Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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It didn't annoy me, it was simply an illustration of electric uptake.lesfirth said:
Why does that annoy you?pinno said:I was in Cramlington at a retail park. There were 10 electric charging bays, all of them empty. The car park was busy.
I think there are big disparities between areas where SC was surprised at the number of electric cars in his street and more rural locations.
Locally, there are very few electric vehicles but I am in a very rural area.
I have no idea how the infrastructure will be there when the deadline for ICE vehicle sales happens. Therefore, without the infrastructure, they cannot possibly expect people in rural areas to buy electric vehicles.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Could be worse. Our meter is broken and Scottish Power have no replacements available. Current readings suggest for electricity (no heating) the two of us use about £7k a year, so our dd is about £500 a month, which I have to request to be amended every month.pangolin said:Got emailed on the 6th of July by our energy provider saying we'd used £90 of gas and electricity and our DD was £173. Account well in credit.
Emailed again on the 12th saying they are increasing our DD by £40 from August to "get our account balance back on track".
censored off - get their account balance back on track they mean.
Who knew heat lamps for growing weed were that costly....1 -
Softening you up for the price upjacking coming our way all too soon?pangolin said:Got emailed on the 6th of July by our energy provider saying we'd used £90 of gas and electricity and our DD was £173. Account well in credit.
Emailed again on the 12th saying they are increasing our DD by £40 from August to "get our account balance back on track".
censored off - get their account balance back on track they mean.
My fixed deal expired in May. Plus having moved house and struggling to get any sort of response bar a single very high guesstimated bill 6 weeks ago for a period when property was empty from the inherited supplier, no response to emails, not updating account with meter readings submitted, I may have to invest in candles soon.
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Current fixed price is £460 a month with EDF for gas and electric. Variable is £230 so expecting that to be £340 a month October.orraloon said:
Softening you up for the price upjacking coming our way all too soon?pangolin said:Got emailed on the 6th of July by our energy provider saying we'd used £90 of gas and electricity and our DD was £173. Account well in credit.
Emailed again on the 12th saying they are increasing our DD by £40 from August to "get our account balance back on track".
censored off - get their account balance back on track they mean.
My fixed deal expired in May. Plus having moved house and struggling to get any sort of response bar a single very high guesstimated bill 6 weeks ago for a period when property was empty from the inherited supplier, no response to emails, not updating account with meter readings submitted, I may have to invest in candles soon.
I’d suggest putting at least £250 a month to one side for when they finally get around to the bill. They took 5 months to sort mine out when we moved.0 -
orraloon said:
I may have to invest in candles soon.
I'd suggest getting four.2 -
Indeed. I have the unit rates (plus the daily standing charges, which made up 98% of the first month when place was empty bar 2-3 visits from me) and can calc what I should be billed. I did pay them the correct amount for month 1, 1/7th of their random guesses, by credit card not direct debit so they can't just help themselves. But since then, silence.0
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People who don't do things without being asked at least twice. Very tedious.0
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People who wear a rucksack with the straps so loose it hangs down to their ar$e. How can that possibly be the most comfortable way to wear one? It also flaps around and makes them really annoying in shops / cafes.0
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Natwest deciding to replace my Visa debit card (expiry date in 2025) with a MasterCard debit card meaning I have to update any accounts with my card details not to mention all the plastic cards going into landfill unnecessarily.0
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It's so difficult to buy though. A complete faff at the local store.briantrumpet said:2 -
Pross said:
Natwest deciding to replace my Visa debit card (expiry date in 2025) with a MasterCard debit card meaning I have to update any accounts with my card details not to mention all the plastic cards going into landfill unnecessarily.
I'm always a little surprised with how many people still bank with the Big Four (or however many it is now). I've burned through Barclays (left them when thy closed the local branch), Nat West (the most miserable staff ever at the uni branch), Midland (utterly screwed up a standing order) and Lloyds (another branch closure), and Abbey National. Been with Nationwide for yonks, not least as I think they do a decent job of presenting a viable alternative to the commercial banks, and so are a useful check on their more rapacious tendencies.0 -
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rick_chasey said:
I’m surprised you even notice a difference.
