Sadly they just put a ticket on the car and post you a fine if you don’t pay it… I could however just swap number plates with for example a blue Reliant Regal nearby and truly embrace my inner Mr Bean.

In my imagination I’m Jonny English in a V8 Vantage, ducking into a space whenever the warden turns around…. In reality it’s more Mr Bean in an Austin Mini.

We spend a lot of time together, this gives us 30ish minutes of alone time to browse Lemmy for me and Facebook for her, there are almost never parking wardens, but it makes it a bit exciting. Finally if we shop together we end up getting lots of things we shouldn’t buy, alone we tend to get what is on the list and get out.

About 5 years ago our town centre introduced parking charges, so now one of us goes shopping while the other sits in the car looking out for parking enforcement so we can drive a loop around the carpark. We probably pay less than once per year, but we park there at least once per week. Saves us ~£100 a year.

Squeeze the can until it flies up and lands in your mouth.

Me too, I used to live in the city where everything was within 10 minutes, took the bus every day to work.

Only downside was living with so many people in an enclosed space there was constant noise. But that was before noise cancelling headphones and triple glazing, so may be better now.

I’m going to sound like a carnivore on a Vegan sub now, but genuinely I’m disabled and not easily able to use the bike/transport options.

Apparently 36 minutes walk away from my nearest train station if I walk on a grass verge on a 60mph road with no pavement, there is a bus but that is 28 minutes to the train station with a change of bus and 9 minute walk.

I could probably manage the 2nd option, but not a lot else for the rest of the morning.

What if my home is powered by solar and a home battery, and my car is an EV? I basically have a personal generator and it’s fantastic, it’s just not Diesel, same for the car.

I don’t think I ever said they were particularly bad… just stating facts here. The opinion that “every major news channel is like this” however is troubling. All news channels have their influences, you just have to identify what they are and adjust critical thinking accordingly.

A news channel created by the state of Qatar and initially staffed by ex BBC presenters who were paid massive amounts to attempt to astroturf over their human rights abuses and corruption.

Edit: forgot to add, Qatar also imposes censorship on journalism and uses Al Jazeera to push their “truth”. Hence the irony.