Cost of living squeeze in 2022, 23 & 24 (Vol. 2)
Discussion
cuprabob said:
Earthdweller said:
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If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club
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Now I can't get that out of my head...If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club
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snuffy said:
cuprabob said:
Earthdweller said:
https://youtu.be/POCZqYiSMnE?si=jeYOr9d0mp0TxhaM
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club
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Now I can't get that out of my head...If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club
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First thing that came into my head when I read the post
Used to love biting the chocolate off the edges before getting to the biscuit
r3g said:
They are s
t now. The fact that you can eat the entire biscuit in one mouthful is bad enough, but the chocolate is some cheap-ass gloop now that tastes nasty and nothing like the original ones from when we were kids. Save your money.
Save your money and give your blood. 470ml of blood gets you as many clubs as you can eat, I normally have a bag of mini cheddars as well. t now. The fact that you can eat the entire biscuit in one mouthful is bad enough, but the chocolate is some cheap-ass gloop now that tastes nasty and nothing like the original ones from when we were kids. Save your money.kiethton said:
snuffy said:
kiethton said:
A small bill but my Thames Water bill...
£6pm to £39pm
How on earth has your water bill gone from £72/year to £468/year ?£6pm to £39pm
t into the local river to notice you’d built up a massive credit. Eventually they realised and dropped your DD to a pittance and then put it back to a normal level once you’d burned through it. That’s what southern water did to us because despite us having a meter they had massively overestimated how much water we use and overcharged us accordingly. Water companies are an impressive level of incompetent.djc206 said:
If Thames are anything like Southern they’ll have been too busy pumping st into the local river to notice you’d built up a massive credit. Eventually they realised and dropped your DD to a pittance and then put it back to a normal level once you’d burned through it. That’s what southern water did to us because despite us having a meter they had massively overestimated how much water we use and overcharged us accordingly. Water companies are an impressive level of incompetent.
The energy companies are right up there with them when it comes to incompetence. Twice in the last 5 years we have had refunds, the first taking the best part of 2 years to sort out. First refund £1000, the second £700. Finally got a customer service agent that was good at their job that worked out what the problem was and sorted it out quickly despite previously escalated up the chain of authority resulting in the ombudsman getting involved.t into the local river to notice you’d built up a massive credit. Eventually they realised and dropped your DD to a pittance and then put it back to a normal level once you’d burned through it. That’s what southern water did to us because despite us having a meter they had massively overestimated how much water we use and overcharged us accordingly. Water companies are an impressive level of incompetent.djc206 said:
kiethton said:
snuffy said:
kiethton said:
A small bill but my Thames Water bill...
£6pm to £39pm
How on earth has your water bill gone from £72/year to £468/year ?£6pm to £39pm
t into the local river to notice you’d built up a massive credit. Eventually they realised and dropped your DD to a pittance and then put it back to a normal level once you’d burned through it. That’s what southern water did to us because despite us having a meter they had massively overestimated how much water we use and overcharged us accordingly. Water companies are an impressive level of incompetent.wc98 said:
djc206 said:
If Thames are anything like Southern they’ll have been too busy pumping st into the local river to notice you’d built up a massive credit. Eventually they realised and dropped your DD to a pittance and then put it back to a normal level once you’d burned through it. That’s what southern water did to us because despite us having a meter they had massively overestimated how much water we use and overcharged us accordingly. Water companies are an impressive level of incompetent.
The energy companies are right up there with them when it comes to incompetence. Twice in the last 5 years we have had refunds, the first taking the best part of 2 years to sort out. First refund £1000, the second £700. Finally got a customer service agent that was good at their job that worked out what the problem was and sorted it out quickly despite previously escalated up the chain of authority resulting in the ombudsman getting involved.t into the local river to notice you’d built up a massive credit. Eventually they realised and dropped your DD to a pittance and then put it back to a normal level once you’d burned through it. That’s what southern water did to us because despite us having a meter they had massively overestimated how much water we use and overcharged us accordingly. Water companies are an impressive level of incompetent.djc206 said:
Southern water let me know about a massive spike in our water usage 8 months after the event. I thanked them for their prompt warning and said I’ll respond with the same urgency next time they invoke a hosepipe ban. 1000L per day we were using between two of us with no garden watering, no email, no phone call, nada for 8 months. Genius.
That is next level of useless 
wc98 said:
djc206 said:
Southern water let me know about a massive spike in our water usage 8 months after the event. I thanked them for their prompt warning and said I’ll respond with the same urgency next time they invoke a hosepipe ban. 1000L per day we were using between two of us with no garden watering, no email, no phone call, nada for 8 months. Genius.
That is next level of useless All these overpayments you are all suffering from could very easily be sorted by reading your meters and checking on usage. I never have a lot of credit on any of my bills, as I send in meter readings, I don't have a water meter so can't comment on whether there is a way to send in readings or not.
ARHarh said:
Are these water meters smart meters or do they just send someone round every 2 years to read the meter? If so you were lucky they spotted it when they did.
