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by Lowbankclaret
Sat Jul 22, 2023 9:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ryan Giggs cleared of all charges
Replies: 84
Views: 3689

Re: Ryan Giggs cleared of all charges

You were shocked the Judge directed you to find him not guilty. Why? You have just stated there was no evidence. Why did that shock you? What were you expecting? A trial to run for days when it can’t be proved. Did you not understand the opening speech of the prosecution Counsel when he stated the ...
by Lowbankclaret
Sat Jul 22, 2023 8:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Weghorst Reception
Replies: 498
Views: 24927

Re: Weghorst Reception

123EasyasBFC wrote:
Sat Jul 22, 2023 8:44 pm
Aye that sigh deserves a boo doesn’t it
He said he didn’t want to play for us again, do you kinda understand that.
by Lowbankclaret
Sat Jul 22, 2023 8:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Weghorst Reception
Replies: 498
Views: 24927

Re: Weghorst Reception

fidelcastro wrote:
Sat Jul 22, 2023 8:43 pm
Another well balanced view from you.

:roll:
This from someone who is surprised he got booed in a friendly. Your quick to forgive and that’s right, but not many fans are like you.
by Lowbankclaret
Sat Jul 22, 2023 8:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Banking your season ticket
Replies: 65
Views: 4450

Re: Banking your season ticket

Rileybobs wrote:
Sat Jul 22, 2023 1:39 pm
Why would you leave your seat empty rather than receiving a refund and letting another fan attend in your place?
So I get a tenner, club charges me for reselling my ticket. They get probably £50 so make about £30 for me taking time to ring them after tax. I will just not bother thanks.
by Lowbankclaret
Sat Jul 22, 2023 8:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Weghorst Reception
Replies: 498
Views: 24927

Re: Weghorst Reception

Fms need to understand, he dissed us. Walked away thinking he was the big I am. Wanted to sign for United but was crap. He will be booed on the turf. Get used to it. I think he is a complete idiot and a crap striker.
by Lowbankclaret
Fri Jul 21, 2023 5:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ryan Giggs cleared of all charges
Replies: 84
Views: 3689

Re: Ryan Giggs cleared of all charges

I've read that several times, but your grammar is so appalling, that I can't understand it. I don't know what point you're trying to make. Having read it back neither do I. I should really proof read before pressing send.I did jury service and sat on 4 trials. First the judge directed us to find no...
by Lowbankclaret
Fri Jul 21, 2023 5:08 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Banking your season ticket
Replies: 65
Views: 4450

Re: Banking your season ticket

Whilst I get the clubs points of dividing your season ticket cost and crediting that to you minus a very dodgy fee. It does not really incentivise you to bother. Certainly will not make me interested. I may be lucky this year and be invited into corporate a few times this season, so will just leave ...
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jul 18, 2023 11:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Wout is back
Replies: 284
Views: 45471

Re: Wout is back

Biggest load of ******** ever posted on UTC/Clarets Mad Absolutely 0 ‘league one strikers’ bag two in a World Cup quarter final against the eventual winners, or starts in a league cup final for Man United So he scored zero goals for Man Utd in the prem, being provided by the best of the best. Remin...
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jul 18, 2023 11:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ryan Giggs cleared of all charges
Replies: 84
Views: 3689

Re: Ryan Giggs cleared of all charges

What overwhelming evidence? A jury didn't think so. Have you been on a Jury, done 4 trials and some peoples views are shocking. One was judge directed the other three I convinced the stupid people to find guilt. You really don’t understand stupid till you sit on a jury. One case was the one the guy...
by Lowbankclaret
Fri Jul 14, 2023 9:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Wout is back
Replies: 284
Views: 45471

Re: Wout is back

He has proved he is a league 1 player at best. So if he is our no1 striker. We get relegated. Even my daughter BF a Man Utd fan told his mates he would score 5 last season after watching him on the turf. He scored none. He will score none for us, hence we get relegated if we score no goals with our ...
by Lowbankclaret
Wed Jul 12, 2023 11:12 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mobile phone rip off - hints please
Replies: 28
Views: 2105

