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On 10/02/2020 at 12:33, Resident said:

They'll come up with a charge point tax system. Home charge points will be connected to your smart meters and charged for the use of the point. 

 

So your domestic use charge won't be affected 

No need, they'll probably just chuck a black box in your car and you'll pay a tax per mile.

54 minutes ago, Cyclecar said:

If this really goes ahead - to schedule - it has massive implications.

 

Fuel filling stations will become fewer and fewer. Already sparse in rural areas, they will just shut. The ones in cities will turn into blocks of flats, as there will be no money in selling electricity.

 

Most car dealerships don't make money on new car sales. They make money on finance packages, and in their workshops. The latter will have nothing to do except change the odd wheel bearing, without all the motive power train work.

 

I buy my cars outright, at about 3 years old, and keep them for about 5 years. Then repeat. My son tells me to lease one with the dealers' magic money, and return it in 3 years time for the guaranteed buy-back and then re assess the landscape. Much as I dislike monthly payments, he may be correct.

 

The CEO of Ford was on the radio, they are about to launch a whole suite of hybrid petrol/plug-in electric cars and light commercials. But the government are squashing these in 12/15 years time. How does someone such as Ford make plans?

Depending on what type of car you tend to get that could work out cheaper for you, you can usually get a cheap/free service package thrown in too.

Given the variety of names there I'm surprised they couldn't think something up for Q, U, X, Y and Z.

Think it reopens next week. Membership £32.50 with £20 joining fee. The jacuzzi is apparently fubared and will not be repaired and they've done next to nothing renovation wise.

On 10/01/2020 at 20:57, Arthur Ritus said:

search for mythbusters on this one, they tried many attempts to ignite a petroleum vapour atmosphere with mobile phones with no success, however they did get an ignition from some nylon clothing   .

However when it comes to health and safety most organisations don't let facts get in the way of rules.  

 

i can now see all customers being asked to remove any synthetic clothing before filling with petrol 

Top Gear did it too. They soaked the insides of a caravan in several litres of petrol, chucked in a couple hundred mobiles and called them all simultaneously. Nothing happened.

2 hours ago, iansheff said:

Why should the people who he owes money to be out of pocket when he reportedly is worth £100m thanks to his lucrative TV and book deals.

He doesn't owe the money, his businesses do. Personal finances =/= business finances

Can I ask, do you have a private pension?

But, if everyone was naked, how would we distinguish between the chavs and non-chavs and know who to keep away from?!?!

The crap tattoos are a dead give away.

The builders who are building the school directly opposite my place, (been building it since Sept/Oct 2017) ALL parked on the pavements around here, preventing prams and wheelchairs from passing...

 

they even had the cheek to put cones out over-night, to stop residents parking out-side their own properties!

 

What makes it worse, is they have a car park specifically for the site staff, yet they STILL park allover the pavement.

Move the cones.

Thanks for the heads up.

Why does everyone have four cars? Is that not a bit overkill?

All of which is correct and sensible, apart from one detail. There is no law preventing pedestrians from being in a cycle lane. They have a perfect right to be there. Whether it is sensible, or reasonable for them to be there, is another matter.

That depends, cycle tracks may or may not have a right of way for pedestrians, it would depend upon the TRO. (HA 329)

Pedestrians always have the right of way, phones or not.

What makes you so sure about that?

He's sort of right, but also very, very wrong. Right of way doesn't mean what many people think it does. Simply, it means you have the right to use a particular thoroughfare. For example, cars have right of way on motorways but not on footpaths, bikes have right of way on cycle paths but not motorways.

What we do operate is a system of give way and priority at junctions etc. You should always give way if it helps to avoid an incident.

In the case in hand where you have pedestrians in the cycle lane they do no have the right of way to be there, but if they are you do have to give way. You don't have the right to just plow into them.

From the evidence presented in this thread I can point to a couple which don't.

Nowt to do with religion.

 

Abortion is Clinical Murder.!

 

Unless by rape or such.

 

How can anyone Kill a Life?..

How can you kill something which isn't truly alive?

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As per Easter Sundae's post earlier I would most definitely argue against the BMC and NICE cut off point. The current situation just falls into where the rules happen to be at the moment. It's nominal until it changes but that doesn't affect the life in the womb. Termination still results in the death of the child.

 

I gave you a link to just one story where the "not a child" was born at 22 weeks. It could have been legally terminated at 24 weeks. You don't an intellectual, scientific, or philosophical argument that stands up to a moment's scrutiny that doesn't involve killing a viable child.

 

It's a very difficult discussion and I don't see any clear answer.

Why not just complete the slippery slope and wind the clock back to the ova. Each one after all is a potential life, that's around 2million lickle babies being murdered for every woman on the planet. Maybe we should be harvesting them all at birth to prevent the loss of 11 thousand a month that are going to die before puberty?

While we are at it lets hook all the men up to some form of electroejaculation contraption to harvest all their semen, we wouldn't want to waste any cos that makes God quite irate.

I'd be tempted to either let it's tires down, or splash out on my own personal lock to add to it. Then chuck away the key.

Bit of superglue in the lock of the one they've fitted should suffice, cheaper and you get to use it on any others you come across.

