Epic WTF

We had an early edition of the Casio Exilim series. 2 megapixel I think, and obviously a toy but I always thought that it was beautifully designed.

Me too - jewel of a camera in design terms

People park their cars outside my house for weeks on end and block the light. That is why I bought a Range Rover to preserve my space and keep them away from my house.

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That's wild

Could have bought an Evoque

I remember a mate having the apple QuickTake 100 camera. 0.3 megapixel apparently

Fancy!

My first was a Kodak DC20 which took 493 X 373 pixel photos, of which 8 could be stored in memory. Serial connection for data transfer. Cost me £99 in 1997...a small fortune!

In hindsight it seems incredible that by 2002 the tech had progressed enough for me to have a Canon Ixus that was good enough to become my main camera.

A couple down the road from me have off street parking for both their mercs. But because a neighbour opposite occasionally had visitors who parked outside their house they went and bought a fiat panda, simply to deter anyone parking there.
I noticed the car and was kind of interested in it. When I bumped into them I asked about it and without the slightest shame told me why they’d bought it. They have absolutely no intention of using it, despite all their driving being on their own and really local. It’s the perfect car but it will never move except for trip to the mot centre once a year.
I wonder how common this is?

I wonder how common this is?

Reasonably common. Someone down my road has an old dihatsu thing outside his house to stop other people parking there. What's extra cunty is you could fit two cars in the space easily, and not everyone has driveways.

Stick a note on the windscreen explaining why it's there for all to see

YPLAEBCTTO stickers required.

Even bigger... than the others

On a similar, although only a bit, theme;

The street running down the side of my property is a dumping ground for taxed and MOT’d cars that never move. In the six years or so that we’ve lived there I would estimate that ten cars have been parked there until they settle to their rims before disappearing for a day to come back with a new MOT. Not all junkers either - one was a 5l Merc with a custom flip flop paint job.
I really don’t understand what the scam is? There must be something going on.

People really are a bit bonkers, aren't they. Can't really compute the logic that gets them to buying a car to park in a specific place only to stop others parking in that place, even though they don't need the car or the parking space.

Yeah I'm really struggling with this tbh

There's an old guy that lives on the corner of the road by me, has two cars parked down the road THAT HE DOESN'T EVEN LIVE ON so he can protect access to the side gate of his garden, to get his other 'best' car in and out. The on-street cars move once a year for the MOT and us and the neighbours are always trying to get in his spaces on that one day of the year to wind him up.
Ultimately he's more bothered about it than everyone else so he gets the spaces back.

1. WAC
   
2. owning a house does not mean you own the road in front of it
   
3. Is his Range Rover translucent? surely it block as much/ more light than another car?
   
4. See point 1
   

A colleagues neighbour has one of these cars, they park it to make the turn into their drive easier. The road goes double yellow-neighbours drive-half a car space-blocking car. I parked my motorbike in the half space and went off with my colleague for the day the neighbour spent the day questioning the entire road as to whose bike it was.
When I came back they had reversed the blocking car right up to my bike and came out to watch me presumably in case I damaged a 5 year old Corsa.

https://www.gov.uk/report-abandoned-vehicle

So do these selfish pricks with a parking-reservation-car move it every time they arrive home, in order to park their 'best' car (twats) in the special space, in which case what a massive waste of time and effort, or do they leave them in the prime space all the time, in which case it negates the point of reserving the closest space to their front door or whatever. And makes it trickier for everyone else around them.

Absolutely mental and totally self-absorbed. In the words of Donald J. Trump, sad

belongs more in the golf thread

Mr Dixon bought his Range Rover to preserve his parking space, although he sometimes uses it for clay pigeon shooting

I share the general disapproval of the forum to these shenanigans, but have some sympathy in certain similar circumstances.

When I started dating my girlfriend, who lived in Putney, I had a somewhat nomadic existence partially living in an old VW van. When staying in her Putney flat I'd park the van in the first street that didn't have parking restrictions outside Putney on the edge of Barnes. The houses on that street are worth £2 mil a piece easy. I could see how having my shit van there for a week plus at a time may have been sub optimal to the residents, even if you discount that they probably wanted to park near their house and I wasn't the only person doing the dump and run. I disapproved of myself back then, and I still do today.

Now I can see the same happening near where we live in Kingston. First street out of the permit zone has a collection of shit vans and bird poo splatted bangers parked along it. Not ideal to look out on to.

I'm in favour of the "permits only between 9am and 10am type approach to this kind of thing. Free parking for most, but stops the perma parking and commuters using the streets as a car park.

dump and run

I wouldn't object to you parking in my street, but this is taking liberties.

Jaysus.

All of us in the street have lazy twats parking in front of our driveways and blocking us in every so often, cos walking another 20-50 meters when the local shop carpark is full is just...so, so, so, hard eh. I hang out angery looks on a semi regular basis, nothing like a good death stare when the offender walks back to their car.

Q the neighbour losing his shit to a supermarket lorry who didn't bother to reverse enough to clear the driveways.

But nobody would pull crap like this! But then nobody in this street has 2 mercs :p

I’m a perennial park n runner.
We’re not eligible to apply for a space on our eatate(part buy part rent with no kids) and because of the way the parking is arranged in Walthamstow I can’t apply for a street parking permit either.
Where they’ve slowly made more and more side streets restricted it’s just pushed everyone to park in the same couple of unrestricted streets nearby. It’s a daft system as just moves the issue around. Most of the streets that have recently become restricted have plenty of spaces available. Basically there’s more than enough parking to go around in these parts but it’s not really badly distributed :/

Some streets are used for that now for commuting parking in Belfast as the hospitals started to charge everyone (including the staff) for parking.

Technically it is legal as the car spaces / road spaces are not owned by the inhabitants but it is pissing off the locals.

Car dumping is quite rare here, though some ass had dumped a car on the footpath for months. You could still easily go past with a wheelchair etc, but come on... fix it or scrap it.

It's possible this isn't a scam, just a person who really likes cars but hasn't really worked out the sensible thing to do would be to have fewer cars and use the money to get a car storage unit.

A guy near me has about 10-12 cars (that I know of) and he uses a bit of on road, non-permit, free parking to store some of them. He seems to only keep 2 or 3 in running rotation at a time, the others will languish until I assume he gets bored of those 3 and gets a few of the others in driving condition again.