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I've a pre-pay gas meter that maxes out a single top-up at £49. There's also a hard limit on how many m3 can be loaded on the meter. Both of these entirely arbitrary limits are in place to prevent poors preloading the meter with 'cheaper' gas between when price hikes are announced and when they come into effect.
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forkboy84 posted:We work among the lowest hours, we retire early It’s insane that it only took a generation or two to see these as bad things.
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Aug 20, 2022 19:58
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:I've a pre-pay gas meter that maxes out a single top-up at £49. There's also a hard limit on how many m3 can be loaded on the meter. Have you tried not being a poor. I hear it's pretty nice and all.
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Aug 20, 2022 20:03
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So, are there any coal mines they could reopen to deal with the crisis?
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Crowsbeak posted:So, are there any coal mines they could reopen to deal with the crisis?
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ContinuityNewTimes posted:Someone needs to be in charge of destroying infrastructure outside of London i still don't get why London doesn't just go independent. It would actually give everyone what they want. London doesn't need the rest of the UK, and the rest of the UK is drained by London.
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ContinuityNewTimes posted:Someone needs to be in charge of destroying infrastructure outside of London Levelling it, you might say Regarde Aduck posted:i still don't get why London doesn't just go independent. It would actually give everyone what they want. London doesn't need the rest of the UK, and the rest of the UK is drained by London. Where would the rich Londoners live E: realtalk it's the brain drain where all the most educated workers in the whole country congregate in London. They can't lose that. That and the tax income. gonadic io has issued a correction as of 20:33 on Aug 20, 2022 |
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gonadic io posted:E: realtalk it's the brain drain where all the most educated workers in the whole country congregate in London. They can't lose that. That and the tax income. Regarde Aduck posted:i still don't get why London doesn't just go independent. It would actually give everyone what they want. London doesn't need the rest of the UK, and the rest of the UK is drained by London.
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It would be low key funny if the Tories did say they were promising to reopen the mines to deal with the energy crisis they created.
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Crowsbeak posted:It would be low key funny if the Tories did say they were promising to reopen the mines to deal with the energy crisis they created. Such a desperate situation that they: - open the coal mines - give milk to school children - nationalise utilities - sell the falklands to argentina
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Microplastics posted:Such a desperate situation that they:
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Microplastics posted:Such a desperate situation that they: Not going to happen but funny.
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:I've a pre-pay gas meter that maxes out a single top-up at £49. There's also a hard limit on how many m3 can be loaded on the meter. as a current not-poor i got offered a free install of a smart meter and took it and now they're contacting me to ask for a meter reading since that apparently isn't working and lol no. they're currently going bust why would i do that
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Just found out I got my first twitter 'probe'.
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is the cause of the energy crisis basically due to knock on effects from the european sanctions on russian gas? so the UK pulling out of the EU means they basically opted out of having any say in how to fix the issue?
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Please watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hp2XhGY8NU
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Valko posted:Just found out I got my first twitter 'probe'. that’s messed up. I bet you’d be fine if you were rich and famous https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1307107507131875330
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mawarannahr posted:that’s messed up. I bet you’d be fine if you were rich and famous
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Valko posted:Please watch this. I didnt watch your eleven minute video but are you seriously suggesting that the tory party is ideologically committed to dismantling public infrastructure in favour of vague "market based" "solutions"?
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Crowsbeak posted:So, are there any coal mines they could reopen to deal with the crisis? We don't have the coal power plants any more to make use of the coal even if we wanted to. The biggest ones were converted to biomass and the rest mothballed. Theres a few kept around for emergencies but not to the generation required.
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Kaveman posted:We don't have the coal power plants any more to make use of the coal even if we wanted to.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:sure, but you could have 14 year olds drive lorries around delivering coal directly to people's houses They'd have to be quite small 14 year olds (maybe that's the goal of raising a malnourished generation) so they can also climb up the chimneys to give them a good clean out.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:They'd have to be quite small 14 year olds (maybe that's the goal of raising a malnourished generation) so they can also climb up the chimneys to give them a good clean out. this made me google it and lol at a modern chimney sweeping company feeling the need to have this on their website https://www.mychimney.com/uncategorized/children-as-chimney-sweeps/
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Aug 21, 2022 11:35
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Reading that will absolutely suck any joy out of the rest of your day, so do it. Joy is forbidden in Brexit Britain.
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Aug 21, 2022 11:45
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uhhh https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/21/gps-could-prescribe-money-off-energy-bills-under-treasury-plan
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gonadic io posted:uhhh good news: going to the gp is about to cost money
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Jose posted:this made me google it and lol at a modern chimney sweeping company feeling the need to have this on their website When I was at primary school back in the 60s we were shown a TV programme* about child chimney sweeps and it included images of a kid stuck up a chimney who died up there. It still haunts me when I think of it. We were made of tough stuff back then, I doubt very much it would be allowed to show such a programme to kids these days! *IIRC it was an episode in the Merry Go Round (!) series which the big old black & white TV used to be trundled out into the classroom on Thursday mornings for us all to watch. Here's another article about it: https://www.sweepsmart.co.uk/lets-talk-about-chimney-boys-the-harsh-truths-about-child-chimney-sweeps/ Jaeluni Asjil has issued a correction as of 12:04 on Aug 21, 2022 |
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i've seen a modern chimney sweep clear out a chimney and their extremely modern tech is get this: a very long brush
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gonadic io posted:uhhh Ah yes, the GPs who famously get trained to tackle financial matters and who aren't currently facing a staffing crisis and who you can easily get an appointment with and who we definitely won't have to start paying to see, loving fantastic idea 10/10
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The Donut posted:Ah yes, the GPs who famously get trained to tackle financial matters and who aren't currently facing a staffing crisis and who you can easily get an appointment with and who we definitely won't have to start paying to see, loving fantastic idea 10/10 Sounds like a plan. Pay £100 to see your GP. GP writes prescription for you to get £50 off the gas bill. Whichever Tory crony has the contract for 'managing' all this gets £50 in pocket.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:They'd have to be quite small 14 year olds (maybe that's the goal of raising a malnourished generation) so they can also climb up the chimneys to give them a good clean out. Jose posted:this made me google it and lol at a modern chimney sweeping company feeling the need to have this on their website Jose posted:i've seen a modern chimney sweep clear out a chimney and their extremely modern tech is get this: a very long brush
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this thread is more depressing than the climate apocalypse thread
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Maya Fey posted:this thread is more depressing than the climate apocalypse thread Look on the bright side. If you don’t live here it's probably pretty funny seeing the shittiest island nation eating gallons of self-inflicted schadenfreude.
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is there something that goes hand-in-hand with the UK better than "depression"?
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forkboy84 posted:Look on the bright side. If you don’t live here it's probably pretty funny seeing the shittiest island nation eating gallons of self-inflicted schadenfreude. well some of my friends still live there lol. not for long though i guess
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forkboy84 posted:Look on the bright side. If you don’t live here it's probably pretty funny seeing the shittiest island nation eating gallons of self-inflicted schadenfreude. "But doctor!" the man cried "I do live there!"
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im sorry that I'm constantly a resentful, miserable oval office in this thread. It's just that after how they did corbyn I hate the entirety of the political and journalist classes that compose your wicked nation of evil liars
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