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Technology gone mad

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  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 44,393 Forumite
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    Ralph-y wrote: »
    Best not travel to a modern European city like Amsterdam then .....



    they look at you funny if you try to pay by cash .. and I mean the market traders not just the shops ... you can not board a bus/tram with cash only pre paid or contactless ....



    as this dinosaur recently found out ;)


    Ralph:cool:

    What about those ladies who sit in the windows in backstreet Amsterdam Ralph-y? Are they up to speed with techno too?
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    #Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • Ralph-y
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    not that I would know ....


    but yes they do :j



    but ... but that must be the best ever reason for contactless payment :eek:


    Ralph:cool:
  • Half_way
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    Of course they want you to use the apps, apart form the usual issues with incorrect registrations/location codes etc, there's also a huge array of extra charges such as



    Confirmation texts 10p to confirm youve paid, another charge to remind you when your time is nearly up, and a few other charges such as registration fee, booking fees and so on.
    best advice keep some change in pot
    From the Plain Language Commission:

    "The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"
  • Umkomaas
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    Half_way wrote: »
    best advice keep some change in pot
    Have you noticed that lots of charges are no longer round figures like:

    1 hour = £1, 2 hours = £2 and so on. Instead it's:

    1 hour = £1.20, 2 hours = £2.20. No change given.

    So if you haven't got a 20p on you and you daren't underpay with ANPR cameras everywhere, you just have to pay the extra, but no extra time for you!
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    #Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • twhitehousescat
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    bring back the little man in a cubicle
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 44,393 Forumite
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    twhitehousescat wrote: »
    bring back the little man in a cubicle

    It used to be one of two jobs reserved for (then) registered disabled persons. The other reserved job was a lift attendant (remember the lifts with diamond mesh inner doors that the attendant slid noisily across before he pressed the button to take the lift up or down? ).

    :)
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    #Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • twhitehousescat
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    yup those where the 2 favorite jobs for DHS claimant , who could not work "you are fit to be a lift operator , nows !!!!!! off"
  • Umkomaas
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    twhitehousescat wrote: »
    yup those where the 2 favorite jobs for DHS claimant , who could not work "you are fit to be a lift operator , nows !!!!!! off"

    'It will be your ideal job, sir. You'll be going up in the world'!
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    #Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • Half_way
    Half_way Posts: 7,712 Forumite
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    twhitehousescat wrote: »
    bring back the little man in a cubicle
    I was in a place called Dovedale, in the Peak District, and the main carpark was staffed by a man wearing a white overcoat, and a leather money pouch/ticket reel.

    You stopped, paid him, got an old style card ticket, and parked.
    there is a P&D machine, but when the attendant is there its covered up.
    this is the place:
    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.0555679,-1.7829083,3a,60y,2.58h,70.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPYv4aXFcr55TGmJsi3GXdA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
    From the Plain Language Commission:

    "The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"
  • twhitehousescat
    twhitehousescat Posts: 5,368 Forumite
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    and the story (think its snopes) little man at chester zoo , 25 yrs doing tickets , taking money , failed to turn up one day , people enquired about him

    turned out chester zoo never employed a parking attendant
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