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He will probably have my opinion removed, watch that space.

RTR. You really should come down from your ivory tower, get on your high horse and ride away.

I have to say I retaliated when someone sped past me on an e scooter and shouted at me as he did so, he then waited for who was with him to catch up and as he went to pass me again my reflex action was to knock him off which resulted in him falling into a hedge, I am hard of hearing which he obviously didn't consider.

Well said Maggie, we lost a very dear close family member at the beginning of this year to Covid :-(. RTR ( the know it all as usual ) is spouting the usual hurtful inconsiderate crap as always. Wind your neck in RTR and consider other peoples feelings

Good grief, not an iota of concern for anyone else, just more, 'listen to me, I'm RTR, here are my opinions masquerading as fact', followed by yet more bullsh*t.
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Remove the mirror, RTR - the world doesn't revolve around you and your opinions.
Let me say this straight.
Some people have lost loved ones to covid - I don't expect anyone here has had a dear one killed by a electric scooter, yet you're saying they're worse than covid.
Do you know what? A dog turd has more empathy than you.

You are more likely to see the e scooter coming than the COVID infection.

Both can mean you end up in ICU but it is not a given. Both can kill you but, as yet, the numbers are not comparable.

RTR - The reason I put up the stats was because of your rather crass comment that
"unauthorised electric scooters which are a far bigger threat than covid"

An apology, or deletion, rather than justifying the comment is probably more appropriate. How about you take responsibility for being so insensitive.

Deaths by electric scooters - US - 30 UK - 4
There have been 1,545 scooter-related accidents in the US since 2017.

Deaths from covid - US - 616,000 - UK - 130,000

Electric scooters aren't really a 'bigger threat than covid', now, are they?

I agree, they're a pain in the neck, and should be regulated.
Most deaths (80% in USA) involved the scooter rider and traffic.

scooters are so dangerous not only to able bodied people but probably more so to those who have hearing problems or who are visually impaired or even elderly and slow at reacting. We first came across them in Lanzarote where they were all over the place horrid things.

Well everything that befalls people seems to be someone else's fault.

Have you noticed too now how cars take the blame for drivers? 'The car left the road'......'the car crossed the central reservation'..........'the car hit a tree'.......'the car plunged into water', 'flipped over twice'.........all this apparently nothing to do with the driver and how it was driven. I suppose it will become a correct description when we are in driverless cars!! :-D

I'm still pondering how anyone can eat at McDonalds :-0

I don’t need a picture of a chocolate bar to know I really want one.

Let it go Tawny. Life's too short. :-(

Harsh maybe but she gave up animal products and cannot have been totally ignorant of the fact that cheese is also an animal product.

I think the woman who nameless one was talking about, was actually warned by banks etc she was borrowing from, that she might be being scammed.

She ignored the advice, borrowed/sent the money off, and now feels the institutions she borrowed from, should reimburse her :-S :-S

A bit harsh Tawny. I have to admit to wondering if cheeseburgers were meat (flesh) free when they first came on the menu all those years ago. Perhaps she was starving and thought it was just cheese?

I don’t think the Russian woman was ignorant of what cheese or a burger are made from. I think it was more a case of she was craving what she’d given up and is now looking for someone to blame for her weak will power.

As for the woman who lost money she had borrowed, that is entirely her own fault and the bank owes her nothing. You would think though that people who borrow money have a bit more thinking time. Sadly as shown though time not always used in the right way

Sorry to be obvious but....

What did that Russian woman think cheese was made from?

There was a woman recently who was complaining the bank wasn’t refunding the money she was scammed out of. This money wasn’t from her accounts - she borrowed it and can’t pay it back.
Surely if you have to borrow the money you have a bit more time to realise you are crackers.

A girl aged 6 was staying overnight at granny’s house. Whilst there granny let the child play a game called Roblox on her android phone and the child managed to spend £200 buying things in the game.

The child did not put the game on the phone and nor did she add granny’s card details. As the mother of the child cannot afford to pay her mother in law back she thinks Roblox should refund the money for letting a child spend it in the first place.


Definitely a compensation culture