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Post by agent69 on Nov 2, 2024 20:08:43 GMT
And this week's award for stupidest person in the country goes to (drum roll please) ......... retired mechanic David Kelsall, who thought it was a good idea to buy a new EV, even though his house doesn't have a driveway and he has no way to park the car next to it. Mr Kelsall' solution was to park his car on the road and run the charging cable from his property across the footpath. Needless to say the council weren't impressed.
Not to worry though, he's spoken to his MP and is thinking of suing the council (although it's not clear what for). I wonder what he would propose if he lived on the 10th floor of a block of flats.
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Post by benaj on Nov 2, 2024 20:38:51 GMT
If he lives in a modern flat on the 30th floor, there might be secure underground parking with EV charger.
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Post by registerme on Nov 2, 2024 21:26:30 GMT
And this week's award for stupidest person in the country goes to (drum roll please) ......... retired mechanic David Kelsall, who thought it was a good idea to buy a new EV, even though his house doesn't have a driveway and he has no way to park the car next to it. Mr Kelsall' solution was to park his car on the road and run the charging cable from his property across the footpath. Needless to say the council weren't impressed.
Not to worry though, he's spoken to his MP and is thinking of suing the council (although it's not clear what for). I wonder what he would propose if he lived on the 10th floor of a block of flats.
Huh. I live in London. The VAST majority of houses don't have off street parking. Those that don't, and that have EVs, need to charge them somehow. The method I've encountered most is a cable snaked across the pavement. Most (maybe all?) I've encountered have fairly discrete little cable ramps / covers / ermm struggling for the right word. They're not perfect - they are a trip hazard (albeit less than not having them there), and they would be a hindrance for eg wheelchairs. But the alternative would be to either not have EVs or to have a comprehensive national EV charging solution. Sounds like standard Daily Mail outrage to me.
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Post by aju on Nov 3, 2024 11:40:59 GMT
I had a flu jab at a health centre a few weeks ago, under 65, I can’t remember being asked silly questions. Mrs Aju and myself both had flu and covid jabs yesterday at our doctors, Our appointments were for a certain time but the reality was we just walked in and had them even though we were quite a bit early. It was all very efficient, one in the left arm and one in the right. Didn't feel a thing at the point of delivery but later in the day we were both feeling it in our deltoid muscle area. Having had these injections quite a few times now it was unusual for us both to be so affected. Mrs aju was worse than myself and we are both dosed up with paracetamol so all in all small price to pay for protection.
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Post by bracknellboy on Nov 3, 2024 11:49:19 GMT
Just booked my flu jab at a nearby Tesco (doctors surgeries and pharmacies all appear to have run out). Was interested to see that one of the questions before you can book the over 65's jab was ' are you, or do you think you may be pregnant' That sounds like it was the online form. Though you say its the "over 65's" jab, plenty of other groups are eligible. I know when I booked it took me down the same pathway as it would have for over 65s, once I had ticked the eligibility criteria. So amusing as it might have seemed it seems entirely reasonable: it would be a bit pointless spend of additional money designing the online system to filter out those questions which aren't going to be applicable to certain groups. I would have thought.
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Post by agent69 on Nov 3, 2024 12:30:20 GMT
Just booked my flu jab at a nearby Tesco (doctors surgeries and pharmacies all appear to have run out). Was interested to see that one of the questions before you can book the over 65's jab was ' are you, or do you think you may be pregnant' That sounds like it was the online form. Though you say its the "over 65's" jab, plenty of other groups are eligible. I know when I booked it took me down the same pathway as it would have for over 65s, once I had ticked the eligibility criteria. So amusing as it might have seemed it seems entirely reasonable: it would be a bit pointless spend of additional money designing the online system to filter out those questions which aren't going to be applicable to certain groups. I would have thought. Over 65's get a different vaccine from everyone else.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Nov 3, 2024 13:54:29 GMT
That sounds like it was the online form. Though you say its the "over 65's" jab, plenty of other groups are eligible. I know when I booked it took me down the same pathway as it would have for over 65s, once I had ticked the eligibility criteria. So amusing as it might have seemed it seems entirely reasonable: it would be a bit pointless spend of additional money designing the online system to filter out those questions which aren't going to be applicable to certain groups. I would have thought. Over 65's get a different vaccine from everyone else. Moderna is preferred for over 65s, apparently gives better protection for older people, either that or Pfizer for everyone else.
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Post by bracknellboy on Nov 3, 2024 14:14:03 GMT
That sounds like it was the online form. Though you say its the "over 65's" jab, plenty of other groups are eligible. I know when I booked it took me down the same pathway as it would have for over 65s, once I had ticked the eligibility criteria. So amusing as it might have seemed it seems entirely reasonable: it would be a bit pointless spend of additional money designing the online system to filter out those questions which aren't going to be applicable to certain groups. I would have thought. Over 65's get a different vaccine from everyone else. That might well be so. But that doesn't mean the front end booking system to have your jab is or needs to be any different. They hold stocks of different vaccine types at the centres (and pharmacies) and they know in advance when you complete your booking from your details what age you are. Of course the system might be different: in my case (this year) I followed an invitation link for a dual covid and flu appointment, but my recollection is that it asked generic questions. Indeed I think it just asked "Are you eligible?" as the entry point.
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Post by adrianc on Nov 4, 2024 8:25:06 GMT
And this week's award for stupidest person in the country goes to (drum roll please) ......... ...to anybody who takes the Daily Wail at face value.
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Post by agent69 on Nov 4, 2024 12:22:53 GMT
And this week's award for stupidest person in the country goes to (drum roll please) ......... ...to anybody who takes the Daily Wail at face value.
However, the issue of people trailing cables across a public footpath and causing a trip hazzard is a serious one. If it were a contractor doing this they would need a risk assessment and £5m of public liability insurance (more likely the Health and safety people would say close the footpath). Bottom line is don't buy an EV if you can't safely charge it.
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Post by agent69 on Nov 4, 2024 14:33:54 GMT
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is set to announce that students in England will pay more for their university courses.
Is this the same Bridget Phillipson who earlier in the year (while in opposition) said the fees should go down?
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Post by james100 on Nov 4, 2024 15:19:23 GMT
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is set to announce that students in England will pay more for their university courses.
Is this the same Bridget Phillipson who earlier in the year (while in opposition) said the fees should go down?
Classic Starmerism (who previously said he'd abolish them). Shapeshifting statements of the past, dealing the great free drug Hopium. It will be interesting to see what the come down government approval ratings look like post-Budget - I think the next yougov one is due shortly. University funding definitely needs an overhaul though - and not just fees imo - and I gather this is a temporary position to stop a few institutions going under imminently.
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Post by registerme on Nov 5, 2024 14:49:40 GMT
Alistair Campbell, on "The Rest is Politics", repeating the words a Tory MP said to him when speaking of Kemi Badenoch - "She doesn't suffer fools gladly, which is a bit of a handicap when you're leading the Tory party".
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Post by adrianc on Nov 5, 2024 16:02:03 GMT
University funding definitely needs an overhaul though - and not just fees imo - and I gather this is a temporary position to stop a few institutions going under imminently. ...thanks entirely to the changes in student visas by the last government, especially restricting family members of post-grads. Who knew that might make putative post-grads go elsewhere, where they might be less unwelcome...? Apart from the financial angle, there's the research losses to UK science, and there's the soft-power losses.
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Post by benaj on Nov 5, 2024 17:18:28 GMT
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