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General Car Chat / Oh...the penny has finally dropped

« on: 09 January 2023, 20:13:21 »

From money mail motoring:

Electric vehicles can be more expensive to fill up on the open road than their petrol and diesel equivalents as the cost of utilities continue to spiral.

Pricing structures at national charging networks mean that fees can be three times more than refuelling with fossil fuels on a mile-for-mile basis, given the greater ranges of petrol and diesel cars.

The Daily Mail found that the new Kia Niro EV would cost £51.19 to charge from empty with the Osprey network for a quoted estimated range of 285 miles.

The new Niro (mild) hybrid petrol variant would cost £64.70 to fill from empty at the current average UK petrol price of £1.54/litre. Although that is more than the electric vehicle (EV), it can cover more than double the range, making it cheaper mile for mile.

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General Discussion Area / Happy new year, all

« on: 31 December 2022, 20:01:03 »

I'm off to bed at around nine, got to get up at five to get the vegans to Birmingham airport for eight. I might not get to sleep, with fireworks and the like, but it's got to be better than New Year's Eve telly.
So happy new year. Have a good night tonight, I'm too old for all that drunkenness and debauchery.

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General Discussion Area / Ridiculous renewal palaver

« on: 29 December 2022, 15:17:39 »

Paid £99 for breakdown cover from the AA last year, got a renewal quote for £166 last week and ignored it because it runs till January 28th. Got a phone call today from them asking if I'd like to renew. When I said the price was too high she said she could knock it down to £150. Still to high, I said. She asked me to look around and see what quotes I could get for the same cover and could she ring me back at three. Looked around and got better cover from Green Flag for £76, I didn't mess around, I just bought it.
She just called back and asked me what I'd found, so I told her. She said she could do it for £75, so I asked her why that wasn't the renewal quote then and told her she was too late. She apologised and hung up, sans commission.

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General Discussion Area / What delicious irony

« on: 29 December 2022, 09:15:00 »

Teachers union leaders are worried that a postal ballot on strike action may have to be abandoned, because the ballot papers will not be delivered by the deadline due to.......a strike by postal workers

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General Discussion Area / Economy 7 price hike just for Opti

« on: 28 December 2022, 13:33:05 »

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-11577413/Customers-night-saving-Economy-7-energy-deals-shock-bills-hike.html

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General Discussion Area / Happy Crimbo

« on: 25 December 2022, 06:22:16 »

Happy Crimbo, all. Hope Santa brings what you asked for and your day goes as planned

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General Discussion Area / Poor little fishies

« on: 16 December 2022, 12:01:02 »

Berlin's giant AquaDom aquarium containing 1,500 fish explodes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63996982

Must've been some bang

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General Discussion Area / Trump has finally gone round the bend

« on: 16 December 2022, 07:40:29 »

Former US President Donald Trump launches $99 NFT collection https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63995563

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General Discussion Area / Brilliant Matt again

« on: 06 December 2022, 08:00:05 »

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General Discussion Area / If you catch the flu this season.....

« on: 05 December 2022, 09:05:04 »

.....watch out!
I have been in bed since Thursday evening and I still feel bad. Different bad since Thursday, but still bad. Started with a sore windpipe at teatime and, by nine o'clock was in full blown high temperature delirium mode. Constantly coughing, no idea what time/day it was. Friday is gone from my memory. Mo went to work (she has to) and the next time I remember seeing her was when I asked for some toast for breakfast and she told me it was seven o'clock Friday evening, not Saturday morning. She had cleaned the bathroom where I thought I had been for a pee but obviously lost my bearings

Coughing continued Saturday, until my rib cage was constantly painful but, all in all, a better day with lower temperature and able to eat stuff I fancied. Cakes, ginsters pasty, etc. Yesterday, I thought I was getting better and was making plans for today. Mo said I was an idiot (not for the first time) and that younger, fitter people at work were going down for a week with it and still looked like shit when they came back.
Had a strange, nightmarish night last night and today is the scariest day so far. Every half hour or so, the room starts spinning, my whole body tingles and I feel sick. Could do with someone to hold my hand

I am a worrier, and I have things to do and people relying on me to do the day to day menial tasks like shopping and cooking, but I can't. So now I feel guilty as well as ill.

If you catch it, look after yourself. It probably won't kill you, but it feels like it might.

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General Discussion Area / Football matches now subject to wokeism

« on: 01 December 2022, 17:41:46 »

Saturday afternoon, home game, few pints beforehand, call the ref a fat bastard and sing 'Who ate all the pies?, abuse the opposition, etc.
But whatever you do, don't catcall a female trainer who comes on to attend to an injured player, as happened at Barnsley. Or you'll cop for this lot:

"The club have been given an action plan by the FA which must be implemented by 31 December and will remain in place for the remainder of the 2022-23 season.

This includes conducting a full review of stewarding provisions and deployments, develop proactive supporter initiatives to address the potential for discriminatory supporter behaviour and deliver an appropriate diversity and education programme in association with the local authorities".

It's a football match FFS

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General Discussion Area / Anniversary meal

« on: 28 November 2022, 19:27:48 »

It's our anniversary today and, as it's a school day (literally

), I said I would cook something for when she got home. I asked her what she wanted and she said she really, really fancied a lamb roast dinner. Ok, no probs, and for pudding? Hot chocolate fudge cake with double cream. Easy.
Went to Asda this morning to get the bits, thought I'd start with the lamb. They had no half legs, just two full ones. Now, you can call me tight, and I know it's our anniversary and all, but I am not paying £28.50 for a leg of lamb. They can wedge it.
So she got lamb chops instead, £8 for 8.

Cue all the jibes about me being a big, romantic softie......not

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General Discussion Area / Rotherham CSE exploitation investigations

« on: 25 November 2022, 15:48:19 »

Still going on. Hundreds of children sexually assaulted by Asian men in the 70's, 80's and 90's. Police and social workers ignored the problem for fear of being seen as racist.
Well.......let's all forget about that, and have a jolly good time celebrating art and, erm, culture?

Rotherham to become first Children's Capital of Culture https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-63758697

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General Car Chat / WTF is going on here?

« on: 24 November 2022, 17:21:45 »

Another way to screw a few bob out of car buyers

Mercedes-Benz to introduce acceleration subscription fee https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63743597

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General Discussion Area / The NHS discussion has started

« on: 21 November 2022, 07:09:41 »

In Scotland, not England, and in a hushed-up, secretive sort of way, but they have started. Of course, it will be categorically denied that these kind of measures will ever be implemented, but the fact that they have even been mentioned shows just how bad things are becoming. In my opinion, it's time for a change, something's got to give and it's good that people are realising this.

NHS chiefs in Scotland discuss having wealthy pay for treatment https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-63659754

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