Moving into the 21st century

I am getting smart meters, scary.

 

As a 'conspiracy theorist' I suggest you don't invest in them ...

 

This 100% but your circumstances may dictate you have no choice. If there is a choice: DON'T

 

I keep ignoring my supplier when they try to arrange a 'visit'. I dont want one.

 

Its better than NUFC they still have a 50 pence meter

 

I get an email weekly telling me I need to fit one and I’ve always refused because they are not compatible with other companies this week they’ve told me this new meter should be compatible with the other companies so I’ve asked them to write back when they’ve changed the word should to will. I will be honest I haven’t got a clue how they save you money.

 

You don't have to have one,
I've refused.


https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/c...ause in future,to customers with smart meters.

 

I had one already installed when I moved in here. I rang British Gas and told them to take it out and they wouldn’t. I signed up with Npower who were able to switch it off so it’s just a normal credit metre, now.

 

I resisted until a couple of years ago, then I had them fitted, purely and simply so that the energy company could take the readings automatically and I didn't have to do anything but pay the bill. I changed supplier just over a year ago and they can't access the meters, so I still have to submit readings every month

 

Me dad was telling me they came round to say he was getting a smart meter fitted.

Since his meter is blocked in behind a kitchen cupboard and just a cut out to read it, he asked how they were gonna do it. ?

" Well we will have to rip your cupboard out sir ", was the reply.

Me dad.
" Aye well yers kin fook off anarl " .

 

Can't have them where I live. No idea why like, guessing I live in an area too dumb for them. Personally couldn't care less about them as my phone spies on me more than any gas or electric meter ever will.

 

Funny you should mention it but had an idiot knock on my door today for this wearing a plastic visor! I thought the martians had landed. It is definitely not compulsory. I just tell them to "**** off" and they generally get the message.

 

Oh aye, phone, Alexa, tik tok. Russians and Chinese all over you.

 

I don't have anything to hide but hate all the big brother bullshìt these days.
Lockdown and furlough is being abused by government to bring in police state and control.
Cashless society, traceability.
Do as we say, not as we do.

Facefook, twàtter and other bullshìt social media for sheep under the cosh.
People complained about Butlins and Pontins being controlling like concentration camps many years ago.
Today they know how many carrots are in your turd and your last conversation for weeks but it is a sad reflection of sheeple fame wannabes.

 

Sick of having a brief conversation with my wife about buying a new kettle and then being bombarded with kettle adverts on my phone for the next six months. Cheeky bastards.

 

Heard they fry ya knackers... depopulation

 

I noticed it with my laptop having adverts springing up for ****e I'd spoke about in the vicinity of my phone. Might start having convos about taking a massive dump on the heads of google executives to see what happens. Probably get a DARPA robo-dog set on me.

 

I tried to turn it all off, apparently it's to do with which apps are allowed to use the mic but even with everything off the buggers were still clearly listening in. ****ing hate it but it seems like it's part of life now, at least for now it's just targeted advertising. Probably be getting blackmailed by Amazon over your search history in twenty years.

 

I don’t get why folk wouldn’t want a smart metre, I don’t even have access to the metres in my building and they just make the ****ing bill up. £60 one month £180 the next, I’d have no issue with being able to see what I was using.

I don’t get why folk don’t like targeted adverts either, the amount of stuff I’ve bought which has been an absolute bargain due to targeted adverts is mind boggling, I like that kind of technology.

Your mic doesn’t listen to your full conversations they have a key words trigger, and if folk don’t want owt to do with advertising then we be saying hello to fees on every single website that we all use for free.

How many of you would rather pay for every website you visited than seen a few adverts, likely relevant to you, that you can ignore anyway?

Commercialism, like it or lump it, keeps the vast majority of us homed, clothed, fed and watered.

 

I don't think that's true (assuming you meant goodbye btw), I don't have any ads on this site for example or quite a few other regulars, it's about 50/50.

I'm never going to be happy knowing that anyone, don't care who it is, is listening in to my personal conversations in my own house.