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jjbomber said:
When we buy a new car, the price isn't based on how much we use it. The price is fixed.
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Let's use your analogy then.....
If you couldn't afford to - or you decided not to use any fuel for your car, you'd pay nothing.

With a standing charge (that you seem to think is a worthy idea):
"Well Mr Bomber, we can see that you haven't put any fuel in your car for 3 days, sorry you couldn't afford to.
However, the infrastructure has to be paid for - it costs us money to deliver fuel to the forecourts....the fuel was there for you to use. Never mind that you didn't...we want money for the 3 days when you could have been using fuel".

That, I put it to you, would be as much of a nonsense as charging energy customers for NOT using fuel.
 
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Romulus said:
Currenty when watching good dramas on TV, often the drama is rudely interrupted by putting on songs which presumably are required to highten the ambience of the moment, often the makers choose a song with a singer who has lets say a little more unusual voice thus attempting to be original but the whole process usually falls flat and is in essence a failed ploy. On the programme 'One Day' the episodes unfortunately were continually interrupted by these awful songs which artistically were not needed; sometimes less is more.....
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Absolutely - usually the songs will have been slowed down so they somehow (are supposed to) sound more profound or heartfelt, and often sound as though the singer has some form of impairment of the faculties. I can't help but note when silence is skilfully used...

Would add unsympathetic voiceovers that stampede across credits as soon as a programme has finished - so when you've watched something profound or moving and are letting it set in you have your thoughts trampled on. Crass.
 
Having had to use the M1 in yesterday's heavy rain, the standards of driving are just dreadful - it's a wonder the roads aren't awash with blood. Raining so heavily that it was borderline as to whether fog lights would have been appropriate, but this doesn't stop people tailgating, lunging from lane to lane and driving with no lights whatever. Surely even a basic sense of self-preservation ought to kick in?

Clearly not...
 
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12th Monkey said:
Having had to use the M1 in yesterday's heavy rain, the standards of driving are just dreadful - it's a wonder the roads aren't awash with blood. Raining so heavily that it was borderline as to whether fog lights would have been appropriate, but this doesn't stop people tailgating, lunging from lane to lane and driving with no lights whatever. Surely even a basic sense of self-preservation ought to kick in?

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Darwinism at play....
Try visiting Wales for other fine examples...., Mind you we are used to a spot of rain. 🙂
 
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Yesterday's ditherers - from the car that pulled into the overtaking lane (fine, as it was turning right at the next roundabout), but then dithered at 25 (it's a 40) thus ensuring that at least two other cars didn't get through at that cycle of the lights. And who then accelerated glacially* to a heady 20 along the next 30, before pulling off at a speed so slow you'd have to assume he thought the car was going to topple over.

Then the gaggles who were in the supermarket dawdling along, randomly changing direction and ambling side by side so no-one could get by. I sometimes wonder whether it's deliberate, because surely no-one is that lacking in self- and spatial awareness.

*I once recall a slow car getting a review which described it as gathering speed in the same way an octogenarian gathers carrots. Was reminded of this...
 
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Companies whose services you consider, and who then bombard you with emails. Looked into holiday insurance yesterday afternoon as there's a fair chance my father-in-law will die this year - turns out that pre-existing conditions are not covered so it's no help to us. Didn't stop Staysure from emailing me yesterday evening and again this morning.
 
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Companies whose services you consider, and who then bombard you with emails. Looked into holiday insurance yesterday afternoon as there's a fair chance my father-in-law will die this year - turns out that pre-existing conditions are not covered so it's no help to us. Didn't stop Staysure from emailing me yesterday evening and again this morning.
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If I want to look at or check something, without signing-up and not get spammed, I use one of two email addresses I have in false names and which I don't monitor.
 
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Friesiansam said:
If I want to look at or check something, without signing-up and not get spammed, I use one of two email addresses I have in false names and which I don't monitor.
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I can customise the prefix of my e-mail address when sending.
I regularly do it, tailoring it to the specific company - so I can be in no doubt who has passed it on.

Since 2015 it's happened twice.
When challenged (and threatened with ICO action) one assured me that they never pass addresses on..... they probably don't any more 🤨
 
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Anybody that pays £124.99 for a Nike, 'authentic' England shirt.

EDIT:
Just realised I'm sat here (where's that grammar checking bloke?) in a pair of England trousers.

They were given to me, unused, with the Sports Direct price label still attached:
'Was £29.99 Now £2.99'.
That's the sort of 90% discount the shirt needs....£12.49 would be about right.
 
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12th Monkey said:
Yesterday's ditherers - from the car that pulled into the overtaking lane (fine, as it was turning right at the next roundabout), but then dithered at 25 (it's a 40) thus ensuring that at least two other cars didn't get through at that cycle of the lights. And who then accelerated glacially* to a heady 20 along the next 30, before pulling off at a speed so slow you'd have to assume he thought the car was going to topple over.
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What used to really annoy me, as a young man with a slow car, was the drivers with a much quicker car who would slow almost to a stop for bends, then use the power on the straights, so there was no way I could pass them…
 
Friesiansam said:
What used to really annoy me, as a young man with a slow car, was the drivers with a much quicker car who would slow almost to a stop for bends, then use the power on the straights, so there was no way I could pass them…
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Isn't there a quote about straights being for fast cars and corners for fast drivers? Seems to me that as there's a limit to how much speed you can use on straights, and that stamping on the brakes is the last refuge of the lumpen, corners are where you can most enjoy yourself ad your car.

Brings to mind being tailgated on a slip road by a 4x4, which then tried to keep up around the corner and ended up understeering into the opposite lane. Mercifully nothing using it...
 
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Motorway undertaking lane hoppers. Those looking for a gap to gain a few extra car lengths.

On Friday travelling on a busy motorway, and some clown in an Merc was doing just that. He popped out just in front of me a couple of times trying to see if he could gain a few feet an popped back in again. Given I'm driving with cruise control in the overtaking lane, my car the brakes each time he does this.

A bit later I see a car in front head towards the central reservation (that bit of the road had affectively an extra lane before the barrier so fortunately no contact was made) . Everyone in front slams on the brakes including me. I stop not more than 5 centimetres from the car in front and I am looking at the car behind to see if he will manage to do the same. I am assuming that the k**b in the Merc was responsible.

My heart was pounding !
 
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