IKEA to charge £1 parking fee at its new Edmonton store

[Mary Fisher]

Nice one!

Mary

[T i m]

One could be a sub-set of the other?

What is instructive is watching from behind how

Indeed .. I observe similar nearly every day. I now hold back behind them far enough so that when I see there is *loads* of time to turn (as you say behind the tail of the passing vehicle) I do so, leaving them at the junction .. (not gentlemanly but we all have limits ..) ;-)

I am inclined to think that their

Or attitude / experience. A co worker pulled into the path of an incoming car causing an accident. When asked 'what happened' she said (and this is the truth ..)

"I pulled up on the main road and waited for a gap to turn right. I saw one and put the car in gar and pulled away .. by the time I looked up ..... " !!!! She actually looked at the gearstick to engage gear and actually pulled away whislt still looking down! The point being she didn't have a clue how sad this all sounded to the rest of us!

This ties in with another observation I have made over

Indeed .. and why I let faster drivers (often in better faster cars than my own) go' .. unless they try to undertake to gain 1 car length on a busy motorway then I smash them into the Armco (only joking Mary) ;-)

And endless government propaganda in the form of -

Nope, a more difficult test plus re-tests for anyone caught driving badly .. ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

[T i m]

Yeah, I agree .. wot? I always spell check emails because it has a spellin chekker but no so wiv FreeAgent (I do ask "Little Mrs Dictionary' if she's here .. good spelling comes from reading a book every 3 days (unlike me, only read 3 books in my life) ..and 'seeing' words .. my brain doesn't work that way.

However I *can* strip something down into 200 components and re-build it (with nothing missing / left over) without a diagram .. and 'she' can't do that!

All the best ..

Ti m

[Mary Fisher]

Well, I guess she could but a) why should she when she has you and b) it depends what the 'something' is!

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

What's the Armco?

Sounds useful ...

I agree. But the Civil Liberties folk wouldn't. Nor would those drivers who think that driving faster than the speed limit isn't driving badly. They know better .

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

What makes you think any of them does?

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

You think.

20%. You've measured?

That sounds more like boy racers ...

Seem to. Yes, I agree.

(although some may question if they had their brains on

Some question whether anyone who doesn't agree with them has any brains ...

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

I think some drivers - mimsies or not - are nervous, some are inconsiderate, some are arrogant ... as in life outside the car. But surely it's up to us to drive with anitipaction of such 'failings' so that we can take appropriate action when we see it?

Nor me. I'm not going to be dragged down to a baser level.

Spouse shouts, "PRAT". I've asked if he feels better after that but he doesn't so it's a waste of energy. It's like shouting at the radio. He does that too come to think of it.

H also says things like, "I thought both brake lights were supposed to work." and "There are exhaust limits." - to me about other cars. I nod, sometimes I've asked if I should get out and tell the driver but he always declines the offer ...

Are you saying that retired folk are mimsers? Or that mimsers are retired folk?

Perhaps they don't want to go to garden centres when it's quiet, perhaps they like a bit of excitement in their poor lives ...

Hmm. I wonder how you'll be when you retire - if you're lucky to live as long as that ... :-)

Perhaps more than that but in my limited experience it's very few.

My bugbear about roundabouts is the lack of or inaccurate signalling.

And lots of people disgree with me.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

Unless you build your own and re-use equipment.

Is diy just about cost effectiveness then

There are still quite a lot of people who do them. Many of us grow our own food before we prepare it. To me, preparing meat often means butchering it. Tomorrow I'll be skinning and paunching a hare - and then processing the skin. And a brace of pheasant. I admit that I skin rather than pluck birds because it's easier and I'm intrinsically idle. But idleness doesn't mean that I buy prep-prepared food, I wwant to know where it's come from. I'm a control freak.

Yes, that's a very sad part of life. There's so much packed under that bonnet and it all seems to need specialised tools ...

