Re: Kiosk Only ??? « Reply #15 on: August 07, 2023, 03:00:47 AM » Author: AngryHorse
Lol if you think this is bad, some supermarket chains in the UK are trialing ‘staffless’ stores, where to enter and shop for your groceries, you need an app on your phone! The next thing that’s coming is ‘pay per mile’ driving that will slowly transverse from the ULEZ scheme! Welcome to your new dystopia life!
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	Re: Kiosk Only ??? « Reply #16 on: August 07, 2023, 08:39:14 AM » Author: Rommie
Well we don't have 'smart' phones here, so nothing to put an 'app' on, so that's us screwed  This 'pay per mile' thing is what's really scaring me though, you'll be needing to buy 'carbon credits' to walk along the street before long. It's only coming in in London so far, but how long before it's everywhere..? We've already got a LEZ (Low Emission Zone) coming in here, with the minimum fee starting at £60 and doubling for each repeat offence, so you lot down south who are grumbling about £15-£20 or so or whatever it is in Englandshire, come up here..!  All this is making me increasingly glad I'm getting old and won't have to put up with it for much longer, well unless I live to 100 of course
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	Re: Kiosk Only ??? « Reply #17 on: August 07, 2023, 10:17:29 AM » Author: AngryHorse
I believe it’s also already in Manchester, Birmingham and Oxford too?, and although I work for a large car retail company, I actually half agree with it, not the ‘pay per mile’ bit, but reducing car use a bit! Yes, I’m a driver myself but there’s far too many people driving in the UK, and far too many cars on the road today! Me and the wife both work in different towns, but my commute is only 10 miles there and back from work each day, so since the beginning of June I have been cycling there! This saves us having a car each and all the costs that come with this! Oddly enough, to commute to work in car, in rush hour takes me 25 minutes, I can cycle this same distance, without stopping in traffic, at traffic lights, or on busy roundabouts in 35!, not bad for an out of shape, slightly overweight 51 year old!, so it’s not worth wasting petrol on! Yeah I’ve been caught in heavy downpours and wind, but this is part of the fun of cycling!  I just wish Cheshire had more cycling infrastructure like the kind they have in Oulu Finland
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	Re: Kiosk Only ??? « Reply #18 on: August 07, 2023, 12:01:07 PM » Author: Rommie
Reducing car use..? Listen you lot, having paid thousands for the thing and thousands more for the insurance, tax and fuel, you think I'm going to leave it at home and not drive it..? I didn't buy it not to drive it
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	Re: Kiosk Only ??? « Reply #19 on: August 07, 2023, 01:18:02 PM » Author: AngryHorse
I mean from a work commuting view, (your exempt having retired), there’s plenty of young fit people out there that live a few miles from work but still drive  Maybe try a bit of human engine power to get to work and back?, just save the car for long journeys and shopping trips?
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	Re: Kiosk Only ??? « Reply #21 on: August 08, 2023, 02:54:18 AM » Author: AngryHorse
Oh the UK is currently going on an all out war towards the motorist!, but I agree with what you say about cycling lanes!, although Canada is way ahead of us in that respect  , places like Calgary and Montreal have got pretty good cycling infrastructure from what I have seen. We have only one cycle Lane on my route to and from work which is really good, (although it’s only a painted one)! The problem with Cheshire are the roads are just not wide enough like the ones you guys have in North America, most of our roads in our town are just tarmac over the old cobble stone from the early 1900s!, theres a lot of wasted space taken up by hedgerows and grass verges still in Cheshire that could be made into pedestrian and cycling lanes, but there isn’t much of a will to do it in car obsessed Britain at the minute!
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	Re: Kiosk Only ??? « Reply #23 on: August 20, 2023, 04:18:15 AM » Author: AngryHorse
Is this maybe why nearly all self checkouts here now film you as your putting your stuff through? Although me and Jo walked out of our local Morrisons yesterday lunch time and set all the door alarm’s off, (we had paid for everything and had the receipt to prove it), but even then, not one of the security came after us???
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	Re: Kiosk Only ??? « Reply #24 on: August 20, 2023, 01:03:10 PM » Author: Rommie
Film..? 16 or 35mm..?  I'll get me coat...
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	Re: Kiosk Only ??? « Reply #25 on: August 20, 2023, 01:20:46 PM » Author: wide-lite 1000
70mm Imax !
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	Re: Kiosk Only ??? « Reply #27 on: August 20, 2023, 04:24:00 PM » Author: Rommie
We get those stupid little delivery bikes around here, they're electric but have pedals, and somehow they seem to have escaped the licensing people and whiz about all over the place totally disregarding road laws; one nearly came close to death yesterday as I was reversing into my parking space, I never saw or heard him at all, stupid little [insert expletive of choice]    Of course if I'd hit him, it would have been my fault
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	Re: Kiosk Only ??? « Reply #29 on: August 20, 2023, 11:12:59 PM » Author: wide-lite 1000
I recently got behind a guy riding a normal bike in the middle of the lane ! I was stuck behind him running only 20 mph in a 45 for a couple of miles before he finally turned onto a side street !    If you can't keep up with the speed of traffic , GET OUT OF THE WAY !
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