Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[glasgowcyclist]

That hardly helps any tourists does it unless you think everyone should plan ahead by checking out parking and then writing to relevant councils prior to travel.

I gave you info that contactless payments are possible where councils choose to implement it. You could approach your council with that info.

Getting shirty at me and then introducing an argument involving tourists that I've never suggested is your problem.

Write/don't write, or just keep moaning on the internet, waiting for things to improve.
I don't care.

 

[Binky]

True, but you were complaining about contactless not being avilable at car parks in your area, so not as a tourist.

You are right, of course, you writing to your local councils will not help when you are a tourist somewhere else, but except in beach or beauty spot car parks, most users tend to be fairly local, and not tourists.

No, I'm complaining about car parks in any area not having option of contactless.
The fact I'm more aware of situation in my local area is because I obviously know the area.
Aside from that, I've had non locals expressing their frustration at situation around here and I know it happens in a lot of places.

 

[Binky]

I gave you info that contactless payments are possible where councils choose to implement it. You could approach your council with that info.

Getting shirty at me and then introducing an argument involving tourists that I've never suggested is your problem.

Write/don't write, or just keep moaning on the internet, waiting for things to improve.
I don't care.

Getting shirty? Not me but seems one or two are here.
As for "moaning in the internet", have you checked title of this thread 😂

 

[Electric_Andy]

New contactless machines cost between 4-8 grand to install. Existing machines cost around 1800 to convert to contactless. My guess is, the various councils have to weigh up whether they want to spend money to help people access the shops, or if it's more profitable to let everyone struggle and make some money from those who can't manage or don't want to pay. After all, the shops are already paying rent and rates so it's not in council's interest to make it easier for people to shop. Maybe if it was easier to pay, they'd get more money from parking? But there's usually high demand for spaces anyway so I don't know

 

[Alex321]

New contactless machines cost between 4-8 grand to install. Existing machines cost around 1800 to convert to contactless. My guess is, the various councils have to weigh up whether they want to spend money to help people access the shops, or if it's more profitable to let everyone struggle and make some money from those who can't manage or don't want to pay. After all, the shops are already paying rent and rates so it's not in council's interest to make it easier for people to shop. Maybe if it was easier to pay, they'd get more money from parking? But there's usually high demand for spaces anyway so I don't know

I don't know either.

But of the two I listed above, the Swansea Copr Bay (South) one only opened in 2022, so will have had them from the start (and is ticketless, enter your car number before paying when leaving). I suspect it doesn't cost very much more to install contactless than to istall ones that only take an inserted card, so most new ones are likely to have contactless.

The Chippenham Wood Lane one definitely did not have contactless in 2015, because that is the last streetview image showing the payment machine, and that didn't have contacttles. I only visit that one once a year (for Morris Dancing at the Chippenham Folk Festival), and I'm not certain whether it had them in the previous visits of mine, but they have certainly been upgraded or newly installed since 2015.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Because her dad was Jimmy Tarbuck.

She is also a professional Scouser

and a professional woman

by which I mean she makes a living from being both
so anyone who doesn't find her funny is either against women or against Scousers

I hate that sort of thing

 

[Binky]

She is also a professional Scouser

and a professional woman

by which I mean she makes a living from being both
so anyone who doesn't find her funny is either against women or against Scousers

I hate that sort of thing

I'd rarely be listening when she was on but if I was driving etc at the time I didn't have any issue with her to be honest.
Going back to my original post, Vernon Kaye way more annoying to me but then again no doubt some really rate him.

 

[Jameshow]

I'd rarely be listening when she was on but if I was driving etc at the time I didn't have any issue with her to be honest.
Going back to my original post, Vernon Kaye way more annoying to me but then again no doubt some really rate him.

Rylan is just as annoying tbh.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

FB adverts for either plug in heaters that, tbh, if (hahaha) the claims are true, heat a room in 3 minutes (im just throwing approximation here for illustrative.point) , cost 99% less than a conventional heating system to run and the unit only cost a mere (insert laughable low price here)...and similar claims with plug in cooling units.

It really irks me, how can they possibly claim this rubbish ?

Claiming it is easy - I can claim to be a gorgeous muscular hunk with a full head of hair and a wonderful tan

Some claims seem to be based on "get the money before they realise we are talking rubbish"

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

She is also a professional Scouser

and a professional woman

by which I mean she makes a living from being both
so anyone who doesn't find her funny is either against women or against Scousers

I hate that sort of thing

I also feel that I am supposed to laugh at some of the things she says

or at least I did last time I heard her which, to be fair, was literally decades ago

but I do remember her being pretty good in some of the TV shows she was in

it is just the comedy things that annoy me

 

[No Ta Doctor]

She is also a professional Scouser

and a professional woman

by which I mean she makes a living from being both
so anyone who doesn't find her funny is either against women or against Scousers

I hate that sort of thing

It's strange that I never see male comedians described in this way, no matter how much they talk about being a bloke. It's almost as if that's somehow the default for comedy and it's only noticed when women talk about being women.....

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

It's strange that I never see male comedians described in this way, no matter how much they talk about being a bloke. It's almost as if that's somehow the default for comedy and it's only noticed when women talk about being women.....

Some male comedians seem to make me think I SHOULD laugh at this because I am a bloke

not as common - and I can;t think of any famous ones at the moment - but I have seen them on TV at times

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Some male comedians seem to make me think I SHOULD laugh at this because I am a bloke

not as common - and I can;t think of any famous ones at the moment - but I have seen them on TV at times

To be fair, it was more of an observation than a joke

 

[lenfield]

Well, of course you can't rule out the help that gave her, but ...
She started at Radio2 in 2007.

Before that, she graduated from RADA in 1986, and shortly after that was in the (rather serious) TV Falklands drama Tumbledown.
A wide variety of TV roles followed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liza_Tarbuck#Acting
She started presenter work a few years later "She presented the Channel 4 fashion programme She's Gotta Have It in 1998[3] and The Big Breakfast with Johnny Vaughan, Sara Cox and Richard Bacon during 1999 and 2000"

.... and then eventually joined R2 in 2007. Jimmy was still her father at that point.

She should have stuck to acting.

 

[classic33]

I don’t think there’s national coordination of council car parks. Write to your council if you want them to change things.

Given that my local council ordered and had installed solar powered meters, because "they were green", but forgot that come the winter months it gets dark earlier than in summer and didn't order the batteries required to run them* I'm not overly hopeful.

*The same meters were installed in the two multi storey carparks they owned.