A Paul Wilson

@MarioNawfal he sold it after 7 and a half years for 2m, and a big corporate took it and funded and grew it to 240m over the next seven and a half years. Sounds about right. Nothing to complain about

🇺🇸 KFC founder Colonel Sanders reflects on selling the business for $2M, only to see it resold for $240M. It wasn't finger lickin' good for him

@BenGrahamUK How did that cost £48,147? There is something very wrong with how the authorities spend other peoples money, regardless of the cause

This rainbow junction in Hounslow cost £48,174 of public money. Some will say it promotes inclusion. Others will question the cost. Where do you stand?

they haven’t thought this through. There is surplus baseload at night so no additional gas burned to generate power, in the morning when the government would have all these pub coolers burning power to get back down to chill the additional load has to be supplied by burning extra gas. Totally counter productive.

'Just when you think our politicians can't hate the UK anymore than they already do' Bev Turner and Marc Bridgen react as Ed Miliband tells pubs to turn off fridges to save energy and serve warm beer.

The cost is for someone, an engineer probably, to travel to site, pay to park and fit it. Plus the overhead to manage him, recieve the order, raise an invoice, pay for everyones NI, pension contributions, sick pay and holiday. Back in the day when it was all in house it probably cost more when you totted up all the costs

NHS hospital: I noticed the clock on the wall showed the wrong time. A nurse told me they knew, but they wouldn’t report it because replacing the battery through the NHS would cost £70. A £2 battery... £70. How? Why? That's when I began to dig further. 🧵

I am sure many of the those who did show up, who were dealing with anxiety, bereavement, divorce, grief and worse appreciated their boss recognising them. About time we recognised those who turn up, contribute and carry the load of those who don’t, whether that is a case of can’t or won’t. Someone has to do the work in order to keep our caring society fed. We seem to have lost sight of that.

Sainsbury's manager left feeling 'humiliated and violated' by International Men's Day post wins £12k compensation. Read more 🔗 trib.al/pYjEffy

@SantiAFC1994 @MrCladding Insurance, cleaning communal areas, maintenance, sinking fund for long term maintenance, Preparation and filing of accounts and the managing agents who administer it like to eat too. A lot of freeholds cost this kind on money too.

@MrCladding How were you ever paying £400 service charge? That was a scam to begin with

Abuse. Utter abuse.

I am amazed Curry’s had the item you wanted in stock. On the last six occasions (I have kept count) I have visited their stores to get something I wanted that day rather than wait a day from Amazon they haven’t had an example in stock, just the display unit. I don’t know how they are in business. For example, their oxford street store didn’t have any SD cards in stock. A camera selling store in the flagship mass tourist shopping area in London and they didn’t have one single SD card of any capacity to sell.

#ConsumerRightsAct #Currys #KnowYourRights A rant for @currys, who are currently breaking the law. Normally I'd let it go, but your customer service is a shitshow and your desire to wash your hands of the faulty items you sell is illegal. On 10 October 2025, I walked into your Exeter shop and bought a PCSpecialist computer. This was the birthday present for my 12-year-old. A present they'd been dropping hints about for months with the subtlety of a child who remains terrible at poker. They'd saved their own pocket money towards it. I topped it up. It was, genuinely, a lovely moment. For four months, it was perfect. Homework. Games. The full experience of being 12 in 2025. On 22 February 2026, four months and 12 days after purchase, it stopped working. No final farewell. It just… stopped. My child sat there pressing the power button with increasing desperation, and nothing happened. The machine that had cost a significant amount of adult money, and a not-insignificant amount of 12-year-old pocket money, was dead. Fine, I thought. This is what a receipt is for. I'll call Currys (the shop I bought it from, with my money, as a birthday present for my child) and they'll sort it. Your staff told me that my contract wasn't with Currys, and that I should contact the manufacturer. They also told me to go in-store with the machine to have it looked at. I went in-store. The in-store staff told me to call the number I had just called. I called again. I was given the phone number for PCSpecialist. Phone → store → same phone → manufacturer. A perfect circle of not helping. A masterpiece of redirection. If it weren't happening to me, I'd almost admire it. Now let's talk about the law, because I think someone at Currys may have forgotten it exists. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 is not a suggestion. It is extremely clear on this point: when you buy something from a retailer, your legal contract is with that retailer. Not the brand on the box. Not the manufacturer. Not some third party you've never met. The shop. The one that took your money and handed you a receipt. Within the first six months of purchase, the law presumes the fault existed at the point of sale. I don't have to prove the computer was faulty when I bought it. Currys has to prove it wasn't. The burden of proof sits entirely with them. During this window, I am legally entitled to a repair or a replacement, and if either of those fails, a full refund. We are currently inside that six-month window. I bought it on 10 October 2025. I complained on 22 February 2026. I am four and a half months in. The law is not ambiguous about what happens here. What makes this particularly spectacular is that Currys' own published policy acknowledges the six-month framework. It is written down on their website. They know the rules. They have typed them up and put them on the internet. They are simply hoping that their customers are too tired from the runaround to actually enforce them. PCSpecialist are entirely blameless in this story. They manufactured a machine. Currys sold that machine to me. My dispute is with Currys. Directing me to PCSpecialist is the retail equivalent of Tesco selling you a gone-off chicken, and when you try to return it, handing you the farmer's phone number. The farmer didn't sell you the chicken. You don't have to knock on the farmer's door. You go back to the supermarket. This is not a controversial legal position. It is just how shops work. My 12-year-old has been without their birthday present for a few days now. They have been, I have to say, considerably more gracious about this than I have. They haven't complained. They've been patient. They are, in this situation, the bigger person — which is a sentence I never expected to write about a primary school leaver, but here we are. They shouldn't have to be patient. They should just have a working computer. So this is where we are, @currys. I know my rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015. But before I go down the small claims court route, and start contacting every journalist in my network on a slow news day, I am giving you the opportunity to do the right thing, in the hope that public accountability is more efficient than your customer service helpline. A child saved their pocket money for this. Sort it out.

