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3 minutes ago, blackrose said:

 

They do this for the same reason that some people who use communal bins outside flats and apartments, put loads of empty cans and bottles into the general rubbish bins instead of the recycling bins just next to them. It's pure laziness and a lack of any sense of community. Some sections of this country unfortunately have fairly low levels of social cohesion compared to France, Germany or Scandinavia for example. Lots of selfish c@nts.

 

Lots of Brits came out to clap for the NHS during lockdown and it seemed like everyone was finding a new sense of community, but later when the weather got hot some of the same people went down to overcrowded beaches on the South coast flouting social distancing, so in reality they didn't give a crap about the NHS. 

Just to be completely boring, Dad was also a Policeman in Burscough area. I was born in Ormskirk and we lived in Burcough. I didnt know this until ‘after’ we had spent an extended time in Burcough, including Christmas in 2015-6. I was in Southport hospital for a time. Funny old world ain’t it?

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1 minute ago, Graham Davis said:

And I was wrong as they don't actually spell it with the "e":
https://penderyn.wales/
I'm obviously not paying enough attention to what's on the outside of the bottle!

I did think it was an exclusively Irish thing but wasn't going to argue the point because you could have been right :)

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Just now, WotEver said:

I did think it was an exclusively Irish thing but wasn't going to argue the point because you could have been right :)

I thought I had been told that only the Scottish variety didn't have the "e" and all others did. 
I shall still enjoy my bottle of Penderyn and my bottle of Tullamore Dew, which ever way it is spelt. 

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50 minutes ago, Graham Davis said:

I thought I had been told that only the Scottish variety didn't have the "e" and all others did. 

It appears that you're correct.  And I'm wrong (again).

https://www.scotchwhiskyexperience.co.uk/about-whisky/whisky-or-whiskey#:~:text=Irish whiskey is always spelled,Irish whiskey and Scotch whisky.

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4 hours ago, Athy said:
5 hours ago, Mike Todd said:

 

 

Are you really suggesting a major hike in taxes to pay for a much larger police force.

Yes, this would be most beneficial. I was pleased to note that the portion of our Council Tax allocated to the police had gone up by a bit more than inflation this year, and I'd be happy to see it go up still further.

 

Just down our road is a detached building which is a former police house (and presumably station). I wish it still was one. In fourteen years of living in Upwell, I have only once seen a policeman walking along our road. 

The rot started not through lack of funding but by the introduction of TGP, total geographical policing.

 

Some bag carrying, scramble egg chasing, never really done proper police work oik used a computer to model where officers where needed and when.

 

So whereas lots of areas were assigned a beat officer the computer decided or showed that these areas had no reported crimes or only at certain times so resources were reallocated meaning areas only saw an officer when something had happened.

 

It's why I am a strong supporter of report, report, report as it messes with the stats.

 

Coupled with so many people allocated to specialist roles, people not wanting to work nights or weekends or good officers being disillusioned with what the role has become so leave are some reasons why numbers have diminished

 

I liken today's officers with fire crews. They only have time to rush from job to job.

 

Which means they do not get the opportunity to meet the majority of people who abide by the law.

 

Dealing with the minority of society that have no respect for anyone else but themselves and think they can behave in anyway they like to get what they want puts them in the us and them position. After all behaviour breeds behaviour

 

 

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40 minutes ago, Paul Gwilliams said:

 

 

Some bag carrying, scramble egg chasing, never really done proper police work oik

Aw come now, Mr. Gwilliams: don't beat about the bush, tell us what you really think.

Did it  not occur to such people that one reason for the low level of crime was because there were officers walking or cycling a local beat, who had got to know the people in their allotted area?

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22 hours ago, Sea Dog said:

I believe it was @Mike the Boilerman. who once said on here something like one in every hundred people don't actually have a conscience. Once you tuck that little gem away, lots of unfathomable behaviour is easier to explain. Thanks for that one Mike - it's helped me to stop pulling my hair out! :)

 

and 63.47% of statistics are made up on the spot.

