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Post by cbeaks1 on Nov 16, 2017 7:58:46 GMT
Nothing more annoying about supermarket car parks than thinking a space is free only to pull in and find some lazy fuckwitt has left a trolley in it! Do you not need to put a coin in the trolley in the UK? Rarely - depends where you are and which shop. Asda more likely than Waitrose for example |
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Post by ChrisM on Nov 16, 2017 8:38:21 GMT
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and the change to the new pound coin has caught many suopermarkets out, such that they have disabled the "pound coin required" slot.
Was interesting to find in Denmark that not only do they have a plastic bag charge, but all plastic bottles have a DKK1.50 deposit on them (DKK3.0 on larger bottles) and machines in supermarkets where you can return the bottles and get your deposit back... but no such machines at the airport where you simply surrender your plastic bottles to the recycling bin.....
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Post by Boxer6 on Nov 16, 2017 9:04:43 GMT
Do you not need to put a coin in the trolley in the UK? Rarely - depends where you are and which shop. Asda more likely than Waitrose for example I think all the supermarkets in and around Glasgow have the £1 coin deposit issues resolved; certainly both Tesco's and the Asda near us have new coin slots fitted, as do the two Tesco stores and the (big) Asda in our work's catchment. I think the Waitrose in Byres Road does too, but not as sure about that one - a bit posh for me! |
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Post by johnc on Nov 16, 2017 10:22:43 GMT
I make an effort not to shop where a £1 is required for the trolley. Thankfully neither my local Asda or Tesco require coins and I have only used a basket in my local Waitrose so I don't know about them. The local Morrisons does require £1 so they hardly ever get any business from me.
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Post by Tim on Nov 20, 2017 13:43:04 GMT
None round here have the £1 thing, must just be for the Weegies  |
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Post by Martin on Nov 20, 2017 17:17:38 GMT
I make an effort to avoid supermarkets completely and am fairly successful. I do know that you don’t need a coin in the local Waitrose, but no idea whether that’s the same in Tesco/Asda.
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Post by LandieMark on Nov 20, 2017 17:23:36 GMT
No coin required in Tesco, but they have a perimeter thing that locks the wheels beyond the car park.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2017 14:46:44 GMT
No coin required in Tesco, but they have a perimeter thing that locks the wheels beyond the car park. Do they actually work? The local Waitrose claims to have this system in place, but the trolleys look bog standard, with no possibility that they have any sort of wheel locking actuators fitted. Anyhoo, back on topic: Ford nobber taking two spaces at the Bath Park & Ride the other day.  B&M Home Stores truck blocking the pedestrian crossing for the second time in two days. As it right next to a McDonalds I will just have to assume that the driver is a fat, burger-swilling, inconsiderate arsehole. Take your truck back to where you pick it up from in the morning and then go get your Big Mac and fries in your car, like what normal, thin people do!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 13:47:52 GMT
No, don't you worry, the rest of us visiting loved ones in hospital will just find somewhere else, eh?
Loved the Krooklok, too.
Cunt...
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jan 3, 2018 14:38:47 GMT
No, don't you worry, the rest of us visiting loved ones in hospital will just find somewhere else, eh?
Loved the Krooklok, too.
Cunt...
Is that actually two parking spaces though? It looks like the end of the parking bays has just been rounded off with blockwork, creating the sweep round, leaving room for one (incorrectly) parked car. |
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Post by Big Blue on Jan 3, 2018 14:44:16 GMT
Looks to me like you're not supposed to park there at all...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 15:04:03 GMT
Bob, there is a central divide - I checked before parpping him
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jan 3, 2018 15:37:50 GMT
On a "should't laugh but I did note"; last Saturday we decided to get the early train up to Edinburgh from Morpeth and parked in the (free) station carpark. There was still snow on the ground and I pulled up next to a large Audi Q7 - white, with all the sidesteps etc. As I got out I looked down at my feet and, brushing away some of the snow, realised I had parked in a no parking spot, hatched out with yellow lines. I moved my car to another space but there was nothing I could do about the Audi, which was also parked in a no parking spot.
When we came back from Edinburgh that night the snow had gone and the Audi was still sitting there, now with a parking ticket on the windscreen. I did have a sliver of sympathy..
