You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

[MissFM]

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

Must admit I had never heard it before, but I just put it down to me being an old fart and out of touch.

no no GT!

[bizzybob]

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

To the OP (GO84): I am of the same vintage as PlanB and you may be aware that in our day we had many more civil liberties (PlanB has touched on this) for which previous generations have fought and died. We also fought in our day (the 60s and 70s) by different means to keep and expand them. It is a fact that these liberties (for which people died) have been eroded by successive governments more recently and that is maybe where some of us find your approach hard and unsympathetic. Gravytrain has offered a very creative step towards a solution to the bailiff issue - there are others that would take many more pages. In the meantime - to all - respect:yo:

Very true, those remaining liberties are under serious threat, especially with the slow creep to Corpus Juris, foisted on us by the EU.

[MissFM]

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

To the OP (GO84): I am of the same vintage as PlanB and you may be aware that in our day we had many more civil liberties (PlanB has touched on this) for which previous generations have fought and died. We also fought in our day (the 60s and 70s) by different means to keep and expand them. It is a fact that these liberties (for which people died) have been eroded by successive governments more recently and that is maybe where some of us find your approach hard and unsympathetic. Gravytrain has offered a very creative step towards a solution to the bailiff issue - there are others that would take many more pages. In the meantime - to all - respect:yo:

[bizzybob]

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

bb I don't think "Pikey" refers to Romanies or any other ethnic group - it's just another word for scally IMVHO and exp. - but maybe I'm wrong - hard to believe, I know, but it has happened.

Around here and in other areas also, it's understood meaning is a Gypsy or a traveller, who may or may not be dodgy, there are many different meanings for words within regions and dialects. so doubtless Op didn't mean anything bad by it, either way it doesn't bother me and he will never see this post so it matters not at all. Someone from the West Midlands may refer to something "Bostin" as good, in the Potteries, the admonition " 'ers reight bosted" means she is an ugly woman

[gravytrain]

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

bb I don't think "Pikey" refers to Romanies or any other ethnic group - it's just another word for scally IMVHO and exp. - but maybe I'm wrong - hard to believe, I know, but it has happened.

Must admit I had never heard it before, but I just put it down to me being an old fart and out of touch.

[MissFM]

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

bb I don't think "Pikey" refers to Romanies or any other ethnic group - it's just another word for scally IMVHO and exp. - but maybe I'm wrong - hard to believe, I know, but it has happened.

[bizzybob]

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

The risk of course is that you may been to trivialize a possibly serious situation with childishly inappropriate remarks.

Which may be hilarious for the bystanders but not so for the person who has come for the help.

Just a note of caution

This thread if my memory is intact without going back to the original post, was the Op was having a pop at some guy who had gone on YouTube about avoiding paying stuff, and thwarting bailiffs with Contract Law, amongst other ploys Op took umbrage to CC and myself so put us on ignore, no loss there, but in this thread I don't think there was any danger of getting in the way of advising a desperate newbie in dire straits. But yes we must be mindful of what the thread is about and make sure that there is positive advice in the post. I have Romany relatives and don't care what someone calls me,not even the P word but the tone was extremely disparaging about someone who for whatever reason decided to share his experience. Perhaps the curse of a thousand fleas is appropriate for the injudicious use of the "P" word.

[gravytrain]

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

Well, Inca, Lower Gastro-Intestinal Ventriloquism is talking out of one's backside and the bodily orifice refers to someone who is an R Sole. Whereas some people love playing around with figures, I love playing around with words, which is something it looks like CC and I have in common. If I can make something rude sound not so rude and inject some humour into it at the same time, so be it. Laughter is the best medicine and it can help someone, who is feeling down or facing what seems like an impossible situation, feel better in and better about themselves.

The risk of course is that you may be seen to trivialize a possibly serious situation with childishly inappropriate remarks.

Which may be hilarious for the bystanders but not so for the person who has come for the help.

Just a note of caution

[The Cosmic Connection]

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

U mean an ar sehole talking sh it BB?

Well, Inca, Lower Gastro-Intestinal Ventriloquism is talking out of one's backside and the bodily orifice refers to someone who is an R Sole. Whereas some people love playing around with figures, I love playing around with words, which is something it looks like CC and I have in common. If I can make something rude sound not so rude and inject some humour into it at the same time, so be it. Laughter is the best medicine and it can help someone, who is feeling down or facing what seems like an impossible situation, feel better in and better about themselves.

[jon1965]

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

When one encounters such people, it may also make one wonder which village is missing its idiot.

There is some place near Manchester missing one I think Cloggy...last seen by me a while ago dancing round on the top of a fruit machine!

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

Well, Leclerc, I have yet to see references to someone engaging in Lower Gastro-Intestinal Ventriloquism and likening a bailiff to "a bodily orifice at the lower most point of the human alimentary canal" get caught by the swear filter. :biggrin1:

U mean an ar sehole talking sh it BB?

[The Cosmic Connection]

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

I was aware of the ignore button from someone else and I did use it simply because the person concerned was continuing for a lengthy period of time to jibe at things from a previous employment long since over. The consequence of that issue is that when a person who you have on ignore wants help and you might be invaluable on that part, you simply never get to respond to them because you are unaware of their issue.

To Go: there is a swear filter on the forum, to attempt to get around that swear filter is a breach of site rules. There are other words to say what you want to say such as idiot, clown, wally etc etc although that might be a breach of the site rules. I have tried a few times over the last few months to stretch an insult to see whether or not it breaches site rules. It didn't but I am sure there will be more threads where I can test that theory out

Well, Leclerc, I have yet to see references to someone engaging in Lower Gastro-Intestinal Ventriloquism and likening a bailiff to "a bodily orifice at the lower most point of the human alimentary canal" get caught by the swear filter. :biggrin1:

[gravytrain]

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

Well just off the top of my head, attachment of earnings , deduction from benefits, unpaid work initiatives, or even in cases of hardship writing debts off.

why on earth should the poorest in the community fund an entire industry which only exists because of that poverty.

[GO84]

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

I understand how you feel but I'm asking if there's a viable alternative?

[gravytrain]

Re: You can't ignore parking fines, can you?

No. Is the answer too complicated for you to explain briefly?

Well firstly have a look at this story, then ask yourself where the £100m came from.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-families.html

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this £100m would have been better spent paying off some of the debt rather than lining the pockets of these vultures.

Then we can start looking at more effective collection methods,