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Free Parking for Gatwick in Horley?
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Once again, I do get the wider context about displaced parking near airports but was specifically commenting on one particular remark, but clearly my mistake was to waste time engaging with someone who pops up every day or two to post a range of bizarre non-sequiturs - perhaps I'll have enough self-control not to make that mistake again, and to leave pigeon chess to the grandmasters....rigolith said:
Your mistake was not reading the earlier posts in the thread, that give this context.eskbanker said:What I don't understand is whatever you may have meant by "they are clearly charging what they can get away with rather than what it actually costs to operate those places" that isn't 'they are clearly charging what they can get away with rather than what it actually costs to operate those places', as those words are self-explanatory....
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Or perhaps make use of the ignore listeskbanker said:
Once again, I do get the wider context about displaced parking near airports but was specifically commenting on one particular remark, but clearly my mistake was to waste time engaging with someone who pops up every day or two to post a range of bizarre non-sequiturs - perhaps I'll have enough self-control not to make that mistake again, and to leave pigeon chess to the grandmasters....rigolith said:
Your mistake was not reading the earlier posts in the thread, that give this context.eskbanker said:What I don't understand is whatever you may have meant by "they are clearly charging what they can get away with rather than what it actually costs to operate those places" that isn't 'they are clearly charging what they can get away with rather than what it actually costs to operate those places', as those words are self-explanatory....
Good luck figuring it out.
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Done. Not wasting my time teaching this person reading comprehension.zagfles said:
Or perhaps make use of the ignore listeskbanker said:
Once again, I do get the wider context about displaced parking near airports but was specifically commenting on one particular remark, but clearly my mistake was to waste time engaging with someone who pops up every day or two to post a range of bizarre non-sequiturs - perhaps I'll have enough self-control not to make that mistake again, and to leave pigeon chess to the grandmasters....rigolith said:
Your mistake was not reading the earlier posts in the thread, that give this context.eskbanker said:What I don't understand is whatever you may have meant by "they are clearly charging what they can get away with rather than what it actually costs to operate those places" that isn't 'they are clearly charging what they can get away with rather than what it actually costs to operate those places', as those words are self-explanatory....
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Yeah you’re not in a position to be teaching anyone anything!0
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To those complaining about people parking in their area, there is a very simple solution - move to some other area0
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Why bring a 3 year old post back to life???6
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