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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: GROWLER on January 05, 2010, 10:12:14 AM
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The National Grid is warning power suppliers to use less gas after a 30% rise on normal seasonal demand during the continued wintry weather.
National Grid (NG) issued a gas balancing alert (GBA) on Monday afternoon, only the second time that the mechanism has been used.
A spokesman said the alert had already proved effective and bosses were meeting again on Tuesday to decide whether to issue a further GBA after the current warning expires at 6am.
GBAs are a way of warning customers to ease off on the fuel as well as encouraging suppliers to bring in more gas.
Well I'm issuing a why don't you just go fuck yourselves you useless incompitent bunch of pin striped suited bastards, or a WDYJGFYYUIBOPSSB warning if you so please. cussing:
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I have just turned my boiler up angel1
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I have just turned my boiler up angel1
Stand by for lift off then ey? lol:
I'm looking west out the back window waiting for the 'mushroom' eeek:
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Global warming eh...? noooo:
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Global warming eh...? noooo:
It's all Nick's fault point:
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Global warming eh...? noooo:
Wish they'd make their bloody minds up. ::)
Can we call it global cooling for now p'raps, just until we get an 'eat wave, then revert back to 'warming'?
Bbq summer, warm winter this time, rivers drying up, never to flow again, underground resevoirs gone forever,crops failing due to dry weather, lah de dah etc., etc. ::)
You really couldn't make all this changing of minds up ey, could you?
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What exactly is the point of long range seasonal weather forecasts - they are all bolloxed. Any forecaster attempting such folly should be tortured by not allowing them to sleep for two weeks whilst watching a dvd of the most ridiculous weather forecasts - on a permanent loop of course eveilgrin:
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That would be my fault. Mr Wench and I have moved from one and a half hours of heating a day to four. redface:
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There are other ways for you and the young old man to keep warm...
He could keep bringing you hot tea...
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Other ways to keep warm ......
Volunteers have reported that ?a large number? of elderly customers are snapping up hardbacks as cheap fuel for their fires and stoves.
Temperatures this week are forecast to plummet as low as -13?C in the Scottish Highlands, with the mercury falling to -6?C in London, -5?C in Birmingham and -7?C in Manchester as one of the coldest winters in years continues to bite.
Workers at one charity shop in Swansea, in south Wales, described how the most vulnerable shoppers were seeking out thick books such as encyclopaedias for a few pence because they were cheaper than coal.
One assistant said: ?Book burning seems terribly wrong but we have to get rid of unsold stock for pennies and some of the pensioners say the books make ideal slow-burning fuel for fires and stoves.
A lot of them buy up large hardback volumes so they can stick them in the fire to last all night.?
A 500g book can sell for as little as 5p, while a 20kg bag of coal costs ?5.
Since January 2008, gas bills have risen 40 per cent and electricity prices 20 per cent, although people over 60 are entitled to a winter fuel allowance of between ?125 and ?400.
eeek:
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That would be my fault. Mr Wench and I have moved from one and a half hours of heating a day to four. redface:
'Bout the same as here, he sez, sitting here with his 'at and fur coat on. whistle:
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At the time of writting that I had leggings, jeans, vest t-shirt, jumper and cardigan on and was huddled under the duvet. Mr Wench said we had reached maximum heating usage. Banghead
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Have to say not looking forward to the gas bill this time - it has been on an awful lot recently scared2:
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"Book burning seems terribly wrong but we have to get rid of unsold stock for pennies"
Indeed, stock that people have donated and pennies that will go to charities*.
Perhaps there could be more charity shops helping those struggling in this country or even government assistance looking after those that have contributed rather than the country's scum!
* Or ensuring a dictator has a diamond case to put his diamonds in...
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Slippery roads explained.
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/misc/salt-grit-201001104688/
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About the only people who are content are the drivers of the gritting lorries, some of whom, I'm told, are netting ?1000 a week thanks to ? you guessed ? public sector wage contracts. When authorities decide to do preventative gritting at the end of the day, well, that is after their scheduled hours, so it is double time. Or when they go out early it is double time (and it stays double time for as long as they are out). Then Saturdays and Sundays are double time again.
It all seems like an extremely expensive way of the government getting what it wants. But as a way of keeping the country moving ? I would take that with a pinch of salt.
Utter bollocks cussing:
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I did wonder if it was a tad sensationalist...