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Being a humble plumber I'm not really up on scientific facts, but I would have thought regardless of the speed you are traveling at the same volume of pollution will be produced over the same distance traveled but one will be achieved quicker than the other. Any discrepancies would be minimal. Besides most people drive well over 80mph on the motorways nowadays......

I visit some property's and it might be infested with say cockroaches, the customer has more chance of winning the lottery twice a week for a month than of getting me to work with them. I also visit some people who think I will work in their property with no shoes on, well I have no idea whether or not they or their family or previous visitors have feet infections, I don't want it if they have, so I'll offer to wear shoe protector covers, if this is not acceptable to them I'm off. likewise some will lock the front door whilst your working in the property, if they do I ask them not to, if they insist again I'm off. I've met allsorts of fruitcakes during my working life and being locked in a flat with a schizophrenic on a 10th floor of a high rise and they wont let you go because they have no heating is not something I'd recommend. Most of the reasons I turn work down for are health and safety issues. 

As I don't have any major religious beliefs it doesn't really effect me. I think for those that do have strong religious beliefs then they'd be better off using a more diplomatic excuse, rather than blurting out I can't work for you because your gay or whatever. However untold legal fees are being spent nowadays on on people having to fight their corner whereas all things should be equal. Personally if I asked someone to do some work in my house, if they didn't like cats I would understand that, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest and I 'd go and find someone who was willing to work around them. We all have our quirks that someone somewhere will find offensive to work with...

I turn potential customers down all the time for a variety of reasons, none though for race, sexual orientation or any other PC reason. It always boils down to whether I want to work in a particular customers home, whether it's clean or not, does it stink? Whether or not I believe the customer can pay at the end of the job or not. Whether or not I get on with the customer at the quotation stage is a big factor, whether or not I can fulfil the customers expectations or not, many people have pie in the sky ideas. Working in London probably the worst thing you could do is to turn down gays and to make it obvious as to why you are turning them down. Because if you do you might just as we'll shut up shop. I have plenty of gay customers and they come from all walks of life, not my thing by any means, but I suppose because it is not a rarity in London anymore it doesn't bother most people 20 or 30 years ago I would have had a different opinion. One of my gay customers even sends me cupcakes for my birthday!

We'll I've travelled 42 miles to do a normal 17 mile trip simply because of road closures. On the bright side I've avoided the congestion charge... Heard on the radio that there was 1 million people lining the streets to cheer the cyclists on, just wondering who and what this 1 million people do, night workers? Stay at home parents? Unemployed? Cannot imagine someone taking a day off work to watch a group of cyclists whizz past in 30 seconds....

Which bright spark, decided to allow the Tour De France bike race to run through London on a Monday morning causing havoc for both businesses and motorists alike... I'm beginning to think that this country really doesn't about small businesses and how losing a days income can effect them...

I was always led to believe that a horse can use a public highway, simply because they have been around longer than a propelled vehicle. Although motorists generally pay for the road, if we ban horses should we ban pedestrians and cyclists too? As to the horse mess they don't leave anywhere near the amount of mess as some humans do on a Friday or Saturday night...

Well I buy a lot of boilers from Scotland, so I guess I'm an importer

As a young lad who often traveled through London as a kid I found high rise buildings fascinating and dreamed of one day living in one. As an adult having worked in many of them, there is nothing about them I find even remotely attractive. Would I prefer my £250k semi detached house, with trees, birds, foxes, squirrels and other wildlife and neighbours that talk to you? To living up in the air in a million pound pad, with plasterboard walls, no wildlife, no trees, restricted car parking, neighbours that just grunt at you when passing and views of other piles of concrete? I know where I'd rather be....

Originally Posted by Sharpink

“wonga applied threats towards those most vulnerable in society and senior managers of that company should (in my humble view) go to prison for much longer...”

Apparently the Students Loans Company, which is owned by the Government and overseen by Vince Cable is also up to the same tricks. So unless the Government also end up in the dock, Wonga will get away it....

I would say it would either be threatening behavior or demanding money with menaces..

Administration of Justice Act 1970 "Punishment for unlawful harassment of debtors.â€