Spheksophobia is a real fear
August 19, 2011
Although not commonly known by its name spheksophobia, the fear of wasps is one of the most common fears in the UK. Many people get stung by wasps in the UK every year and as such they are a much maligned arthropod.
It’s because of their ability to sting more then once which makes wasps so disliked. Where a bee only has one sting, a wasp can sting over and over again. Wasps also swarm when they perceive a threat and can actually cause real harm if a person is stung multiple times after a nest is disturbed.
So don’t be perturbed if you are slightly anxious when a wasp comes in through the window, there are countless others in the UK who are also spheksophobes.
What are the EON prices rises about?
August 15, 2011
We’ve just had a letter from our energy company stating that the rate at which we pay for energy will be increasing. We found this out after labouring over the letter for around an hour and checking the previous rate at which we pay.
We buy both our gas and electricity from EON, we’ve had no problems with them in the past, and we would actually recommend them as a company to a friend. Our problem is not with EON, it’s with energy companies in general.
We realise that the wholesale prices of electricity and gas are rising but after checking the letter found that the price of electricity and gas in our instance was increasing by a whopping 15%. Our yearly bill is already around £1,000 so that’s a £150 addition we don’t want to pay.
Questions
Why has this increased so rapidly? Will it come down when it stabilises? Who is making all the money from consumers?
Answers
Because it’s not being managed properly by someone with more money than me. No, someone with more money than me will continue to make more money. Someone with more money than me is counting all their money on a luxury yacht in Monaco.
Stop spamming me
August 14, 2011
We aren’t referring to the popular meat based product in the title of this article. We are however referring to the countless pointless emails and phone calls we receive every day from people trying to either sell us something or trying to make our lives a misery.
Every day at 11:00am and 4:00pm for the last four days somebody has tried to call us on our mobile phone. We’re at work, we’re busy, we’re not allowed to answer, so we don’t answer. The caller display says ‘private nr’ so we don’t know who it is (another reason to not answer). The most annoying part? They don’t leave a message.
If they left a message we ‘might’ call them back, but since no message is left and since we haven’t the foggiest who it is we can do nothing. This has left us worried, could it by the doctor’s surgery saying they’ve found the results from the tests we had in 2010 and we only have a year left to live? Could it be the National Lottery saying we’ve not claimed our jackpot win? Could it be some goodfornothing trying to sell us a year’s subscription to Jesus Loves Cats - the popular weekly evangelical read? - We don’t know but there’s nothing we can do except wait for the phone to ring again so we can ignore it.
How do you stop rioting idiots
August 9, 2011
Sometimes the world passes us by and we are left feeling cold without a hat or a coat to wear. We turned the TV on to watch Canal Walks with Juila Bradbury and found ourselves engrossed in what we thought was the latest Coronation Street episode, only to find out it was really happening. When are the Cadbury Twirl ads going to come on we thought to ourselves, what’s all this rioting about.
Thinking a little more about the riots, it seems that the whole world has finally gone mad. Mad ‘Max’ that is. Everyone will be wearing furs and fighting on souped up dune buggies before the New Year no doubt.
The question the TV station was asking was “What can be done to stop the rioting?”. Our answer…
Sort out the economy Mr Cameron, give people a chance of succeeding in life, stop taking things away from them and give them something to strive for.
You even said it yourself at a Local Enterprise Partnership meeting in March “nothing is possible without economic growth”.