Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[Sunny]

EE saying 'Roaming is getting better with EE' when in reality it appears they're planning on charging me a minimum of £2.49 a day.

[KungFooBob]

EE saying 'Roaming is getting better with EE' when in reality it appears they're planning on charging me a minimum of £2.49 a day.

I'm with o2, the only people who still do free roaming... in Europe.

I recently went to Marrakesh, not covered.

I bought an eSim for £12 which gave me 3gb of data.

I knew that if I made or received any calls I would be charged quite a bit, but thought that it only mattered if the call was connected, so I let the o2 sim roam just in case.

Anyway, I had four calls. All spam, I didn't answer any of them. O2 still charged me £2 for each one. £8 just for leaving my phone on!!!

[Sunny]

EE saying 'Roaming is getting better with EE' when in reality it appears they're planning on charging me a minimum of £2.49 a day.

I'm with o2, the only people who still do free roaming... in Europe.

I recently went to Marrakesh, not covered.

I bought an eSim for £12 which gave me 3gb of data.

I knew that if I made or received any calls I would be charged quite a bit, but thought that it only mattered if the call was connected, so I let the o2 sim roam just in case.

Anyway, I had four calls. All spam, I didn't answer any of them. O2 still charged me £2 for each one. £8 just for leaving my phone on!!!

Tbf, I just called them and have saved money on both my broadband and my current mobile plan(s) by switching to a new all-you-can-eat data, plus EU roaming, for £16 a month so I'll take that

[Sunny]

EE saying 'Roaming is getting better with EE' when in reality it appears they're planning on charging me a minimum of £2.49 a day.

I'm with o2, the only people who still do free roaming... in Europe.

I recently went to Marrakesh, not covered.

I bought an eSim for £12 which gave me 3gb of data.

I knew that if I made or received any calls I would be charged quite a bit, but thought that it only mattered if the call was connected, so I let the o2 sim roam just in case.

Anyway, I had four calls. All spam, I didn't answer any of them. O2 still charged me £2 for each one. £8 just for leaving my phone on!!!

Tbf, I just called them and have saved money on both my broadband and my current mobile plan(s) by switching to a new all-you-can-eat data, plus EU roaming, for £16 a month so I'll take that As and when I go non-EU I'll cough up extra.

[Mussels]

Here they call it "potentia", you set how much you need in kw. Most people find 3 to 5kw about right, I'm totally solar with a 5kw inverter so it doesn't bother me.

I'm currently at 12Kva

A quick Google says that's 9.6kw. Wifey managed to trip our 5kw system a couple of weeks ago, the microwave was on, the air fryer was on and she switched the kettle on which upset things. With your amount she could have put the kettle and the washing machine on. I don't have enough stuff to draw 9.6kw if it was all on at the same time.

kVA to kW isn't quite that simple but I don't know why DefTrap has been told it as it's irrelevant for any meters and trips in his posh shed.
Seems like gas companies here measuring in cubic metres and then using some seemingly random calorific value to charge us in kWh.
12kW doesn't seem much to me, even the most basic electric shower draws 8kW so it wouldn't take much else to tip it over the edge.

[Count Steer]

Seems like gas companies here measuring in cubic metres and then using some seemingly random calorific value to charge us in kWh.

'Taint 'random'. It varies and is a monitored known at a range of points (and issued daily by National Grid) so your bill should reflect what you've been supplied with. OK, it's not going to be to the cubic centimetre and some companies are going to have crap billing systems and may use an average figure (40MJ/m³) instead of the supplied figures but they really should be charging you for the energy they supplied as near as poss.

[demographic]

EE saying 'Roaming is getting better with EE' when in reality it appears they're planning on charging me a minimum of £2.49 a day.

Roaming costing extra is another one of those Brexit benefits that 52% (of those who bothered to vote) voted for.

Youknow, the ones who are now trying to get rid of our rights under the ECHR, Worth remembering that when you end up choosing which old folks home they go into.

[MingtheMerciless]

Poxy Cold/lurgy, nine days in, still no energy and sinus’s only just feeling slightly less like they’ll explode and leak tonnes of snot (it’s just kilo’s of snot now). I can feel my hard won fitness draining away .

