OT:RIP Jessops

[Mark]

I hope not. I don't want cat hair in my camera.

[Huge]

Generally speaking, I seem to get cads for nothing.

[Huge]

After all, you wouldn't want to miss the opportunity to punch him again.

[Steve Firth]

Because between us and Napoli is a mucking big chain of mountains. Crossing them by car is a relatively short journey. Doing it by train would take a full day because of the need to go to Rome first, the long way round, then change to a different line for Napoli. I think there's also another change in Napoli.

There's also my loathing for rail travel.

[Steve Firth]

Yeah that Gracie Fields, she was frightening.

[Roland Perry]

In message , at 11:08:47 on Fri, 11 Jan 2013, Mike Barnes remarked:

Focus on the positive.

[michael adams]

Would you care to enlarge on that remark ?

michael adams

...

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

I find it half and half. The final fiddling and finishing takes 50% to get it right. Looking back on every major job, it's amazing how quickly the big stuff that makes the most difference goes into place and this somehow fools many people into thinking that the rest of the job should go at the same rate - not so, I'm afraid.

[Huge]

Only if you fail to reciprocate.

[bert]

In message , Jethro_uk writes

Out of the frying pan....

[bert]

In message , Tim Streater writes

The Vat is collected in the country in which they are based - Luxembourg for example.

[bert]

Amazon's European operation is based there. But as with Starbucks profits can then be moved to more favourable CT locations. Nothing new in this. In the 50s/60s when movement of capital was controlled international companies could get round the restrictions by transfer of products at reduced value

[Adam Funk]

Then there's the 90/10 rule for optimists.

[Adam Funk]

That's why the cat had his own personal spot.

[bert]

In message , Terry Fields writes

Sounds just like ours. We had a free long stay car park on the edge of the town centre, used mostly by in town workers. Council decided to resurface it and introduce rather steep Pay and Display charges. Result

- virtually empty car park and crowded side streets. Pig headed council won't back down and have not even recouped the expenditure after 2 years.

Town centre is dead. No shops so no people. No people so no shops. People put off by high car parking charges.

Edge of town retail park. Free parking Lots of people so lots of shops.

I did read or hear somewhere recently that in theory councils are only allowed to charge enough calculated to operate the charging system and maintain the car parks, and to use it as a cash cow was illegal, but that seems to be widely ignored.

[bert]

Also the snapshot camera has largely been replaced by the mobile phone. Digital has killed film and photo printing.

[Roland Perry]

In message , at 13:58:09 on Fri, 11 Jan

2013, bert remarked:

I don't think that's the case, but I think the 'profits' from

*on*-street parking charges are supposed to only be used for subsidising *off*-street parking.

[Mark]

That was a typo. Of course it should be "cars".

[bert]

In message , michael adams writes

Stop!!

[Huge]

That was a joke. I realised it should be "cars".