General Discussion
I've just got home from work in Pinhoe and can't believe how wet it is here! Pinhoe and Exeter has been red hot and bone dry!
I think she was probably wearing Rosé glasses (if you get my drift) if she thought it was even half as good as Bridgwater's procession!!!
@FredBassett I'm sorry that you and your fairground colleagues will have taken offense at my choice of adjective. I agree that it was unnecessary and I apologise. I certainly don't want to take you up on your veiled threat. However the points I raised about this shambolic carnival are, I believe, otherwise completely valid.
The carnival was embarrassingly poor. 5 entries in the raft race, 2 entries in the tug of war (the carnival committee v fairground pikeys!!), and as for the pram race debacle??!! The procession was well attended by very patient spectators, but again the number of floats was well down on previous years. Time for change.
OK, I'll entertain you for a little longer, then no more, as this is getting ever so tedious. My maths might be poor, but I can assure you that my reading ability is 20/20. You wrote, quite clearly, "two-thirds of parking tickets are issued illegally". That statement is deliberately mis-leading, and in fact could be more accurately described as a lie. You say that 8 million tickets were ...
. I'm no mathematician, but 50,000 is a fairly small percentage of 8 million isn't it?. http://www.cookingthebooks.com
I don't park on double yellow lines, wherever they are, therefore I wouldn't have volunteered for a ticket in Teignmouth. May I add that your headline about two-thirds of parking tickets being illegal, is not just misleading but is in fact a downright lie.
Parking fines are voluntary. I've never had one in 35 years of motoring because I can read signs, see yellow lines and have enough intelligence to follow simple rules. If you volunteer for a parking fine, pay up and shut up. Any whining sounds childish.
