Jerra
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but in a house people aren't usually walking past so close and houses don't have the novelty value
I might agree with the novelty value but I can think of many houses which open direct on to the pavement and a moored boat has at least the distance from the water to the mooring pins to deflect walkers.
However that doesn't alter the attitude of "please don't blame them" it explains why they might want to do it but it doesn't explain why anybody should accept them doing it.
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please don't blame those who naturally want to come and have a look.
I find this a strange attitude, would you feel the same about windows in a house?
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Why do so many people want cats? They are ruining my garden and birds are a rarity in my area. No I am not killing the cats but I would like to see the numbers reduced
I can't say that the birds being a rarity is necessarily due to cats. Almost very house near me has a cat and I still regularly get 10 -15 species of bird a day adding up to around 20 species per week.
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will it end up as another court case. ?
Probably, many posts over many threads seem to not be prepared to accept CRT interpretation of the rules so inevitably CRT will have to spend large amounts of limited income in court.
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I have no idea about work on the canals! However I have seen teaching ruin the health of a number of colleagues if it is so bad definitely look at getting out.
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Also, judging by the introduction of RF enabled cards specifically designed for transactions under £20 I suspect your views on card payments put you in a very small minority.
Cards are easier, just as honest, and more convenient.
For me.
I would agree on the minority position, harking back to my retail experience latterly something like 2/3 was on plastic of one sort or another.
I also agree cards are easier, honest and convenient.
EDIT: Yes banks (well some) do charge for taking in cash they also charge for giving out change if you are a business.
The % taken from a card transaction was (admittedly a few years ago) in the region of 30 - 50 pence for a debit card and (in our case) 1.5% for credit cards. These vary according to what "deal" you can do with the bank. Ours was negotiated through a nation wide professional society.
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I can never understand why a pub should. If you can't manage to have the price of a pie and a pint in your pocket when you go into a pub, don't go into a pub. Credit cards are fine for major purchases such as furniture or white goods, but people who try to use them in a pub really are either disorganised or taking the piss. Perhaps you would like your local confectioner to take a credit card for a 60p Mars Bar, or a market trader to sell you two pounds of potatoes on Visa?
Cash is always easiest for smaller transactions, and traders like it too. I would never insult a publican, and demean myself, by offering to pay for a round with my Mastercard.
Speaking as a retired partner in 2 retail businesses we took both credit and debit cards for transactions as low as a few pounds. Nobody ever asked to pay less than a few pounds by card.
A meal and a couple of drinks even for one person is a large enough transaction why do feel it is taking the piss?
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That report did say that it was **in** the lock
I interpreted (having seen the photo) "in the bottom of the lock" as meaning in the area below the lock as opposed to in the lock itself.
Using bottom of lock loosely to mean b.elow - bottom as opposed to top in relation to the slope of the land
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Fines go into the General Exchequer, but the victim surcharge goes into a ring-fenced fund that makes grants to organisations that directly support the victims of crime.
So basically it is a second fine?
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More like someone who stayed continually in the same hotel 6 months of the year, but then didn't for the rest. If they were completing a definition of "home" when in the hotel, I would expect them to declare the hotel, but not call it "home" at other times.
Not that I think this has moved the argument forward!
I so to me the same situation on water. When you are paying for the mooring it can be a home mooring but when you aren't you can't claim it as a home mooring.
Probably still no further forward!
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If somebody occasionally stays in a hotel (always the same hotel) but spends the rest of the year touring in a caravan could they justifiably claim the hotel as home?
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for making it difficult for an expectant father.
Should that not be expectant Grandfather? The OP says his daughter was due to give birth.
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Its not about stature, its about not going along with the view that coal boats are doing the same job as working boatmen of 100 yrs ago.
I am struggling to understand why you are so "desperate" (not the best word but I can't off hand think of a better) to try to separate one type of working boatman from another.
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Never having had the pleasure of boating when it is winter the current forecast of hard frost started me thinking.
I know people do get frozen in and I started to wonder about the whys and wherefores. I can see that it certainly won't do the blacking any good but what other reasons are there?
Damage to the anodes? Damage to the prop? Locks etc not working properly due to ice? The boat not being able to break the ice (how think would it have to be)? Damage to other boats due to skidding pieces of ice has been suggested to me.
Choice - its preferable to be inside and warm?
What are the reasons/problems I know it has probably been "done to death before" and I am probably showing my ignorance but I would like to know.
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Which one?
This one i.e. the thread in which i am posting.
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Its the worst I have had tonight. Usually only one or so a day. Tonight almost every thread I visit gets the error but if I click the back button and try again is generally works.
On every thread except one. That thread has been really difficult taking about 5 attempts!
Which thread was it?
This one!!!
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There is always at least one, and what I'm saying is the fact that people lie about buying the boat for themselves when they're buying it cheap for the broker.
I hope I am not alone in this but this doesn't seem to me to be likely. OK I have no experience of selling boats but taking what is posted above and thinking in terms of cars surely a seller expects more from a private buyer than he would from a broker. Taking cars as an example the amount offered for part exchange is normally lower than you would expect to get selling privately (for the similar reasons to those mentioned above about brokers).
Personally I would think a broker would have to be naive to expect to be able to buy a boat privately for less than he could saying he was a broker.
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I agree with this. CART are a supposed charity and to me owning marinas just doesnt seem right.
Tim
An interesting view point where does that leave the National Trust who let out many of their houses and farms?
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sweariness removed
:banghead:Do please enlighten me, what is taking theabout telling you the best place to post?
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I feel Lady Muck is defending the business and giving them praises for bad work, probably on some commission from the cretin that did it.
To me you seem over keen on throwing accusations at anybody who disagrees with you. That is the second poster you have accused of having links to the business with no evidence what ever.
I am not surprised people distance themselves from your posts if the evidence of your groundless accusations is anything to go by.
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Yes from the side of the bloody cut and by correspondence in yer bestest handwriting,anything else I can help you with?
Thank you I just wondered if it was a modern phenomenon.
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Or keep it as a pelt.
I was rather assuming that at that point it would be dead.
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A request for information!
I wasn't reading the forum in the days of BW. Was there as much discussion, complaint, upset etc. about how they were constituted and ran things.
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Interesting - not too expensive
2) Having caught the little blighter can I release it elsewhere?
As I understand things no you can't. It is a species alien to the UK and so illegal to release (even if it was wild before you caught it).
So you have two choices having caught it - humanely kill it or keep it as a pet
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window lickers, how to reduce the impact
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I haven't said or implied you shouldn't please don't put words into my mouth.
I haven't said or implied you haven't please don't put words into my mouth.
There you go again misinterpreting what I have said. I haven't said my opposition will do any thing. If you take a moment to rad what I said and consider it you will see all I have said is "I find this a strange attitude" and "it doesn't explain why anybody should accept them doing it."
I find it strange because most if not all people I associate with aren't keen on people being nosey and I don't feel saying it is human nature explains why anyone should accept it.
If you actually look back at what I posted you will see I did nothing more than post my opinion unlike you I put no words in anyone's mouth and I didn't tell anyone what they should do.