Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote:

What I can't understand is the people who bag it up and then leave the bag lying around. Sometimes, tied to a branch.

They answered that on lbc radio phone in last week.

People take their dogs for a walk.
Dog poops early on in the walk.
Owner bags up poop and rather than carrying it around, leaves it on tree branch hanging from bag handles.
At the end of the walk, owner go back past branch, retrieve bagged poop and take home to bin.
Occasionally owners forget to retrieve poop and it remains on branches.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

But they did say something that I called them out on - they said "can't go closer to the boundary than 1m" and I said "Last man (partner of the firm) said it wouldn't be a problem ....." and these two were both about aged 25, so I'm hoping he's right and they're misinformed/misunderstood.

michaels wrote: »

Single storey you can go to the boundary (subject to height) but may need party wall agreement. Worrying if an architect doesn't know that.

I'm sure there used to be something about not being within a metre of the boundary in the rules for permitted development, although it now seems to have been changed and there's a new rule about a lower maximum eaves height for extensions that are within 2m of the boundary. But it wouldn't be applicable to PN anyway, because her house has had its permitted development rights removed, so she'll need PP anyway.

PasturesNew wrote: »

The point is, I'd not now DARE to put out my bins any earlier than necessary (as the van's reversing into the area) .... in case...

Do the kids really go out and play outside in the mornings before the bin lorry comes? Or does your bin lorry come a lot earlier than mine? Round here, they collect them as soon after 7am as possible, so anything put out the previous evening after kids' bedtime would be safe.

In other news... Lovely best-friends-next-door want a bigger house and are moving. They're only going less than a mile away, but it won't be the same.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Round here, they collect them as soon after 7am as possible, so anything put out the previous evening after kids' bedtime would be safe.

But other people can't run their lives round the bedtimes of kids. The disabled woman, for example, seemed to do it when she got in from work - maybe that's when she's feeling most able/mobile, or maybe that's when she gets a little help or something.

But you can't have an entire street staring out of their windows waiting for some future point when children appear to have gone to bed. The trouble is that kids used to be "seen and not heard" and now they seem to have a Golden Ticket to rule the world their way, in any way, at any time/place.

We're early/first on the route, so they're typically here/gone by 7.15am.

SingleSue

michaels wrote: »

Yesterday morning I got to the station shortly after 8. As normal there was a long queue to get a ticket from a machine and the platforms were particularly crowded because of over-running engineering work on the other side of London and just because it was just past 8 in the morning. A train arrived a few miutes late and about half the people on the platform managed to squeeze on. Then it sat there for a while until the driver announced a door fault which they would 'shortly rectify. At this point everyone still on the platform went to a different platform as the next train was going to come there instead. After another few minutes the door fault was not as quickj to resolve as expectd so we were all told to get off and go to the other platform. The next train arrived already packed and about 25% of the people on the platform crammed on and it left. Another 10 minutes and a slow train arrived and mos tof the remaining people on the platform including me crammed on for what would now be a 50 minute game of sardines rather than the normal 30 minute one. At that point the 'broken' train also set off from the other platform for its 30 minute journey half empty. Now repeat with variations for the rest of your life.

Wheelchair travelling can be just as frustrating, especially when the booked assistance doesn't actually arrive and you have 10 minutes to get across 5 platforms but first, you have to somehow get off the train.

Or the being put in with the bikes (the last trip I was quite literally hugging the bike rack as there was no other place for my arms to go), the luggage and the smelly toilet complete with (usually) men either doing up or undoing their trousers when they are coming out or going into the loo and of course, everyone queuing outside waiting to go in the loo and quite often falling into my lap or bashing me with elbows or bags.

As for tickets, we can't just turn up and buy, every trip takes planning so as a result, mine are always prebooked and collected before travel (not at our nearest station either, that takes a trip into the town)...at least it saves queuing for the beggers I suppose even if it means there is no flexibility, no chance of a last minute decision.

Or when they change/cancel trains and the station they are now taking you to is unmanned and has only steps over to the other platforms which then requires a taxi to get to a station that you can get a train from..... which then takes two hours whilst you are sat outside as the station has closed and it is minus 5.

Or the underground where you can use your wheelchair one way but not the other on at least one of the lines and the only suggestion you get is to either get a bus or go all the way around on a tube going in the opposite direction to then get you on the correct platform.

I still get excited though......it means I am not driving and I can read instead! :rotfl:

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

Owner bags up poop and rather than carrying it around, leaves it on tree branch hanging from bag handles.
At the end of the walk, owner go back past branch, retrieve bagged poop and take home to bin.
Occasionally owners forget to retrieve poop and it remains on branches.

