Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

LydiaJ

Just this one. Have tried with both chrome and IE on my Windows 10 laptop and am now on my work iPad using Safari but no joy. Will have one final attempt on my phone (android) and then I really must surrender to the call of the dishwasher and washing machine, both of which I've been ignoring all day.

Pyxis

LydiaJ wrote: »

Just this one. Have tried with both chrome and IE on my Windows 10 laptop and am now on my work iPad using Safari but no joy. Will have one final attempt on my phone (android) and then I really must surrender to the call of the dishwasher and washing machine, both of which I've been ignoring all day.

That's weird, as I'm on an iPad with Safari.

Have you got a firewall enabled on high?

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Unattended children will be sold as slaves.

Thanks PN

Pyxis wrote: »

That's weird, as I'm on an iPad with Safari.

Have you got a firewall enabled on high?

Probably. It's work's ipad, so they set up all that sort of stuff before they let me have it. I don't use it much - at work a few times a week for one particular thing, and at home only when DD is borrowing my laptop.

zagubov

Not very practical but when I see inconsiderate parking I want them to bring in South American parking tickets. There's a city there (might be Buenos Aires) that superglued newspaper -sized parking tickets across windscreens so it would take about four hours hard scraping to get it clear enough to drive away. Bet you don't get many repeat offenders.

There was a discussion somewhere here about blocking driveways and police will only get involved if your car is blocked in. If you're blocked out that's not an offence.

bugslet

zagubov wrote: »

Not very practical but when I see inconsiderate parking I want them to bring in South American parking tickets. There's a city there (might be Buenos Aires) that superglued newspaper -sized parking tickets across windscreens so it would take about four hours hard scraping to get it clear enough to drive away. Bet you don't get many repeat offenders.

There was a discussion somewhere here about blocking driveways and police will only get involved if your car is blocked in. If you're blocked out that's not an offence.

Not in Manchester they don't. Our works is not far from Man United's ground, so we get people parking in front of the gates that have a large sign saying 24 hour access required.

I solved the problem with either a forklift or a trolleyjack on more than one occasion.:cool:

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Wide Awake Club.

Outside it's pitch black as there are no street lights ... popped outside and every now and again I can hear a "big plastic bin scraping along by a few feet".... odd. I thought it might be the 24 hour food outlet's staff member litter picking, but they'd not be able to do that in the pitch dark... but as it's dark I don't stand a hope of peeking outside to see what on earth the odd noise is. It's too big a noise to be something like an animal moving stuff ... oh well.

Was it windy at all? If so. It might have been something large being moved a bit by the wind.

Otherwise it might be fly-tippers.

Have you been out to see, now that it is light?

chris_m

zagubov wrote: »

Not very practical but when I see inconsiderate parking I want them to bring in South American parking tickets. There's a city there (might be Buenos Aires) that superglued newspaper -sized parking tickets across windscreens so it would take about four hours hard scraping to get it clear enough to drive away. Bet you don't get many repeat offenders.

We started that with a repeat offender at my last place - initially just put the notice under the wipers then graduated to not very sticky tape, then stickier tape, etc. They got the message before we got as far as the superglue

There was a discussion somewhere here about blocking driveways and police will only get involved if your car is blocked in. If you're blocked out that's not an offence.

I believe that is correct

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think there is a law in the UK against using glues to stick things onto windscreens, because it's a safety hazard if the person can't get it off.

Many years ago I had a tiny friend (4'11") who had a "You parked badly" notice stuck on her windscreen at work - she sniggered as she told me that as she's short she didn't have to remove it to drive home.

It's probably just criminal damage.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe there needs to be more small/private facebook groups for neighbours to ask "Whose !!!!ing .... is on my/blocking my ...?"

There is a facebook group local to my area that people post pictures of offending cars, with messages asking for it to be moved. It is also a group that posts helpful advice in finding tradesmen/ shop opening hours etc so it is well viewed and used.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

No and no.

To go out and look I'd have had to "get dressed" to walk past 3 neighbours and stand in front of 7 neighbours and passing traffic to even look to see if I could work out what I might've heard ... easier to just forget it and slob around without wondering in a giant T shirt, panties and slippers.

Such a beautiful vision!
Almost as beautiful as wot I am slobbing around in!

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe there needs to be more small/private facebook groups for neighbours to ask "Whose !!!!ing .... is on my/blocking my ...?"

Save all the senseless door knocking people suggest.

One neighbour whose door I knock on sets off two HUGE dogs barking and scratching at the front door ... hate that. Then there are the ones where you've knocked and you're sure they're in, but they've not answered, so you can't leave in case they're breaking a leg indoors to get to the front door .... and you can't stay there as you feel stupid... and if you've set the dogs off you feel guilty.

Funny, that.

I was just thinking lately that people who knock at your door only seem to wait long enough for you to come as if you were already standing in the hall.
I've spent a lot of time in my bedroom the last few months, upstairs. To get to the front door, I have to get off the bed, put house shoes on, and carefully go down stairs, holding on, all due to this leg injury thing. I can't rush much in case I slip and add insult to injury.

Even so, I don't take ages and ages.
If I'm expecting a delivery, I put a sign on the door saying I am in, please be patient.

However, many's the time I get to the door and the person is off down the street. It's usually a cold caller. It happen yesterday evening.

If I knock at someone's door, I give it a little while, then I knock again. If I've been ringing a bell, and haven't heard it ring, then I try knocking, in case the bell doesn't work. Only then do I give up.

No-one seems to knock twice any more, except when I've got the delivery notice up.
(No puns about postmen only ringing twice!:D)