Two things: level of service & friendliness/helpfulness; what they stand for.
On the latter, Nationwide stood firm when the big banks wanted to charge for using Link cash machines, and also took a principled stand against offering big discounts for new mortgage customers, as the only way they can do that is to over-charge existing customers. They also haven't allowed (for at least 20 years) new members to profit should it ever be de-mutualised, so there's no greedy incentive to demutualise. So they do provide a valuable alternative model for banking services.0 -
Been using NatWest for about 8 years now as a day to day current account. Just their bog standard basic account with no overdraft facility and no charges having previously used Lloyds (originally TSB) all my life and giving up on them as they kept trying to 'upgrade' my account i.e. charge me £10 a month for a load of supposed benefits I never used. To be fair this is the first time they've given me something to moan about and it is pretty minor.0
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Pross said:
Been using NatWest for about 8 years now as a day to day current account. Just their bog standard basic account with no overdraft facility and no charges having previously used Lloyds (originally TSB) all my life and giving up on them as they kept trying to 'upgrade' my account i.e. charge me £10 a month for a load of supposed benefits I never used. To be fair this is the first time they've given me something to moan about and it is pretty minor.
I actually signed up for Natiowide's fee account - it was £10, now £13pcm... at the time, the fee was more than paid for by the better interest rate (ha - remember that, interest on balances?), and the benefits include good travel insurance and European & home breakdown cover, both of which I've claimed on with no trouble at all. In fact, the last time I claimed the travel insurance, for replacement TGV rail tickets, having missed a train because of delayed flight, not only did they bend the rules slightly to allow me to claim, they then told me they didn't need the evidence/receipts I'd collected, as they could see I wasn't an habitual claimant, so trusted me.0 -
I've been with HSBC since uni - never had an issue. It seems to be the only bank that doesn't arbitrarily block cards when overseas.
Natwest for our joint accoint - no issues
Wife has BoS for hers, no issues.
Mortgage with Halifax - seems fine.
Santander are the ones you need to be extremely wary of. Their kyc checks are so lax, my friend was arrested and pretty seriously shaken up when an account was fradulently opened in his name for presumably some fraudulent reason.
He said it was a pretty horrific experience.0 -
Oddly, I've had the opposite experience of their KYC. Our corporate account was frozen.shirley_basso said:
Santander are the ones you need to be extremely wary of. Their kyc checks are so lax, my friend was arrested and pretty seriously shaken up when an account was fradulently opened in his name for presumably some fraudulent reason.
He said it was a pretty horrific experience.0 -
Thing is, it’s all the same people running the firm and the individual businesses in them. They just jump from retail bank to retail bank.
Not an industry that is good at hiring outside of themselves. Very little diversity of thought.0 -
Interesting. Having learnt more following my friend's arrest - it seems Santander are notoriously badTheBigBean said:
Oddly, I've had the opposite experience of their KYC. Our corporate account was frozen.shirley_basso said:
Santander are the ones you need to be extremely wary of. Their kyc checks are so lax, my friend was arrested and pretty seriously shaken up when an account was fradulently opened in his name for presumably some fraudulent reason.
He said it was a pretty horrific experience.0 -
Well well, good to see Good Energy getting a slap on the wristpangolin said:Got emailed on the 6th of July by our energy provider saying we'd used £90 of gas and electricity and our DD was £173. Account well in credit.
Emailed again on the 12th saying they are increasing our DD by £40 from August to "get our account balance back on track".
censored off - get their account balance back on track they mean.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62148487- Genesis Croix de Fer
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This was the champions league tear gassing thread. Report does not blame Liverpool fans.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-621467690 -
But how can this be when fans of other clubs (who weren't there) said from the second it was first reported that it was all down to the Liverpool supporters? Whitewash!TheBigBean said:This was the champions league tear gassing thread. Report does not blame Liverpool fans.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62146769
I was watching the Tour stage yesterday and it occurred to me how differently the French police seemed to deal with a bunch of protesters affecting the race in comparison with how they dealt with some British football supporters simply being unable to get into the game they had bought tickets for.0 -
BBC Wales doing an article on how dry it has been (66% of average rainfall since March) which I noted in the Elan Valley yesterday. However, to demonstrate how dry it is they used images of a section of river I know quite well at Carew in Pembrokeshire (great fishing spot).
