ninehertz

1. • noone
   • the weathers nicer there dunno what they're all complaining about.
   • [20:35 on 02/07/08]
2. • Laddeth
   • My electricity hasn't changed to much
     My Gas has gone "up" but due to it being summer I'm paying less cos we dont have the heating on so can't comment really.
     My car (1.8 deisel) goes 6 miles a day to and from work so a 50 quid tank lasts me 300-350 miles (a month and a half or there abouts)
     Car tax has gone up but I dont have to worry about that for another year as I paid it just before it went up.
     My car insurance nearly halved thanks to my 1 year no claims (the fact I've been driving since 18 and never had a ding but only have 1 years no claims is a joke tbh)
     My (soon to be) mortgage isn't to bad. We managed to get that just before "le crunch"
     We're hopefully gonna be getting a loan soonish to buy furniture and pay for part of my MCSE course.
     There's Frans car tax/insurance but they are in the same boat as mine.
     We have enough money to eat but not much left over to save atm.
     When my course is done though and a new job aquired this will change.
     
     And that is the state of my finances.
     
     Edit: Oh and Mike, tell BT to fuck off and change provider. They are the biggest set of wankers after nPower and British Gas.
     On British Gas, they sent us a "final bill" from May Last year telling us we owed them £0. No fucking shit.
     On nPower, it took them 9 months from moving in to send us a final bill and when we didnt pay strait away, they threatened court. If we have to wait, they should have to fucking wait.
     I'm not even going into the farce Fran had in her old house between nPower and British Gas. Fuck them.
     Atlantic Electric and Gas 4 eva!
     I can pay online, get discounts if I pay by a certain date and if I supply them a reading they have a new correct bill on ym doorstep within 3 working days.
     Also they sent me a couple of free energy saving lightbulbs, RESULT! And have offers on energy efficient appliances.
   • [20:59 on 02/07/08]
3. • Podge
   • Mugabe shaved off his silly 'tash. we now have no reason not to go kick his arse, well that and the lack of oil in the country
     
     i dont know what my bills were or are, Si just makes up a number and i pay him. i dont think he has a job, he just waits till i'm out of the house and lives off my bill money snorting strippers and going to coke joints
   • [21:19 on 02/07/08]
4. • Laddeth
   • Podge says:

     
     i dont know what my bills were or are, Si just makes up a number and i pay him. i dont think he has a job, he just waits till i'm out of the house and lives off my bill money snorting strippers and going to coke joints
     
     
     I used to do this in my old house. I'd always add a little extra just to cover my "admin costs"
     Oh and the fact that getting money out of them was like getting blood from a stone on Pluto from my bed with a particularly blunt spoon
   • [21:41 on 02/07/08]
5. • Podge
   • should have sharpened your spoon then, it would have made it that little bit easier.
   • [21:43 on 02/07/08]
6. • Marek
   • Not bragging but I live in London 10 mins from my door to Kings X on the tube and pay £186 a month rent... ok house too, I am pretty lucky. Actually loving London now I have to say. You can do anything you want here.
     
     Not sure about bills yet but noticed Diesel going up. Chip fat = crazy and interesting!
     
     
   • [22:45 on 02/07/08]
7. • Jack
   • Marek says:

     
     Not bragging but I live in London 10 mins from my door to Kings X on the tube and pay £186 a month rent... ok house too, I am pretty lucky. Actually loving London now I have to say. You can do anything you want here.
     
     Not sure about bills yet but noticed Diesel going up. Chip fat = crazy and interesting!
     
     
     
     
     
     how do you manage rent like that! Costs me waaay too much in london
   • [22:58 on 02/07/08]
8. • Marek
   • It's one of those houses your mates live in and you say to them "if you ever fricking move out you let me know!!" And when they left they did. Was really handy when I was changing careers in my mid 20's, but I am so used to it now I can't leave! And still always broke cos of debts.
     
     Might live in my van if I have to do the band full time haha.
     
   • [23:44 on 02/07/08]
9. • sabbathfan
   • mike says:

     
     They are, very soon, about 20-30%, it was in the paper yesterday.
     
     They are already silly in Sheffield, it was £15.50 return to Gainsborough, which is about 40 minutes journey each way, and yesterday I paid £7.50 for a return from G'bro to Worksop, which is 20 minutes, fucking ridiculous.
     
     
     
     The Government hasn't been financing railways the right way. They should ideally renationalise the entire system and finance its upkeep and improvement by putting it on tax, but instead they just let the franchise operators put fares up, which doesn't really work.
     
     Nationalisation is something that no party seems to want to do with the railway system at present but I think with the oil situation and the cost of cars get higher, the roads getting busier, and the problem of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, the only real option is to scale back on car travel and balance this out with an expanded and ideally fully electrified rail network. To co-ordinate this nationalisation would have to happen to ensure it went well.
     
