They're at it again - the £120 parking ticket!
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Doing session work around Soho, long hours. Poland St car park - very unforgiving, £65 per day 
Hotel with free parking in Camden - weeks tube pass and get to drive round at night!
Not sure I'd like to visit chums with £120 threat - that's a decent bottle of grape.
...or a street in Oldham.
Hotel with free parking in Camden - weeks tube pass and get to drive round at night!
Not sure I'd like to visit chums with £120 threat - that's a decent bottle of grape.
...or a street in Oldham.
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remind me what the reasons are for *ever* going to London again?
Carzee - did you not say this elsewhere...
"I drove from Basingstoke to London on Saturday made up as Frankenstein's Monster - if you want funny looks, it's a highly recommended method"
Oh, and the fact that London is officially the coolest town in the UK... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2175722.stm
quote:That was a different CarZee - have you any idea how many of us there are now ?quote:Carzee - did you not say this elsewhere...
remind me what the reasons are for *ever* going to London again?
"I drove from Basingstoke to London on Saturday made up as Frankenstein's Monster - if you want funny looks, it's a highly recommended method"
Actually, yes it was me, but to be pedantic, where I went was outside of the (upcoming) charging zone and the zone affected by this pronouncement. And there was private off-street parking. A couple of the many criteria to be satisfied before I'll go to London. And rest assured, I need not press home to my friends the need to move out of London - they're well aware..
There's an old saying: "Tired of London - Tired of Life." - That's bollocks. However, paraphrase it to "Tired of London - Tired of assholes and thieving muppets" and it suddenly rings true.
I think a high proportion of London people live there because they don't know any better. I work there a lot and cannot understand anyone wanting to live there. Ok it's a vibrant, lively attractive looking city, but the traffic, the tube, rude and dissinterested people, terrible tasting water etc etc
I get an amazing sense of weight lifting off my mood when I return to the open clear roads of the Peak District.
When I look at peoples faces on the tube I can never ever ever ever ever see anyone smiling. Not even the tourists.
Some Londoners quote fantastic nightlife as a plus point but it's nearly impossible to get a beer in a normal pub after 11:00pm. Try Manchester, Liverpool or Glasgow it's a completely different story.
No offence meant to Londoners, but I just don't understand the attraction. Possibly pay is twice as high, but it's 3 times as expensive to buy a house.
Why live there - please tell me
I get an amazing sense of weight lifting off my mood when I return to the open clear roads of the Peak District.
When I look at peoples faces on the tube I can never ever ever ever ever see anyone smiling. Not even the tourists.
Some Londoners quote fantastic nightlife as a plus point but it's nearly impossible to get a beer in a normal pub after 11:00pm. Try Manchester, Liverpool or Glasgow it's a completely different story.
No offence meant to Londoners, but I just don't understand the attraction. Possibly pay is twice as high, but it's 3 times as expensive to buy a house.
Why live there - please tell me
It's true, the pace of life tends to seem alot slower after London. I live in Brighton and work in London, so I get to chill at the weekend and get stuck with smelly idiots with personal hygiene problems during the week.
But, after spending a few weeks out of London, it becomes clear that there's no need to live that fast, or race towards that heart attack. Maybe it's time to chill out and relax a bit.
If you leave London for a few days you just don't get chance to relax the way you need to. Of course you can take it too far and visit somewhere like Blackburn - cue the 18th century effects with witchburning, morris dancing etc.
But, after spending a few weeks out of London, it becomes clear that there's no need to live that fast, or race towards that heart attack. Maybe it's time to chill out and relax a bit.
If you leave London for a few days you just don't get chance to relax the way you need to. Of course you can take it too far and visit somewhere like Blackburn - cue the 18th century effects with witchburning, morris dancing etc.
I live in London because I work there, the money is good and all my mates are round and about here. In a couple of years I full intend to move to a large in house in Hertfordshire and commute, but I'm having fun here just now.
If I lived back in Edinburgh doing the same job, I couldn't consider getting the Cerbie for at least 6 years, whereas here I can consider it before Christmas.
If I lived back in Edinburgh doing the same job, I couldn't consider getting the Cerbie for at least 6 years, whereas here I can consider it before Christmas.
Lived in Londinium for 4 years. Apologies for being up front here but it's a complete shithole. I couldn't wait to get out. Now living it up in the Cotswolds. Great place to live, best weather in the UK and Glos police don't have any LASER units. Oh, and there's only 1 gatso that I've seen after living here 3 years...! (Did get flashed on it though - doh...!)
Gloucester has got SPECS, but that's a cack hole anyways, so no losers there...
I say big up Haighton Green
Gloucester has got SPECS, but that's a cack hole anyways, so no losers there...
I say big up Haighton Green
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they just said on the radio that london boroughs currently make £100 million with parking fines already before this extra hike
where does it all go.....
Billb, take a look opposite The Tower of London at Red Ken's brand new palace...designed by Sir Norman Foster, it has a certain stark beauty but unfortunately looks as out of place as its occupant would at a Tory Cheese & Wine party.
Anyway, it would probably be of no interest as I don't think the Tories go in for pushing people down stairs at their parties.
Anyhow, Red Ken's new palace hideaway cost about 100 million quid.
I amagine he will quickly fill the place up with misfit wierdo numpties
who will be able to control the 186 new cameras being deployed to control the total exclusion zone 
...oh sorry, I mean the Inner London road toll district! 
Numptie FCUKWITS!
Apologies for the outburst, I had the misfortune to live in the Borough of Lewisham for a couple of years...should be called Toiletsham
The place was and probably still is run by a bunch of loonies
who only know how to waste your money..anyone for a trip to the "dog phsychology unit". Yes, it really did exist...not an "urban myth"! 
The government know that they have a captive audience because there is still no better alternative to the car. The train is cramped, smelly and expensive. They will just keep putting up prices and not improving the public transport until we vote for another party who will actually stick to their promises.
Ahh, that rules out any of our political parties then!!!
Ahh, that rules out any of our political parties then!!!
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