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Post by Tuffers on Aug 29, 2022 16:23:42 GMT
I thought the scotch thrive in the cold? Why do you need heat?
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Post by Chumbles on Aug 29, 2022 16:28:57 GMT
Now everyone will want one...  |
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Post by Chumbles on Aug 29, 2022 16:31:02 GMT
I thought the scotch thrive in the cold? Why do you need heat? I thought that the Scotch was a drink? Which I'm forbidden to drink... |
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Post by Sheep2 on Aug 29, 2022 16:31:05 GMT
Got a MASSIVE pot of healthy chilli on the hob. Will easy get 8 hearty meals (4 tonight and 4 tomorrow) for probably about £1 per meal. Only downside is that it'll cost about £9,000 to cook and re-heat. Oh well, soon be winter. Sweet release. I don't think you should eat 4 dinners a night. |
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Post by Tuffers on Aug 29, 2022 16:47:19 GMT
Got a MASSIVE pot of healthy chilli on the hob. Will easy get 8 hearty meals (4 tonight and 4 tomorrow) for probably about £1 per meal. Only downside is that it'll cost about £9,000 to cook and re-heat. Oh well, soon be winter. Sweet release. I don't think you should eat 4 dinners a night. Stop telling me what to do! *slams door and runs off to cry in bedroom* |
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Post by lazybones on Aug 29, 2022 17:16:15 GMT
I don’t know if the Conservative party can be 100 percent blamed for the ballooning of energy prices. I mean I don’t know if there have been any particularly big shifts in legislation on utilities since the Labour Party lost power. Maybe there have …
I mean the privatisation of utilities is bad but the last Labour government was into it I think. Or not wanting to legislate against it.
A huge investment in domestic renewable energy over the past 30 years would have been good.
That’s my half drunk and not very well informed knee-jerk take.
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Post by Chumbles on Aug 29, 2022 17:31:24 GMT
As good as any other LB
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Post by Sheep2 on Aug 29, 2022 17:37:18 GMT
The price cap system was introduced by Teresa May in 2017.
So the way that it doesn't work is down to the Tories.
Also when a government has been in office for 12 years you can't blame the predecessor government.
The Tories have had plenty of time to put things right.
It's unfortunate that they have fucked everything so that when things have gone wrong it causes ridiculous problems, but it is very much on them.
The austerity agenda and deliberately running things down have produced this situation. The gas storage facilities were closed because the government allowed them to be rather than regarding them as a strategic asset. That has removed a barrier to shortages and price spikes.
It is also the case that Ofgem has played a big role in price setting. The system allows everything to be charged at the highest price. Some people might think this encourages price gouging as it is so effective.
They have also failed to regulate the suppliers effectively, so much so that many went bust last year.
The government cannot hide from being responsible for this mess. Attempts to do so won't go down well with people expected to pay thousands extra for the same energy.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Aug 29, 2022 17:43:31 GMT
I have already written off the 2020's as being my first proper shit decade.
Here's to the booming 30's!!
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Post by RollingEscargot on Aug 29, 2022 17:50:14 GMT
1990s 2000s 1970s 1980s 2010s 2020s
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Post by lazybones on Aug 29, 2022 17:54:12 GMT
Isn’t the price-capping system just a temporary stalling of energy price rises that would have come in anyway down to the privatised nature of energy in the UK?….
I mean it’s not the price capping that’s been the problem. That’s just an inadequate solution to a privatised energy sector and a massive lack in investment in renewable energy.
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Post by Tuffers on Aug 29, 2022 17:54:47 GMT
Yay! The family next door just brought round a present for us* from their trip home.
A box of Al Rifair Arabic sweets. A wafer roll mix. There are coconut, rahesh (?) and cream flavours. Plus some dates and apricots. Will try them after tea.
*me
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Post by Chumbles on Aug 29, 2022 17:55:25 GMT
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Post by lazybones on Aug 29, 2022 18:03:52 GMT
What I’m saying is … Maybe the energy price situation isn’t a Tory / Whig / Conservative problem. Maybe it’s a liberal capitalist problem.
There. I said it.
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Post by lazybones on Aug 29, 2022 18:04:45 GMT
I don’t know.
I’m hungry and half drunk.
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Post by amipal on Aug 29, 2022 18:07:11 GMT
Evening all!
Up early and out the door for a drive up to Standen (National Trust property and gardens). There are also a couple of woods attached to the grounds, so all had a good explore.
Bloomin’ knackered now.
TVblog: nope.
Filmblog: Moonfall. Not great. Not terrible. Possible the last disaster flick that Roland Emerich will ever make - believe it or not, but it had a cinema release, and made $40 million… on a budget of $140 million…
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Post by MrTiddles on Aug 29, 2022 18:52:12 GMT
Free Kashmir!
Chuck those fuckers out. Which fuckers? I don't know, I'm off to glue myself to a Clipper lighter.
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Post by crankcaller on Aug 29, 2022 18:52:19 GMT
I don’t know. I’m hungry and half drunk. That's the Tories fault |
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Aug 29, 2022 19:39:42 GMT
num num num num!
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Post by crankcaller on Aug 29, 2022 19:53:46 GMT
Wordle bawbags
Wordle 436 6/6
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Post by stxdpr on Aug 29, 2022 19:54:32 GMT
I don’t know. I’m hungry and half drunk. That's the Tories fault I don't know if you can blame this gov with wine time Fridays, lockdown parties and come found throughout the parliamentary estate. |
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Post by Destry on Aug 29, 2022 20:07:03 GMT
and come found throughout the parliamentary estate.  |
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Post by Destry on Aug 29, 2022 20:27:54 GMT
I'm watching Mona Lisa on TalkingPictures TV. Haven't seen it for years. Bob Hoskins best film? Maybe, though Who Framed Roger Rabbit? might give it a run for it's money....
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Post by Felice Landry on Aug 29, 2022 20:32:03 GMT
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Aug 29, 2022 20:39:40 GMT
1990's
2000's
1980's
2010's
2020's
Too young to comment on the 70's.
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