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Date: May 30, 2008 23:24
>> just wish smoking in streets could be banned and that smoking
>> immediately outside doorways - especially hospital doors - would be
>> enforced.
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> Perhaps we should be made to wear yellow armbands as well...
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Nice, that would be a match for your yellow fingers and teeth then....
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Author: Arfa DailyArfa Daily Date: May 31, 2008 00:52
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>>> "Arfa Daily" ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>>>> Yes, but there's rules and rules, and it's the unbending following to
>>>> ridiculous degrees, that makes the persons enforcing them *jobsworths*,
>>>> and not just people trying to follow a rulebook sensibly. It's the same
>>>> as coppers versus traffic wardens. If you stopped outside a shop on
>>>> double yellows to let your elderly mother out to pick up a bottle of
>>>> milk,
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Author: Bob EagerBob Eager Date: May 31, 2008 01:04
On Fri, 30 May 2008 22:52:28 UTC, "Arfa Daily" ntlworld.com>
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>>> tickets on vehicles in a back street, that were queuing to get into a
>>> public car park, because the vehicles were considered to be 'stopped in a
>>> restricted zone' because of the double yellas...
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Author: The Medway HandymanThe Medway Handyman Date: May 31, 2008 01:38
Bob Eager wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2008 22:52:28 UTC, "Arfa Daily"
> ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>> tickets on vehicles in a back street, that were queuing to get
>>>> into a public car park, because the vehicles were considered to be
>>>> 'stopped in a restricted zone' because of the double yellas on the
>>>> street.
>>>
>>> Yes. The yellow lines are there for a purpose.
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>>>> There have also been numerous examples of cars being ticketed,
>>>> because a bumper was over the parking bay delimiter line, even
>>>> though otherwise perfectly legally parked and paid for.
>>>
>>> Um ...
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>>>> Now if you don't consider that is petty jobsworth-ing, I would
>>>> venture to suggest that it is you, not I, who is "silly" ...
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Author: The Medway HandymanThe Medway Handyman Date: May 31, 2008 01:40
Mark wrote:
>>> just wish smoking in streets could be banned and that smoking
>>> immediately outside doorways - especially hospital doors - would be
>>> enforced.
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>> Perhaps we should be made to wear yellow armbands as well...
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> Nice, that would be a match for your yellow fingers and teeth then....
Mine are brown....
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Author: The Medway HandymanThe Medway Handyman Date: May 31, 2008 01:40
dennis@home wrote:
>> Perhaps we should be made to wear yellow armbands as well...
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> No need you wear yellow fingers.
What colour does glue stain your fingers Dennis?
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Author: Grimly CurmudgeonGrimly Curmudgeon Date: May 31, 2008 01:52
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Arfa Daily"
ntlworld.com> saying something like:
>Ok you win. It is impossible to make a valid argument against foolish people
>like you, who have to endlessly challenge every point with interleaved
>moronic retorts that they think make them look clever.
Ah, you've met Mary, then?
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a
"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House
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Author: Andy ChampAndy Champ Date: May 31, 2008 12:06
Mary Fisher wrote:
> I don't think it's a stupid law.
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> We can now - in fact we MUST - display a no smoking sign in our canvas
> covered stall. That's a joy to us and many other traders because it means
> that we have the law behind our request to smokers that they don't pollute
> our atmosphere.
Mary,
Two points.
Firstly, I don't know your stall. If it's open on one side, as most of
those things are, I suspect it isn't illegal to smoke in it any more
than it's illegal to smoke in one of those pub shelters.
That aside, I think it's been overdone. Why the requirement for a no
smoking sign, and not a no anything else sign? Should we have signs
listing every law that applies everywhere? How good would Hyde Park
look if every tree had a sign on it stating that it was subject to a
TPO, and that it was illegal to harm it?
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Author: Mary FisherMary Fisher Date: May 31, 2008 12:05
"Arfa Daily" ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> You are right that I have not hung around this group for long, but I have
> contributed to other Usenet groups for more years than I care to remember,
> so please do not imply that you are in some way a more superior Usenet
> user than I, because you have been on this group for long time.
My point - a merry quip - was that you made certain suggestions about my
driving history which you wouldn't have done had you contributed to this ng
for some time. :-)
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