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Sunny wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2024 5:51 pm 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. :thumbup:

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. :wtf:
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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 🤬.
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MingtheMerciless wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2024 7:15 am 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 🤬.
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demographic wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2024 5:55 am
Sunny wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2024 5:51 pm 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. :thumbup:

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. :wtf:
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ogri wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2024 10:22 am
MingtheMerciless wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2024 7:15 am 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 :)
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They’ll need boiling in bleach and irradiating too make sure they’re safe to be touched.
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MingtheMerciless wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2024 7:15 am 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?. :crazy:
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Skub wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2024 11:26 am
demographic wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2024 5:55 am
Sunny wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2024 5:51 pm 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. :thumbup:

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. :wtf:
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).
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Black Friday always pissed me off a bit. Recently seen lots of Black Week adverts :(

Now it's getting silly :(
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Yorick wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2024 5:42 pm 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? :think:
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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. :wtf:
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gremlin wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 9:25 am 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. :wtf:
Preferable to having your bloodied arris stuck to the bed sheet after a night out. :silent:
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gremlin wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 9:25 am 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. :wtf:
That'd never happen if you were wearing skechers slip ins! :thumbup:
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demographic wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2024 5:55 am
Roaming costing extra is another one of those Brexit benefits that 52% (of those who bothered to vote) voted for. :thumbup:
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.
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Taipan wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 2:26 pm
gremlin wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 9:25 am 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. :wtf:
That'd never happen if you were wearing skechers slip ins! :thumbup:
Only because I'd be sat in a bathchair, tartan blanket over my knees, being pushed around by Matron. ;)
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DefTrap wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 2:32 pm
demographic wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2024 5:55 am
Roaming costing extra is another one of those Brexit benefits that 52% (of those who bothered to vote) voted for. :thumbup:
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.
They could use that energy and switch to a provider who doesn't charge roaming, just a thought like.
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MrLongbeard wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 3:13 pm They could use that energy and switch to a provider who doesn't charge roaming, just a thought like.
Then it wouldn't fit into this Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little though would it? ;)
ISTR when it was the other way around (some years back my Fronch provider similarly didn't provide free roaming for my UK trips) that I myself moaned and then immediately forgot about it until the next time, and repeat ....
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DVLA Auction website bidding process. Why do they have people bidding net of VAT, buyer’s commission, VAT on buyer’s commission and registration fees and then have loads of warnings about these being added and every bid is final and can’t be cancelled.

Surely it’d be easier to have people bidding in terms of total cost given the assumption that the majority of bidders can’t reclaim VAT or is this a deliberate ploy to have auctions starting at artificially low starting prices and boost up the bid amounts by having both expressed as net figures?
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Insurance companies.....again
Renewal comes through from Aviva....up from £163 to £207.
Have a shop around, all around the £160-170 mark.
Always give the current insurance co. a chance to match, so give them a bell, whilst in the menu queue, they state that we cannot offer a better price etc etc.
Today get a message from one of the search engines.... new price.
£160.87.......from aviva :wtf:
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Sadlonelygit wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:48 am Insurance companies.....again
Renewal comes through from Aviva....up from £163 to £207.
Have a shop around, all around the £160-170 mark.
Always give the current insurance co. a chance to match, so give them a bell, whilst in the menu queue, they state that we cannot offer a better price etc etc.
Today get a message from one of the search engines.... new price.
£160.87.......from aviva :wtf:
I'm with Admiral and this happens most years, but they normally ask me for the quote reference. Then a quick chat with a so called manager and they then match it. :roll:
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My multi bike policy is up for renewal in December...

Email from Hastings, last year you paid £220, this year it's £330.

'pah' thinks I, I can do better.

Just done a quote on the Bennetts website... £865!!!