Re: Mobile phone rip off - hints please

Posts like this are really good. Phone contracts are things I don’t check to often. I was out of contract 18 months ago and went SIM only with 3, seem to think I was paying £15. Just because I read this thread, I just checked how much I am paying now and it’s somehow now £25.30. Time to act, lots of...
by Lowbankclaret
Thu Jul 06, 2023 5:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Russia Invades
Replies: 10694
Views: 790936

Re: Russia Invades

I have been following this Trans soldier in Ukraine for most of the war. They sent her to lobby congress for more weapons and on return made her a Sargent. She has now launched an official media channel . It’s new, expect it to get better with better info on in .
https://youtu.be/zSbJXKC_vw0
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jul 04, 2023 6:25 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The renewables revolution.
Replies: 40
Views: 2317

Re: The renewables revolution.

CombatClaret wrote:
Tue Jul 04, 2023 4:04 pm
Imagine how far we'd be were it not for the companies and nations who have grown fat off hydrocarbon throwing everything they have at governments, lobbyists, personalities, botfarms, marketing etc to keep their party going as long as possible.
You’re not wrong.
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jul 04, 2023 6:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The renewables revolution.
Replies: 40
Views: 2317

Re: The renewables revolution.

Indeed - My current non EV consumption is about 9kWh per day so I could use my 55kWh battery on my Tesla and still have plenty of juice to get me about each day with regular overnight charging. If you based the consumption when driving the EV at 3 miles per kWh then it would be the equivalent of us...
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jul 04, 2023 4:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The renewables revolution.
Replies: 40
Views: 2317

Re: The renewables revolution.

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by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jul 04, 2023 3:46 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The renewables revolution.
Replies: 40
Views: 2317

Re: The renewables revolution.

Thank you clarethomer. Now to me that would be a massive advance for a lot of people. Being able to use your EV instead of having batteries in the loft or garage. Still does not solve the range issues people complain about. However a Merc concept car just achieved 621 miles on a single charge. Seems...
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jul 04, 2023 3:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The renewables revolution.
Replies: 40
Views: 2317

Re: The renewables revolution.

Apparently after asking on a Facebook solar and battery group, some real geeks on there. There was a trial called vehicle to home where some EV owner signed up to it and used it. They were able to keep the kit after the trial. Info says all the manufacturers are now developing systems. So it’s not r...
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The renewables revolution.
Replies: 40
Views: 2317

Re: The renewables revolution.

clarethomer wrote:
Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:44 pm
Tesla have home batteries. Doubt it was the car doing this
No he uses his car, the Tesla and Nissan leaf are compatible with doing this apparently.
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:39 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The renewables revolution.
Replies: 40
Views: 2317

Re: The renewables revolution.

How does that work? . My friend who has solar asked his neighbour about selling him electric during the day as he has a Tesla. He explained he charges his car over night at 15p per kwh and then runs his house on the Tesla battery through the day. I think you need a two way inverter to allow you to ...
by Lowbankclaret
Mon Jul 03, 2023 5:45 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Loyalty Points change
Replies: 362
Views: 18654

Re: Loyalty Points change

I will agree it’s a fairer system. But a few thoughts. In my case I should have over 2000 points after having over 9000. My daughter who currently has 2700 points should also have over 2000. We missed out on several games last year as we needed 3 tickets, and people on my friends and family were als...
by Lowbankclaret
Mon Jul 03, 2023 9:28 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The renewables revolution.
Replies: 40
Views: 2317

Re: The renewables revolution.

On the graph above you can see wind was providing 45% , if as the poster above says it’s to quadruple in ten years. That alone will be providing electrical needs when as everyone agrees it’s windy. Added to that the rush to go Solar by individuals as word gets round that it is really good. That’s wh...
by Lowbankclaret
Sun Jul 02, 2023 5:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The renewables revolution.
Replies: 40
Views: 2317

Re: The renewables revolution.

We also need nuclear power for when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. Think we lost a couple of decades in development when it was decided "No more nuclear power" Honestly in ten years time when they start thinking of building them, activities will have over taken the need for nuclea...
by Lowbankclaret
Sun Jul 02, 2023 5:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The renewables revolution.
Replies: 40
Views: 2317

Re: The renewables revolution.

