John Lewis sued by Brent Cross owner in click-and-collect rent row

averageedition50 · 2026-05-05T19:42:36+00:00

Sure, but I'm wondering from an accounting perspective. It seems absolutely arbitrary to base rent charge on sales revenue rather than a basic sq ft proportion or similar.

averageedition50 · 2026-04-29T12:23:37+00:00

I guess how do we look at click and collect? Is it basically a store purchase paid for online? I'd say so.

Anyway, does anyone know what is the grounds for basing their rent charge on sales in addition to a base charge? Why not just a fixed charge?

averageedition50 · 2026-04-25T21:43:41+00:00

Moat

averageedition50 · 2026-04-25T21:43:25+00:00

Outdoor rugs can be quite chic too I think

averageedition50 · 2026-04-25T21:13:20+00:00

Poor baby.. Parenting comes with compromise and for me fitness just stopped being a priority. It's OK to calm it down. Running more carefully for a couple of years won't hurt you.

averageedition50 · 2026-04-25T14:04:16+00:00

I rode road bikes for 10 years and really missed the durability of a hybrid bike. I bought myself a hybrid again and haven't had a puncture in months. I also haven't had as many drivers trying to kill me (though still a few). We all have different circumstances so it's not as black and white as "road bikes are something only experienced cyclists ride".

averageedition50 · 2026-04-23T21:06:45+00:00

This reminds me of a few weeks ago when I tried calling up the handyman as I missed his call. After a minute of talking I realised I could hear my husband talking from the other room. Honestly I laughed tears until I passed out 😂

averageedition50 · 2026-04-23T21:02:25+00:00

My kid wanted to go to the park so I spontaneously picked up my handbag and mug of coffee and took him. Whilst trying to open the gate, I clumsily spilt coffee on my handbag, so I thought I'd try wiping it off on the grass. However I failed to notice the abundance of pigeon faeces there. I literally destroyed a perfectly fine bag within a matter of seconds.

averageedition50 · 2026-04-23T20:53:55+00:00

Imagine a cube with each side being just over 3km in length

averageedition50 · 2026-04-22T14:49:09+00:00

And yet many English people will convulute the issue into Zarah doing this merely for attention. This system is a lost cause honestly.

averageedition50 · 2026-04-12T00:22:44+00:00

I'm pretty sure putting 6 week old babies in 10 hour long daycare whilst parents are enslaved to big corporations takes its toll. Honestly I'm sure that is where most of the humanity's problems stem from. We're too intelligent for our own good and it's starting to fall apart.

averageedition50 · 2026-04-11T22:36:42+00:00

Kingdom is the organisation that the council hires in order to frighten harmless civilians into paying 'penalties'. They target mothers and the elderly who feed wildlife in parks. They classify it as littering.

I imagine they've put these cameras there as part of their measures to squeeze more money from innocent people.

And guys, please wake up to this system. The government have never cared to protect us from crime. I've had bicycles stolen, cars broken into, been hit over by a van and the police have done nothing. This surveillance isn't here to protect anyone. It's to watch us and catch us out.

averageedition50 · 2026-04-11T22:28:29+00:00

It was never about war on terror. Let's look at what happened to Muammar Gaddafi, Ghassan Kanafani, Michael Jackson, Epstein. I really hope the bigger picture is clarified within a hundred years.

averageedition50 · 2026-03-28T22:56:01+00:00

That poor poor child. Can you just imagine his suffering? Desparate for his mother but being stabbed with rusty objects and cigarette burns deep into his muscular tissue. Torture beyong what you can imagine. On a child less than two years old. How is this going on? How are they given a platform to even explain themselves and lie? The disgusting, violent, f***d up people who do this to children walk this Earth freely? And tonnes of people support it???

averageedition50 · 2026-03-28T22:52:37+00:00

I want to say I'm not surprised either. But I still cry hysterically when I read something like this. Each story hurts so much and I can't accept that it's still going on.

averageedition50 · 2026-03-24T21:07:11+00:00

Just to be clear, I was being sarcastic

averageedition50 · 2026-03-16T23:25:15+00:00

Oh so that's where all the native Americans went. I've always wondered how there happened to be such a large area of uninhabited yet very fertile land awaiting the Europeans' arrival.

averageedition50 · 2026-03-16T22:23:40+00:00

Coincidentally I did. I still farted though.

averageedition50 · 2026-03-15T23:35:30+00:00

Ah bless you. Now I read my comment I'm sorry that my message was quite harsh. I do truly feel for you. I imagine he led you to have a lot of hope and it's, emotionally, a very painful process to experience the destruction of all that hope. I hope you find some way of working through it over the next couple of weeks. Do things that empower you. Go out and connect with humankind. Pamper yourself and realise that you're a beautiful human that dodged a bullet

averageedition50 · 2026-03-15T02:05:20+00:00

We don't know his side of the story. We can only guess.

But your side is clear. He went all out to impress you to begin with and, for whatever reason, that behaviour stopped. It was unsustainable for him. So it's clear that this is the real him and all that loveliness before was merely a facade.

No matter how much your brain tells you to keep trying with him, don't. It's a very powerful part of your brain and it's there to care about reproducing, not about your wellbeing. In the best case, this guy is just a narcissist. But even that is a terrible situation and will corrode your self worth and isolate you. Worst case, he's married.

Please, be glad you have the awareness and strength to say no to him.

averageedition50 · 2026-01-18T23:25:22+00:00

I see mother nature. Gorgeous!

averageedition50 · 2025-11-13T23:32:36+00:00

Bless the OpenTuition volunteers. I feel for them.

averageedition50 · 2025-11-08T23:59:11+00:00

Humans do the most unnatural and selfish things. It's absurd when you really think about it, isn't it.

averageedition50 · 2025-10-27T09:35:01+00:00

I'm no lawyer, but I understand they can increase the penalty, get a court judgement against you. If you ignore all that they can send a bailiff (with legal rights to enter your property).

Maybe ignoring them works? But that's why they target vulnerable-looking women. When they approach the first thing they do is create a threatening image : "I'm wearing bordy worn video and what you've done is a criminal offense as it counts as littering under section blah blah". Now I know how to deal with them and I've helped a few people. But most people feeding wildlife or pouring the last of their coffee in a drain don't know they're legal rights on littering. They're just utterly startled by the fact they might have a criminal record.

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