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tyson007 wrote:hi guys
I need advice on disabled parking on council land it's my neighbour she keeps parking on disabled parking bay forcing me a disabled person to walk half a mile to get a space way round the corner to my home. now I dare not mention it to her as she's quite brash and I have told the police who were not interested I told the council who said its not enforceable to remove her on yellow box parking space with a sign on a pole they say it's not there problem so what do I do leave a nice note explaining in 6 words "this is a disabled space only" I paid money for a blue badge there not free you know and she's not disabled has no blue badge and she can dump her car there and I am not the only disabled person in the street this surely can't be right can anyone give me advice
Godsgift wrote:....and people here can be just as pig ignorant as they are there.
Josef wrote:just from curiosity what is your disability im perhaps generously presuming it extends beyond the inability to punctuate sentences this whole thing doesnt sound right to me there are several disabled people in your vicinity and one single space so even were this person to stop using the space your use of it would put several other people in the same position as yourself no and its half a mile to the nearest parking space really what an odd neighbourhood you have there
Guacho wrote:Has Dexter hacked Josef?
Josef wrote:Guacho wrote:Has Dexter hacked Josef?
There's pedantry and there's simple courtesy. If you can't be bothered to make your pronouncements readable, then you're in the tinfoil hat/UKIP brigade.
Delmont St Xavier wrote:I suffer from profound dyslexia and have withdrawn from posting in two forums as a matter of principle because the 'spelling police and grammatical henchmen liked nothing more than to point to my errors (whilst loading their own rebukes of my post with often past tenses and poor spelling). Often those who rebuked me, never knew the difference between 'there, their and they're' and when it came to, 'two, too and to or it's and its - it became laughable if not ironic.
However, more than anything it was sad that a 'disability' was mocked so openly in a forum and instead of welcoming a newbie or someone who fails to grasp the basic rudiments of language due to the condition, instead many mocked or decried the posting. It happened to me and it happened to others and in some ways forums such as these remind me of churches, people want new blood, they want new posts, new threads to debate, pour over and enjoy and as soon as someone new arrives, someone different, the abuse starts.
I no longer contribute on Urban, or in Pat's West End and I rarely add anything on others and by the looks of things here with this thread, my days may well be numbered.
I wonder how folks would react to the visible disability of someone with a missing limb or disfigurement - most decent folks see it, try not to react and and compose themselves to spare embarrassment all round but on these boards, it seems fine to jump on someone who just does not conform to the English language writing skills.....Hey ho, Merry Christmas when it comes!
purplepantman wrote:Godsgift wrote:....and people here can be just as pig ignorant as they are there.
I'm finding that quite hard to believe.
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