From the drone shots it looked like something off a wildlife documentary in Africa with the dried up watering hole. What they totally ignored was that it was a tidal river and it always looks like that at high tide. The reporter was also live with a river in the background that is about a mile from my home and, again, it is tidal.0 -
Carrying on from Intriguing speed limit encounter on the M6, I also have an annoying one.
Over the last 4 years or so, the M6 between Stoke and South of Stafford (20-30) miles or so has been smarted.
I have driven it 4 times in the last 2 weeks and even when empty in the evening, it seems to be permanently set to 60mph.
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morstar said:
Carrying on from Intriguing speed limit encounter on the M6, I also have an annoying one.
Over the last 4 years or so, the M6 between Stoke and South of Stafford (20-30) miles or so has been smarted.
I have driven it 4 times in the last 2 weeks and even when empty in the evening, it seems to be permanently set to 60mph.
Why?
I've occasionally seem some bollox on the motorway signs about speed being set to 60 to improve air quality. Clearly a lot of people live there...morstar said:Carrying on from Intriguing speed limit encounter on the M6, I also have an annoying one.
Over the last 4 years or so, the M6 between Stoke and South of Stafford (20-30) miles or so has been smarted.
I have driven it 4 times in the last 2 weeks and even when empty in the evening, it seems to be permanently set to 60mph.
Why?"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
Horse fly bites, they are itchy and the skin swells up. There seems to be lots around at the moment. 1 -
I was thinking the same. Surely it’s finished. They removed the cones at least 6 months ago when the signs were under test.morstar said:Carrying on from Intriguing speed limit encounter on the M6, I also have an annoying one.
Over the last 4 years or so, the M6 between Stoke and South of Stafford (20-30) miles or so has been smarted.
I have driven it 4 times in the last 2 weeks and even when empty in the evening, it seems to be permanently set to 60mph.
Why?
It no longer says average speed checks but the cameras do not say they are “not in use.”0 -
I’ve see this in a few places near towns on other roads. I can assure you that you would be incredibly hard stretched to save the lungs of any human by reducing the speed between stoke and south of stafford. It’s endless miles of open fields for most of that stretch.Stevo_666 said:morstar said:Carrying on from Intriguing speed limit encounter on the M6, I also have an annoying one.
Over the last 4 years or so, the M6 between Stoke and South of Stafford (20-30) miles or so has been smarted.
I have driven it 4 times in the last 2 weeks and even when empty in the evening, it seems to be permanently set to 60mph.
Why?
I've occasionally seem some bollox on the motorway signs about speed being set to 60 to improve air quality. Clearly a lot of people live there...morstar said:Carrying on from Intriguing speed limit encounter on the M6, I also have an annoying one.
Over the last 4 years or so, the M6 between Stoke and South of Stafford (20-30) miles or so has been smarted.
I have driven it 4 times in the last 2 weeks and even when empty in the evening, it seems to be permanently set to 60mph.
Why?0 -
Funnily enough, my TomTom doesn’t warn me of the static cameras and does still warn me of the average ones so I suspect they are on.mully79 said:
I was thinking the same. Surely it’s finished. They removed the cones at least 6 months ago when the signs were under test.morstar said:Carrying on from Intriguing speed limit encounter on the M6, I also have an annoying one.
Over the last 4 years or so, the M6 between Stoke and South of Stafford (20-30) miles or so has been smarted.
I have driven it 4 times in the last 2 weeks and even when empty in the evening, it seems to be permanently set to 60mph.
Why?
It no longer says average speed checks but the cameras do not say they are “not in use.”
It’s very annoying. Either the motorway speed limit is 70 or it’s not. If there’s no traffic, don’t set it arbitrarily lower unless you’re going to change the law.0 -
Surely most of us acknowledge by now that air quality is not just affected in the immediate vicinity of a car / plane / lorry / factory...- Genesis Croix de Fer
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