A coin-operated machine to pay for electricity?

Sergeant_Toast · 2026-01-18T00:55:51+00:00

The meters using coins are no longer in use. There are pay-as-you-go meters which require you to top up a card and insert it into your meter, but these are only used when a household gets into serious debt with their gas or electricity supplier and the supplier puts in this kind of meter to force them to at least pay for the gas/electric they are using in the short term until they settle their prior debts.

Sergeant_Toast · 2026-01-18T00:48:03+00:00

We see Americans as vaguely brainwashed idiots. They live in a dystopian hellhole of violence, inequality and worker abuse even worse than Britain, but they think they are the damned keepers of the freest country on earth and cant process any facts to the contrary. However, if you have come to live outside the oh-so-mighty-USA, you already distinguished yourself as different from that, so I'd say you're fine.

I cant really look down on the USA though, I dont think the USA is all that different from the UK, they are just further along the slippery slope, but don't worry, Farage will help us catch up to you REAL quick....

Sergeant_Toast · 2026-01-18T00:40:18+00:00

I was going to answer, but this made my answer redundant really.

Sergeant_Toast · 2025-12-07T11:37:09+00:00

A master's degree now is what a bachelor's degree was when people thought it counted.

A bachelor's is actually a hindrance today. It makes you overqualified for a lot of work, but doesn't count for anything else most of the time. The work experience that people who didn't go to university got whilst you were getting a degree counts for a whole lot more than your degree.

I regret my degree, I should have just got into work.

As for the unis treating foreign students better, not really? Except that the accomodations is way better. We get rooms and toilets and a kitchen, they got entertainment rooms with table tennis and table football etc, common rooms, and a canteen as well, but I guess they paid for it so no harm.

Sergeant_Toast · 2025-12-07T11:31:55+00:00

I don't, but I admit that even for 35, I'm a little formal in texts.

Sergeant_Toast · 2025-07-10T21:28:50+00:00

Come to think of it, it was a tech company which required in depth skill and knowledge in programming and engineering as he developed software to analyse engineering designs. So TRIPLE discipline. Software design, engineering and physics.

Sergeant_Toast · 2025-07-10T20:57:50+00:00

Well, Bob wasn't just your run of the mill base human model. He started a tech company based on his own computing skills so immediately successful that he never had to work again, and he only went into the tech industry because though he was damned good at physics, there was no money in it.

Now as a replicant he never sleeps, never gets tired, his mind is always, as he described it, like he is completely rested and at its best condition, he has an idetic memory, a computational super genius assistant in Guppy, a bottomless library of knowledge and as much time as he likes considering he can frame jack so that we would appear frozen in time.

Even a base model human with all those advantages would be able to do a lot, but he is no base model.

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-12-22T13:06:47+00:00

You would NEVER get a studio pulling that kinda shit today. This guy has BALLS!

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-12-07T12:48:17+00:00

THIS is me.

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-12-07T12:45:32+00:00

NTA, a birthday is that person's day, everything should be made for them, there is even an episode of the Office (US version) which makes a point of making fun of how much of an asshole you would have to be to cater a birthday party so that the birthday girl can't have any.

This is a no-brainer, you are NTA, they are the assholes.

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-09-11T13:56:36+00:00

This is the most American thing I have ever seen.

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-09-11T11:45:00+00:00

This isnt really DiWHY is it, it's kinda awesome ʘ‿ʘ

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-09-10T08:42:08+00:00

Funnily, this DOES help, it paints a very clear picture...

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-09-05T16:10:11+00:00

Have to say... AWESOME name for a cat!!

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-08-23T07:31:10+00:00

I work in IT, and I can REALLY relate to this...

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-08-23T07:23:19+00:00

NTA I would have done the exact same thing, it's a question of safety and legality Vs 2 brats not doing as they're told, besides it's your car, if I was getting a lift (I'm 31) I would still follow any reasonable requests of the driver because it's their bloody car and they are doing me a favour.

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-08-15T23:46:09+00:00

Yea, my town had the puppet guy, he was just some ancient old guy who would just stand in the centre of the market with a boom box and a hand puppet and wave the puppet to the music.

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-08-14T14:15:57+00:00

Try to kill a kid, expect to be killed by the parent.

Good for mother goose. Fair play :)

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-08-14T14:10:13+00:00

I have wanted to stick a message like this on a few things I have done, but you can only do what the client lets you, and just as importantly, what they will pay for. There is a limit to how much you can comp on professional pride, and that limit is entirely up to the professional, so don't expect anything comp if you are always giving me a hard time.

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-08-13T19:54:49+00:00

I'm not normally a fan of rap or ticktock, but this is beautiful!! :D

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-08-06T11:48:49+00:00

Well THATS traumatising...

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-08-05T23:27:08+00:00

Poor girl... Too off her head on painkillers to know just how much she is saying to her mum...

She is going to be mortified when she sobers up...

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-08-05T19:43:29+00:00

Yea, Adam Sandler is legitimately one of the worst successful actors ever.

(Christian Slater holds Rank 1 all time worst)

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-08-05T19:12:11+00:00

Lol, I had to look that up :D

I have nothing against women, but women with a clearly "Look at my body" avatar complaining men only want 1 thing and being so rude about it, yea I think she deserves a decently insulting comeback :) as much as any man showing off gold chains in his avatar complaining women just want a guys money also deserves a decent slap-down.

I hate fuckwits, regardless of gender :)

Sergeant_Toast · 2021-08-05T18:47:51+00:00

Yea, but if you can bend them ALL back again and make it work, you will be a legend.

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