Seems more like a hearing test for those who don't mind being groped by strangers to me.

Following instructions is the only attribute that could possibly be measured by such a ridiculous task. I certainly wouldn't want to use an interview format when hiring a shop worker, I would set up exercises to observe how people are with others, eye contact, willingness to help, using initiative etc. None of which would necessitate putting a bag on one's head and mooing. Because I'm not a knob.

Spot on. If you want to assess how someone is going to perform selling shoes then why not do a mock up scenario of selling shoes, or have them on the shop floor for an hour doing something like, oh I don't know, selling shoes maybe?

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Alternatively, they are using them to weed out those unsuitable employees who refuse to be part of a team. Seems to work.

Except wearing a bag on your head and mooing like a cow is not an indicator for working as part of a team. I've successfully worked as part of a team for countless years and if my boss asked my to do that as part of an exercise I'd tell him to stick his head in a bucket of water an only come up for air when he'd thought of something better.

Far better to give them a task which requires cooperation and individual participation in order to succeed.

Yes I would absolutely do it if it was clearly part of some group exercise as part of overall candidate assessment.

 

I have in my past had to do group role play discussions, make models using pasta, play guessing games about people as part of various recruitment.

 

The world of Q&A in a meeting room is changing rapidly. These days is all about observing candidates, watching them interact with others, problem solving, improvisation, reactions to scenarios, logical thinking, willingness to particpate etc... etc...

 

I dont really get the whole "humiliated" and "degrading" nonsense. All seems a bit OTT to me. I dont know what this "student" is planning after their A levels but if they want a job in the world of white collar or indeed any sort of larger professional organisation they had better grow up fast, because there will be lot more of that to come.

 

Your average annual team building day is filled with crap like that let alone the sort of things prospective candidates are expected to do on corporate assessment days, work placements or even client networking events.

 

He cant have been that humiliated considering he named himself in the National Press and got his mummy to give a comment sticking up for him. Im sure that will really help hide his embarrasment

 

Seems more like an attention seeker to me with mummy just fuelling the fire.

 

Maybe i'm just of completely different age and temper but I can guarantee if I went running home to mummy all "humiliated" because of an ice breaker exercise in a job assessment she wouldn't have got my back when I cried to the press.

Yes, it's crap. In fact it is complete and utter bllx. I've had to put up with plenty of totally pointless 'team building' exercise and the like. I've walked out of a few too and made my displeasure known to those at the top. These things are generally crap, thought up by idiots and hated by those who have to participate.

When management resort to these type of shenanigans you know that they're grasping at straws trying to solve a problem which either doesn't exist or is beyond their capacity to deal with.

I've only been once and that was to Santorini to the south of the island in kamari. Stayed at Tamarix del Mar. Lovely little place, we hired quad bikes to tour the island, only takes about half an hour end to end. Plenty of stuff to see and boat trips to take.

It was a few years ago but at the time we found food cheap and booze dirt cheap. We went at the end of the season and got loads of freebies thrown in, we even drank free all night in some local guy's bar until bout 6 in the morning.

My old Doctor's surgery at Grenoside ran a system alongside the appointments system whereby if you turned up by, IIRC, 10am you were guaranteed to be seen by 1pm. It could involve a wait but at least you would get seen. Why other surgeries can't run a similar system is beyond me... they also guaranteed an appointment within two weeks.

You do if you use an adblocker.

Can the video by viewed anywhere other than through The Star's site? I refuse to register for that tat.

As already stated some cannot plan ahead because of reasons beyond their control and deserve support.

 

The vast majority plan ahead and budget for various items, the most important for many is your roof, your old age and your children. Some have other priorities.

 

Neither of these two groups should be expected to pay for those who could but did not plan ahead.

 

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Working and paying NI insurance entitles you to a State Pension.

The amount you earn is reflected in your Occupational Pension.

The amount you choose to set aside on top of these is reflected in your income when retired.

Some of your outgoings when retired will also depend on the choices you made earlier.

If we use trumans example:

You could have had 2 people working side by side and earning the same..one decides to save his cash,the other decides to spend it all..why should the saver not get the same State Pension as the spender? If the save doesn't get the same then he may as well have pee'd it all up the wall just the same..

Then some of those who chose not to plan ahead have paid more in tax by the time they retire (because they spent their money, which will in turn have helped support local businesses etc), so why shouldn't they get the same state pension?

How are you measuring the temperature? Does it have some sort of fancy temperature readout? It may be that this is broken.

Not a difficult roundabout but when heading out of Sheffield on the A61 the Tankersley rb has an alarming number of people pulling out of the petrol station exit in front of cars continuing down the a61. Yes, the left hand lane can be used for the third exit, and no, its not complicated.

I buy most of my stuff online, from clothing to food. Postage tends to be cheaper than parking.

Can't remember the last time I went to a shop to buy clothes, but, for somethings only a shop will do. (Yes, I know this seems to negate my opening statement cyclone, we're talking averages here)

In the last week I've probably spent bout 100 online, 100 in local supermarkets and 100 in local shops (hardware stores an garden centres).

There is a future for both, market forces will determine the balance.