update on excessive electricity usage

hahahah, is that a flounce ?

Please go and play a game of "hide and go f*ck yourself". This newsgroup is not a public service.

Looks like one to me :)

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You will be sorely missed, as will your attitude. The range of people who post here asking for advice range from the clueless to the experts looking for other peoples views. In this case the most likely case was that your friend had missed something - something us mere mortals sometimes do and you were given pretty good advice that was perfectly sound, even if you found it basic and patronising.

I'm glad that you have solved the mystery, but now you have left us with a mystery: why did someone who seems to know how to do everything even bother asking mere mortals for advice in the first place?

I'll ponder over that for a while and wonder why you've taken peoples help as some kind of personal insult, when all it was was people being as helpful as they could given the information that you gave.

Oh well..

This is the most restrained of the replies, if it were taken to the extreme it would be thought that at least 75% of posters here were offensive chauvinists with a small vocabulary and a large ego.

Mary

Why on earth would you ask such a question on a DIY group if you didn't want a range of opinions.

Couldn't such a competent pair even bother to read the back of the Electricity bill, most of which explain in easily understood English where to make complaints.

Andy

I was flabbergasted by Jackie's bitter and twisted response to what was a standard, very helpful, mix of good advice. It wasn't a stupid question that was asked in the first place, and it didn't receive stupid answers. Never mind: as always, *we* all learned a little bit from all those answers, even if Jackie did not.

We even learned that a meter can be accepted as faulty by an electricity supply company, which was the biggest surprise. (The biggest, after Jackie's summing up, that is.)

John

"Jackie" typed

I can't blame you, but not some men patronise women almost *everywhere* about anything technical.

I remember requesting a 2.4v, 0.83A bulb (for a bicycle light) at Halfords. Salesdroid did not have one but told me that the 2.4v, 0.7A bulb was EXACTLY THE SAME.

Yeah, right!

I once called RAC and told the chap that the petrol pump wasn't working. He began testing other circuits first. I repeated that it was the petrol pump. He told me it could be anything and not to interrupt.

Of course it was the petrol pump.

I felt a bit sorry for him but since he preferred me not to say anything I didn't even thank him.

:-)

Mary

Erm, well...

It's not *exactly* the same, but in this context, in this application, for all intents and purposes it is. By that I mean you just wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two.

What surprises me is that a Halfords employee knew this in the first place.

Why? Because he was a man?

Mary

"Mary Fisher" typed

I wouldn't call that spotty yoof a MAN...

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:52:06 GMT someone who may be Helen Deborah Vecht wrote this:-

I might blame the original poster, if I could be bothered. The word "flounce" was a good one I think.

I assume "note" rather then "not".

Of course some men patronise women, just as some women patronise men and some women patronise women and some men patronise men. A few years ago there were many adverts about how stupid men are and can't relied on to do simple things. Anyone who complained about these was told they didn't have a sense of humour, but had the same adverts been produced with the sexes reversed there would have been a real storm of indignation.

After the meter is replaced I will be interested in a followup.

Hah! you found the telephone number on the back of a billing.

Pity he didn't have the nouse to check his readings once a month in the first place.

Bye!

Ive often wondered why this should be.

Oh now I see........ :)

Trouble was you asked the question in uk.d-i-y, an ng such as uk.legal would have been more relevant.

As a consequence you got advice about how to make sure that you were using the energy that you thought you were rather than that recorded by the meter.

I get the impression that it had nor occured to you that you could ask the electricity supplier how to progress a complaint.

The message from Andy Cap contains these words:

She may be one of these people who think there's one answer to everything and that someone must provide them with it. They're usually in either middle management or media relations.

It scares me that a) I know exactly what you mean, and b) I can name 6 people exactly like that, without even thinking about it.

I want to know exactly how he is going to get a refund. A refund on what exactly? How the hell can anyone know how much he has been overcharged? Sure we have a top limit (i.e all of the electricity ever metered by that meter) but no lower limit (i.e it may have stopped working properly on Thursday).