Popular Post mjmooney Posted February 23, 2022 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2022 34 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: No mum’s present at ours. But I will tell you this absolute 100% true, on my eyes, true, true story. The midwife had the radio on. During the delivery: Keep On Pushing, The Impressions. Upon delivery, me cuddling slightly gunky new baby: Theme tune from the X Files Absolute true story, no anecdotal bending of the light to make it funnier. My true spooky story was that when we were visiting our daughter who had just had our first grandchild, only one person was allowed at the bedside at a time. My wife went in first, and to kill time while I was waiting, I fired up the Scrabble game on my phone. The very first seven tiles it dealt me were (in the correct order): G R A N D P A Absolutely true story. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Yeah, invite your mum, because if I prolapse it’ll be all hands on deck to push it back in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 (edited) As on the Sky thread, today I've had 2 messages from companies significantly hiking their prices, in line with RPI. Why is this allowed? It's arse-backwards. RPI is a measure of prices consumers pay. Prices go up, which pushes up RPI, and the response is that they then use that to justify putting their prices up, because everyone put their prices up? Which will further raise RPI and be used to justify the next price hike. This is absolute madness. My phone bill is going up by 11.7% because they've decided it's appropriate to whack an extra 3.9% on top of RPI, because **** me, they like money? Edited February 23, 2022 by Davkaus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 (edited) My baby story which always makes me chuckle to myself when i think of it .... was a long time ago so forgive me if i told it at the time .... When our daughter was born , we'd been to the hospital and sent home as baby wasn't ready , we went and did a bit of shopping , bite to eat , watched a film then Mrs H said we should probably go back to the hospital , didn't sound like any rush and she was in labour for about 22 hours with my son and so hey I was an expert on these things so I was out the front chatting to my neighbour about football as Mrs H sat in the car , when she suddenly got a bit excited and said we need to go NOW ... I broke the land speed record all the way to the hospital , while imagining one of those scenes out a comedy sketch when the driver is stopped for speeding and tells the police my wife is having a baby ... drove up to the front doors rushed her out and in the lift into the ward where my daughter was born in a matter of what felt like seconds .. After a quick cuddle , I then had to make my excuses and go down and move my car which I'd left with two open doors and the keys still in the ignition across the entrance area Edited February 23, 2022 by tonyh29 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 2 hours ago, Davkaus said: As on the Sky thread, today I've had 2 messages from companies significantly hiking their prices, in line with RPI. Why is this allowed? It's arse-backwards. RPI is a measure of prices consumers pay. Prices go up, which pushes up RPI, and the response is that they then use that to justify putting their prices up, because everyone put their prices up? Which will further raise RPI and be used to justify the next price hike. This is absolute madness. My phone bill is going up by 11.7% because they've decided it's appropriate to whack an extra 3.9% on top of RPI, because **** me, they like money? You with Virgin? Because that's how much my phone bill is going up. Luckily it's only just over nine quid per month so not too painful, but it really does take the piss. Like when I signed up with Plusnet for Internet, 18 month contract, and it went up about 8,weeks later. rocket polishers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 6 hours ago, Genie said: Women are very complicated, and trying to understand them is pointless. Fact ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 4 hours ago, Davkaus said: As on the Sky thread, today I've had 2 messages from companies significantly hiking their prices, in line with RPI. Why is this allowed? It's arse-backwards. RPI is a measure of prices consumers pay. Prices go up, which pushes up RPI, and the response is that they then use that to justify putting their prices up, because everyone put their prices up? Which will further raise RPI and be used to justify the next price hike. This is absolute madness. My phone bill is going up by 11.7% because they've decided it's appropriate to whack an extra 3.9% on top of RPI, because **** me, they like money? And yet these companies will announce record profits in a few months tis some joke ....my dodgy box sub better not move Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 24, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2022 People still have phones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 42 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: People still have phones? Yes, because people still have aged relatives that have phones. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 24, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 24, 2022 57 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: People still have phones? Anyone on Virgin is forced to have one, they don't do a package without a phone line. Never plugged a phone into ours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 24, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 24, 2022 57 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: People still have phones? Anyone on Virgin is forced to have one, they don't do a package without a phone line. Never plugged a phone into ours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted February 24, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2022 2 minutes ago, bickster said: Anyone on Virgin is forced to have one, they don't do a package without a phone line. Never plugged a phone into ours I don't have one. Broadband only. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 24, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 24, 2022 Just now, Designer1 said: I don't have one. Broadband only. SHit, you are correct, there never used to be a package without a phone line. Oh they are so getting called later. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 I'm with BT and always been under the impression I needed to have a phone line. Is that not the case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamburglar Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Ring bt up, threaten to leave and they’ll probably offer you a package to double your internet apeed for half the price of the package you’re currently on. Worked for me when I cancelled bt sport six months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 (edited) I called VM up a couple of weeks ago to leave as out of contract, they cut my package price from £64 to £41. Tv, including bt sports but not sky sports or movies. 200mb broadband and phone (I don’t even have a phone plugged in, they say it’s cheaper to include it than not). Edited February 24, 2022 by Genie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Working from home, I’ve taken great delight in informing my missus that “I’M GOING FOR A PEE!” She has been working from home in another room so I’ve loved the Russian roulette of shouting out my toilet visits when she could be on a teams call. Just now I stood up from my desk, walked across the room and quite clearly announced “I’M GOING FOR A WAZZ”. Trouble is, I’m in the office today. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Davkaus Posted February 24, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2022 My bank card has gone missing, I either dropped it, or someone pinched it from my coat pocket when I was out at a whiskey tasting last night, some scrote has managed to spend £250 using contactless across 5 transactions in the same shop, within minutes. You'd think some automated anti-fraud measures might kick in with that kind of use. They were stupid enough to use it in a Tesco branch which will almost certainly have CCTV covering the checkouts, so hopefully their very good night art my expense has some consequences, but that will rely upon the police giving a shit, which I suspect will lead to a further post in here in the coming days. The timing of the transactions make me suspect it was someone from the quite small group at the whiskey tasting, so it's the betrayal of trust that pisses me off more than the money which I ought to get back from the bank anyway. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 24, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Hamburglar said: Ring bt up, threaten to leave and they’ll probably offer you a package to double your internet speed for half the price of the package you’re currently on. Worked for me when I cancelled bt sport six months. Which will make no discernable change as far as you can tell. Edited February 24, 2022 by sidcow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 24, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2022 I've got a land phone and received a call on it not 10 minutes a go. I'll use is when at home though I've noticed less and less recently as its just easier to use mobile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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