How the disabled are ripped off

"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 21:45:57 +0100, Jim Thomas wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:40:48 +0100, Bill Wright
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Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

I am rather bored with this now, but I have been involved with small
business retail all my life and I can tell you that 1,000% mark-ups
are
never necessary. This is 'charging what you can get away with', also
known as 'charging what the market will stand'. It is the exploiting
of
a local monopoly made possible indirectly by the customers'
disability
and age.

Yeah right, that's why small businesses go bankrupt easily.

No, that's usually because of changing patterns of trade, out of town
supermarkets, ridiculous parking restrictions used as a means of
getting
revenue, refusal of older proprietors to change with the times,
outrageous rate demands, etc.

If you sell less stuff, you need to make more profit on each item. I
think your problem is that you think everyone is out to get you. Why do
disabled people think this way? From what I've seen most folk go out of
their way to help you lot.

They clearly don't with the prices they charge
for what they sell them with retail operations.

Small shop big price, nothing to do with disabled.

The prices they charge for what the disabled use
are much higher than with other small shops.

"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 21:51:39 +0100, Jim Thomas wrote:



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On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:43:31 +0100, Jim Thomas wrote:



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news On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:10:04 +0100, Jim Thomas wrote:



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news On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 17:31:40 +0100, charles

wrote:

In article , ARW
wrote:
"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
news On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 21:02:23 +0100, Bill Wright

wrote:

Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

A good service the disabled should be doing for the whole
country
is
getting rid of speedbumps. They're illegally discriminating
against
the disabled. My Aunt has severe spine problems and can't go
over
them at any speed.

Yes I know someone who has to take a long route to her mother's
because of that.

In Rotherham a common way to induce a birth is for the woman to
stand
up in her boyfriend's van whilst he roars around the roadhump
strewn
streets. This has been known to make the baby plop out.

(That was a joke by the way)

What annoys me is the amount of money my council spends redoing
streets
with potholes, which are a tenth of the size of the speedbumps.
Why
do they bother?

Speed bumps? What a stupid name. They cause you to slow down.

same with the phrase "near miss" which ia actually a near hit - but
a
complete miss.

Agreed, that always makes me laugh. Explaining the above doesn't
seem
to
help when I dodge traffic at high speed and frighten the passenger
though.

"The knack to flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground
and
miss."

You don't throw yourself at the ground.

Why not?

Because it works much better to do it the right way.

It's only carrier landings where the pilot does anything
like throw the plane at the ground and they don't miss,
they hit it where they need to hit it instead.

You might be thrown at the ground unintentionally.

That isn't throwing yourself at the ground.

Maybe you had to to avoid the plane you're dogfighting.

You don't throw yourself at the ground when dogfighting
and there is no dogfighting anymore anyway.

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In uk.d-i-y Rod Speed wrote:
Speed bumps? What a stupid name. They cause you to slow down.

I've never fathomed out why something which mounts to an
obstruction or fault in the road can contribute to road safety.

Presumably you actually are that stupid.

You don't get safety oil slicks to slow you
down so why have 'safety bumps'?

Because they do stop most of the traffic going
as fast as they would if they weren't there.

...and a patch of ice with a sign won't do that?

Much more difficult to maintain a patch of ice with
a sign on it to get people to slow down than to use
speed bumps which even you should have noticed
tend to last quite a bit longer than a patch of ice.

On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 22:45:35 +0100, Jim Thomas wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 21:51:39 +0100, Jim Thomas wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
news On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:43:31 +0100, Jim Thomas wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
news On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:10:04 +0100, Jim Thomas wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
news On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 17:31:40 +0100, charles

wrote:

In article , ARW
wrote:
"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
news On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 21:02:23 +0100, Bill Wright

wrote:

Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

A good service the disabled should be doing for the whole
country
is
getting rid of speedbumps. They're illegally discriminating
against
the disabled. My Aunt has severe spine problems and can't go
over
them at any speed.

Yes I know someone who has to take a long route to her mother's
because of that.