     I know that the old British Rail got a bad name but it was by the 1970s and 80s working economic miracles to deliver a normal service as, compared to our European colleagues [many of whom recognised the benefits of public transport and financed it well from the 50s onwards], governments here gave the railways comparatively miniscule amounts of cash and have treated them as a profit making organisation for the last 50 years, which in a time of huge increases in car ownership was an unrealistic thing to try and achieve. The fact that BR worked as well as it did by the end of the 80s was remarkable and testament to how well its management held everything together despite lack of proper support from the government.
     
     It's not so bad for me at present as I have a railcard which gets me a third off, but when I get too old for that in a couple of years then it won't be so easy.
     
     Regarding the petrol situation, I still think that the best solution I've heard was someone in South America who invented a car which ran on piss.
   • [07:04 on 03/07/08]
10. • JenTheHen
    • I don't have a railcard and I only pay for my trains a third of the time.
      
      Privatisation = I don't give a shit about paying my fare. I think that's fair.
    • [07:17 on 03/07/08]
11. • Podge
    • Sam's hit the nail on the head.
      
      there is a very strong argument for renationalising it but its easier to fix it short term badly than long-term properly
    • [07:26 on 03/07/08]
12. • sabbathfan
    • Short term sticking plaster fixes seem to be the way of government thinking in this country sadly. They don't do the job well enough, and they will always require long-term problem solving in the end.
      
      Occasionally we have got it right. The setting up of the NHS is a good example of government long term planning and thinking. As were the creation of the national parks in the 50s, the nationalisation of utilities, railways and most heavy industry. The Atlee government was pretty visionary in this respect, unlike pretty much every government before it, and it's a shame that no subsequent government we've had has encouraged such long term thinking to such a degree [and in the case of Thatcher and Blair* actively discouraged it] - though I suppose Wilson didn't do a bad job overall.
      
      
      *With the exception of Northern Ireland, which is one of the very few things I will give Blair full credit for [and Major as well]. The day the Good Friday agreement was signed will live long in the memory.
      
      
    • [07:39 on 03/07/08]
13. • mike
    • Podge says:

      
      moan moan moan.
      
      
      
      Thats me, but I haven't got an awful lot to be smiling about right now, I know there are much worse things though.
    • [08:28 on 03/07/08]
14. • Pete
    • mike says:

      but I haven't got an awful lot to be smiling about right now,
      
      
      girlfriend
      friends
      band
      job
      review for one of the biggest metal mags in the world
      flat
      cat
      health
    • [10:03 on 03/07/08]
15. • mike
    • i haven't got a job, thats the main sticking point at the moment.
      
      The rest are great but don't really work well without money to feed cat, not rely on girlfriend, pay for the flat, pay for the band etc.
      
      I'm going to shut up because I'll be known as nothing but a moaner, I'm ok really, just gizjob, i could do that, gizjob.
      
      
    • [10:29 on 03/07/08]
16. • Podge
    • maybe if you didnt have a flat that was 3 times the size of anything you actually need, your bills would be less.
      
      temping sucks, but its cash till you find something proper.
    • [12:00 on 03/07/08]
17. • mike
    • It is big yeah but its about as cheap rent-wise as anywhere else round the south of the city, my bills aren't too bad like I say but silly things like the phone bill going up are daft! I don't use the phone to ring anyone myself so god knows why they tried to bump it up to nearly 40 quid a month rental.
    • [12:25 on 03/07/08]
18. • 90dayman
    • I think apart from rent, diesel is my biggest expenditure. I do probably 2k plus miles in an average month so it's getting rather expensive now. Fortunatley i get expenses back but, it's still a lot to budget for each month. I don't have any gas in my apartment only electricity. It was silly expensive over the winter cos my place has a big open kitchen/lounge with high ceilings so, it was a bitch to heat. I'm expecting a pretty small elec bill soon though as the heating's been off for months and the light nights mean harly any electricity use. bonus.
    • [12:51 on 03/07/08]
19. • Big Si
    • I was speaking to a taxi driver yesterday who currently isn't making any money because of the price of diesel. He was looking on the bright side, though, as it means he doesn't have to pay tax. I thought that was impressively positive thinking, bordering on deluded.
    • [13:26 on 03/07/08]
20. • Tom P
    • I'm in the same boat. I spend over £400 a month on fuel but can claim about £250 of that back.
      
      I don't know where my money goes tbh. I hardly spend owt on weed and booze anymore and only pay a bit of board since I don't rent my own place yet. Phone bills, debts and car insurance and other car stuff, repairs etc, plus practise room rent is all my monthly outgoings. And somehow I always seem to be skint by the end of the month.
    • [13:53 on 03/07/08]

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