The grumpy thread

[skattrd]

Electricity/gas utility companies.

 

My account with Scottish power is slightly in debit, so they are putting my direct debit up by £20 pcm. Why? I have been with them for six months (winter) and my usage drops massively over summer (central heating off). If the DD stays at the same amount it has been for the last six months then by the time winter comes round again I will be in credit, without the increase they are imposing. I'm on a fixed tariff btw, so there is no price increase coming.

 

Why do they think I should be in credit with them?

They are a supplier, and it's normal to be in debit, it's standard business practice.

They supply goods/services, then I pay them.

They are not a bank and do not give me interest on my money if I am in credit with them so why do they think I need to be in credit with them?

 

I will likely be switching suppliers (again) .... Time to look for a decent tariff on an old school quarterly bill if such things still exist.

 

Apologies for the rant.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Just tell them you don't agree to the rise? Presumably they need your consent to start helping themselves to additional dollar from your account.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Hopefully the new smart meters will put an end to all this in debit/in credit estimated meter reading bullshit.

[skattrd]

Just tell them you don't agree to the rise? Presumably they need your consent to start helping themselves to additional dollar from your account.

They have been told to put my DD back to the original amount or I will be taking my business elsewhere.

The person I spoke to seemed unable to grasp or do this, so I'm waiting for a callback. I have also emailed them saying the same.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Just tell them you don't agree to the rise? Presumably they need your consent to start helping themselves to additional dollar from your account.

They have been told to put my DD back to the original amount or I will be taking my business elsewhere.

The person I spoke to seemed unable to grasp or do this, so I'm waiting for a callback. I have also emailed them saying the same.

 

 

Do not talk with them. Only written communication will do.

 

Interestingly enough, the cheapest supplier for my type of consumption (medium-to-low electricity, medium-to-high gas) is the slightly pikey company that goes by the name of Spark Energy, whose tariff explicitly states that you're expected to be in credit the whole time. On the upside, the savings from them seem to be considerable (over 10% cheaper than the next cheapest firm). Unfortunately, I can't take advantage of them as my block of flats is held hostage by the IGT scammers who charge suppliers £40 a year for providing a couple of metres' worth of pipe from the pavement to the boiler.

[trigger]

[dollywobbler]

Bugger. Minus eleventy seven points for that recovery firm then.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Oh no

 

Not that you can properly appraise it from that one picture, but it doesn't look like a total loss.

[Cavcraft]

I like Aston Martins and I like the sound they make. I don't, however, appreciate being overtaken on my bike by Delamere Forest by Captain Tiny-Cock and his hefty slag of a wife revving the nuts off their lawnmower-exhaust sounding DBWhatever, especially when they were that close to me. I wished I'd realised sooner (I though it was a motorbike) as at least one of them would have had a well chewed Wrigley's Extra in their eye or something.

Never mind, if I do spot old cockwand's car with the roof down one day we'll see how they cope with a piss stained interior.

[dean36014]

finally got a date today for the girlfriends op, 21st may. Its frightening knowing in two weeks that I'm going to be taking her in, and waiting for umpteen hours hoping she'll make a full recovery. Whats the chances the company i work for will refuse me the time off, I wouldn't be surprised at all.

[RedSparrow]

Reddit has joined facebook on the list of internet sites to avoid.

Arguing with (most) Americans is fucking impossible - even when you present them with solid facts they still refuse to admit the even might be a little bit wrong and start calling everyone 'beaners', 'terrorists' or 'eurofags'.

I wish China or someone would get a move on overtaking them as the dominant world power.

[Spiny Norman]

[shedvan]

Reddit has joined facebook on the list of internet sites to avoid.

Arguing with (most) Americans is fucking impossible - even when you present them with solid facts they still refuse to admit the even might be a little bit wrong and start calling everyone 'beaners', 'terrorists' or 'eurofags'.

I wish China or someone would get a move on overtaking them as the dominant world power.

 

WTF is a 'beaner'? Got to love insults that have no apparent meaning, makes it hard to give a damn

[RedSparrow]

Oh, beaner is for Mexicans. Probably because they use a lot of beans in their food(?). The people who do all the shitty jobs that Americans don't want to do, so that Americans can complain that they took all the jobs. In the UK, see Polish people.

[HillmanImp]

I had never been on Reddit until recently*. Have found quite a lot of good stuff on there but you have to sift through a fair bit to get to it. The one picture per post thread has seen most of the stuff I found on there (i.e. 3 pics).

 

I don't want to interact with the people on there though. Ugh! The thought revolts me.