Is that because it's high summer and its been windy? How many GW were generated each day? Interested to know if you have that information. I am not particularly informed in this area but I am led to believe we will need to get to 50GW capacity by 2030 to meet targets set, presumably by the governme...
by Lowbankclaret
Sun Jul 02, 2023 4:07 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The renewables revolution.
Replies: 40
Views: 2317

The renewables revolution.

For the first time in the UK’s history relabels hit 65% of energy creation in two consecutive days. People who are on Octopus Agile tariff have for the past two days at certain been being paid to use the excess electric, highest it got to was 20 pence per KWH. It’s going to be interesting how we try...
by Lowbankclaret
Sun Jul 02, 2023 3:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Twitter - “Rate Limit Exceeded”
Replies: 80
Views: 5377

Re: Twitter - “Rate Limit Exceeded”

Rumours I am seeing around is he has not paid the bill for the servers, they have then throttled the usage. No idea if it’s true of course.
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jun 27, 2023 11:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Thames water
Replies: 33
Views: 2414

Re: Thames water

Water and sewage should be public. No way it should be a profit organisation.
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Thames water
Replies: 33
Views: 2414

Re: Thames water

Could be the first of many
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Thames water
Replies: 33
Views: 2414

Thames water

Looks like a water company is going bust.

Exec pay, dividends plus othe issues being blamed.

Watching this one play out, could happen to loads of them.
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Air Source Heat Pump Systems
Replies: 28
Views: 1875

Re: Air Source Heat Pump Systems

Caballo wrote:
Tue Jun 27, 2023 8:11 pm
Especially if there's money to be made doing.
As a retired engineer, I have seen some unbelievable people do unbelievable things.
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jun 27, 2023 8:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Air Source Heat Pump Systems
Replies: 28
Views: 1875

Re: Air Source Heat Pump Systems

BennyD wrote:
Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:57 pm
Electric cars ‘work fine’ as well, but both have a limited life span. When that happens, there’s going to be many millions of solar panels that are going to need recycling without the required facilities to handle them.
An engineer somewhere will work out a way to recycle.
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jun 27, 2023 7:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Horse flies
Replies: 39
Views: 3791

Re: Horse flies

Jungle formula keeps them away, us fisherfolk, swim in it at times.
by Lowbankclaret
Mon Jun 26, 2023 2:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Russia Invades
Replies: 10694
Views: 790936

Re: Russia Invades

https://twitter.com/Archer83Able/status/1673315645864157184 This is pretty crucial - the Russians keep reproducing the 2 x Leopards, 1 x Bradley that were knocked out three weeks ago from different angles and claiming that is new damage Nothing says "this is all we've got on the modern Western stuf...
by Lowbankclaret
Sun Jun 25, 2023 8:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Air Source Heat Pump Systems
Replies: 28
Views: 1875

Re: Air Source Heat Pump Systems

Yet another ‘green’ fad that will wither and die. Most of these ‘great ideas’ will end up costing the planet more than they save. Electric cars, solar panels, and wind turbines will all cause major problems down the line. Solar panels work just fine. That’s why I bought them. Heat pumps are crap fr...
by Lowbankclaret
Thu Jun 22, 2023 9:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mortgages
Replies: 345
Views: 13825

Re: Mortgages

Absolute nonsense and a statement that backs up some of the earlier points about a lack of understanding of the issues facing the current generation which some seemed to get weirdly rattled about. Ok right. So back in the day 90’s me and missus struggled. I had a full time job. But then had about 3...
by Lowbankclaret
Thu Jun 22, 2023 9:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mortgages
Replies: 345
Views: 13825

Re: Mortgages

Lancasterclaret wrote:
Thu Jun 22, 2023 9:25 pm
I don't think that is even remotely fair
Why, in the scheme of things it’s not a shortage of jobs.
Not having a go at anyone struggling did that years ago. It’s ****.
Still don’t agree with raising interest rates because a war and Covid put up inflation.

