BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[PurplePenguin]

As this is the thread to moan about my friend Dan Neidle... I was searching the web for an already created calculator which compared the tax impact of LLPs and Ltd companies given the possible incoming tax raid. I was delighted to discover someone had created one, but then I found that it was inaccurate. Imagine my shock to discover the author was Mr Neidle.

By author I mean he actually authored the spreadsheet. He didn't just published someone else's work. Perhaps he should get some credit for that.

 

[Psamathe]

Woman fined £150 for pouring coffee dregs down the drain?
this is crazy. My understanding is that most rainwater drains end up in the sewer anyway?
what is a responsible way to pour away cold coffee?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg435gg66gpo

Confess that in the days when I used to smoke, walking on pavement and getting to the end of a "nail" I'd often look for and use a road drain. I regarded it as better than just leaving squashed butt ends (ignoring what an unsociable habit it was).

 

[First Aspect]

Confess that in the days when I used to smoke, walking on pavement and getting to the end of a "nail" I'd often look for and use a road drain. I regarded it as better than just leaving squashed butt ends (ignoring what an unsociable habit it was).

Look this will just be an example of a council never being able to be wrong. If you follow their reasoning then everyone washing their car on the street is going to get fined.

 

[Pblakeney]

Confess that in the days when I used to smoke, walking on pavement and getting to the end of a "nail" I'd often look for and use a road drain. I regarded it as better than just leaving squashed butt ends (ignoring what an unsociable habit it was).

Cigarette butts are most definitely litter.
I have no clue as to where smokers got the idea that they just evaporate into the ether.

 

[Beebo]

Look this will just be an example of a council never being able to be wrong. If you follow their reasoning then everyone washing their car on the street is going to get fined.

The council said the dregs should go in the public waste bin.
But then that would leak out everywhere making a bigger mess and then get washed away by the rain.
So I agree it’s total nonsense.

 

[First Aspect]

The council said the dregs should go in the public waste bin.
But then that would leak out everywhere making a bigger mess and then get washed away by the rain.
So I agree it’s total nonsense.

Dregs of what? Do they think she's walking around with a caffitierre? Nanoparticles suspended in homogenised milk?

 

[BoldonLad]

If she had the time or energy she could probably challenge the fine on the basis of "pollute".

Dont know if she actually challenged it, or, if the Council just thought better of it, but, according to National BBC News, this evening, fine has been cancelled.

 

[First Aspect]

Dont know if she actually challenged it, or, if the Council just thought better of it, but, according to National BBC News, this evening, fine has been cancelled.

Court of public opinion. I love how they acknowledge on the one hand it was likely to be successfully appealed (meaning it wasn't justified) and on the other hand saying the transgression was "minor". Those are contradictory.

Its like, "I'm sooorrr-yauayaua", "I apolooolllll-ugh.", "I was mistak-lalalala" Nope, I can't quite say it.

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm pretty sure that much more crap goes down road drains from traffic, not least rubber and brake dust that gets washed off the road.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

I'm pretty sure that much more crap goes down road drains from traffic, not least rubber and brake dust that gets washed off the road.

A significant proportion of drains here and surrounding areas are now blocked to the point that any significant rainfall causes flooding all over the place.

 

[Bazzer]

A significant proportion of drains here and surrounding areas are now blocked to the point that any significant rainfall causes flooding all over the place.

Can the local councillors not take it up and try to get one of those tankers with a brush and hose to sort out the drains?
Where I live regularly had flooding. For example, thanks to a dip in the road, after a decent spell of rain the road outside the parish church would be 15 -20 metres of (easily) 250mm standing water.
On another road with a slight incline, every drain for a half mile stretch was blocked. - I know because I walked it during a downpour.
As if by magic, once the drains had been cleaned, the problems almost entirely disappeared.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Can the local councillors not take it up and try to get one of those tankers with a brush and hose to sort out the drains?
Where I live regularly had flooding. For example, thanks to a dip in the road, after a decent spell of rain the road outside the parish church would be 15 -20 metres of (easily) 250mm standing water.
On another road with a slight incline, every drain for a half mile stretch was blocked. - I know because I walked it during a downpour.
As if by magic, once the drains had been cleaned, the problems almost entirely disappeared.

Very occasionally they will come out and clear a single drain if a road is so badly flooded you can't get traffic through it. That's about the grand total though. I suspect there are now so many partially blocked drains that they haven't got the resources to go and do them all. You are right though, if they cleared them it would massively reduce the problems caused by heavy rain.

 

[Ian H]

Very ocassionally they will come out and clear a single drain if a road is so badly flooded you can't get traffic through it. That's about the grand total though. I suspect there are now so many partially blocked drains that they haven't got the resources to go and do them all. You are right though, if they cleared them it would massively reduce the problems caused by heavy rain.

Gully suckers. You could make a song about them to the time of 'I'm a pheasant-plucker'.

 

[PurplePenguin]

OK, thanks PP, though to be fair to him, I suspect that if you politely pointed that out to him, he would be prepared to be educated. As someone who generally finds tax extremely dull, I do think he does a good job of making it much less dull.

I've politely pointed out an error in his tax calculations (LLP vs LTD). No change or acknowledgement so far.

 

[briantrumpet]

I've politely pointed out an error in his tax calculations (LLP vs LTD). No change or acknowledgement so far.

OK, fairy nuff. Spurned. And yes, that would annoy me too.