All these overpayments you are all suffering from could very easily be sorted by reading your meters and checking on usage. I never have a lot of credit on any of my bills, as I send in meter readings, I don't have a water meter so can't comment on whether there is a way to send in readings or not.
They are garbage, I've got a water meter bloke as one of my neighbours. From what he says they tend to pack up after about 10-15 years and in the period leading up to that they stop functioning properly and give spurious readings that are wildly out from the actual usage. The ones buried under the manhole lids are the worst as the condensation wrecks them and they either transmit a completely ficticious reading to his wifi reader device, or they don't transmit anything at all because the manhole fill up with water and the meter disappears under it. The meters that are actually inside the property often can't be read because the signal is far too weak to go through the walls, so you just get estimated bills all the time.All these overpayments you are all suffering from could very easily be sorted by reading your meters and checking on usage. I never have a lot of credit on any of my bills, as I send in meter readings, I don't have a water meter so can't comment on whether there is a way to send in readings or not.
r3g said:
ARHarh said:
Are these water meters smart meters or do they just send someone round every 2 years to read the meter? If so you were lucky they spotted it when they did.
All these overpayments you are all suffering from could very easily be sorted by reading your meters and checking on usage. I never have a lot of credit on any of my bills, as I send in meter readings, I don't have a water meter so can't comment on whether there is a way to send in readings or not.
They are garbage, I've got a water meter bloke as one of my neighbours. From what he says they tend to pack up after about 10-15 years and in the period leading up to that they stop functioning properly and give spurious readings that are wildly out from the actual usage. The ones buried under the manhole lids are the worst as the condensation wrecks them and they either transmit a completely ficticious reading to his wifi reader device, or they don't transmit anything at all because the manhole fill up with water and the meter disappears under it. The meters that are actually inside the property often can't be read because the signal is far too weak to go through the walls, so you just get estimated bills all the time.All these overpayments you are all suffering from could very easily be sorted by reading your meters and checking on usage. I never have a lot of credit on any of my bills, as I send in meter readings, I don't have a water meter so can't comment on whether there is a way to send in readings or not.
Anyhoo I think water is actually quite reasonably priced, sorry let me rephrase that, if they didn’t pump poo into rivers it would be a fair price.
I see today’s cost of living item is that housing is the most unaffordable it’s been for 70 years and rents have risen by 9.2% in a year. I’m glad I’m in my late 30’s and own a home because the current generation of youngsters are in a s
t position when it comes to housing. When you see what most of them end up having to buy using the various schemes to help them do so you feel even more pity, essentially a snagging list with some bricks around it.croyde said:
It was put on a meter a few months back, we never asked for it and the bill has doubled, and Thames Water says that they need to up the DD even more as they are rapidly building up a Debit.
Do you not have the option to revert to previous billing?A few years back, we had to replace the water supply pipes up the driveway which, I was told, required fitting a water meter, we were previously on rateable value billing.
When we got the bill it was a huge increase, I questioned it only to be told that it was correct and that we had used that amount of water. Part of the T&Cs of fitting the meter was that we had the option of reverting back to rateable value billing within 12 months if we wanted, so I did.
The ongoing battle over the metered bill lasted a couple of years as I refused to pay due to the extortionate amount with the water co. insisting it was correct over and over again.
Eventually they sent someone out to check the meter etc. only to find out that they had over read the figures by a factor of 10 - I'm still on rateable value bill.
djc206 said:
r3g said:
They are st now. The fact that you can eat the entire biscuit in one mouthful is bad enough, but the chocolate is some cheap-ass gloop now that tastes nasty and nothing like the original ones from when we were kids. Save your money.
Save your money and give your blood. 470ml of blood gets you as many clubs as you can eat, I normally have a bag of mini cheddars as well. t now. The fact that you can eat the entire biscuit in one mouthful is bad enough, but the chocolate is some cheap-ass gloop now that tastes nasty and nothing like the original ones from when we were kids. Save your money.raceboy said:
djc206 said:
r3g said:
They are st now. The fact that you can eat the entire biscuit in one mouthful is bad enough, but the chocolate is some cheap-ass gloop now that tastes nasty and nothing like the original ones from when we were kids. Save your money.
Save your money and give your blood. 470ml of blood gets you as many clubs as you can eat, I normally have a bag of mini cheddars as well. t now. The fact that you can eat the entire biscuit in one mouthful is bad enough, but the chocolate is some cheap-ass gloop now that tastes nasty and nothing like the original ones from when we were kids. Save your money.Maybe they wanted to move people on a bit quicker? 90’s lunchbox items and weak squash will do that quite nicely.
djc206 said:
Maybe they wanted to move people on a bit quicker? 90’s lunchbox items and weak squash will do that quite nicely.
Problem I have is I can squirt the red stuff out of me considerably quicker than MrsRace who it seems to be just a dribble, so I have lots of time waiting at the biscuit buffet for her to catch up. 
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