In Rotherham a common way to induce a birth is for the woman to
stand
up in her boyfriend's van whilst he roars around the roadhump
strewn
streets. This has been known to make the baby plop out.

(That was a joke by the way)

What annoys me is the amount of money my council spends redoing
streets
with potholes, which are a tenth of the size of the speedbumps.
Why
do they bother?

Speed bumps? What a stupid name. They cause you to slow down.

same with the phrase "near miss" which ia actually a near hit - but
a
complete miss.

Agreed, that always makes me laugh. Explaining the above doesn't
seem
to
help when I dodge traffic at high speed and frighten the passenger
though.

"The knack to flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground
and
miss."

You don't throw yourself at the ground.

Why not?

Because it works much better to do it the right way.

It's only carrier landings where the pilot does anything
like throw the plane at the ground and they don't miss,
they hit it where they need to hit it instead.

You might be thrown at the ground unintentionally.

That isn't throwing yourself at the ground.

Maybe you had to to avoid the plane you're dogfighting.

You don't throw yourself at the ground when dogfighting

Stop mincing words.

and there is no dogfighting anymore anyway.

Maybe it was a re-enactment.

--
Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the creator of human intelligence.

On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 22:43:36 +0100, Jim Thomas wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
news
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 21:45:57 +0100, Jim Thomas wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
news On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:40:48 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

I am rather bored with this now, but I have been involved with small
business retail all my life and I can tell you that 1,000% mark-ups
are
never necessary. This is 'charging what you can get away with', also
known as 'charging what the market will stand'. It is the exploiting
of
a local monopoly made possible indirectly by the customers'
disability
and age.

Yeah right, that's why small businesses go bankrupt easily.

No, that's usually because of changing patterns of trade, out of town
supermarkets, ridiculous parking restrictions used as a means of
getting
revenue, refusal of older proprietors to change with the times,
outrageous rate demands, etc.

If you sell less stuff, you need to make more profit on each item. I
think your problem is that you think everyone is out to get you. Why do
disabled people think this way? From what I've seen most folk go out of
their way to help you lot.

They clearly don't with the prices they charge
for what they sell them with retail operations.

Small shop big price, nothing to do with disabled.

The prices they charge for what the disabled use
are much higher than with other small shops.

Everything probably has to undergo safety tests or some such bull****.

--
I've never had a problem with drugs,
I've had problems with the police. - Keith Richards

On 27/09/2015 22:18, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

It's speed limit +10mph.
Not everywhere. There are some speed cameras that register an offence
if you are doing 34mph or more in a 30mph limit. Some were in north Wales.

Jim

On 27/09/2015 18:41, ARW wrote:
"Tough Guy no. wrote in message

"The knack to flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and
miss."


I never managed to master that knack.

If at first you don't succeed, then sky diving is not for you

On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 23:08:06 +0100, Indy Jess John wrote:

On 27/09/2015 22:18, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

It's speed limit +10mph.
Not everywhere. There are some speed cameras that register an offence
if you are doing 34mph or more in a 30mph limit. Some were in north Wales.

North Wales has an arsehole (more than police usually are) of a ****stable. In fact he'd do you for 31. In more civilised areas, they use +10mph. And higher if there are many speeders, so they get "the cream of the crop".

--
Confucius say lion with small penis must compensate with mighty roar.

On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 23:09:24 +0100, Indy Jess John wrote:

On 27/09/2015 18:41, ARW wrote:
"Tough Guy no. wrote in message

"The knack to flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and
miss."


I never managed to master that knack.

If at first you don't succeed, then sky diving is not for you

You can listen to thunder after lightning to tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it nevermind.

--
What do you call it when a blonde drives down the street with her head out the window?
Refueling.

On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 23:09:24 +0100, Indy Jess John wrote:

On 27/09/2015 18:41, ARW wrote:
"Tough Guy no. wrote in message

"The knack to flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and
miss."


I never managed to master that knack.

If at first you don't succeed, then sky diving is not for you

To determine how tightly to do up a nut, continue until you hear a crack, then back off half a turn.

--
What do you call it when a blonde drives down the street with her head out the window?
Refueling.