That's a nice little scam you've got there, Graham. How much do you charge people to drive into your vehicle when they want to claim the insurance for a write-off? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
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That's a nice little scam you've got there, Graham. How much do you charge people to drive into your vehicle when they want to claim the insurance for a write-off? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
He's the originator of flash for cash
I used to live in an isolated house at the top of a hill by a sharp turn in the road. I once had a conversation with a car insurance inspector investigating a claim for a car that had allegedly left the road and been written-off.Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonykay
I suggested that whilst that was feasible in terms of necessary trajectory, etc it was unlikely that I would not have noticed a destroyed car from my window, the field where sheep safely grazed might have shown traces of a sudden impact and the dry stone wall which would have been en route might have provided evidence of having been a barrier to progress.
The inspector thanked me for my help.:)
Just realised there are 226 pages of guff in this thread and as far as I can see none of you have solved the crisis yet:rolleyes:
No, but GB solved an Insurance scam!Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnK
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Originally Posted by JohnK
There is nowt to solve.
Its here to stay, be safe and sensible and get used to being oppressed by the government.
(This is a post from me free of both sarcasm and satire.)
I spent yesterday walking in the Brecon Beacons. On my way home I stopped for petrol at a petrol station with a Spar shop attached. It was on the outskirts of Cardiff, just before I joined the M4. Quite a busy little place, cars continually departing and arriving, people going into and out of the shop. (The pumps were 'pay in the shop' only.) There was not a single face mask in sight (apart from mine). Not one. It felt really quite weird, as though I'd gone back in time. I didn't realise at the time, but I checked it later at home, that face masks are not compulsory in shops in Wales (in general). They will be from Monday, though, because cases have been going up. Why on earth wait until cases are already increasing before implementing such a simple mitigation measure?
Even now that I know that masks aren't compulsory in Wales, I still find it quite incredible that, of all the people there (and there were quite a few), I was the only one wearing a mask. I said this shop/petrol station is on the outskirts of Cardiff, but, actually, it's closer to the centre of Caerphilly than it is to the centre of Cardiff. It must be really quite close (probably less than a mile) to the Caerphilly County Borough boundary within which, as I understand it, various restrictions, including the requirement to wear a face mask in shops, etc., were introduced a few days ago. The reason the restrictions were introduced, of course, is that there has been "a sharp and rapid increase in the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus" in the Caerphilly region. And yet, less than a mile away, not a single person was wearing a mask in that shop/petrol station. Furthermore, even though the shop had implemented a form of one-way system for people entering and leaving, the people there when I was there seemed to be paying no heed whatsoever to the concept of social distancing. None.
Wasn't it only a few weeks ago that Boris Johnson was talking about a significant return to normality in time for Christmas, and saying that we (i.e., in the UK) should all be "looking ahead with optimism"? I wish I had access to whatever substances he's on. And as for those people who say that everything would be fine if it was all left to individual responsibility - say what!?
If anyone is tempted to trust the Off Guardian website for their news and information (and I'm sure some are), might I suggest they also have a look at some of the websites which explain - or even prove - that the moon landings were faked and that the earth is nothing like being round. (I could suggest a few other topics that might interest you as well if you would like me to - there's lots of truth out there on the internet if you only know where to look.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wetherby whaler
https://www.newsguardtech.com/wp-con...f-Guardian.pdf
I ended up with a prison sentence for that! Thanks a bunch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Thanks for that link. An excellent read.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike T
The economy is still hurting, mental-health problems are growing, and educational futures have been curtailed, not because of some fearmongering overreaction, but because an uncontrolled pandemic is still afoot.
... exponential growth is counterintuitive, so “we don’t understand that things look fine until right before they’re very not fine,”
It can take a month for infections to lead to symptoms, for symptoms to warrant tests and hospitalizations, and for enough sick people to produce a noticeable spike. Pandemic data are like the light of distant stars, recording past events instead of present ones. This lag separates actions from their consequences by enough time to break our intuition for cause and effect. Policy makers end up acting only when it’s too late. Predictable surges get falsely cast as unexpected surprises.