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I bought myself a "cookie monster" from cooplands and now I have it at home I'm feeling a strong sense of identity with the wee bastard and am struggling to work up the nerve to eat him. 
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Any kind person want to sanity-check me? My Octopus tariff runs out end of Sept. They've quoted me £225/mth for 12 months (nearly 3x what I'm paying now) or if I don't renew I'll get bumped to the Co-op Flexible variable tariff ("On this tariff prices will rise and fall with wholesale costs") at £100/mth. I assume this last is A Trap and will be £3000/mth or similar by Jan?
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I'd be tempted to take the latter on the basis that: 1. The government will step in and you won't risk paying absurd prices in the future 2. The government won't step in and your utility bill will be the least of your worries
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Microplastics posted:I'd be tempted to take the latter on the basis that: Yeah, honestly that's kind of what I'm thinking. This has to be some kind of "ha ha UK govt give us billions or we destroy your country with ENERGY BILLS" supervillain move, right? They can't possibly be really expecting people to pay those idiotic tariffs, right? ... Right? 
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That £100 will go up by 80% or similar in October, and and then another 25% in January, according to Assuming the economy still functions next year, that is. As has been pointed out several times, businesses prices aren't capped so they are getting charged even more than customers.
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gut feel is you've missed the boat to fix. take the variable rate and hope gov intervention comes sooner rather than later, then ride the variable rate back down seems like a bad plan to fix now and be locked into the pain for at least 12 months
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Aug 19, 2022 16:18
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Microplastics posted:I'd be tempted to take the latter on the basis that: This is where I'm at at the moment. The fixed rate offer is stupidly expensive but if it goes up more than that I simply will not be able to pay so gently caress em.
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Payndz posted:Noticed in Asda today that their own-brand butter has gone up 30p since I last bought some a few weeks ago (£2.20 to £2.50). I buy a shitload of butter for my fudge, and what was £1.05 a year ago is now £1.95. Everything else is creeping up too- an ingredients run that was £65 in 2020 is now around £100. Thankfully I still work from home, so my overheads remain low but if I was renting premises I would be near hosed already.
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Runcible Cat posted:Any kind person want to sanity-check me? I was in this boat ~4 months ago and am still on EDF's flex tariff. They're not even offering any fixed plans on their site anymore - I'm getting a 'call our helpline for advice' page now.
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lol i've noticed canadian butter getting very expensive too over the pandemic but i'm not sure it's necessarily the same reasons since there's a protectionist dairy cartel here but nowadays i'm generally forced to pay around £4.50 (in cad) for a solid pound block of store-brand butter. if i want it in sticks it's more expensive lol
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also meant to post this i found in the replies to that tweet above https://twitter.com/hrh_nic/status/1560610907062906880?s=20&t=o90_3QLX9P7b77u45Vu_4Q
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Leire Starburst
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keep punching joe posted:The Lough Ness monster. it took me a while to see what was even wrong here it's pronounced exactly like loch
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it ends in a throat sound: it shouldn't sound like lock
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it's pronounced lotch
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mediaphage posted:also meant to post this i found in the replies to that tweet above The Third Pretender And I would roll 500 miles And I would roll 500 more Just to be the man who rolls a thousand miles To fall down at your door
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Obliteration of small businesses now more significant than Salman Rushdie https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/aug/19/uk-small-businesses-forced-to-close-by-soaring-energy-bills but it's in purple so about the same level as "we've poked around some small rural villages again" in guardian hierarchy. Hopefully no Woody Allen news coming soon.
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Wooden Ally newsmediaphage posted:https://twitter.com/hrh_nic/status/1560610907062906880?s=20&t=o90_3QLX9P7b77u45Vu_4Q
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honestly its still making me chuckle for some reason every time i see it i don't even know why
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Went big shops. Loving the fashwave + liminal spaces Duke Smoochem 3D aesthetic. Greggswave. Trusswave. OwlFancier posted:the brexitrooms
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lol it's the funny man from have i got news for you! hahaha that guy's hilarious!!!! wonder what japes he's gotten into this time!!!!!!!!!!
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stev posted:This is where I'm at at the moment. The fixed rate offer is stupidly expensive but if it goes up more than that I simply will not be able to pay so gently caress em. Same boat here. I'd probably be able to pay the fixed rate but I'm gambling on *something* happening and prices not getting to that point.
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Aug 19, 2022 18:14
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Just world fallacy? Just the world, failing.
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josh04 posted:If anyone's feeling nostalgic for Corbyn-level hysterics: https://twitter.com/HarryYorke1/status/1560623439215476737 can't tell if this is a Murdoch journo poo poo-stirring, or Labour leadership immediately jumping to an insane conclusion based on nothing because they're fixated on palace coups, either seems plausible
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domhal posted:Obliteration of small businesses now more significant than Salman Rushdie I thought Adrian Chiles had opened a chip shop for a moment there
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A policy that doesn't suck? https://twitter.com/AngelaRayner/status/1560659991648149504?t=BB7YnxeaivBeQlF3_snDnQ
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I don't believe them.
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Dabir posted:I don't believe them. Yeah, they can have Angela Rayner promote the policy, then just shed her later to "triangulate". Ablative armour.
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the young workers bit is correct but £10 an hour isn't impressive. it's basically the same as what it would go up anyway under the tories, it's 9.50 right now, and everything is getting exponentially more expensive. it's still a huge pay cut with inflation for anybody near minimum wage. who cares.
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Dabir posted:I don't believe them. The only reasonable response really. After all: 
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it's our generation's dunkirk really
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Even if we become that country of people infamous for shivering to death while drinking poo water, people here will be convinced we are "the winners of the birth lottery" which is an actual phrase I've heard spoken out loud unironically.
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This makes me all nostalgic!
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Sur La Plage by Peter G
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mediaphage posted:also meant to post this i found in the replies to that tweet above Brendan Rodgers posted:Even if we become that country of people infamous for shivering to death while drinking poo water, people here will be convinced we are "the winners of the birth lottery" which is an actual phrase I've heard spoken out loud unironically.
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mediaphage posted:lol humans are a plaguer I know it’s a throwaway comment but don’t fall into this trap comrade. Humans are just humans. Capitalism makes us a plague, but we don’t have to be. Better things are possible.
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