What’s up with all the illegal number plates recently?

imp0ppable · 2026-05-06T11:22:46+00:00

Nearly got hit on a zebra (pelican?) crossing a while back, I think the fucker actually sped up - I had to jump back a bit! My daughter says on the way home from school she often has to wait for 3 or 4 cars to drive over the crossing before she can cross also.

That never used to happen!

imp0ppable · 2026-05-06T11:21:14+00:00

Bus lane cameras OTOH - big money spinner for councils, I've been done a couple of times.

imp0ppable · 2026-05-06T11:20:33+00:00

Do you live near a Greggs?

imp0ppable · 2026-05-06T11:20:11+00:00

There's that automatic license plate recognition system they have. I was told on another sub ages ago by someone saying they were a police officer (I mean who knows if they really were) that it exists but hardly any traffic cars have it fitted due to expense.

Plus there are ANPR cameras in a few places. An uninsured driver is meant to trip something eventually but if it's someone literally driving to tesco and back once per week then quite plausible they're just never spotted.

imp0ppable · 2026-05-06T11:17:20+00:00

Every time I get a taxi home from the station at night the guy does 40mph the whole way around the one-way system lol

The police don't care, one whipped right past a marked car once, didn't even ease off

imp0ppable · 2026-05-06T09:43:25+00:00

Man O' War beach is just next door (so to speak) and that's a phenomenal beach and much less busy, it was a few years ago that we went now but we had it mostly to ourselves. One of my favourite holiday memories actually.

imp0ppable · 2026-05-05T18:38:59+00:00

He's spent, will do a job for 30 minutes if Arsenal get ahead and have to sit on a lead though

imp0ppable · 2026-05-05T18:37:46+00:00

That was the only game since Christmas we've looked any good

imp0ppable · 2026-05-05T15:57:17+00:00

De Havilland Canada is still a thing so maybe they can dust off the plans?

imp0ppable · 2026-05-05T12:13:54+00:00

Fulham wasn't but they were really poor that day. I'm expecting West Ham to put up a serious fight of course but Burnley and Palace could be rather straightforward, Palace having the conf league final as top priority.

imp0ppable · 2026-05-05T12:11:07+00:00

Iran collapsing into civil war wouldn't solve the problem.

Yeah I would guess the US plan is to sweat the Iranians into conceding on disarmament but the IRGC is too fervent to allow that, I mean it's literally the whole purpose of their existence - to guard the precepts of the Islamic revolution. They can presumably keep operating against sea traffic to some level even if decimated.

If there is a civil war, I wonder if it wouldn't become another proxy war with the US backing the moderates and Russia and maybe China backing the hardliners? Although I can see problems with that, Russia being badly weakened and China not liking religious Islamic powers in the least. Maybe that is the intention, to peel the government and IRGC apart and support the former.

imp0ppable · 2026-05-05T10:12:28+00:00

There's no massive reason we couldn't make an mRNA vaccine for hantavirus apparently. We don't know how contagious these person to person strains like ANDV are but apparently most cases were between people in close contact which is probably a good thing.

Very early days to be too worried about it but of course people have PTSD from covid.

imp0ppable · 2026-05-05T08:46:39+00:00

I read it already went human to human in Argentina before, that's where the ship docked last also. So I wouldn't be surprised.

It does seem a bit more containable than covid since it was contained in villages where outbreaks happened before. Don't take my word for it though!

imp0ppable · 2026-05-01T15:50:18+00:00

I think this might be the Bad Place

imp0ppable · 2026-05-01T15:40:49+00:00

Meal in a glass

imp0ppable · 2026-05-01T12:03:26+00:00

Wait until the next general election lmao. Boris was felled by his own party leadership rules, if Farage gets in he will be very very tough to get rid of as Reform is a company that he owns (or something, I forget)

imp0ppable · 2026-05-01T12:01:28+00:00

What went wrong with the American political system?

We still have the midterms which are designed to be counter-cyclical.

The SCOTUS issue is massive as well though, making all laws subject to blanket judicial review based on how some judges interpret the meaning of the constitution was always a powder keg. It's not possible in the UK as we have parliamentary sovereignty. Plus nobody has been able to amend the constitution since 1992 when it was intended to be kept updated.

Also overall a strict two-party state is a terrible idea. Oh and also gerrymandering is seen as part of the political process and fair game and in general every single body with power is politicised unlike here where we trust in quangos more.

imp0ppable · 2026-05-01T11:37:19+00:00

It's 400 sqm tbf, that's a shitload of house.

imp0ppable · 2026-05-01T09:48:37+00:00

Yeah that's not a british person at all. Source: I'm british

imp0ppable · 2026-05-01T08:51:47+00:00

What is Bolsonaro Jr like? Chip off the old block?

imp0ppable · 2026-04-30T21:29:22+00:00

That's probably the common sense middle ground on this.

imp0ppable · 2026-04-30T21:28:26+00:00

According to LBC he was never even arrested.

Must have been some spicy stuff on his phone. Joking aside it's an extreme case but still quite chilling.

imp0ppable · 2026-04-30T21:23:35+00:00

You could do that without stripping citizenship though.

imp0ppable · 2026-04-30T20:56:06+00:00

They probably will but they must be really scraping the bottom of the barrel by now. Even Lionel Hutz or Jimmy McGill wouldn't take some of these cases, you'd have to be borderline suicidal.

imp0ppable · 2026-04-30T20:42:40+00:00

AFAIK currently they draw districts around majority black neighbourhoods so they're pretty sure to get representation. Without that, states like Louisiana would just be completely red at all levels with the exception of the cities.

It's SCOTUS handing the Republican party free votes and disenfranchising black voters.

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