The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

Cakeguts wrote: »

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Why not turn it into an anonymous blog ..... rather than reporting it... photograph and post it ....

Free blog, Facebook/whatever page.... post and invite people to mark her out of 10 each time you've a new photo to upload. Might as well get some "cheap entertainment" out of it.

Or, with less effort, just post it on the Facebook site called very similarly to: Parked like a C**t

There are several to choose from:

https://www.facebook.com/yplac/
https://www.facebook.com/PLATIUK/
https://www.facebook.com/spottedparking/

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

The "several" I have are Olympuses, I collect the Pen half frame ones - some of which had the Electric Eye meter which was later fitted to the Trip.



Ah yes, I know that problem.
IIRC, there are "air cells" that are the correct size and almost the correct voltage, others are the right size but the wrong voltage. There may even be adapters to fit (smaller) batteries of the correct voltage into a compartment that's too big for them.
Some people have had their meter adjusted to work correctly with the lower voltage, others just mentally calculate the offset they need to apply when transferring the meter reading to the camera - assuming that the meter doesn't set the camera directly.

Can't remember the model offhand without digging it out. It's a 60s model . L or LT?
I know my dad had the LTL.
As I remember it only meters with manual settings for shutter and aperture. Just a centre line to show when the settings are right.
I've got a Weston Master light meter I could use at a pinch. nice to have the camera working right though.

Cakeguts

PasturesNew wrote: »

Why not turn it into an anonymous blog ..... rather than reporting it... photograph and post it ....

Free blog, Facebook/whatever page.... post and invite people to mark her out of 10 each time you've a new photo to upload. Might as well get some "cheap entertainment" out of it.

Or, with less effort, just post it on the Facebook site called very similarly to: Parked like a C**t

There are several to choose from:

https://www.facebook.com/yplac/
https://www.facebook.com/PLATIUK/
https://www.facebook.com/spottedparking/

It is very tempting especially since the name of the agent is on the car. What bothers me is that this idiot works in an office which offers lettings. There are lots and lots of rules for landlords and they can't even get the one about not parking across a dropped kerb into their head.

PasturesNew

Cakeguts wrote: »

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To get those jobs you have to be gormless/young/attractive, or related to the boss.

Jazee

When we had a dropped kerb done at our last house with permission fro the local authority, they were quite clear in telling us that people could park legally across it. This was nearly 20 years ago. Not sure if the rules have changed.

Cakeguts

Jazee wrote: »

When we had a dropped kerb done at our last house with permission fro the local authority, they were quite clear in telling us that people could park legally across it. This was nearly 20 years ago. Not sure if the rules have changed.

Rules have changed in London at least which is where I am. Here it is because dropped kerbs are not just access for cars to get to drives they are also access for disabled people to cross roads. So you can't do it here. In fact when the same stupid idiot parked across our drive about 2 weeks ago she got a parking ticket from the local council parking enforcement team and if she had then not moved it the council would have collected it on a lorry and taken it to the pound. So far she has parked across two dropped kerbs and overhung two driveways to my knowledge in the last 2 weeks. You just don't do that it is inconsiderate and selfish especially since in the next road there are always plenty of spaces.

Cakeguts

PasturesNew wrote: »

To get those jobs you have to be gormless/young/attractive, or related to the boss.

I think gormless would be a higher qualification for this person.

chris_m

Jackmydad wrote: »

Can't remember the model offhand without digging it out. It's a 60s model . L or LT?
I know my dad had the LTL.
As I remember it only meters with manual settings for shutter and aperture. Just a centre line to show when the settings are right.

My very first SLR was a second hand PL Nova 1B, with an uncoupled selenium cell light meter. That succumbed to a very wet weekend on Dartmoor so I replaced it with a Super TL3.
At one point I also bought a new MTL5 but eventually traded that in against a second-hand Olympus OM10.
I did pick up another Nova 1B a few years ago, for nostalgia's sake, when I spotted one on Fleabay for the princely sum of £15

I've got a Weston Master light meter I could use at a pinch. nice to have the camera working right though.

That's the other solution, particularly for any camera that doesn't have a coupled meter anyway.

chris_m

Jazee wrote: »

When we had a dropped kerb done at our last house with permission fro the local authority, they were quite clear in telling us that people could park legally across it. This was nearly 20 years ago. Not sure if the rules have changed.

That's the first I've ever heard of that.
I do know that the authorities will often only take any action if someone parks across a driveway preventing egress, but not if it's preventing entry.

PasturesNew

My parents' next door neighbours had a two-car-wide frontage and they took down all their wall/gate and put in tarmac across the whole frontage, with a double dropped kerb.

They had space to park 2x2 cars there, so two wide and two deep - but they only ever had two cars, side by side.... but they'd go absolutely mental (and send the kids out to stick notes on cars) if anybody dared to park more than a single inch over the incline-stone at either end of their super wide driveway ... nobody ever parked over it, they always had plenty of space to drive in/out... but they did it "out of principle", even when a perceived breach of just 1-2" was occurring.

As it was in a location where each new offender would be on a single visit, never to return, it seemed to me to be a pointless waste of energy as anybody reading their notes would most likely never be in the town again....