[ogri]

Poxy Cold/lurgy, nine days in, still no energy and sinus’s only just feeling slightly less like they’ll explode and leak tonnes of snot (it’s just kilo’s of snot now). I can feel my hard won fitness draining away .

Dibs on anything 2-wheeled
ps
gws

[Skub]

EE saying 'Roaming is getting better with EE' when in reality it appears they're planning on charging me a minimum of £2.49 a day.

Roaming costing extra is another one of those Brexit benefits that 52% (of those who bothered to vote) voted for.

Youknow, the ones who are now trying to get rid of our rights under the ECHR, Worth remembering that when you end up choosing which old folks home they go into.

I'm with Talkmobile. No extra charges for my time in Prague and the same package I have at home applies.

[MingtheMerciless]

Poxy Cold/lurgy, nine days in, still no energy and sinus’s only just feeling slightly less like they’ll explode and leak tonnes of snot (it’s just kilo’s of snot now). I can feel my hard won fitness draining away .

Dibs on anything 2-wheeled
ps
gws

They’ll need boiling in bleach and irradiating too make sure they’re safe to be touched.

[Taipan]

Poxy Cold/lurgy, nine days in, still no energy and sinus’s only just feeling slightly less like they’ll explode and leak tonnes of snot (it’s just kilo’s of snot now). I can feel my hard won fitness draining away .

Bastard things do seem to hang on for ages now?.

[Sunny]

EE saying 'Roaming is getting better with EE' when in reality it appears they're planning on charging me a minimum of £2.49 a day.

Roaming costing extra is another one of those Brexit benefits that 52% (of those who bothered to vote) voted for.

Youknow, the ones who are now trying to get rid of our rights under the ECHR, Worth remembering that when you end up choosing which old folks home they go into.

I'm with Talkmobile. No extra charges for my time in Prague and the same package I have at home applies.

EE has always been the same. But that's changing end of December apparently.

Handily I had to ring them to sort out my broadband anyway, and because I get my broadband from them, they had a deal for a £16pm SIM-only, unlimited data, texts and calls, that included 'free' EU roaming.
(There was one without roaming included that was a mere £13pm - and you can call up and switch packages for a month as and when, but frankly I CBA, I'd rather just not have to think about it).

[Yorick]

Black Friday always pissed me off a bit. Recently seen lots of Black Week adverts

Now it's getting silly
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[Taipan]

Black Friday always pissed me off a bit. Recently seen lots of Black Week adverts

Now it's getting silly
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Perhaps it’s aligning with black history month?

[gremlin]

Shoes that have been well worn in, had many an outing and been comfy as you like, then for some reason, rip your heel to shreds on a brief 15 minute walk back home on a Saturday night.

Woke up Sunday morning with my bloodied heel stuck to the bed sheet.

[Skub]

Shoes that have been well worn in, had many an outing and been comfy as you like, then for some reason, rip your heel to shreds on a brief 15 minute walk back home on a Saturday night.

Woke up Sunday morning with my bloodied heel stuck to the bed sheet.

Preferable to having your bloodied arris stuck to the bed sheet after a night out.

[Taipan]

Shoes that have been well worn in, had many an outing and been comfy as you like, then for some reason, rip your heel to shreds on a brief 15 minute walk back home on a Saturday night.

Woke up Sunday morning with my bloodied heel stuck to the bed sheet.

That'd never happen if you were wearing skechers slip ins!

[DefTrap]

Roaming costing extra is another one of those Brexit benefits that 52% (of those who bothered to vote) voted for.

Amusingly. my Fronch mobile contract allows me free roaming in the UK. My kids (UK residents with UK mob. contracts) whine like a Manchester tram when they come to visit.

[gremlin]

Shoes that have been well worn in, had many an outing and been comfy as you like, then for some reason, rip your heel to shreds on a brief 15 minute walk back home on a Saturday night.

Woke up Sunday morning with my bloodied heel stuck to the bed sheet.

That'd never happen if you were wearing skechers slip ins!

Only because I'd be sat in a bathchair, tartan blanket over my knees, being pushed around by Matron.