Today I'm angry about.....

[thebish]

I genuinely thought the Torys had the interests of the UK at heart but...

you hopeless romantic old fool!

[mrkint]

cycling grumble #239843

Walking near Liverpool Street station yesterday. pedestrians crossing road, cyclists just rams straight through them as they are crossing shouting the immortal phrase: "Sorry, my brakes don't work!"

Oh so that's ok then? Maybe it shouldn't be on the fecking road in the first place!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Seagulls. Inland. One's just shat on my head. Dirty bastard, fxck off back to sea!

[mrkint]

[thebish]

Seagulls. Inland. One's just shat on my head. Dirty bastard, fxck off back to sea!

technically... no such thing as a "seagull" you imagined it!

[Athers]

I've always thought a good political move would be to remove the 5% VAT which we pay on our fuel bills. Fuel is surely more like baby food than luxury chocolate. Bet it's a nice little source of tax revenue though...

11% goes to renewable energy according to the BBC article today..

..and about 5% apparently is the profit margin of the firms. To be honest 5% isn't much and it's tempting to think that if all the big six were somehow to become one giant nationalised company that they would soon be double-digit less efficient.. Hmmm

but 10% up is a big ffs to everyone in the country, one of the few things we can all be united about.

Some of those companies produce energy and 'sell' it to themselves. The 5% Profit is likely what the retail side of their business makes. The producing side most likely makes much more. If you look at what the overall business makes and the dividends they pay out (whilst pleading poverty when it comes to investment) it goes to show what a sham it is.

Even accounting for that it doesn't look too ghastly overall



Vs Europe



Source: http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/10 ... s-profits/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I just don't think it's a) as clear cut as pure profiteering and b) not as bad versus our peers as others make out. Even Germany & the Nordics, who seem to get most things right, are paying a fortune.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Seagulls. Inland. One's just shat on my head. Dirty bastard, fxck off back to sea!

technically... no such thing as a "seagull" you imagined it!

Technically... a gull of the seabird family Laridae, either a Scunthorpe Herring Gull, or a Fat-arsed Laughing Gull. Whichever, it can still fxck off back to sea.

[Bruce Rioja]

Seagulls. Inland. One's just shat on my head. Dirty bastard, fxck off back to sea!

Serves you right for scavenging on the tip.

[TANGODANCER]

Seagulls. Inland. One's just shat on my head. Dirty bastard, fxck off back to sea!

technically... no such thing as a "seagull" you imagined it!

Is it in the same category as a sea-kayak?

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I've always thought a good political move would be to remove the 5% VAT which we pay on our fuel bills. Fuel is surely more like baby food than luxury chocolate. Bet it's a nice little source of tax revenue though...

11% goes to renewable energy according to the BBC article today..

..and about 5% apparently is the profit margin of the firms. To be honest 5% isn't much and it's tempting to think that if all the big six were somehow to become one giant nationalised company that they would soon be double-digit less efficient.. Hmmm

but 10% up is a big ffs to everyone in the country, one of the few things we can all be united about.

Some of those companies produce energy and 'sell' it to themselves. The 5% Profit is likely what the retail side of their business makes. The producing side most likely makes much more. If you look at what the overall business makes and the dividends they pay out (whilst pleading poverty when it comes to investment) it goes to show what a sham it is.

Even accounting for that it doesn't look too ghastly overall



Vs Europe



Source: http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/10 ... s-profits/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I just don't think it's a) as clear cut as pure profiteering and b) not as bad versus our peers as others make out. Even Germany & the Nordics, who seem to get most things right, are paying a fortune.

I suspect (I don't know), but knowing how it works in the UK, most of the investment will come from the government, whereas in other countries it will likely come from profit - hence higher margins needed. Take water. no real investment that makes a difference. Anyway. I have a lower water bill in the desert than I did in a wet part of England. Go figure!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Seagulls. Inland. One's just shat on my head. Dirty bastard, fxck off back to sea!

technically... no such thing as a "seagull" you imagined it!

Is it in the same category as a sea-kayak?

Don't start that again, it was traumatic enough last time around

[Athers]

Anyway I've just changed to Scottish Power through QuidCo (£42 cashback this way). Rates cheaper than SSE are charging me and fixed until March '15.

