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From: DavidR on 5 Dec 2009 19:42 "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote > MasonS(a)BP.com <MasonS(a)BP.com> wrote: > >> Look at the advert at the bottom right of this page. >> How much would the driver of this car pay? >> Should he be allowed on the roads having paid no VED? >> >> http://www.swldxer.co.uk/zmotormouth.jpg > > That's the car that emits less CO2 than the equivalent number of > cyclists you mean? Yep, all these cars carrying 5 people all in suspended animation are common as muck round these parts.
From: Steve Firth on 5 Dec 2009 20:10 DavidR <curedham(a)4bidden.org.uk> wrote: > > When you cycle, you exert energy over and above that of a person who is > > driving a car or walking. > > Cycling does not require more energy than walking. According to a bunch of cyclists, it does. Are you saying that they are liars?
From: Rob Morley on 6 Dec 2009 00:21 On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 01:10:13 +0000 %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: > DavidR <curedham(a)4bidden.org.uk> wrote: > > > > When you cycle, you exert energy over and above that of a person > > > who is driving a car or walking. > > > > Cycling does not require more energy than walking. > > According to a bunch of cyclists, it does. Are you saying that they > are liars? I'm guessing it does and it doesn't, depending on whether you're looking at emission over time or distance.
From: NM on 6 Dec 2009 03:03 On 6 Dec, 00:18, Peter Grange <pe...(a)plgrange.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:51:46 -0800 (PST), NM <nik.mor...(a)mac.com> > wrote: > > > > >On 5 Dec, 22:36, Peter Grange <pe...(a)plgrange.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 21:25:05 -0000, "mileburner" > > >> <milebur...(a)btinternet.com> wrote: > > >> >"The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message > >> >news:kMxSm.12217$Ym4.1027(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... > >> >> mileburner wrote: > >> >>> "The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in > >> >>> messagenews:uUpSm.11996$Ym4.7207(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... > > >> >>>> You have well & truly overstepped the mark pal. > > >> >>> Don't you see the irony? > > >> >>> Someone who fiddles their own tax who complains about those who do > >> >>> not pay the tax they are not subjected to. > > >> >> Once again you acuse me of tax fraund on a public forum. > > >> >If you *really* think you are the only person who is "someone". > > >> >Here's a few questions... > > >> >Have you ever taken cash for a job and not declared it? > > >> Frought with danger that. > >> A true story from a few years ago:- > >> A friend was wanting to build an extension. A local architect who did > >> extensions was asked round to the house to look at what might be done. > >> After a discussion about what was possible, my friend and his wife > >> were standing in the kitchen talking to the architect chappie. "If we > >> were to use your services, what sort of cost would we be talking > >> about?" says my friend. > >> "Well," he says. "it's not a big job so I don't think we need to worry > >> about the VAT too much, if you could pay cash, (knowing wink) you're > >> not a tax inspector are you (ho ho)" > >> "No," says my friend, trying not to laugh "I'm not a tax inspector". > > >> His wife was though. > > >So you are saying that she admitted she was a tax inspextor and > >insisted on paying the VAT or did she just shut up and let her husband > >handle it? > > IIRC, they didn't use him because someone else had a better plan for > their extension. Which wasn't really the point of the story, but what > would you know. > > -- > > Pete Only the part of the story that you chose to tell.
From: mileburner on 6 Dec 2009 03:05
"JNugent" <JN(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote in message news:H9CdnSxKBdV5eofWnZ2dnUVZ8rFi4p2d(a)pipex.net... > MasonS(a)BP.com wrote: > >> Of course, cyclists pay for motorways... > > Even you must be cringing at having typed that. There was me thinking that the government pay for motorways using the revenue they raised in taxation from the British people, which of course include cyclists. |