Frequently, on quite a few paths around Kendal.

It's like they leave them there as if to mark the dog-emptier's territory - disgusting s*ds.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

Yesterday morning I got to the station shortly after 8. As normal there was a long queue to get a ticket from a machine and the platforms were particularly crowded because of over-running engineering work on the other side of London and just because it was just past 8 in the morning. A train arrived a few miutes late and about half the people on the platform managed to squeeze on. Then it sat there for a while until the driver announced a door fault which they would 'shortly rectify. At this point everyone still on the platform went to a different platform as the next train was going to come there instead. After another few minutes the door fault was not as quickj to resolve as expectd so we were all told to get off and go to the other platform. The next train arrived already packed and about 25% of the people on the platform crammed on and it left. Another 10 minutes and a slow train arrived and mos tof the remaining people on the platform including me crammed on for what would now be a 50 minute game of sardines rather than the normal 30 minute one. At that point the 'broken' train also set off from the other platform for its 30 minute journey half empty. Now repeat with variations for the rest of your life.

We mainly have slow trains, any sign of a problem and they already packed to the rafters with people like you from further up the line.

Tickets are less of a problem if travelling into London as we can just tap in with contactless.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

But other people can't run their lives round the bedtimes of kids....

Of course they shouldn't have to. I'm not defending the contamination of whole loads of recycling. I was merely offering "last thing before adults go to bed, when the kids, even if awake, are indoors" as a preferable alternative to your suggestion of "not until the bin lorry can be heard approaching".

Today is the first day of my new "cycle to work on Thursdays" scheme. If it works, I shall be able to up my game to "cycle to work all the time" when I go back in September and the new parking regulations are in place.

Pyxis

LydiaJ wrote: »

Of course they shouldn't have to. I'm not defending the contamination of whole loads of recycling. I was merely offering "last thing before adults go to bed, when the kids, even if awake, are indoors" as a preferable alternative to your suggestion of "not until the bin lorry can be heard approaching".

Today is the first day of my new "cycle to work on Thursdays" scheme. If it works, I shall be able to up my game to "cycle to work all the time" when I go back in September and the new parking regulations are in place.

Have you seen the Impossible Bike? It's electric, and fits into an ordinary standardish backpack.

This video shows how it works. At the end, it shows how small a backpack you can put it into!

http://bgr.com/2014/11/15/kickstarter-impossible-electric-bike/

PasturesNew

All these magical bikes, electric bikes, etc etc etc .... in the end there are just too many of them, at too high a price, that never really take off.

I'd like something .... but when you try to look into it you shy away due to cost or some other issue.

If they all worked together they could've produced "THE bike". If they'd produced THE bike it'd have been a fraction of the cost and we'd all have one

Looking at that video, it looks way too cumbersome for little people. The seat is way too high for little people ... and I bet it's awkward/a nightmare in a backpack for little people.

If they made it lower/smaller - and fitted it into a shopping trolley you pull along that'd work for me

Other downsides are:
- it's not actually made yet, they could hit production problems and go under before it is.
- it's furren - so would involve some shipping/customs costs ... and what if it goes a bit wrong/needs fixing? Also, is the charger "approved" for British electrics?

It appears to cost about £250... which is a bit high to "take a chance that I'd actually like it/be able to use it".

And .... it doesn't half look "a bit funny"

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

All these magical bikes, electric bikes, etc etc etc .... in the end there are just too many of them, at too high a price, that never really take off.

I'd like something .... but when you try to look into it you shy away due to cost or some other issue.

If they all worked together they could've produced "THE bike". If they'd produced THE bike it'd have been a fraction of the cost and we'd all have one

Looking at that video, it looks way too cumbersome for little people. The seat is way too high for little people ... and I bet it's awkward/a nightmare in a backpack for little people.

If they made it lower/smaller - and fitted it into a shopping trolley you pull along that'd work for me

Other downsides are:
- it's not actually made yet, they could hit production problems and go under before it is.
- it's furren - so would involve some shipping/customs costs ... and what if it goes a bit wrong/needs fixing? Also, is the charger "approved" for British electrics?

It appears to cost about £250... which is a bit high to "take a chance that I'd actually like it/be able to use it".

And .... it doesn't half look "a bit funny"

Not for you, then?



(Ps. I think the seat height etc was adjustable, and the backpack it fitted into was small! . 17" or something.
I don't think they are being made, though. )