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Mate's dad (a postie) bought a second hand car that had previously belonged to someone in the UDR. Number plate was on an IRA list so the cunts blew him sky high in the Belfast Post Office car park. Didn't stop to ask themselves why a soldier would be parking in the Post Office every day.

Awful. Heard similar stories of just random bedford vans being hit and random bakers/builders/delivery drivers being killed because either side would ferry themselves round in the same vans.

They used to sit outside Palace Barracks and police stations taking number plates and then following or otherwise trying to find where they could bomb the vehicles - didn't matter of they were security forces or civilians (in their eyes, 'collaborators').

A mate was a painter decorator who was employed painting one of the bases. Instead of risking driving in, they had to be dropped in a field a few miles away and picked up by helicopter.

Anyone remember Bagger 288?

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/emajn/comment/c197ma9/

Have a look at On This Day PIRA on FB. The ‘collateral damage’ is shocking.

Todays grim link https://fb.watch/hZ8Z13dHZb/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-64220917

I can't find the hermes are shit thread.

It’s happening right now in the Rapha thread.

Pretty lol as I commented there earlier and Stockport is where I am.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64219939
London remains world's most congested city, report finds;

Cool, I just shared there.

Because of all the cycle lanes, obvs...

The report found Bristol had the UK's second worst road congestion, followed by Manchester, Birmingham and Belfast.

Good to see Belfast up there. Never before have I witnessed the intersection of 3 motorways being coordinated by a set of fucking traffic lights.

Lol. A city where a single car breakdown caused the entire city to come to a stop.

Not convinced. Something's off with their formula. There are dozens of cities with worse jams. This survey says London's only 55th. https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/worst-traffic-cities-in-the-world/8/

I think "hours of travel time lost" is not a very tractable metric. If you reduced all of London's speed limits to 5 mph congestion would decrease on this basis, despite journey times getting longer (or staying the same in some areas).

See also London if one of the river crossings closes.

Boris's latest holiday is in the Bering Strait...

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Shush you don't live in Belfast ;)

There definitely are a few weak transport points. Having to deal with a river that splits Belfast in half doesn't help.

Ballymena is worse! I’m almost all respects 😂😂😂

Evri spending millions to re-brand and disassociate from Hermes reputation and then getting even worse is incredible. They are so far and away cheaper than anyone else and are now doing international parcels delivery that are incredibly cheap too (and thats just on the consumer side) so I suspect corporate rates must be rather attractive.

And yet their turnover in the UK is over a billion with profits of £130m+.

People in the UK are just addicted to cheap things and fuck the social consequences or quality of product/service.

And they aint going anywhere either, they're owned by one of the largest and wealthiest private equity firms in the world.

Many people are just stupid and will pay £2.99 to get an £10 item delivered rather than buying it nearby for £12 with no delivery costs.

(The time they save doing that is often used up by chasing shitty couriers for said delivery too.)

no delivery costs

Maybe if the shop is next door. Otherwise you're looking at getting a bus/car for most people, which have associated costs. Not to mention to time taken to get it even if you walk/cycle.

£3 can be a bargain to avoid all that.

99p so I don’t have to leave the house? Perfect

If Evri really were that bad, surely their business wouldn't be growing so much?

I think there's an element of good old British grumbling to it too. That and their service is very variable.

I've never had an issue with them. Lucky I know but perhaps shit experiences are actually in the minority.

If Evri really were that bad, surely their business wouldn't be growing so much?

Um, hello, have you met capitalism? The recipients aren't Evri's customer.