 

 

 

*don't ever go on there and wonder 'What is that /r/gonewild/‎ thing they keep talking about' as its a bit hit and miss on whether you will be able to ever take your computer to PC world for a check up again.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I like Reddit but you have to fine tune it by unsubscribing from the crap and finding subreddits that interest you. Then it's a place full of delightful people and you get a nasty shock if you go there without logging in.

 

I like /r/ThriftStoreHauls/ for pictures of stuff people have found at carboots, /r/Pareidolia/ for pictures of faces in things, and there's /r/britishproblems and /r/firstworldproblems if you want this thread x1000.

[M'coli]

Drove the 11 or so miles to my local factor this morning to pick up,amongst other things, the pre-ordered headset for the 205. As I looked at the headset, with its copper o-rings, cam cover gasket, valvestem oil seals and the like, I noticed there appeared to be no head gasket. Turns out you can get a headset with no headgasket in it, and they'd ordered that one up. A headset with no heid gasket - who'da thought, eh? Fuckwits

[cort16]

The apprentice makes my head hurt. Too...many......arseholes...

[TimothyClaypole]

Finished work at 3.30pm, sat in the car park for 4 1/2 hours before setting off for home, thanks to my Astra having a fit.

 

RAC man turns up tries to start it then goes to check the starter with his meter and it started just from moving the wire to it...

 

(wire has been repaired before - he said it looked a good job but needs sorting again).

 

I'm not in the RAC either.

[Angrydicky]

I feel sorry for the Standard owner Looked a really nice example too.

 

Hopefully it will be repaired, and the recovery firm's insurance will foot the bill.

[Cavcraft]

The apprentice makes my head hurt. Too...many......arseholes...

 

My favourite programme that. The inordinate amount of self important gobshites makes their fall even funnier, and you can already see who's going to be the biggest twats on there.

[cort16]

Have you seen the canditate audition videos on the BBC website? What a horrendous collection of twats although it is entertaining.

 

Check out this fud.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018ccmc

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0071b63/clips

[eddyramrod]

Hope the old girl behaved herself on the way home, and that Roger wasn't too traumatised by the experience?!

Not only did she behave, she's continued to do so, and Roger wants first dibs!

 

Where's the bloody thread, Ed?

I'm uploading my snaps to Photobucket now, hold yer water!

[Cavcraft]

The apprentice makes my head hurt. Too...many......arseholes...

 

 

{cough} Irish doctor {cough}

[barrett]

on the way home the guy, who lives in London, was driving over the QE2 bridge when it over heated and cut out, he called for a recovery truck which arrived and attached the car to the back of it's dolly, whilst going down the M25 the car came loose, fell off and ended up in someones back garden.

 

That's horrible, I saw that car a couple of weeks ago and it was absolutely MINTOLA. I spent ages crawling all over it, one of the nicest Eights I've ever seen. that's mega depressing to see it like that, it looks pretty terminal now. Poor bloke...

[KruJoe]

What is truly horrible, is what Sam posted this morning (twice)- or did everyone miss it???

Poor lad's mate croaked it!

Condolences old chap.

 

Minor grump: I've managed to open a warren of tin-worm holes in the back arch of my 216. Some had been wobbed up previously. CBA / don't have time to fix properly this week, so Kurust and Gaffa tape it is for now.

While I was doing that, I forgot to renew my muti-car classic policy, so it expires in 30 minutes. What a twunt I am, FJ have sent me two letters and two texts of warning. I'll just have to get up early and ring them before I do owt in the morning.

[RedSparrow]

Just watching the new Apprentice now. You have to remember it is a reality TV show so most of the candidates have some serious personality defects and there are really only 3 or 4 viable candidates. It seems to be hardly worth Sugar's time, I'm sure he's got better things to do, but it has raised the profile of him and his businesses .

The fun part is watching the arrogant prats fail at really simple things and then seeing them trying to worm their way out of it. I bloody love the show I have to admit.

[fotorabia]

the weather must be improving..zero visibility..as the RAF-NATO have started careering their fucken jet fighters down Loch Sunart again..as soon as we get Independance we should start charging these flying fuck machines for violating our airspace and damaging my hearing nerves...

[dollywobbler]

Aye. We get the jets here in Wales too. Had a Typhoon light up the after burners right above my head last week. Noisy. (well, ok, several thousand feet above my head but it was still loud!)

 

This is the limit of my experience of The Apprentice. I'm happy to leave it at that.

[MrDuke]

Try living next door to a fighter training base Although I can't complain about it, as I knew what it would be like when I moved here. If I lived nowhere near a base but still had them screaming overhead, I'd be properly livid. Could you not make some very large letters to spell out deeply offensive messages to them?