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  1. They aren't penalising the less well off they are trying to ensure they don't spend more than is necessary on admin. I am sure most businesses have customers who try not to pay or pay at the very last moment. By offering and early payment discount they are trying to reduce the administration of monthly payments and for the really bad payers the problems of teking one or two payments and then the payments stopping. I know it feels like penalising and I do pay some things monthly rather than in one go but it isn't penalising it is incentivising. JUst my opinion and probably not popular.
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  2. J Hartley's biggest worry about buying a boat is his internet connection. So, one might assume, he (and his mum) currently has super fast broadband and is a real power user who spends quite a bit of time on the web, hence would struggle with any connection with sub standard data rates. He's a man of the information age who needs a fast response time and he needs it NOW! Otherwise, as we know, there might just be one or two matters somewhat more important when buying a boat. Yet he hasn't been back in 3 days - he might as well have written to the forum! I'm not sure his need for information is as urgent as his post suggests.
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  4. Ooooo Stop rooting about on MY website - whatever you do DO NOT look under Equipment & Service and then click on "engines and gearboxes" - nothing to see there - move along !!!!
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  5. Interesting. I have always thought that fat came from eating food that was surplus to the body's immediate energy requirements. In other words, from eating more than was needed. Are you saying that fat is produced by photosynthesis? Or some other mechanism than simple eating? If not, then surely a life-style change involving less eating WOULD result in weight reduction. Being one of those lucky people who doesn't have to bother how much he eats, I am nonetheless aware that eating only what you need is not so easy. But it is doable, and I don't think it helps over-weight people to pretend that there is nothing that they can do about it. Nor does it help tax-payers, who have to fund the consequences of obesity. Personally, I am in favour of a massive sugar tax. Not to mention a high minimum price for alcohol sold in supermarkets (which I have to say will hit me hard!).
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  7. Run away. Just because it's cheap doesn't make it a good buy Leave it alone Don't buy it Richard Have I left any room for ambiguity?
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  8. Hey! how did you get hold of my drawer?.Phil
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  9. As a boater, pedestrian and cyclist I would suggest that the most effective way of slowing the cyclists down is by some means that does not require any enforcement. When upgrading the towpaths they should be made into gravel paths. This is a surface that is comfortable for walkers, wheelchairs with thicker tyres can use them without too much difficulty as can mobility scooters and mountain bikes would be able to use them and since they travel slower than road bikes they are less of a problem. What would have difficulty using them would be the general purpose road bikes since, with narrower tyres, they will sink into the gravel which will make their progress slower. There is no point in talking of any form of enforcement because there is no legislation to support it The worst possible idea for towpath upgrades is to use either tarmac or concrete since if you give the cyclist a firm surface they will ride faster (a bit like building a motorway and then being surprised that people travel faster than 30mph on it). Again this isn't in support of idiot cyclists, it is just seeing things as they are rather than some airy fairy notion of how they should be.
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  10. It is rather like mooring problems though - there are some hotspots, popular with pedestrians and cyclists, where there is an issue, but for much of the system there isn't a problem I'm also going to be site specific and say that I am much more comfortable taking Magpie the Elder on the K and A towpath, which is part of the national cycle network, than I am on the Peak Forest, which isn't I will add one further about both issues - why do people pretend that breaking the rules is okay? "Overstaying" may or may not be causing a problem at any given location, but if a sign asks you to move on after 24 hour, 5 days or two weeks why is there this collective "we don't have to and we're not going to"? Same for the cyclists who pelt down the towpath - you probably know you're being a nuisance, so why do it?
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  11. And you need a lister to get you there and back without breaking down!
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