It’s already been said, but shatterproof does not mean it’s indestructible. It means that when it does break it won’t shatter into a hundred jagged edged pieces that go flying into the air and lodge themselves into some kid’s eyeball.
This one broke cleanly in twain and did not shatter. The packaging’s claim is accurate.
Jesus Christ! A friend of mine exploded a mountain bike tire when trying to inflate it to 100psi, assuming it would be the same as on his racing bike, he said it went off like a grenade. I can’t imagine what a car tire would be like.
You’ve reminded me of a similar frustration that I’ve never found the answer to - though it may be adblock related - in that whenever I open a link to eBay it completely wipes the history for that tab. Or possibly it opens a new tab and kills the parent. Either way I always forget about it until the next time and then it drives me mad all over again.
Kudos to you for doing this, but for all that free press they got and the exec’s trip on the company dime, you’d have thought they’d let you keep the £500!
Yeah that’s undoubtedly part of it, but it’s fueled (excuse the pun) by the vast Summer to Winter disparity in energy usage. My own energy bills are currently very low thanks to rooftop solar, but my house is very poorly insulated so I’m expecting my Winter bills to be 10 to 15 times higher than they are now once the temperature drops into the mid teens and my gas heating goes on.
Most housing stock in the UK is unfortunately just as badly insulated so people like to know they’re not going to get massive unpayable bills in the Winter by paying more than necessary in the Summer.
“Most people” don’t budget very well and would prefer to pay a known, fixed amount every month rather than get lulled into a false sense of security by cheap Summer bills when the heating is off and daylight abundant (we don’t generally have air conditioning), only to then get hit for massive bills that they can’t afford when the heating goes on in the Winter.
To make this work they try to find the sweet spot so that your balance fluctuates between building credit in the Summer and going into debt in the Winter, but ultimately balancing out to zero-ish throughout the year. If your balance goes too far negative they’ll ask you to increase your payment and if you build too much credit you can reduce your payments and/or get (some of) the credit back.
All that said though, if you’d rather just pay each month’s bill in full then Octopus will let you do that. You might need to contact them to make the change.
I think Labour has already pledged not to raise taxes, but let’s play devil’s advocate and pretend that they were going to slap a £2000 on everyone of working age.
Doing some fuzzy maths based on statistics I can find online from 2 years ago, that’s roughly 45 million people, or £90 billion a year. Or to put in into the Brexit campaign’s favourite terms, £1.7 billion per week going into public coffers.
I’m not suggesting such a flat structure would actually make sense as a policy, but that maybe tax rises as a concept aren’t always a universally bad thing.
Other than the weirdly janky CG, which was both excellent in some parts while ruining my suspension of disbelief in others, I enjoyed it. No, it wasn’t as good as Fury Road but, let’s face it, that bar is so high it’s almost stratospheric.
I’ve watched BB a few times but I can’t say I recognise the reference. Still, if you’re sure that’s the line he says, try searching on yarn.co. It generates gifs from movie and TV quotes so it might help to narrow things down.
Regular Urban Survivors by Terrorvision. Most people probably know them by way of their subsequent album, Shaving Peaches, but RUS is far superior.
But I missed a trick by not also using ergo.