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Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**
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The deluded crew who gave us this abomination will probably give us Party bus III 😳
Careful what you wish for...
But my bid for the next thread title would be
'Rob Fowl might not like 'em but we all think the Party Buses rock!'
Saying that with the tech advances going on and the new look site and all there's every chance the 10K limit wouldn't be an issue anymore anyway and the thread might be here to stay.
Now that would be Irony!
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Hunterbiker wrote: »Is that Rob behind the sign?
Must be as that's koutoubia beside him...
I'm more Father Jack to his Ted ....0 -
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Aaah, Marty, you have really disappointed me this time
(this adds to today's morning little stand-off with a taxi driver beeping at me and pointing to a footpath shared cycle lane on the side. I turned my bike around and pointed at the camera mounted under the stem, then gave him the two-finger-I-will-be-watching-you sign. That did not stop him from following me at 30cm distance for the next 1km... I guess I need a backward facing camera now.) 0 -
Qualitymark wrote: »As far as I know, they all charge now. And hospital car parks, of all places, make, quite literally, millions of euro from charging for car parking for sick and dying people and their friends and relatives who come to sit by their bedsides. This country has gone a very, very bad way in its relationship to money.
On another note, was listening to an old BBC podcast, On Your Bike, about the history of cycling, which talked about a stamp heroising Baden-Powell for his use of bicycle scouts in Britain's hideous war against the Boers from 1899 to 1902. The programme gave the impression (or I gained the impression - was listening while doggy-walking) that it was a penny-farthing that was used to race across the Transvaal; sadly, the stamp seems to have him riding a safety bicycle.
Edit: couldn't resist adding his scouting manual - I say, chaps!
http://ridevintage.com/1910-cyclist-scouts-training-boy-scouts/
and a picture of his ideal boy scout from it:
no issue with hospitals charging for car parks, it helps to run the hospital its an indirect tax on people using it. Also there are ways to get parking charges back from hospital in some cases if getting care.0 -
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Qualitymark wrote: »Aren't the car parks in hospitals normally run by private companies?
As for "an indirect tax on someone using it", that's a disgusting idea, frankly. Why should sick and dying people and their friends and relatives be used to harvest an indirect tax?
Simple solution to that is that you leave a note with a time on it on your dash, walk in and get a slip to say you're parking to visit someone or go to an appointment, walk back and put that on your dash; that's what the Quakers and Jews do in their nursing home.
A note , most hospitals will refund parking where there is direct need for you to park like in the case of terminally ill patient. As mentioned its not about affecting ill familys its making sure there is actually somewhere to park for those using the hospital 0 -
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Because it's all part of a progressive taxation system. Simply paying for every public service from PAYE would make employment a much less attractive proposition for those on the margins.
The Finns seem to manage ok with it, maybe the Danes…?No one is forcing anyone to park there, public transport is available.
You should remember that if you ever break your hip and don't have a car.
As for breaching patient confidentiality, the Quakers don't worry about data protection; they don't feel it's a big secret if you have the name of a patient and know where to find them
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Qualitymark wrote: »You should remember that if you ever break your hip and don't have a car.
That's what ambulances are for, I'd probably struggle to drive
Qualitymark wrote: »As for breaching patient confidentiality, the Quakers don't worry about data protection; they don't feel it's a big secret if you have the name of a patient and know where to find them
I meant on the enforcement side. You know how rules that make sense so long as everyone plays fair don't tent to work too well here. All anyone would have to do is put a note in their car saying visiting patient X. No one would be allowed to confirm if there even was a patient X in the hospital.0 -
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