Washing machines, boilers, dishwashers and the like are simple creatures. But I wouldn't like to make one myself ...

And when the finished result is what YOU want rather than what some designer says you want.

Mary

[Roger]

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Of course it isn't (necessarily) bad driving. It is just illegal. The main reason (as Mary should remember) that we have a 70 mph national speed limit is because a non driving woman with antediluvian socialist principles was over impressed by those silly adverts from VW about the workers being able to drive their peoples cars flat out all day. There is nothing magical about 70 mph other than it being flat out for a

1200cc Beetle. If the peasants couldn't drive faster than 70 why should the capitalists and their lackeys be allowed to do so?

If driving over 70 really was intrinsically dangerous the police should be prevented from doing so as well.

[Mary Fisher]

Q.E.D.

[T i m]

What *is* Armco (you did say you were a driver didn't you Mary?) .. it's the metal barrier material you see down the mirrle of motorways and protecting bridges etc .. 'crash barriers' to some ..;-)

Till some of them get killed by a drunk driver ..

Nor would those drivers who

Blessem ..

T i m

[T i m]

That was my point .. none .. ?

T i m

[T i m]

Yep ..

Yep ..

The second one yes .. could be ..

You dancing ?

They do, how do you know, have you measured them?

All the best ..

T i m

[T i m]

They could get treatment ..

some are inconsiderate,

They could get dealt with ..

As above .. I believe in the 'what goes round' thing. One day they with be wearing a lamp post ..

as in life outside the car.

True .. except some of this behaviour onlt appears when they are in a car?

But surely it's up to us

Indeed, however, why should we apply extra effort to deal with their failings?

That's cos we are both old Mary .. ;-)

Oh I do .. it's sorta balances it out!

It's like shouting at the radio. He does

And?

I've told many a driver re defective lights and most are pleased I have.

Neither, I am saying that Mimsers come from the entire (driving) age range but are probably over represented in the older age range.

Blessum ..

If I ever feel the need to visit a garden centre I will administer the injection myself. If I felt I was unable to 'keep up' on the highway I would stop driving ..

I suggest that in many cases the need to signal is less of an issue if the road positioning is good? Too many folk use their 'indicator' as a 'I'm pushing in' or have the right to cut across in front of you signal. Same as the "I can park in the middle of the road outside the paper shop and cause an obstruction because I have put my hazard flashers on" brigade.

No? ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

[MM]

Be like me and aim to get a Morris Minor Estate asap! Now them I can repair! And apparently most of the spares are still available. I spoke to my tyre place and they said they could get tyres to fit without too much hassle. Plus, no road tax. Can't be bad. When I was 18 we (the whole family of five) drove a Morris Minor 1000 (non-estate) from Kent to Killarney, then went on day trips around Ireland before driving all the way back. There is absolutely no reason why old cars cannot provide faithful service. Just don't thrash them for hours on the motorway.

MM

[MM]

You know, I am convinced, utterly convinced, that IKEA and other flatpack suppliers employ a particularly bolshie set of draughtsmen who draw up the assembly plans. These are consistently abysmal, designed to be as obfuscatory as possible. Why, for example, can't IKEA show a short video clip of assembly steps for all of their products? Many products stay in their range for 20 years.

MM

[MM]

IKEA would probably charge me a quid for the pleasure...

MM

[MM]

Sounds like you could be a useful adjunct in human cloning departments!

When I was dismantling Ford prototypes in the research department in Cologne in the 1970s, we had to lay out all parts, which were labelled, on long trestle tables, placing them in their approximate positions as they would appear on the vehicle, Thus the four wheels would be at the corners, brake drums (not many disks then) next, drive shafts/back axle/prop shaft, diff, gearbox, brake pipes, hoses, front suspension, and so on, until practically the whole vehicle was in bits.

MM

[MM]

Even if any of this were true, IKEA could still refund the £1 to bona fide customers.

MM