What is hacking you off today?

[RHB]

Sadly, I think and increase in both Council and Income Tax is not very far away.

 

[Lord Football]

Sadly, I think and increase in both Council and Income Tax is not very far away.

We've lived in a low wage, low tax economy for decades. But you can't have stuff if you don't pay for it, and its worse if the things you want cost more than they should because you've sold them to privateers.

Privateers want profile, Service Providers provide a service.

 

[KevinJH]

I was looking forward to watching Fake or Fortune that I'd taped last night. Until BBC News this morning came out with the programme's outcome without any kind of spoiler alert. Muppets.....

 

[Ricky Otto]

I went into Southend town centre yesterday, and was being driven by a friend. The problem we had wasn't the normal street beggars or charity muggers, it was parking. He had an appointment near the Spurs shop and we wanted less than an hour parking. The first thing was that the two places he normally parks in the street, they wanted you to join up and pay by card. He is an older person and doesn't do this sort of thing. He can't work a PC or complicated phone for example. A lot of the older generation that I help can't. He didn't want to join up anything. He just wanted to put coins in for one hours parking. So then we drove to a car park that accepted coins. and they had made it 2 hours minimum. 2 hours minimum? What a joke. I should think about a third of the people that drive into town just want an hours parking. He's already had problems with other car parks when he's put in the wrong car reg number that some of the new parking machines want, another thing the elderly are being fined for. No wonder people are being put off going into town.

Pensioners should get free parking in town/city centres I think, the state pension is poor and little gestures like this would go a long way. Pensioners get free travel on public transport so why not parking?

 

[MK Shrimper]

Pensioners should get free parking in town/city centres I think, the state pension is poor and little gestures like this would go a long way. Pensioners get free travel on public transport so why not parking?

Those baby-boomers are not short of a few quid. Perhaps make those over 60 pay double and let the single parent families have the free parking.

 

[RHB]

Got a really good quote from Smiths Glass to replace our guttering and soffits. The surveyor called yesterday to do the surveyor stuff and announced that we will need scaffolding at the
rear of the house to do the work. Bosh, another £450 on the bill.

 

[RHB]

Those baby-boomers are not short of a few quid. Perhaps make those over 60 pay double and let the single parent families have the free parking.

I'll bite. On the parking front you can just **** off.

Additionally, Southend Council no longer accept disabled blue cards that are not issued in the Borough. So in a seaside town disabled out of town blue carders now have to pay to park.

 

[SUFC_Ross]

I'll bite. On the parking front you can just **** off.

Additionally, Southend Council no longer accept disabled blue cards that are not issued in the Borough. So in a seaside town disabled out of town blue carders now have to pay to park.

Have to say that is absolutely disgusting!! As much as it aggravates me that there are far more disabled bays than parent and child bays in all of southends car parks atleast let people who are entitled to that bay park there!!

 

[KevinJH]

"So in a seaside town disabled out of town blue carders now have to pay to park. "

Which is, in itself, discriminatory

 

[MK Shrimper]

Travelled from MK-Manchester-Leeds-Manchester-MK....delays and **** ups on every leg. The trains are **** aren't they?

 

[Shrimper]

C2C and Network Rail. A 50 minute journey became 3hrs 30 because of their incompetence. One day of the week I was doing something in the evening in Southend too.

 

[jassyfa1]

I went into Southend town centre yesterday, and was being driven by a friend. The problem we had wasn't the normal street beggars or charity muggers, it was parking. He had an appointment near the Spurs shop and we wanted less than an hour parking. The first thing was that the two places he normally parks in the street, they wanted you to join up and pay by card. He is an older person and doesn't do this sort of thing. He can't work a PC or complicated phone for example. A lot of the older generation that I help can't. He didn't want to join up anything. He just wanted to put coins in for one hours parking. So then we drove to a car park that accepted coins. and they had made it 2 hours minimum. 2 hours minimum? What a joke. I should think about a third of the people that drive into town just want an hours parking. He's already had problems with other car parks when he's put in the wrong car reg number that some of the new parking machines want, another thing the elderly are being fined for. No wonder people are being put off going into town.

Alas there is no free parking in the town anymore. Sainsbury’s is a £1 for an hour and the car park in Clarance Rd does 1 hr parking. If your going to be quick and you want to risk it then park behind the Dickens pub and remember traffic wardens have to give you 5 minutes before they write the ticket.
The only free parking in Southend which I know off is the Kursaal estate car park, alas not in the town but always useful for the beach.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

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Alas there is no free parking in the town anymore. Sainsbury’s is a £1 for an hour and the car park in Clarance Rd does 1 hr parking. If your going to be quick and you want to risk it then park behind the Dickens pub and remember traffic wardens have to give you 5 minutes before they write the ticket.
The only free parking in Southend which I know off is the Kursaal estate car park, alas not in the town but always useful for the beach.

Basically he just wanted to pay for just one hour with coins close to his appointment. Should be easy, but It was impossible. He wasn't expecting free parking. Sainsbury's is still free if you take your ticket in after, and spend more than a fiver, unless they changed that this week. I wouldn't advise anyone to park on the Kursaal estate. Cars are being broke into all the time, some have even been set alight.

 

[MK Shrimper]

The general A-Level pretty girls jumping photos in the media from The Mail to the Guardian. Such lazy journalism.

 

[Benfleet A1]

The general A-Level pretty girls jumping photos in the media from The Mail to the Guardian. Such lazy journalism.

Oh shut up, if that's your girl in a few years you will be puffing your chest out like a pidgeon.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Oh shut up, if that's your girl in a few years you will be puffing your chest out like a pidgeon.

Well done on the kids getting the results, why would I have a problem with that? It's the shoddy journalism I'm having a go at. As far as I'm aware, you don't have to be a pretty white girl to take A-Levels, it's open to all.

 

[Mad Cyril]

The general A-Level pretty girls jumping photos in the media from The Mail to the Guardian. Such lazy journalism.

Where are the geeky state school blokes that have just won a place to read maths or natural Science at Cambridge?

 

[MK Shrimper]

Where are the geeky state school blokes that have just won a place to read maths or natural Science at Cambridge?

Exactly.

 

[Supernaut]

The general A-Level pretty girls jumping photos in the media from The Mail to the Guardian. Such lazy journalism.

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news...-exam-success-goes-undocumented-2013081578670

 

[MK Shrimper]

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news...-exam-success-goes-undocumented-2013081578670

Historian Tom Booker said: “Future civilisations will look back at our news websites and think our academics were all skinny, buxom females with borderline lesbian tendencies.”