Uncle Henry's PCN

Grandad123

Hi CC. Yes sent off extra points. Funnily enough POPLA site wouldn't recognise the Verification code.


Rang them up and they said do it via email. I got a reply confirming they had received it. I think they might be in a bit of a pickle up there.


Good old Churchy is going to sort out Betsy tomorrow. Only cost me £50 for £600's of damage and that Aluuuminum man is lending me a car.

Redx

parking prankster blogged this week about the popla website problems and that they are accepting emails for the moment

Grandad123

I guessed something was wrong. That's probably why their 5 day email response time is also up the swannie.

Grandad123

I seem to be locked in some sort of time warp.


Me to POLA: What's happening with my appeal


POPLA to ME: We will respond within 5 days.


Me to POPLA: Why did you not respond in 5 days.


POPLA to me: We will respond within 5 days.


I think I will go and jump off Beachy Head.


But before I go I thought I would send CC another picture for his collection.


http://i483.photobucket.com/albums/rr199/Kitman721/Disclaimer%201_zpspcidvkzy.jpg

ColliesCarer

Well thank you kindly Gd but only the Collie is a bloke

As for Beachy Head - nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

Grandad123

Sorry CC, last time I made that mistake I was in a dodgy club in Soho. My mate did say she had a rather deep voice. Wasn't much of a kisser either.


Anybody know what the parking is like at Beachy Head. I wouldn't want a ticket for overstaying.


I like the new sign, you can actually read it without binoculars. I think it is response to a letter I wrote to the Practice Manager.

Dr._Shoe

Zero_Gravitas wrote: »

Actually, my interpretation of the sign was that a valid permit must be displayed, but only that a tax disc must be displayed - it doesn't have to be a valid one...

Without wishing to offend, you will find that according to grammatical convention you must have a valid tax disc (in fact it was never a tax disc, it was a road fund licence disc). In order for the sign to read the way you, and probably most people, interpret it it would have to read:

A tax disc and a valid CPM permit must be displayed...

This is because you wouldn't repeat the word "valid" twice in the same sentence anyway. This is because you only use an adjective once in a sentence unless you are going to use a different one. So,

The car had a yellow radiator grill and wheels.

"The car had a yellow radiator grill and yellow wheels," whilst not actually incorrect is not considered to accord to convention.

However, I'm sure there wouldn't be a magistrate in the land that wouldn't laugh an attempt to enforce this sign out of court.

Grandad123

If the magistrate had a yellow car and yellow wheels he probably wouldn't have a sense of humour.

Tracal

ColliesCarer I have private messaged you, I hope you got it ok, sorry to jump on the thread guys :-/

Zero_Gravitas

Dr._Shoe wrote: »

Without wishing to offend, you will find that according to grammatical convention you must have a valid tax disc (in fact it was never a tax disc, it was a road fund licence disc). In order for the sign to read the way you, and probably most people, interpret it it would have to read:

This is because you wouldn't repeat the word "valid" twice in the same sentence anyway. This is because you only use an adjective once in a sentence unless you are going to use a different one. So,

"The car had a yellow radiator grill and yellow wheels," whilst not actually incorrect is not considered to accord to convention.

However, I'm sure there wouldn't be a magistrate in the land that wouldn't laugh an attempt to enforce this sign out of court.

I'm not the tiniest bit offended - so I hope you won't be either when I tell you that you are wrong.

Whilst in narrative fiction it may be the stylistic convention not to use the same adjective more than once in the same sentence; there is certainly no grammatical rule against so doing.

I spent some time writing user procedure manuals for large software systems and the maxim that we adopted was "clarity and then elegance". So if you needed a valid permit and a valid tax disc to do something, then that is what was written - we could not and did not make any assumptions about how people would interpret the words according to convention.

And whilst we are being a bit pedantic, the term "Road Fund Licence" was discontinued in 1936, when the hypothecation of Vehicle Excise Duty was ended. From that point on it became the "Vehicle Licence" - although (ahem) by convention it has generally been referred to as the "tax disc".


However, we are now getting a bit off-topic - apologies to Grandad and Uncle Henry!