Stutopia

I was on the point 2 tip for a while, but then I considered that the major demographic who want out at any cost (the perplexing “things were great in the olden days, but obviously not so great that they didn’t change” position) will either never work again, or are very close to retirement and, better yet, have already reaped all the economic benefit. The worst that’ll happen is that their pension pots might take a dent and some food and energy price rises. Fortunately for them, pensioners are the single biggest recipients of benefits, and they vote in large numbers, so any negatives they feel will be quickly pandered to. Regarding point 1, I too think the “rules” need to be respected, the only part of that I find there to any wiggle room in that argument, is that there was demonstrable lies told in the campaign, that were extremely popular. Once the rules were broken then, any subsequent position of trying to defend it as a process with integrity, is almost catastrophically demolished. Once you start using your hands to play football, there’s little point in getting upset about the offside laws.

In consultation with the whole Team, some posts have been hidden. Not because they breach the rules, but simply because some members were unhappy about them and we try accommodate various levels of sensitivity where we can, whilst still allowing for some warm discourse. Please don’t confuse a simple concession to anyone who is more easily upset, with a disciplinary measure against the poster(s). When there are breaches of the rules, they won’t be dealt with in the public space and the offending member will be aware of them because we’ll have a private dialogue. Then, once the team have had a chat, actions are taken and it’s usually resolved amicably. Many people have had warnings in the past and we’ve all gotten over it. P.S. I wouldn’t usually explain the views of the team in public, but given that this appears to be one of the more divisive topics and the clear and obvious attempts by the lizard people to subvert Brexit, The Team have views on Brexit on both sides of the divide, we’re not part of the secret cabal. In a wider point, many other web forums have explicit rules forbidding the discussion of politics or religion or contentious issues, personally I think this detracts somewhat from the community and having all manner of views (on things other than Brexit) actually makes this a more engaging place to be.

So far as I can recall, no one got particularly upset in the past when another member posted a car meme or a link to a YouTube drift video or an article about a car launch, with little or no additional content surrounding it. Objections to this style of posting (which I do personally find irritating) might have a touch more credibility now, if they had complained about them PRIOR to complaining about ones where they disagree with the content.

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You are a busy bee!

@ATTAK Z drew them up for me, only cost £5k and he said it’s some of his best work

At 100mph I hope it won’t be one of the concrete sectional ones where your teeth rattle every 100 yards

Fear not. I’ll do a build thread when it’s priced up and my internal house upgrades are done. As a teaser, here’s the detailed architect’s drawings.

I know you’ve all been desperate for closure on this, so here’s the latest. The rubbish up up against my house has been moved, in part, there’s still plenty there but there is at least now an air gap between it and the wall. Naturally I’m using UN Inspectors and Peacekeepers to monitor the situation. My garage planning permission has been granted, on the condition that I abandon my garage roof terrace dream. This is a victory of sorts and I’ll be pleased to have a larger workspace, albeit without the BBQ area of my dreams. I’ll be erecting the maximum legally permissible height boundaries (2m) in response to the unprovoked attack on my lifestyle by old people with nothing better to do. In the current climate of all or nothing, black or white, absolutism, it feels like a reasonable compromise and hopeful we can agree a meaningful de-escalation along the borders. A soft Garexit, if you will.

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It’s all well and good not bothering to define things for the angry mob, their only due process is to find the furl for flaming torches and already supply of pitchforks. Once you start having legal ramifications, you can’t just screech and point. Once Brexit happens and all the ECJ is finished and we just go back having common sense laws, at least we’ll be able to deport her back to errr... ...the U.K?

I’m just soooooo tired of paying for the world’s biggest council house.

Abolish the monarchy? Where do I sign up?

She isn’t. She can apply for Bangladeshi nationality, but hasn’t done so. So she’s single nationality.

I think if she was blonde with pigtails and got duped into folllowing an utterly stupid ideology at 15 years old she’d be seen as a victim of this evil bunch of lunatics, and desperately in need of help. If anyone needs a serious talking to here it’s the parents who’s job it is to stop this, they the were adults at the time and that’s where the buck stops with minors. From a purely legal perspective, whatever the case in question is, the idea you can strip a person of their nationality is bananas.

I didn’t fight two World Wars and one World Cup to go on holiday to foreign land with all their manky food, warm lager and jibber jabber, blooming mugs the lot of them. Two weeks sunshine on a stony, windswept Derbyshire beach is better than any of that rubbish.

My first plan conformed to permitted development rules, so no permission was required. I became slightly more ambitious (obviously too ambitious now!) and decided to utilise the flat space on top as a bit of BBQ zone. This meant I moved into requiring planning permission territory and you know the rest. My plan B is to rollback to the old design, build what I can under PD and still get a new garage but without the additional roof space. Oh, and to have a continuously burning tyre mountain in the back yard My Plan C is to rent a lockup, but there’s naff all in the vicinity that isn’t attracting commercial rents, which are too high for a project car space. Thanks all all for the support by the way and offers of assistance. I’m determined not to let this turn into a thing that causes pain. The only good news might be he feels a pang of guilt when I go around this weekend a politely ask for all the crap leaning on my house to be moved!

Well now I’m mildly irked. This jerk has gone around to other neighbours with the sole objective of petitioning them to object. I no longer feel like this is a simple matter of having a, perfectly reasonable, right to object to something. It’s a personal vendetta against me, my friends and family and my dream to have a garage not made of asbestos.

Only just spotted this. Let me check my calendar.

I’ve lost two tyres in 10 months parked outside my place because he’s always dropping screws, not intentional I’m sure, just couldn’t give a monkey’s when he makes a mess.

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