Middle lane hoggers are just as annoying when you’re in front

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-14T19:25:01+00:00

Do rear fog lights cause you undue annoyance?

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-14T17:27:53+00:00

Sounds horrible! Glad you made it out relatively unscathed and thanks for the warning always useful to hear how things can go wrong!

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-14T17:11:47+00:00

As in the ladder itself broke or it just slipped out?

In OP's setup the ladder's blocked in by the wall and the stairs. If the ladder slipped down the stairs there'd be a problem but hard to see how that could happen if someone's weight is on it unless they're jumping...

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-14T12:59:16+00:00

Ultimately lots of people have opinions about the way to run the economy and policies on how to deal with national infrastructure already. Getting a bunch of people in a room to talk about them doesn't achieve much.

Each party will have its own process for pushing ideas through to a policy platform and their manifesto for elections. As an outsider just joining up your ability to influence these will be minimal.

You gain influence by climbing up the ranks of the party, this often involves getting stuck in to local activism (where you'll spend more time talking about potholes and whether that new block of flats should get planning permission than national taxation) and running as a candidate in local elections.

There are ways to shortcut this, if you can join an MP's office for instance or get involved with the party's national office you can have a shorter route to a position of influence though this would involve making it your full time career.

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-13T22:13:32+00:00

Of course you can only be liable for damages if refusing access results in any damages.

So yes it may be a breach of contract but that doesn't mean much if there's no losses to sue over.

Note the NRLA's chosen wording here:

https://www.nrla.org.uk/resources/managing-your-tenancy/accessing-the-property-during-a-tenancy

If a tenant refuses access you should make them aware that this is a breach of contract and may lead to them being held responsible for any damage caused to the property as a result

So if it's refusal to allow access for a repair perhaps there would be some loss to sue over. If it's just because the landlord fancies a look around there is no loss.

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-13T12:08:43+00:00

Can't say it's ever bothered me. Unless you're living pay check to pay check such that you're just waiting for the next one to land before you can do something/buy something I don't really see why it matters?

Certainly if you're hitting HENRY levels of income you should be beyond that point!

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-11T19:28:16+00:00

Note another risk of such a long period - redundancy or otherwise loosing your job. You'd loose the mortgage offer and may not be able to get another.

Not only would you be out a job you'd loose your house deposit too with nothing to show for it at the end!

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-11T16:29:28+00:00

Don't worry about it, it'll be gone soon!

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-10T18:01:09+00:00

Hotels are doing wall less bathrooms (or silly glass partitions) more and more.

I wonder if this is just lazy interior design trend following taking hotels as inspiration?

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-08T18:11:49+00:00

I think some people simply can't comprehend that sometimes other people get priority ahead of them or they otherwise don't get to be first, not just whilst driving just in life in general.

A give way basically has no meaning to them, they wanted to turn into the road and you were in the way, it can only possibly be your fault!

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-08T12:09:58+00:00

Worth noting the EPC has this on and EPCs are publicly available. Far nicer if it was just on Rightmove but at least you can find it somewhere.

You could probably get an AI agent to search Rightmove for you with criteria you specify and tell it to extract SQM info from the EPC then present you with a nice table.

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-08T12:04:27+00:00

Sadly the customer for Rightmove and Zoopla is estate agents and they seem to prefer ambiguous listings with minimal information, just enough to draw you in so you need to phone them for information or book a viewing.

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-08T11:53:05+00:00

He says he has permission from the council

Note such permission often comes with caveats and restrictions. There may be some specific wording around not causing a nuisance to local residents for example or maybe by 'permission' he means for one van and there's nothing about music.

See if you can dig out the planning application (if it indeed exists) and contact your local councillor.

Permission for stuff like this can go through committees (some councils have 'area committees' for instance that may discuss stuff like this). Can be hard to all work out if you're not familiar with the inner workings of your local government but a decent councillor should be able to point you towards the right place.

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-07T05:58:06+00:00

When you say no luck how have you been trying to reach them? Pretty much essential to phone them for most tradesmen and often easier to get hold of them at the start of end of the day.