It will come
Down naturaly over time.
by Lowbankclaret
Thu Jun 22, 2023 9:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mortgages
Replies: 345
Views: 13825

Re: Mortgages

To be fair, there are loads of jobs for people to apply for. Problem is many uk youngsters are too lazy to work.
by Lowbankclaret
Thu Jun 22, 2023 9:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mortgages
Replies: 345
Views: 13825

Re: Mortgages

Mark Carney spoke the truth on Brexit predicting that it would lead to the financial mess the country is experiencing now. Compare that to the predictions of Jacob Rees-Mogg who in July 2017 stated that Brexit would lead to a 20% reduction in the cost of food and wine. :lol: Erm then we had Covid a...
by Lowbankclaret
Thu Jun 22, 2023 9:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mortgages
Replies: 345
Views: 13825

Re: Mortgages

roperclaret wrote:
Thu Jun 22, 2023 7:10 pm
Brexit is the main issue without it we probably wouldn’t have had to suffer Boris and Truss as well
Rubbish
by Lowbankclaret
Thu Jun 22, 2023 7:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sub goes Missing
Replies: 189
Views: 13293

Re: Sub goes Missing

Robbie_painter wrote:
Thu Jun 22, 2023 6:00 pm
Bit early for puns tbh.There’s a time and a plaice and this ain’t it.
It was not a pun. He was making his last trip.
by Lowbankclaret
Thu Jun 22, 2023 5:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sub goes Missing
Replies: 189
Views: 13293

Re: Sub goes Missing

The complete lack of a rescue plan smacks of amateurs playing around in dangerous territory. The other thing is 34 successful previous trips can lead to complacency . Hopefully the sub will be recovered and an investigation will find what went wrong. Hopefully people will not be so fast to jump in a...
by Lowbankclaret
Thu Jun 22, 2023 2:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mortgages
Replies: 345
Views: 13825

Re: Mortgages

In. Small amount of good news, looks like gas prices are going down from 10p to 8 p and electric down 17%.

Should that not also bring down the inflation figure a month or two after??
by Lowbankclaret
Wed Jun 21, 2023 6:31 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mortgages
Replies: 345
Views: 13825

Re: Mortgages

I bought in the 90s My wage was average for the area, and the house price was about twice my wage The wage is now roughly a few grand more, while that house is now selling at 4 or 5 times as much Its not good I bought my first terraced house in 1988-9, I cannot for the life of me remember how much ...
by Lowbankclaret
Wed Jun 21, 2023 5:34 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mortgages
Replies: 345
Views: 13825

Re: Mortgages

Inflation has been caused in the main by a large rise in fuel prices and the cost of gas. Food like cucumbers and tomatoes have risen on supply issues caused by the gas price. Fuel, petrol and diesel have almost returned back to pre war prices, petrol was around 135 ish if I remember correctly . It ...
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jun 20, 2023 10:55 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mortgages
Replies: 345
Views: 13825

Re: Mortgages

Think lots of people have explained or shown that.
Feel sorry for them
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jun 20, 2023 10:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mortgages
Replies: 345
Views: 13825

Re: Mortgages

boatshed bill wrote:
Tue Jun 20, 2023 8:04 pm
Being a private landlord sounds like hell.
He is moving into investing and finding ypu can make 20% per year without all the **** being a landlord brings
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jun 20, 2023 10:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mortgages
Replies: 345
Views: 13825

Re: Mortgages

fatboy47 wrote:
Tue Jun 20, 2023 8:01 pm
Don't jump lowbank!! 😮😂

But yep... Paints a bleak picture, and like I've said, it's a complex affair if you're using borrowed cash..
Like I said quotes from a real landlord.

I just get get 7.2% on my investments now.
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jun 20, 2023 7:42 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mortgages
Replies: 345
Views: 13825

Re: Mortgages

Section 24 is legislation that prevents landlord from deducting finance costs from profit. Effectively taxing gross income the only industry in the UK that does this... incidentally, the only other countries that apply tax on gross income are North Korea and Zimbabwe... Section 21 removal... meaning...
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jun 20, 2023 7:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mortgages
Replies: 345
Views: 13825

Re: Mortgages

fatboy47 wrote:
Tue Jun 20, 2023 6:44 pm
Yep, fair enough, with that balance.
Asked for his comments, will list below
by Lowbankclaret
Tue Jun 20, 2023 7:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sub goes Missing
Replies: 189
Views: 13293

Re: Sub goes Missing

This sub has apparently done around 30 trips to the wreak.
Really sad it’s had an issue.
Let’s hope it gets back to the surface soon.