant car I wanted to keep (which I do), I'd just buy the cheapest compliant banger I could find to use when I needed to enter the zone. At £62.50 a week for a 5-day-a-week commute, running such a second car would be way cheaper.... Running a car which doesn't comply more than likely puts you in the lower wage bracket and I'd say at a guess purchasing another, or second car is either impossible or isn't an easy option. As you are unaffected and therefore don't live in the London boroughs I'd say that you weren't really capable of commenting as the cost of living 154 miles from the capital is substantially different. Quite what this has to do with Jokes I've no idea, but that's the problem when posters make 'political' comments. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, chris p bacon said: Running a car which doesn't comply more than likely puts you in the lower wage bracket and I'd say at a guess purchasing another, or second car is either impossible or isn't an easy option. As you are unaffected and therefore don't live in the London boroughs I'd say that you weren't really capable of commenting as the cost of living 154 miles from the capital is substantially different. Quite what this has to do with Jokes I've no idea, but that's the problem when posters make 'political' comments. If you actually think it's cheaper, set against average earnings, to live in Devon than in London, you really aren't as clued up as you sound! People are being driven out of communities they grew up in all over the West Country, by Londoners who can, fleeing the municipal politics of the capital. They then use the proceeds of selling up to force local housing costs up to the point where much of the existing population won't make sufficient money through their entire working lives to service mortgages big enough to compete. Not their fault (or entirely that of the incomers), it's the preponderance of crappy low-paid seasonal jobs depressing general incomes locally that's the real problem. Local democracy in London unfortunately stimulates something that looks more like ethnic/economic cleansing down here. Edited September 3, 2023 by Dunsignalling 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2023 I cut a ULEZ camera down. It fell against the wall of a local school. Whole building collapsed. 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2023 7 minutes ago, BoD said: I cut a ULEZ camera down. It fell against the wall of a local school. Whole building collapsed. Sums up the state of the nation, really....🙃 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Dunsignalling said: If you actually think it's cheaper, set against average earnings, to live in Devon than in London, you really aren't as clued up as you sound! If we're doing Top Trumps....I'm in The Borders...it's a winning hand as 23% of the properties in the village are either airbnb or holiday homes and the Scottish governments ability to shoot themselves in the foot over house valuations and fixed price /offers over has meant young people are unable to obtain mortgages, but this isn't the thread for it. Edited September 3, 2023 by chris p bacon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWJ Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 Two ugly sisters from Fordham Took a walk one day out of boredom On the way back A sex maniac Jumped out of a bush and ignored 'em. Is this my own work? No! Is it the work of John Cooper Clarke? Yes! Is it more appropriate for this topic than talking about the depressing cost of motoring? Definitely! Cheers, Will 6 3 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2023 53 minutes ago, CWJ said: Two ugly sisters from Fordham Took a walk one day out of boredom On the way back A sex maniac Jumped out of a bush and ignored 'em. Is this my own work? No! Is it the work of John Cooper Clarke? Yes! Is it more appropriate for this topic than talking about the depressing cost of motoring? Definitely! Cheers, Will Hint taken. 😉 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 3, 2023 7 hours ago, CameronL said: If you put the batteries in a radio the wrong way round, why doesn't it fill the room with silence? It does, permanently. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 3 hours ago, Dunsignalling said: People are being driven out of communities they grew up in all over the West Country, by Londoners who can, fleeing the municipal politics of the capital. They then use the proceeds of selling up to force local housing costs up to the point where much of the existing population won't make sufficient money through their entire working lives to service mortgages big enough to compete. Here's the joke.... That's been happening for at least 60 years. The world hasn't stopped. Many of the young people leave the West Country, go up country, get better paid jobs. Life goes on. I should know, I was one of them. 🙂 In the fullness of time, some of these become part of these (gasp) terrible people that are moving to the West Country. There's a natural economic cycle at work. If they don't move back, they've decided they are better off outside the West Country. It's not a holy shrine you know. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, KeithMacdonald said: Here's the joke.... That's been happening for at least 60 years. The world hasn't stopped. Many of the young people leave the West Country, go up country, get better paid jobs. Life goes on. I should know, I was one of them. 🙂 In the fullness of time, some of these become part of these (gasp) terrible people that are moving to the West Country. There's a natural economic cycle at work. If they don't move back, they've decided they are better off outside the West Country. It's not a holy shrine you know. Though there's a huge difference between leaving because one wants to, and remaining becoming untenable. In many places, any choice in the matter is rapidly disappearing, and the staff needed for tourism and local services to function along with it. The end game may well be areas of the region stripped of any individuality, that are fit only for self-catering holidaymakers and second-homers in season and out-of-area burglars in the winter. There's much more I could say, but I've already acknowledged that this isn't the thread for it. John Edited September 3, 2023 by Dunsignalling 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 6 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said: There's much more I could say, but I've already acknowledged that this isn't the thread for it. How about we find a thread that is suitable? 🙂 Then we won't get Moderated. 🤭 Or p155 our friends off with boring repetition of something that's not funny. 🤬 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted September 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 3, 2023 A note; some of it might be, well, at least amusing, to some; especially those from other lands. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 I got an ‘A’ for my origami assignment, after I turned my paper into my teacher. 2 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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