Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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The point still stands. There’s nothing I’m aware of that allows them to remove vehicles if there is no traffic regulation order or the vehicle isn’t road legal.
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I'd have thought this would be the case. If a car is completely road legal and someone can't drive for some reason, what power does the council have?
If I broke my leg and left the car outside my house until I could drive again I'd be pretty pissed off if they took my car, especially if they didn't return it when I was able to drive again.
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It would be an odd thing to do when people should be encouraged to use cars less as well.
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Indeed, a few years back Richmond council were considering charging more for parking permits for larger engines. A friend that cycled the short distance to work would have saved money if he'd not got a permit and driven to work every day. Thankfully they realised parked cars don't have emissions.
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I haven't seen a shuttlecock in years. They used to be almost as common as tennis balls.
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It's dying a death. When I was in my late 20s I was one of the younger members of the club. If I re-joined it now (ignoring the buggered knee), I'd still be one of the younger members.
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I've prodded easyJet about the Sixt 'foreign travel' supplement, given EJ's clear advertising "No hidden extras" - so far they've come up with excuses about easyCar being a separate company, and my contract being with Sixt (with them, in effect, being just 'facilitators'), but I paid my money to easyJet directly, as part of my booking. As I understand consumer law, my initial complaint is to the company I've paid the money to (but I am sure consumer law is much more complicated than that).
At it's most basic level, their "No hidden extras" seems like false advertising, if they just say the hire companies can then charge whatever they say they feel like.
EDIT: Dunno why the tweet isn't loading, so here are the screengrabs:
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I used easy car once and when I arrived at the airport, discovered that they had taken my money but hadn't actually reserved a car for me (the car was supposed to be supplied by another hire firm). Easy car were less than helpful and in the end I managed to book with another company in the terminal (luckily it was very off season).
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Presumably they charged you for driving a Swiss car in France?
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My rudimentary understanding is that you have a contract with difficultcar, and they have subcontracts with sixt, et al.
If the actual contract says "price may be larger than it appears in the mirror" then they aren't in breach of it.
In that case, it is one or both of advertising standards or an unenforceable term of a contract (could potentially be the case if the summary of a contract is so misleading it might cause one party not to understand the terms of the contract and have knowingly signed up to them).
If you are retiring soon Brian, you can fill all of your time chasing these issues down.
Alternatively, get to the end of the "computer says no" replies and drop in an ASA complaint to make yourself feel momentarily better.
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Yeah, I think that's where I'm at. Just peeved at the unqualified '"No hidden charges", and "Not our fault" reply.
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Yup. Sixt didn't warn me there would be a charge when they asked me if I was leaving Switzerland, to be fair to me. Given that the border is only a couple of miles away, it's a high probability.
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Now I've noticed it, I can't unsee it in this profile photo of Dan Neidle: that through his glasses, his eyes are about half the size they'd be without them, yet until you realise, it looks a kinda normal face. I suspect it's another aspect of the Thatcher (upside-down mouth) phenomenon, that we're programmed to 'interpret' faces in various ways.
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I might just photoshop it to remove the glasses and fill the gaps in with skin, to show how deeply weird it'll be...
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That's a very myopic view.
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Surely you have better things to do than turn Dan Neidle into Golum?
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You can see his ears twice.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Now you can't. Weirdly, his eyes still don't look wildly out of proportion.
Apologies @First.Aspect, but five minutes was probably four minutes more (or maybe five more) than it was worth. I could have practised all my scales in that time.
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I think perhaps you need to cancel your retirement. That way lies madness.
Anyway it just still looks like he's wearing glasses but with invisible frames.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Or that Big Bean has tracked him down and punched him in the nose
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Walking along the canal in Edinburgh last night, saw a few leeches crossing the towpath......unusual!
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Couldn't post the video!
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You should have taken them home. With all the NHS waiting lists you could go into private practice.
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Leech helped us all through COVID. Just remember that.
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Used to keep them in one hospital pharmacy I worked in, use them if you get a bleed under a skin graft, they remove the blood cleanly....
Only one species (out of 47 in the UK) will suck blood from humans - don't know if this was one!
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Interesting, I thought I vaguely remembered something about them still being used. But it was highly likely I'd imagined it.
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England football fans and their unfailing faith that it is "coming home".
Well it hasn't 'come home' for the last 58 years so why do they think that this time it might be any different. Nuts.
(maybe I should have posted this in the thread about stuff that is annoying?)
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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I'm intrigued about what kind of cycling accident Gordon Ramsay had.
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