I've done it online so we shall see if it works..

[Gary the Enfield]

Anyway I've just changed to Scottish Power through QuidCo (£42 cashback this way). Rates cheaper than SSE are charging me and fixed until March '15.

I've done it online so we shall see if it works..

I've switched from British Gas to Marks and Spencers.

£20 voucher and £250 a year savings (based on current usage). Fixed until December 2014. No tie in.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Anyway I've just changed to Scottish Power through QuidCo (£42 cashback this way). Rates cheaper than SSE are charging me and fixed until March '15.

I've done it online so we shall see if it works..

I've switched from British Gas to Marks and Spencers.

£20 voucher and £250 a year savings (based on current usage). Fixed until December 2014. No tie in.

Do you get free thermal undies?

[Gary the Enfield]

Anyway I've just changed to Scottish Power through QuidCo (£42 cashback this way). Rates cheaper than SSE are charging me and fixed until March '15.

I've done it online so we shall see if it works..

I've switched from British Gas to Marks and Spencers.

£20 voucher and £250 a year savings (based on current usage). Fixed until December 2014. No tie in.

Do you get free thermal undies?

No. But I can claim my ham shandy from Doris in soft furnishings (redeemable up to November 30th).

[malcd1]

Anyway I've just changed to Scottish Power through QuidCo (£42 cashback this way). Rates cheaper than SSE are charging me and fixed until March '15.

I've done it online so we shall see if it works..

I've switched from British Gas to Marks and Spencers.

£20 voucher and £250 a year savings (based on current usage). Fixed until December 2014. No tie in.

I've just switched to M&S Energy but to prevent the 15% increase that First Utility were charging me after another 12 month deal ended. I think M&S will be about 5% more than I paid last month.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Anyway I've just changed to Scottish Power through QuidCo (£42 cashback this way). Rates cheaper than SSE are charging me and fixed until March '15.

I've done it online so we shall see if it works..

I've switched from British Gas to Marks and Spencers.

£20 voucher and £250 a year savings (based on current usage). Fixed until December 2014. No tie in.

Do you get free thermal undies?

If they claim to have run out don't panic. M&S in Dubai have shelves full of them

[Montreal Wanderer]

Seagulls. Inland. One's just shat on my head. Dirty bastard, fxck off back to sea!

We have some seagulls in Montreal (1000 miles inland) but we have millions of pigeons. The ground is covered with their excrement in places. One got me on the shoulder about five years ago. This made me realize that I had spent the previous forty years walking through acres of the bloody things without getting shat on. Nor have I been hit since. It seems a rare occurrence which struck me as odd. I believe some societies consider it lucky and you are not supposed to wash it off. There was also a long shaggy dog story about the Foo bird and the custom of not washing. The punch line was, as I recall, "if the Foo shits wear it".

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Seagulls. Inland. One's just shat on my head. Dirty bastard, fxck off back to sea!

We have some seagulls in Montreal (1000 miles inland) but we have millions of pigeons. The ground is covered with their excrement in places. One got me on the shoulder about five years ago. This made me realize that I had spent the previous forty years walking through acres of the bloody things without getting shat on. Nor have I been hit since. It seems a rare occurrence which struck me as odd. I believe some societies consider it lucky and you are not supposed to wash it off. There was also a long shaggy dog story about the Foo bird and the custom of not washing. The punch line was, as I recall, "if the Foo shits wear it".

I don't belong to the section of humanity that considers it lucky. In fact I belong to a sub-tribe that considers it bloody unlucky to get shat on from height. Needless to say I washed it off my hair and lughole as soon as possible, and spent an half hour or so with a soggy head (being at work the drying facilities are spartan if its any part of your body you cannot slot into the superfast blade drying thingymajig).
Strangely enough that's not the first time I've been had in my life. Maybe they're targeting me! The worst was ages ago in Edinburgh. I was just about to tuck into a scrumptious fish supper (as they say in Scotland) when I was dived bombed by a large thing that I took to be a sea eagle from the amount of shit it squirted over me and my chips, but was probably just a tern or someat.

[thebish]

Seagulls. Inland. One's just shat on my head. Dirty bastard, fxck off back to sea!

We have some seagulls in Montreal (1000 miles inland)

no you don't!