What to stick on his windscreen which wont come off easily? [OT]

It's fraud if the money is not used to do the repair. True financial loss does not exist until the owner sells.

Quite correct a dialasis machine could be some what essential, Apologies.

I *broad* terms what you *need* is clean water, something to eat and shelter. Everything else is a bounus that makes life easier or more comfortable.

Essentially, yes.

Where? There is a major chain supermarket called Tesco is that the one you mean?

You answer you own question. Shopping is a social activity. You only have to look at the big malls, crammed full of shops but very few of them actually selling anything useful. It's all brand, image and marketing puff. Dreadful places.

Which is the only point in time that the true value of the damage can be assessed. So that is correct time to ask for compenstation of the correct amount.

I also don't care. You're using a computer to access the internet. Carve it out of wood, did you? Are BT providing oil-free lines to link it to the phone network? Are your ISP's servers running on electricity you know to be generated by wholly environmentally friendly means?

You've already claimed to own a car.

Richard

Conor wrote on Sat, 21 May 2005 14:32:37 +0100:

Do you walk a mile to the shop, then carry your shopping home again?

Oh, I have social problems alright. Society has become a load of crap, and I never thought for one second I'd be saying that before pension age ;)

Having worked in the military side of the aerospace industry for well over 25 years, I can state that there is no such thing as common sense. In life, just as in the aerospace industry, you need an authority to do something, not just use common sense. One man's common sense is some one else's accident.

Dave

Having read your posts in many groups, I really hate to admit it, but I think you're right.

Then take a look at the link above and see what definition 3 says :-)

Dave

What a good point. Thanks, Dave,

Mary

A what ? There is a rather large and expensive piece of equipment called a Dialysis Machine, is that the one you mean ?

And air to breathe.

But not necessarily.

I'm on your side! Might be tough for you but there it is.

Mary

Pedantically, yes :-)

That aside, I once observed a car pass several open use, empty spaces that were much very closer to the supermarket door than the one remaining disabled space that was available at the farthest point from the door. It would appear that they have the mentality of 'I have a blue badge and I am going to park in the blue badge area'. Many is the time that I forget I have my g/daughters in the car and I park as close as I can to the supermarket door, just as I always do, without going into a parent and child area.

Dave

Or indeed mothers with pre-school children on board.

You are wrong I will always try and park in a BB space for the simple reason I would not like to think that a person with a BB was taking up a space that I if I where able bodied could have used likewise when I see a car not showing BB in a BB space I am straight to the customer service desk .

So it wasn't because I had been deprived of my only form of leisure activities so the scrote down the road could buy more drugs, or the fact I no longer felt at all secure in any way shape or form in my home then? I suppose you wouldn't have minded having to choose between paint wrecked and very smelly carpet or no carpet either?

There's always somebody who tries to be a smart arse. However, the chain is called Tesco, but I was referring to it in the possesive form, which I believe to be Tescos, not Tesco's, as it is an impersonal, or whatever the linguistically correct description is.

Soem places think making it a social activity makes them more money, but while that works in places designed for it (Meadowhall, Bluewater, etc), there's no sign the average supermarket around here thinks of it in that way.

The value of the damage can vary over time. If a scratch is deep enough, it can lead to corrosion, cauing for a far higher repair bill, and rendering the car unusable till the repair is made. That deprives the owner of the use of the car, and costs associated, never mind the value of the car itself. A dent might lead to the same problems, should it cause the paint to flake. The structure of a panel might also be weakend by a dent, as it could result in flexing in a manner it wasn't designed for. This might not happen at all quickly, it might only show as a serious problem years afterwards, the same as the scratch > rot scenario.

You needed that, it nearly strengthened your very weak point! ;)

You also need the means to find, habitalise or maintain the shelter, and the means to attain the food. This requires "things". You then often need a way of making these things, which requires more things. And before you know it, your back to basics lifestyle is on a technological crusade, like it or not.