The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

I donated the 2.6 kg of over-perfumed washing powder to the community collection at Aldi. There must be some needy person out there without an over-sensitive nose!

Its for the court to specifiy, but upon release from chokey is the norm.

Is it actually legal to give a lifetime ban from driving in the UK? If so, what do you have to do to get one?

I have mentioned before that someone my family knew killed a cyclist in one crash and subsequently a grandfather and young grandson in another. Both times he only got short bans. He was driving like an arse again after a couple of years, and complaining about having been banned at all, because it "wasn't [his] fault"! Naturally, killing people when speeding around narrow country lanes is actually their fault for getting in the way...

Good luck to you and 'Mrs 12', @12boy!

From my facebook page this afternoon, Lol.

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You joke, but really...

 

[Deleted member 1258]

You joke, but really...

One of many ways of qualifying for a Dawin Award.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Sooper Drooper is one of my favourite ABBA tracks.

Do you realise I've now got Abba's Super Trooper playing in my head?

 

[ColinJ]

One of many ways of qualifying for a Dawin Award.

Indeed!

 

[Drago]

Is it actually legal to give a lifetime ban from driving in the UK? If so, what do you have to do to get one?

I'd have to check as Im getting increasingly out of date, but I believe certain medical conditions are the only thing that can lead to a loss of licence for life.

Its ridiculous really. If I made so much as an idle threat to someone about my shotgun, even as a joke, Id probably lose my ticket and would never, ever see it again. I would also lose the weapon u kess I could nominate another licence holder with a spare slot in their ticket to take possession of ot.

Kill a dozen nuns, orphans and puppies in a car and you getmto keep the car. Not only that, but sooner or later you'd be able to apply for a licence and retake a test, and have legal access to a deadly kinetic weapon all,over again...if yoy even lost your licence at all...

I know im in my high horse and off topic, but driving bans are actually quite hard to come by and require either sustained effort or a grossly dangerous act of madness to earn one. That being the case not only should driving driving bans be for life, but they should also be banned from owning or having possession of a car ever again.

A vote for Drago is a vote for cracking down on crims!

 

[Salad Dodger]

Did I not hear on the news that if your LFT is positive but you have no symptoms then you don't need to isolate ?

You did. But, this morning, the NHS track and trace website hadn't been altered, and threatened penalties for non compliance with instructions. So I went and got a test anyway. A huge test centre with only about 3 customers when I was there.

 

[classic33]

I donated the 2.6 kg of over-perfumed washing powder to the community collection at Aldi. There must be some needy person out there without an over-sensitive nose!


Is it actually legal to give a lifetime ban from driving in the UK? If so, what do you have to do to get one?

I have mentioned before that someone my family knew killed a cyclist in one crash and subsequently a grandfather and young grandson in another. Both times he only got short bans. He was driving like an arse again after a couple of years, and complaining about having been banned at all, because it "wasn't [his] fault"! Naturally, killing people when speeding around narrow country lanes is actually their fault for getting in the way...

Good luck to you and 'Mrs 12', @12boy!




You joke, but really...

Gave it away! It can't have been that bad.

 

[ColinJ]

Gave it away! It can't have been that bad.

I couldn't stand the smell of it leaking out of a sealed box in another room, so I certainly wasn't going to wear clothes smelling of it!

Anybody wondering what I am going on about... Assuming that you do sometimes go into Aldi, go and sniff the top of a box of THIS.

PS It gets very mixed reviews! Maybe how good it is depends on what type of water there is in your area.

Anyway, the Lidl powder works for me - I'll buy a big box next time it is in stock.

 

[classic33]

I couldn't stand the smell of it leaking out of a sealed box in another room, so I certainly wasn't going to wear clothes smelling of it!

Hope you kept the bag for the bin men.

 

[ColinJ]

Hope you kept the bag for the bin men.

We have 'wheelie bin men', or should that be 'operatives' or 'people'? It so happens that they are all men, or at least - they look like men, but I am never up early to ask them what gender they are self-identifying as on the round that day!

I've folded the bag up for reuse. I think I can still smell a trace of the dreaded powder in it, but not enough to worry me.

 

[classic33]

We have 'wheelie bin men', or should that be 'operatives' or 'people'? It so happens that they are all men, or at least - they look like men, but I am never up early to ask them what gender they are self-identifying as on the round that day!

I've folded the bag up for reuse. I think I can still smell a trace of the dreaded powder in it, but not enough to worry me.

Officially the job title is "Waste Operative", on both the bin wagons and the "recycling wagons". As for not being up in time, are you in bed gone 2pm?

 

[PaulSB]

I’m not sure if it is still the case ( not trusting the incumbent bunch of crooks ) but only a positive PCR test is counted in the official numbers. By not requiring a PCR test to confirm a positive LFT test then it would seem that the “ official “ numbers of infections are dropping when that is not the case.

This is a possibility but one is supposed to report a positive LFT.

 

[ColinJ]

As for not being up in time, are you in bed gone 2pm?

They have usually 'bin and gone' several hours before then!

 

[classic33]

They have usually 'bin and gone' several hours before then!

You're one of the lucky ones. The can be here anytime up to 4pm.

 

[ColinJ]

You're one of the lucky ones. The can be here anytime up to 4pm.

Alternatively... If I forget to put the waste out the night before, it is too late once I eventually get up next day.