rant: feet on seats

This I can *just* about understand.

This one I'd like to see them try. Given that the breeder spaces have
no legal basis whatsoever (unlike the disabled spaces).

It'll last precisely as long as it takes for someone to take them to
court.

Phil.

 

you are right, of course. arse.

 

if it's like my local tesco, they have "enforcers" wandering around
recording numberplates and times, and then they clamp you if you'd
parked their more than 2 hours[1]. Presumably if you park in a "mother
and child" space without a screaming brat in tow, you get the same
treatment with the 60 quid to release the clamp.

[1] the theory being to stop you parking in tesco to do the rest of
your shopping in the town centre and avoiding the NCP carpark charges.
I'm not entirely sure this practice is legal, and TBH, I've never seen
anyone clamped, but I have see the jobsworths with digital cameras and
notepads patrolling the carpark.

 

yes and no. All of the local supermarkets to me that have carparks
have far too high a percentage of spaces allocated as disabled bays -
i.e. you could drive around the carpark for a few minutes searching
for a space, but something like 4 out of 30 disabled bays would be
occupied at any one time.

I can't understand why we're expected to give certain dispensations to
people just because they've managed to spawn - in particular, stupid
twats with double-wide push-chairs that block the aisles in
supermarkets/take up the whole width of the pavement expecting you to
step into the road to get round them etc. really fucking get on my
tits.

 

which is why this whole feet on seats thing is really just a class war
salvo and not worth being reported outside the tabloids, let alone by
the bbc.[/QUOTE]

Are you suggesting then that it is ok for us middle classes to put our
feet on the seats but not for proles? I don't have a problem with that.

 

Well since we're on the subject, what about people in the métro (I
daresay that this shit happens in the London Tube, too) who lean their
backs against the vertical poles that you use to steady yourself ..which
means that no one behind them can get their fingers around the pole.

The captive bolt was a great invention, but I feel that we're selling it
short, limiting it to cattle ...

D.

 

Disabled spaces in a shop car park have no legal basis either.
I'd like to see how Asda manages to enforce it.

 

quick, give them an asbo!

 

very funny. now get back to work.

<fx:cracks whip>

 

You just haven't got a clue have you?

Speaking from the perspective of a parent I can tell of the fun that can
be had working child and buggy through the mass of morons that walk our
pavements talking bollox like you are to their pocket watches.

....the pleasure to be had once the kids have learnt how to keep their
feet in but subtly hide the bangy on the shin bits from general view.

....watching them dance on one lag and not drop their
shopping/burger/ipod/phone while desperately trying to avoid falling on
a kid that is not going to be there when they arrive. Utter pron that
one.

....or popping out from behind a fat bloke and going straight through the
middle of the group of chavs that was moving out of his way and seeing
the horrible indecision in their pathetic faces as they have to leave
the security of the group and think for themselves for 2 seconds.

I could go on.

 

Well yes. Largely in response to the clueless "I'll park in disabled
spots even though the only thing disabled about me is my ethics" types.

My local Sainsburys has about 10 disabled bays and at peak times they
are usually about 70% occupied. They then have *4 rows* (60 slots) of
breeder spaces.

After all - it's really really difficult to do! And needs lots of
thought.

The only reason I don't get so het up about it is that I know when I
park in the breeder spaces their little gits can't hit the side of my
car by flinging open their car doors.

Have two big black-and-tan dogs on leads. They cross the road to avoid
you - it's like magic. Do they *really* think I've trained my dogs to
eat their children? I care about what my dogs eat!

I'd feed them to the dachshund quite happily though.

Phil.

 

Part III of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 says otherwise.

Fear, terror and fanatical devotion to padlocks?

Phil.

 

Not at work am I. On the panel ain't I. Germs and that.

Ah, blessed sound.

 

They probably do. I on the other hand am inclined to think differently
and am inclined to test how well the dogs recognise a pack leader when
one is walking straight at them under those circumstances.

 

"You park your vehicle on our (private) property by our permission,
and subject to our rules. Doing so signifies your agreement." AIUI
it's effectively a contract, for which there is a great body of both
case law and Parliamentary legislation.

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, darsy typed:

Er, no. Were you perhaps thinking of tautology?

 

Which it can't be, unless 'public' and 'transport' have the same or
similar meanings.

D.

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Bear typed:

Then they will sue you for criminal damage to their property. It's a *very*
grey area. I'd love to see it tested, because there are some *very* nasty
cunts out there enforcing private parking areas.

 

They'd move out of the way. Nothing to do with pack leaders[1] and
everything to do with not wanting to be walked into. And even dogs are
clever enough not to attack face-to-face in those circumstances..

Phil.

[1] Pavement is neutral territory.

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, des typed:

Possibly - but it certainly isn't an oxymoron, unless I have missed
something.