Just filled up - 55 litres diesel £75 - !!!!!!

jeferey

Glad I haven't got a Veyron :eek:

KierNet

jeferey wrote: »

Glad I haven't got a Veyron :eek:

If you can afford a Veyron you can afford to fill it up.

bigjl

smjxm09 wrote: »

If you see my comments as a personal attack then that’s your problem. :rotfl: In my neck of the woods, women driving their kids to school fall into one of two categories. There are the pie eaters with their 48 inch hips that would never dream of walking the quarter miles to school and those aloof types who drive their kids miles in the belief that their kids will get a better education.


I find it hard to believe that you sit in traffic driving 14 miles to school and that there isn't a closer school that you could use but as you say it is your choice that people like me has to endure the school run

So by quoting me and then attacking me by saying what you said in relation to my post isn't an attack!

You are now again attacking me personally, if you spent less time attacking people personally and eating lentils then you would realise that i obviously don't spend 14 miles in traffic, but anybody with half a brain would realise that that last part of any journey relating to a school run would be near a SCHOOL, and therefore some TRAFFIC may be involved as SCHOOLS tend to be in more built up areas. But my actual school run is 36 miles door to door, how exactly do you think that would be possible in a city environment.

And if you READ my post without being an opinionated idiot then you would see that I couldn't find a NEARER school.

And how EXACTLY is it my choice " that people like me has to endure the school run", as by your own admission all children should walk to school, so why are you enduring the school run?

You walk your children to school don't you?

After all that is what you feel we should all do isn't it?

And no it isn't my fault that I view your stupid uniformed comments as a personal attack, it is due to the fact as I have already stated you quoted me and then commented DIRECTLY on what I had said.

And something you should know, we don't all live in the city you idiot.

When you live away from a city or large town then you have top send your children to the nearest available school with a suitable place, this decision isn't made by me, it is made by the local authority.

For your information the nearest secondary school to me is 11 miles away, but there are many people a lot closer to that than I am so I don't get priority.

By your comments you drive your kids to school.


And remember that this thread was about fuel prices, and you have started having an uniformed leftist, communist rant after I simply mentioned that a Prius may be a good idea due the times you get stuck in traffic a car that can use electric power when stuck in traffic has some advantages.


I bet you where gutted when New Labour got voted out weren't you, or are you Green Party?

As your pointless posts are completely irrelavant to this thread, you just like to butt in with some petty car hating rubbish when going by what you have said you do the school run aswell.

A very New Labour point of view, slag off those doing something perfectly reasonable but that you think is against your political viewpoint then do exactly the same thing yourself.


I don't really care if you consider something possible or not, do you seriously think I drive 36 miles twice a day for the fun of it!

bigjl

Inactive wrote: »

Surely the local authority have a statutory duty to transport kids to school if they live more that a couple of miles from their school?

No the only statutory duty a local authority have is to get your child a school place. The only bus services that are available are to one or two local schools, if you can call 11 or 12 miles local.

We don't all live "oop north" or in a overfunded inner city borough where there are new "academies" springing up all over the place.

There has been no new schools built in my area for years.

I also live just inside the western boundary of a dividing line between Outer London and Essex so some of the schools that are nearer are not in an area where my children would be accepted.

I still stuggle to see how I live my life has anything to do with fuel costs and my simply comment that a Prius would be a good idea during the early morning traffic.

Maybe if all those people wasting money and fuel blocking the roads going to work should stop using the roads so that I wouldn't be stuck in traffic during my school run.


Though in all honesty if it meant my kids got a better education and school then I would happily drive 100 miles every morning and night, this conecpt is obviously alien to "lentil man".

bigjl

pension-newbie wrote: »

From now on you shall be known as moaning myrtle -

Now that is what I call a tankful and I am truly tankful its not my tank

We used to spend £100 filling up the LDV V8 Ambulances ( last time I filled one up was 3 years ago), god knows how much it would be now, probably lucky they have just been decommissioned, they had a 105 litre tank, which would do less than 200 miles usually, I actually got just over 100 miles from a tank when answering a load of 99 calls with the AC on!

cyclonebri1

goldspanners wrote: »

if we can get a good few years out of it then i'll be happy.
i know its swings and roundabouts but when the standard of living costs pretty much the same but the wages are higher and the standard of living is better than here then to us its a no brainer.

The company I used to work for has a sister company in Missisauga, close to Toronto. I went over there for a week about 5 years ago now.
I don't like city life at all and found Toronto very daunting, but just 2 or 3 observations.

The pace of live seems easier, being in the sister company and camparing it to ours which does exactly the same products was a revelation, so more more laid back than the cut and thrust back here.

It actually seemed difficult to find a true Canadian. The make up of their society is trully cosmopolitan.

And the greatest dissapointment was Niagra falls. It really is magnificent in the flesh, I was there in May and it was still 1/2 frozen. Great to see, but I thought it would be isolated and in the backwoods, but you turn around to the Canadian side and they've built high rise after high rise virtually up to the falls. When I was there they were just demolishing a 4 storie casino, to make way for an 8 storie one, sad.:(

Inactive

bigjl wrote: »

No the only statutory duty a local authority have is to get your child a school place. The only bus services that are available are to one or two local schools, if you can call 11 or 12 miles local.

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Strange, there was a Tory Minister on the TV last night stating that they do have a statutory duty to transport kids to schools over 2 miles away.

Indout96

The average wage now is something like £25,000

Not in Bradford it isn't try around the £14,500 mark.

smjxm09

bigjl wrote: »

So by quoting me and then attacking me by saying what you said in relation to my post isn't an attack!

You are now again attacking me personally, !

Oh please stop as you have got me splitting my sides. :D:D I have had to email your comments to all my friends.


The truth is that I haven’t insulted you at all. I hope that the following paragraph helps you come to terms with your problem.


Paranoia is a thought process thought to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. Historically, this characterization was used to describe any delusional state.


Now stay calm and have a wonderful weekend as you have made mine.:beer:

goldspanners

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

The company I used to work for has a sister company in Missisauga, close to Toronto. I went over there for a week about 5 years ago now.
I don't like city life at all and found Toronto very daunting, but just 2 or 3 observations.

The pace of live seems easier, being in the sister company and camparing it to ours which does exactly the same products was a revelation, so more more laid back than the cut and thrust back here.

It actually seemed difficult to find a true Canadian. The make up of their society is trully cosmopolitan.

And the greatest dissapointment was Niagra falls. It really is magnificent in the flesh, I was there in May and it was still 1/2 frozen. Great to see, but I thought it would be isolated and in the backwoods, but you turn around to the Canadian side and they've built high rise after high rise virtually up to the falls. When I was there they were just demolishing a 4 storie casino, to make way for an 8 storie one, sad.:(

i went out to work with my (soon to be employer) for a few days, your right, the work that took us all day would normally be a mornings worth of work here.
we are heading to calgary,like you say about toronto its very hard to find someone who was actually born in calgary,most come from different states or like us,countries.
i think calgary is a bit smaller to toronto.