yes i think traffic wardens are wholly unnecessary
it's just revenue making for the council. if anyone is genuinely that obstructively parked, the police can shift it.

now they are on commission, it's all about self-interest and there is no reasonableness about it - the number of times you see them loitering around cars where tickets are due to expire just so they can slap a ticket on it... no no no.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:28, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Do you not think that the police have a lot better stuff to do?
and in any case, no, they can't just shift cars.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:38, Reply)

well if they do, they don't do it
or not where i live anyway. so they might as well be shifting cars.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:47, Reply)

they can't.
obstructive parking isn't necessarily against the law. It's still cunty.

and I don't believe you really actually think the police don't have better things to do, you're too intelligent for that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:49, Reply)

correct, i am being tongue in cheek
i just really really hate traffic wardens, is all.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:56, Reply)

and somehow you can't see how traffic wardens
are not worse, as human beings, than lawyers?
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:57, Reply)

if you ever wanted to buy a house or flat
you'd be glad of lawyers, could save you getting a proper pasting. if you had a car accident, or any other kind of accident, you'd need a lawyer. if your employer shafted you, if you wanted to go self-employed and had tax issues, if you wanted to make a will to ensure everything went to the right place, if someone squatted in your home when you were on holiday, if someone accused you of a crime you hadn't committed (or that you had), if someone said defamatory things about you, if you wanted to go into partnership with someone, if you wanted to get divorced... you'd be glad of lawyers.

traffic wardens... you'd only be glad if you needed to find someone less popular than yourself or needed a halloween costume.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:01, Reply)

right okay, i see i am dealing with a moron.
never mind.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:03, Reply)

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( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:06, Reply)

outrageous
if i slagged off chefs, you'd probably leap in there and say-

well actually, probably "i don't give a fuck, shut up woman."

so what's for dinner then?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:07, Reply)

haha, i'd say generally they are a bunch of coke fiend wankers
but also generally that i don't give a fuck.
i made a leek and potato soup, early dinner, feeling a bit ill like.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:10, Reply)

i like leek and potato soup
see, we agreed on something. it wasn't that hard, was it?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:11, Reply)

it isnt as fun though is it,
let's be honest
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:13, Reply)

well no
but it does mean that you can't call me a moron without also calling yourself a moron
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:14, Reply)

:(

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:27, Reply)

So you don't like traffic wardens
because you feel you should be able to park wherever you like.
( Kroney, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:41, Reply)

well you are wrong aren't you
since traffic wardens, here at least, keep people off cycle lanes and from blocking disabled entrances. you can't just park anywhere, and there is usually a reason for that.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:54, Reply)

omg omg omg
cycle lanes are even worse. they are built for cyclists, scumsuckers of the worst sort. block them all, i say, preferably with the cyclists trapped inside them with no food or water or toilets. then hopefully they might all eat each other and give the rest of us some peace from their wingmirror bashing, red light sailing, pedestrian endangering, driver endangering, traffic slowing ways!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:58, Reply)

there is something deeply unpleasant about you,
as a person.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:00, Reply)

i have never been endangered, as a pedestrian, by a cyclist,
but cars, well.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:01, Reply)

try walking around london, it happens every minute!
i saw one twat nearly nail a baby in a pushchair the other night because apparently red lights don't apply to cyclists and they can zoom straight over pedestrian crossings without looking. the mother was in tears of shock and the cyclist had the nerve to yell at her!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:03, Reply)

i would like to see a chart comparing bicycle fatalities with motor vehicle fatalities.

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:03, Reply)

christ, i wouldn't
but cyclists make me have to watch my back as a pedestrian and to drive more slowly as a driver.

outside london they don't bother me at all. inside london the city is full of tools with no idea how to adhere to the highway code giving the good cyclists a bad name.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:09, Reply)

they should destroy london.
it is the only answer.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:10, Reply)

well they are doing their best
the cyclists and the traffic wardens, they really are
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:14, Reply)