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Post by humphreythepug on Feb 7, 2018 23:36:50 GMT
Yesterday my opposite neighbour (I've mentioned him before, he'll shift cars multiple times over the course of a day to keep that space for him) who has an issue with anyone parking in "his space", decided on the passive agressive approach; parking as close as possible:  This morning I went out at just gone 07:00 to walk the dogs, I returned at 07:40, the twat had already moved his van a few feet up so as to make sure "his space" was filled with his vehicle:  I really don't get why people are like this and the house you can see isn't even his; his is out of shot to the right! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2018 22:07:18 GMT
Asshole parked right to a junction.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2018 23:52:30 GMT
Mefinks someone forgot to apply the handbrake!  |
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Post by Roadsterstu on May 4, 2018 7:10:29 GMT
Or did set the handbrake but didn't leave it in gear - another increasingly common occurrence. "The brakes have failed." Nope, you didn't secure the car properly.
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Post by Martin on May 7, 2018 16:40:43 GMT
I didn’t know there was a plug in V8 diesel Bentayga..... a couple of hours before I took this picture is was half/half in both spaces, so they moved it over to get even further away from the rest of us. There were dozens of empty spaces no more that 20m away, so really easy to park on your own as we did. There was a Huracan in a disabled space but I didn’t take a picture as there were a few people looking at it and I didn’t want to join in.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2018 7:33:07 GMT
What a pair of Cs...
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Post by Tim on May 8, 2018 12:24:05 GMT
Driving through Newburgh, a local village with a busy main road, on Sunday.
Cars park all the way up one side of the road and as the road gradually narrows it gets a bit tight if you were to meet a bus coming the other way.
When we passed someone parked on the double yellows on the other side of the road, thus creating a single lane bit, and went into the newsagent despite there being plenty of spaces on the 'correct' side of the road within about 10 yards.
Lazy bastard.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2018 15:54:12 GMT
The asshat Peugeot driver was parked in the same place yesterday. Is there a way of reporting stuff like this without going the whole hog and phoning the fuzz?
If the Pug isn't there, there's usually a low rent Jag XF in white with shirt button wheels (those small ones on button down collars) there instead.
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Post by scouse on May 9, 2018 10:42:05 GMT
'parked'  |
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Post by Tim on May 9, 2018 10:55:52 GMT
The asshat Peugeot driver was parked in the same place yesterday. Is there a way of reporting stuff like this without going the whole hog and phoning the fuzz? If the Pug isn't there, there's usually a low rent Jag XF in white with shirt button wheels (those small ones on button down collars) there instead. Traffic Warden? |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2018 11:08:58 GMT
I had a quick search and it varies. If the car is parked dangerously then you contact the police, if it's just nuisance parking or on double yellow lines then you tell the council. I guess the latter are in control of the traffic wardens?
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2018 11:23:32 GMT
Please tell me that yellow thing on the windscreen is a ticket...
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Post by scouse on May 9, 2018 15:15:18 GMT
Please tell me that yellow thing on the windscreen is a ticket... Fortunately so. When I got to work earlier, there was another car parked to the drivers side of that one. Very rare that a council warden is on that part of the car park. |
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Post by Roadsterstu on May 21, 2018 9:40:28 GMT
I had a quick search and it varies. If the car is parked dangerously then you contact the police, if it's just nuisance parking or on double yellow lines then you tell the council. I guess the latter are in control of the traffic wardens? Yes, I think that is the case in most, if not all police areas. Council wardens cover yellow lines and waiting restrictions, drop kerbs and car parks. Police deal with obstruction and dangerous position offences. Parking enforcement is a bit of a farce, to be honest. |
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Post by alf on May 29, 2018 15:03:54 GMT
Why TF would you not just get in to the edge of the road if you are going to abandon your car like that? Do these cretins think staying well away from the yellow lines means no fines? Or that people will look and think this car is actually driving because its in the road?
FFS!
No doubt in modern Britain you'd get a litany of "I was only" and "it was just for" and so on, delivered aggressively, if you questioned this. Because obviously rules are for other people...
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 29, 2018 15:24:58 GMT
Why TF would you not just get in to the edge of the road if you are going to abandon your car like that? Do these cretins think staying well away from the yellow lines means no fines? Or that people will look and think this car is actually driving because its in the road? It'll be the same cretins who think that by parking on the pavement or the verge, and not on the carriageway, that the double yellow lines don't apply to them either. |
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Post by scouse on Jun 12, 2018 15:18:01 GMT
 Fucking cockwomble. Actually they can't take all the blame as that's where WE left their car after they'd parked right against our access gate - the stupid arse had left the car unlocked, so one of the women who shares our car park got in and slipped the handbrake and me and the guy who owns the carpet shop pushed it back ten yards so we could get out. Apparently she didn't even notice when she returned to the car  |
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