Whats amused you (in the news) today ?

Shock relevation - Customers aren't stupid

inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/bills/power-rinsing-gaming-national-grid-energy-saving-scheme-british-gas-customers-2253691

bracknellboy

ilmoro 

Still, the reality is I gave up on any attempt to 'game' the system. While customers aren't stupid, sometimes the collective known as a household can be. Apparently, amongst the various symptoms and issues associated with being perimenopausal is it can lead to increased confusion as to whether on any given day you should be avoiding putting an appliance on at at given time, or whether you should be aiming to use at that time    Resorting to PostIt notes felt a bit like catering for my 90 y/o father, so I gave up. Instead I just celebrated the partial success of the occasional wins of having avoiding an excessive peak time use and thereby do my tiny bit to avoid coal generation. It led to a more peaceful household.

I also decided I could get some "good citizen" warm glow trying to avoid peak times generally, hopefully making some microscopic dent in the cost to taxpayers of the Govt. energy subsidy by 'flattening the curve' of peak time electricity usage, and therefore wholesale supply price. 

In the event I think we earned about £5 max, and that included bonuses from having simply registered for consecutive sessions !! 

Apparently two of the twelve were deeply shocked to have been crucified; they'd only asked the local council if someone could put them up for the night

has he had permanent holes made in his hands.

I've always wondered how they remove the nails, as my normal method of levering out with a claw hammer would cause crush injuries.

Victim of crime ... report an inappropriate racial stereotyping doll on the premises for rapid response

www.google.com/amp/s/uk.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/police-storm-south-essex-pub-132048941.html

Pub in grotty bit of South Essex.
ABSOLUTELY insistent that they are allowed gollys on display behind the bar, despite previous strops over keeping them there - 2018: www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/news/15991563.white-hart-pub-grays-determined-not-remove-golliwogs-despite-council-investigation/
"literally the history of our country", "part of our heritage", "some people may not like them and they are entitled to that view, but they don't have to come into the pub."

Yeh.
Right.

Seeing and smelling smoke does not always mean there's a fire, but...

A quick google finds photos of them from the 2018 strop... There's a fake driving licence photocard for "Golly" on display, giving place of birth as "SE9 Alabama". For those unfamiliar with the grottier corners of South London, SE9 is the Eltham/Falconwood part of London, best known for the murder of Stephen Lawrence and the former headquarters of the BNP. For his press photocall, the landlord chose a polo shirt with a logo on the breast - a Maltese Cross with crossed swords behind it.

2+2 is definitely starting to look to be in the region of 3.75 to 4.25.