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It was a bit of an eye opener for me, a bit of a coming of age, seeing what the police were capable of given half a chance. Groups of police from out of area basically wandering around looking for trouble. I was stopped any number of times and prevented from getting home. I was searched for no reason. Stopped and questioned for having left the house. I saw cars damaged and then people booked for having broken lights. I saw collection buckets kicked down the street by police walking past peaceful fundraisers. It was a police state for a while and the police loved it. The tories don’t like being called scum.

From the planning portal:

Are there any real world examples of Boeing actually hiring inferior pilots?

Do you know the height dimension of the shed? 2.5m is fairly tall for a shed. For info., you can erect a fence on your boundary without permission that is 2.0m tall, so if the shed was 2.0m or less then it wouldn’t be an issue. If it’s taller than that, then unfortunately it might be down to local quirks in planning and if you’re on a relatively new estate you might even need permission from the original builder. Easiest route, is to know how big a shed it is, work out how much it would stick above the garden wall, if it’s more than 2.0metres tall and could be seen by the neighbour, just knock on their door, say hi, and tell them your plan. If you go on the planning portal, it should ask you to put your post code in and direct you to your local planners advice page. But there is info down the planning page I’ve linked that might be sufficient for you.

Gutted. I had Chelsea, Man Utd, and Davankov on an accumulator.

I thought the original post was about the campaign letting down or puncturing tyres on bigger cars. That campaign, or certainly the europe wide version of it that has been going a while, is not solely about carbon emissions. It embraces the whole problem with bloated cars in an urban environment, sharing streets with much smaller and softer users. But it’s easier to just write it off as not thought through, or jealousy, or not considering whether someone has photo voltaics on their roof as a trade off for dominating the streets. But it’s not like I’m their spokesperson, it might just be they don’t like G Wagons but would be ok with a similar sized Fiat, as some on here believe.

The Karman Line is generally accepted as the boundary. 100km above sea level.

You left out the Toyota and the Mitsubishi.

I’m not sure its me that’s been triggered. But I’m happy for you to read Skoda Kodiaq wherever I’ve written Bentley Bentayga. If we don’t want to see or hear the counter argument to big butch cars, I’ll drop out.

Oh I’m sure in some cases it does. But come on, look around you, the majority are pointlessly large expressions of a lifestyle choice. Like buying a car that can do 160mph in a town with an average speed of 23mph. I’d suggest the majority of F Pace purchases are not out of necessity. My job has involved driving 20,000 miles a year. I’ve got family, I go on holiday, I’ve taken the kids on camping holidays. I’ve moved students across the country and organised house clearances. All that usual stuff. I’ve survived without a Defender.

We need a stat here, the number killed or injured by oversized overpowered cars in the urban environment, against the number of people killed or injured by not being able to use their X5. I’m not really advocating any sort of violence or vandalism here. I’m more about trying to work out the psychology of justifying to yourself a Land Cruiser in Swindon.

It’s the whole thing, the size of cars is being Americanised when there is no need. Car parking spaces are having to be redefined because of the race to be bigger, higher, wider, more of a ‘presence’ on the road. What then happens, is the guy with the Range Rover of the Mitsubishi then realises that parking on the road he might get a scratch because his car is so bloated. Not a problem, I’ll park half of it up on the pavement. We’re buying cars that are too big for the urban environment. Whatever you want to call them, sUV, 4x4, the point is they are too big and too aggressive. You just don’t need a Macan to drop Timmy off at school or get two kids to Burger King.

it’s a twitter account I have a look at every now and again

It would be interesting to know the stats for Royal Mail losing post and delivering it inexplicably late, versus the number of fake voters that were turning up at polling stations. The mail around here is in a state of collapse, we’ll get nothing for 4 or 5 days and then we’ll get a bunch of mail delivered and a few of them won’t even be for this address.

That Joey Barton has started a GoGriftMe page to sue Jeremy Vine, and Tim Vine has donated £10.

Richard Norris Hypnotic Response When the record is spinning that pattern looks like its pulsating bit freaky

Would there be a day off if Kate is dead?

That’s pretty much where I’m at, if I’m going to be spied on, I want it to be a completely disinterested government official, not some orange guy using tweezers to masturbate.

I don’t think the tories can afford another winter cull of their remaining voters. Autumn, not so slippery they daren’t go out, not too hot to rile up the liver spots. I’m actually waiting for someone from the militant nutter wing to suggest there is too much of a national emergency to have an election just yet.

I use google maps and I get the little report at the end of every month, a map with dots on to show where I’ve been. When delving further into the graphic, it can tell not just that my phone went to Worcester, but the route it took, the speed it travelled and the shops and restaurants it went in etc.. So it’s an interesting toy, but it is a lot of info.. Not always super accurate either, there will regularly be a shop that I didn’t actually go in, I can only presumed I dawdled right outside or stared through the window. Not that I’m doing anything nefarious, but my job sometimes requires me to be without a phone, and on a weekend, to the shock of the kids, I’ll leave the house without it. Just to stay half a step ahead of the man.

With all this data and intel they hold on me, why do Screwfix send me adverts for floor adhesive when I come back from buying floor adhesive in Screwfix?

Yep, allowing any profit on resale keeps the industry players in the game. You get a stadium tour, 4 or 5 UK dates, 70,000 at each date, £100 a ticket, siphon off a few % of those tickets and you’ve built yourself a 10% resale on thousands of £100 tickets. It’s a nice little 6 figure additional income. My missus, for her sins, wanted to see Coldplay at the Millenium. Capacity of 74,500, and it was £160 for a ticket. 10% mark up on a couple of thousand of those ain’t stopping industrial touting.

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Well I’ve got 16 on there I’d happily go and see, and who knows how many discoveries in little side tents whilst you’re waiting for Kneecap or the like to be on stage. There’s stuff there from top to bottom, Dua Lipa, LCD Soundsystem, Squid, Steel Pulse, Yard Act, Kneecap, Dexys. There’s something for everyone there. But I don’t do festivals, so that’s irrelevant.

On the plus side, this should mean that 6 months later there will be a car from the adjoining factory called the Spacia Dring and it’ll cost £9,999 but the doors will be made from turkey foil.