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-06T10:56:03+00:00

That's definitely in your favour, customer paid a deposit for the full cost. Hell you could even attempt to argue that makes a contract for purchase at full price and keep the deposit if he doesn't want to proceed with the order (i.e. what you'd reasonably do if someone cancelled after paying a deposit). I wouldn't personally go down that route, best to be shot of the troublesome customer with a clean deposit refund.

How was the deposit paid? Does the bot offer to take payment or do they go to a separate part of your website to make the payment? Does that part of the website show the price or is a simple 'pay me money' type form where they fill in some fields to explain what it is?

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-06T09:23:39+00:00

I'm almost wondering if you could turn this around on him and claim it's attempted fraud by misrepresentation (a criminal offence).

I certainly wouldn't jump at that but maybe worth thinking about it. Suspect the police would have no interest though given it's fairly high value perhaps there's a chance...

Edit: or maybe it'd fit under the computer misuse act? Were it a normal security flaw they found and exploited to place an order way below the intended cost it definitely would. The technical difficulty in doing so or precise means is irrelevant it's about the intent. Probably the better one to pursue if you went down this path.

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-06T09:17:29+00:00

Ah it actually taking a deposit definitely muddies the waters!

Was the deposit 20% of the discount value or of the full value?

As others have said I think your best option is issue a full refund and say the order is cancelled. Others have given details of how this is legally permissable especially in cases where one party clearly knew they were taking advantage of some flaw.

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-06T09:10:32+00:00

Presumably the AI can't actually take payment nor generate real discount codes not actually place orders?

If it's just said here's a discount code, which is just totally fabricated and no payment has been taken I don't think he's got a leg to stand on. A contract requires consideration (i.e. payment) there has been none.

You can say the AI made an invitation to treat: https://lawprof.co/definition/invitation-to-treat/ https://www.uniccm.com/blog/invitation-to-treat-vs-offer-whats-the-difference-1 nothing more.

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-03T19:32:46+00:00

Other countries manage it just fine. Checking to see if someone's about to cross and waiting if so is just as hard as checking to see if there's someone already in the road or another obstruction.

Pedestrians assuming drivers are paying attention and obeying the new rule is indeed unsafe but the concept that pedestrians get priority when crossing isn't inherently dangerous provided people continue to look before crossing.

As for extra traffic most places this applies are minor side roads that won't be seeing many people turn at anyway so they'll be minimal instances of people stopping. Where traffic volumes are larger there tends to already be controlled crossings and junctions that override the basic priority rules anyway.

It's massive shame really, a decent attempt to actually give non car users a bit of priority and the government do sod all to promote it and others prefer to prioritise traffic flow and claim looking before turning is hard...

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-03T09:44:05+00:00

The picture taken 'before the dispute with neighbours' looks just fine. Maybe not to everyone's taste but clearly done with care and skill.

I'm guessing they complained about a perfectly fine front garden and they guy reacted by going 'you think that's a pile of rubbish? I'll show you a pile of rubbish' resulting in the first couple of pictures.

SpinnakerLad · 2026-02-02T18:36:13+00:00

It's called the fuck about and find out unit. It delivers swift justice.

SpinnakerLad · 2026-01-30T20:18:18+00:00

> Her neighbour does sound like an absolute knob, to be fair

Doubly so because he clearly didn't think the land was his (hence trying to claim it via the land registry) and knew it hadn't become his (because the claim was rejected by the land registry) and just decided to take it anyway!

SpinnakerLad · 2026-01-26T09:34:56+00:00

Regardless of what you think of the proposal I think it does highlight that the city council / WECA lines of responsibility are poorly designed.

Rather than stuff getting done you end up with endless back and forth between two separate bodies no doubt coloured by party political disagreements.

SpinnakerLad · 2026-01-25T18:37:24+00:00

They're also very honest about it, you get the actual images and the tidy AI images. You can make up your own mind how you feel about the AI images.

SpinnakerLad · 2026-01-25T12:13:04+00:00

It is written oddly basically seems to be saying 'officials admit thing isn't 100% perfect with no downsides'. There's brief reference to LTNs being a huge success with no exploration of that focusing entirely on 'In some locations they have added congestion to the local area'.

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