Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

ivyleaf wrote: »

Same thing's happened here - meters were installed a few months ago but won't be switched on for 2 years, but if you opt to switch in the first year you get a discount.

Pyxis Was the programme The Last Kingdom? Perhaps Essex was ever so much bigger in those days.....

No! It was 'Sanctuary', which is set in the present day! (It's a Canadian/US scifi prog, starring Amanda Tapping who was in Stargate SG-1).

michaels

WE currently pay 360ish

Using this calculator we would pay 960 if metered.

However it appears that I have failed to be claiming the low income social tariff for the last 2 years that we should have been entitled to and so should only have been paying 200pa - I will rectify this now for next year.

Edit - that was with no hose usage. If we fill the kids pool a couple of times a year it comes to 1106.

ivyleaf

Pyxis wrote: »

No! It was 'Sanctuary', which is set in the present day! (It's a Canadian/US scifi prog, starring Amanda Tapping who was in Stargate SG-1).

Ooh, not seem that! Which channel is it on. please? we don't have Sky or Virgin but we have Freesat.

Pyxis

ivyleaf wrote: »

Ooh, not seem that! Which channel is it on. please? we don't have Sky or Virgin but we have Freesat.

It's on Pick, Mon-Fri, re-runs.

It's a sort of sci-fi/fantasy hybrid.

It's currently at the start of series 2. I haven't watched it from the very beginning.....found it by accident.

It's full of weird creatures and 'abnormals' (sic), and in that respect is a bit like 'Heroes'...... humans with weird abilities and/or appearances, as well as strange animals.

It's not as good as the Stargate series, but the special effects are quite good.

If you start watching it, google it in Wiki to get the gist of what it's about.







I have just realised that Pastures got the 10,000th post! :T

PasturesNew

I have a random science question for sciency-type-NPs. Bear with me, but it's strange what goes through my mind when I'm waiting for my toast to brown.

I've got a 2-slot toaster. In the last few days I've been toasting just one piece of bread, so the other slot is empty. I toast it, then I turn the toast over and toast it a bit more.

Question: If there are two slots and if both slots were identical and producing identical heat from both sides onto the bread .... if you only use one slot to make toast the other's still burning away. If you remove the single piece to check it for colour and turn it over, which slot would be hottest to put it back into:

- the slot that sat empty, burning heat? Is that hotter as it's had nothing to sap up the heat? Is that cooler as the heat's just 100% escaped?
- the slot that's already had the toast baking in it? Is that hotter because the toast retained more of the heat and radiated it within the slot? Is that cooler because the bread soaked up the heat as it was generated, limiting how hot the surrounding slot area could get to?



Discuss....

Pyxis

I would say that are both still equally as hot, because while the toaster is plugged in, the elements are churning out heat at a constant rate.

The only difference is that in one slot the heat escapes more than in the other slot, where it is transferred to the toast, but the heat output going on is still the same in both.

So,whichever slot you put the toast in, they will be equally as hot.

IM very-untutored-in-physics O , anyway!

Pyxis

Well, the saga of the sheet music has come to a conclusion.

On neither of the two recent forays into ordering from this firm had I re-ordered the music I wanted. I decided to wait for my credit card statement and see what had happened.

Remember that I had phoned the card company a few days after the first debacle, to see if they really had credited my card, or just given me a store credit. The credit card guy told me that the purchase had been debited but that no credit had been made.

Anyway, my statement came today, and to my surprise, I saw that the credit had been made, and had been made on the same day as the original debit!
so why did the credit card man tell me that my account hadn't been credited?
It was an overseas call centre, so maybe he hadn't understood what I meant, even though I asked him more than once if there had been any credits applied to my account.

Honestly!
Anyway, I lost £1.80-ish due to the exchange rate from dollars, but that was all.

So now that the latest order has also been cancelled, I'm not going to risk ordering through them again, even though I really want the music. I'll try to get it elsewhere. I just don't have the energy to battle with their website and/or customer support that just repeats the obvious without properly reading what you are asking.

Shudder! No way, Josè!



Right! Rant is concluded.

Ps. If anyone wants any sheet music, avoid a certain company with a name like a type of seasoning.

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

WE currently pay 360ish

Using this calculator we would pay 960 if metered.

However it appears that I have failed to be claiming the low income social tariff for the last 2 years that we should have been entitled to and so should only have been paying 200pa - I will rectify this now for next year.

Edit - that was with no hose usage. If we fill the kids pool a couple of times a year it comes to 1106.

We pay around £3 per cubic metre for water, include waste. You are saying filling the kids' pool costs £72. That would make it 24 cubic metres = 4x6 m at 1m deep.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

We pay around £3 per cubic metre for water, include waste. You are saying filling the kids' pool costs £72. That would make it 24 cubic metres = 4x6 m at 1m deep.

Out of interest, how much does that compare with the cost of taking them to the local pool?
How many days use do you get from one pool-filling?

It might be quite cost-effective to fill your own pool.

GDB2222

Pyxis wrote: »

Out of interest, how much does that compare with the cost of taking them to the local pool?
How many days use do you get from one pool-filling?

It might be quite cost-effective to fill your own pool.

Michael will start collecting rainwater.