 

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On 21/08/2020 at 07:37, Halsey said:

 

Keys are freely available if you look................so they mean nothing.

 

Sorry don't agree IMHO this is part of a growing breed of entitled selfish scum in our so called society .............they are not stupid they know exactly what they are doing and its implications they just don't give a sh**

Not boating but a similar theme.

We live near a school and due to the inconsiderate parents parking we now have double yellow lines outside our house, which many ignore.

Last year a women in her late 20's parked across our driveway. I sat on the wall for 10 minutes, no sign of anyone.

Wandered down to the school and saw the receptionist. She said "I know who it is, I'll ask them to move."

Went back and sat on the wall for a further 5 minutes.

Woman who owns the car arrives, ignores me and goes to get in her car.

Me: "Excuse me you've been blocking my drive, I want to get out.

Woman: " I didn't see your car there."
Me: "Big enough isn't it." ( A Volvo V70 estate)

Me: Pointing to the double yellow lines she had parked on. "Do you know what these are and what they mean?"

Woman: "I don't give a shit" and drove off.

 

We are now living in a "Me generation" rather than a "We generation."

 

E.T.A, trouble is many with this attitude are now coming on the cut.

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1 minute ago, Ray T said:

Not boating but a similar theme.

We live near a school and due to the inconsiderate parents parking we now have double yellow lines outside our house, which many ignore.

Last year a women in her late 20's parked across our driveway. I sat on the wall for 10 minutes, no sign of anyone.

Wandered down to the school and saw the receptionist. She said "I know who it is, I'll ask them to move."

Went back and sat on the wall for a further 5 minutes.

Woman who owns the car arrives, ignores me and goes to get in her car.

Me: "Excuse me you've been blocking my drive, I want to get out.

Woman: " I didn't see your car there."
Me: "Big enough isn't it." ( A Volvo V70 estate)

Me: Pointing to the double yellow lines she had parked on. "Do you know what these are and what they mean?"

Woman: "I don't give a shit" and drove off.

 

We are now living in a "Me generation" rather than a "We generation."

I believe you can buy a device for removing the cores from tyre valves. She probably wouldn't do it again.

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Just now, Jerra said:

Leaving double parked beside somebody?    I would have been tempted as well.

The crew did that at a major theatre one Saturday evening. It was curtain down and time to strike the set and load it into the waiting pantechnicon. They opened the dock doors to find a car parked on double yellows right outside. A bunch of hefty stage crew smartly bounced it into the middle of the road so that they could get on with their job. That caused a traffic jam. Plod came along with a low loader and crane to remove the offending vehicle. An hour or two later a young man and his lady friend turned up looking for their vehicle...

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You only have to look at the reports about the poor parking in Snowdonia since the gradual release of lock-down to see people don't care. After the first Sunday the Police warned people that if it happened the next weekend they would tow cars away.

Next weekend.............the tow trucks were busy!

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On 22/08/2020 at 10:28, Nightwatch said:

Just to be completely boring, Dad was also a Policeman in Burscough area. I was born in Ormskirk and we lived in Burcough. I didnt know this until ‘after’ we had spent an extended time in Burcough, including Christmas in 2015-6. I was in Southport hospital for a time. Funny old world ain’t it?

 

So was I. ?

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14 hours ago, Graham Davis said:

You only have to look at the reports about the poor parking in Snowdonia since the gradual release of lock-down to see people don't care. After the first Sunday the Police warned people that if it happened the next weekend they would tow cars away.

Next weekend.............the tow trucks were busy!

If these cars were parked clinging to the sides of mountains, it would perhaps have been easier and cheaper just to release their handbrakes and let gravity take its course.

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18 hours ago, George and Dragon said:

I believe you can buy a device for removing the cores from tyre valves. She probably wouldn't do it again.

 

Or rather than buy something special, accidentally slip whilst using a bradawl close to one of her tyres. ?

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