update on excessive electricity usage

That wasn't what your OP said.

Came across a nice little story recently, sort of just about sums you up

A man in a hot air balloon is lost. He sees a man on the ground and reduces height to speak to him. "Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?" "You're in a hot air balloon hovering thirty feet above this field," comes the reply. "You must work in Information Technology," says the balloonist. "I do," says the man, "How did you know?" "Well," says the balloonist, "Everything you told me is technically correct, but it's no use to anyone." "You must be in business," says the man. "I am," says the balloonist, "How did you know?" "Well," says the man, "You don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."

Sort of sums up this enquiry quite nicely.

LOL! You were there, I wasn't.

My RAC man was neither spotty nor a yoof. Perhaps that was his trouble.

Mary

The readings would have tallied with the bill. Though he might have noticed the amount used going up with no chnage in useage patterns but I doubt it. All his free thought has been drummed out of him by the headstrong female company he keeps.

She doesn't know what it is but sure as hell she certain it must be simple. It's just that she can't come up with it.

Or Politics, where it's positively non-U to be able to do something useful.

I think, BICBW, it was Hazel Blears (It could have been one of the other Nu-Labour "Head -on-a-stik" all women shortlist appointees) who once said that IT and Electronics were "Simple manual skills".

Presumably based on their experience of starting up a new telly or a laptop out of the box.

DG

The message from Derek Geldard contains these words:

Wheras politics is a simple verbal skill. The art of denial.

And you don't mean Abu-Simbel do you ... ???

Noticing that at our local Poly (Leeds Met) it now takes four years on an *honours* degree course (If you don't mind) in "International Hospitaly Management" (= Pizza-ology) to qualify one to serve Pizzas at table at our local Pizza Joint.

I am prompted to propose they do a course in "International Grin-ology Management" for the likes of Tony Blair's (Spit and Gozzles be upon him) successors, and his "head on a stik" appointees.

DHG

If his thought is so easily disrupted he needs female company to do his thinking.

Re Meter... o You prove it is not an Appliance before you suspect a Meter

---- a consumer *can* prove it is not appliances by elimination in "He has been checking his meter every day and is even using 8 units

Realise for *remote diagnosis* most would want even clocks off... o Clocks can be linked to current drawing devices which can have faults o eg, Ovens, heaters, heating systems, immersion, TVs, DVDs, lighting

Simply to eliminate a significant "grey area in remote diagnosis" :-)

Experienced people will always suggest Appliance vs Meter, because experience of Meter Population failure indicates such even if wrong. The use of experience is not in suggesting the answer, but in getting to it :-)

Typical woman reads (hears) what she wants to read (hear) not what is written (said). Poor chap did have free thought until it was drummed out of him.

OH yes they can. It may not be as accurate, but it'll be to within a few percent, near enough to prove whether or not the meter is wildly out. The only difference between how the RECs do it - or used to do it, I'm a few years out of date, is that they use an accurately calibrated load.

Get back in the kitchen woman, spouse wants his dinner :)

Welcome to my killfile you ungrateful sanctimonious bitch :)

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Jackie" saying something like:

Door, arse, etc.