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Over the course of my recent tour, we heard most of our programme piped into various hotel lifts/elevators. We laughed, because otherwise we might have cried...
And our lutenist/guitarist's latest CD was featured on the airplane entertainment system, but that's not quite the same thing as aural wallpaper in a shop or lift - you had to make a positive choice to listen to it.
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« Reply #5026 on: 23:03:35, 02-03-2008 » |
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I remember I used to occasionally slip in a disk or two of cage (there was a tiny naxos section tucked away in a corner) when I worked back in the knock shrine religious bookshop, in between all the liam lawton stuff and accompanied rosaries.
I expect when you did that, your clients just assumed you were suffering from a slipped disc, and remembered you in their prayers? |
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« Reply #5027 on: 15:03:01, 03-03-2008 » |
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OK, I give up. I am truly jinxed in matters involving communication. With a certain amount of trepidation I hooked up my BT home hub this morning. Oh joy, lights started winking. Whoopee! Half an hour later the BB light was still flashing orange. Hmmm. I consulted the instruction booklet which told me it could take half an hour to get going. Then I checked the Troubleshooting section which said it could take a hour. OK. Two hours later, still orange. Checked the book again to find another paragraph which said it could take 24 hours! Phoned BT to find when the service had been activated just in case that might have been the problem. Nope. After half an hour with good old Nigel (again) of switching on, switching off, pulling things out and putting them back he decided "there may be fault on the line. Is your phone working?". "Yes, because I am calling you from it". Result? The Engineers will phone me in 48 hours time. I've already had to wait way over the normal time it takes to get it up and running and I still have no service  I sincerely hope this is not going to result in another £200 bill, bearing in mind their call out charge is £114 Thank Gawd I didn't get the cable connection disconnected. |
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« Reply #5028 on: 15:41:09, 03-03-2008 » |
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Sorry to hear about your ongoing problems, Mort!
After a horrid few days, I didn't think things could get worse. Then the gas bill arrived, from npower.
And guess watt? Their price rise (which was headlined at around 17%, and at maximum - in areas like mine - as 27%) is over 50%! I've spent several fruitless minutes on the phone complaining about this. Their official line, of course, is that it's nowhere near that, but both the junior people I spoke to admitted that the difference between 4.412p per kWh (up to 4 January) and 6.688p per kWh (from 5 January) does indeed look like a price hike of over 50%. Which is, of course, outrageous.
I'm waiting for their "executive" complaints dept to get back to me, no doubt with several smoke screens to hand, but this is going to the regulator, and my custom is going elsewhere.
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« Reply #5029 on: 16:06:03, 03-03-2008 » |
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FIFTY PERCENT!! That's rape and pillage, opi! I hope you are armed with the necessary paperwork and your very best ascerbic comments with which to torch 'em! Good luck, ops 
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« Reply #5030 on: 16:14:43, 03-03-2008 » |
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I got my gas bill today, too - over £300 in spite of the fact that I opted for British Gas Price Guarantee 2008, so the price hasn't gone up YET. (It's a way of bribing people not to change suppliers.) I haven't compared the bill with other years yet, but it seems A LOT  . |
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« Reply #5031 on: 17:29:28, 03-03-2008 » |
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I got a notification of the new rates from e.on the other day. They only state the new rates, not the old ones. That, I suppose, would make comparison a bit too stark.  As it happens, it works out at around 15% on gas, and just under 10% on electricity. Changing over to Intrnet management of my account then saved me a good few percent off the rises. |
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« Reply #5032 on: 17:43:10, 03-03-2008 » |
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Changing over to Intrnet management of my account then saved me a good few percent off the rises.
Bryn, npower are offering "green" (i.e. online) billing "at no extra charge"! That almost made me choke! No extra charge? What about the discount for saving them the paperwork, postage, etc? |
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« Reply #5033 on: 18:06:54, 03-03-2008 » |
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And guess watt? Their price rise (which was headlined at around 17%, and at maximum - in areas like mine - as 27%) is over 50%!
I never knew you paid a different rate from the same supplier according to which part of the country you live in  Do you live somewhere remote opi? I wonder, with global warming, why solar energy isn't installed more, at one stage it seemed everyone was putting in roof panels and now we don't seem to have cold Winters and have early Springs it would make sense wouldn't it? |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #5034 on: 19:15:51, 03-03-2008 » |
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And guess watt? Their price rise (which was headlined at around 17%, and at maximum - in areas like mine - as 27%) is over 50%!
I never knew you paid a different rate from the same supplier according to which part of the country you live in Do you live somewhere remote opi? Neither did I. But it seems that we now do: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7177215.stmI don't live anywhere remotely remote [sic] (except perhaps culturally) -- the suburbs of Nottingham. Which serves me right, really. Apparently the East Midlands are more difficult to get gas to than most other places in the country. |
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« Reply #5035 on: 19:37:59, 03-03-2008 » |
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Back on the subject of antisocial behaviour... A lovely black graffito has appeared today on the (glass) communal front door of my building I have reported it to the managing agent, but still |
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #5036 on: 20:21:37, 03-03-2008 » |
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BBM, does "the mrs" have a name by any chance? Some Members here may meet her next week. Should we just call her "mrs"?
Yes indeed she does Mort!! Apologies. Thats my little joke with her!! She is called Sue a or perhaps Mrs BBM!!! Although she doesnt play any instrument but she does have a lovely natural singing voice. The trouble is, being a shy person she doesnt want to belong to an y kind of vocal group, which is a pity. And thats not me being biased, either! |
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« Reply #5037 on: 23:26:32, 03-03-2008 » |
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I just have one word for this thread, and that is:
If you listen carefully, you should be able to hear it from where you are.
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'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
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« Reply #5038 on: 14:20:49, 04-03-2008 » |
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This doesn't really come under the category of a grump but I couldn't really think of anywhere else to put it. This morning I received an invoice for the completion of work on a headstone - new inscription, cleaning etc. At the bottom of the invoice is "Goods remain the property of the company until paid in full". What kind of tactless idiot thought that was a good idea? Talk about insensitive!
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« Reply #5039 on: 09:59:30, 05-03-2008 » |
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Grrrr: it seems that I need a certificate of fitness from my doctor in order to claim social security. I had booked to see him next Monday anyway, to procure a medical cert saying that I am medically unfit to work. So, I get to kill two birds with the one stone then, but I can't help but be struck by a Certain Irony.  |
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