@eilem001 @that_stocks_guy @currys Me too. Washing Machine died after about four months. Replacement (i wanted a different model which was slightly cheaper) arrived next day and refunded the difference. Excellent company.

@that_stocks_guy @currys I find AO excellent. Ordered wrong size microwave, no problems order correct one we’ll pick up wrong one at same time as delivery and refund within 7 days. Oh and cheaper 👍

@GMB both parents get fined if the kids live with one parent, even if you are the non resident parent and don’t get any say in the decision to take them out of school.

A record of nearly 460,000 fines were issued last year for term-time absences at school. Headteachers are being urged to group together inset days into inset weeks. Should schools combine insert days into insert weeks to make holidays cheaper for families?

@AndyatAuto @CaptDrimmie @DB_Trophy this correct

@CaptDrimmie @DB_Trophy Road damage almost exclusively caused by poor maintenance and HGV’s. Body size evolution almost exclusively caused by customer demand and crash safety regulations. Almost no correlation between these two facts

Ever wonder why our roads are so poor? These cars now weigh up to three times that of an average sixties saloon and five times that of the little Lotus Elan in the picture

1 fill the 13k tip it into the 5k and empty the 5k. (13k contains 8ks, 5k Contains 0) 2 Tip the 13k tip it into the 5k and empty the 5k. (13k contains 3k, 5k contain 0) 3 Tip 13k into the 5k (13k contains 0, 5k contains 3ks) 4 fill 13k and tip into 5k till 5k is full (13k contains 11k …..)

Can you help them?

@chordas_ @DeItaone 180usd in 2017 is the equivalent of 240k today so not such a big price hike

$TSLA - TESLA SEMI LONG RANGE PRICED AT $290,000 Tesla’s 500-mile Semi Long Range is now quoted at $290,000, up ~60% from the original $180,000 price promised in 2017. The Standard Range (325 miles) is listed around $260,000. Despite the increase, Tesla undercuts the average Class 8 electric truck ($435,000) by about $145,000. The Semi offers 500 miles of range, 1.2 MW peak charging, 1.7 kWh/mile efficiency, and three 800 kW motors. Volume production is expected this year, with California HVIP vouchers and Uber Freight discounts helping reduce effective costs. Tesla positions the Semi as competitive vs. diesel trucks, with payback in ~4 years for local distribution.

@HeDontMakeNoise A middle aged man separating a teenage girl fight in a public place which might involve physical contact? No way that is ever going to happen now, not a chance. And add the threat from knives as well, Keep filming.

Pay attention to the guy in red 😭

@Bearcat822 @PetrucioBR @HealthRanger @elonmusk The well boring tunneling machines are designed to fit inside the Starship. Who would have thought?

@PetrucioBR @HealthRanger @elonmusk Do you think we can get heavy construction equipment to the moon?

Somebody needs to tell @elonmusk that the only feasible way for humans to live on the moon is to live UNDERGROUND, in bunkers, due to radiation exposure. You can't just waltz around the surface of the moon all day. The moon has no magnetosphere to divert ionizing radiation. Elon's vision of humans living in above-ground moon domes is pure fiction. They would only DIE there, not live there. So unless you're going to drag massive mining and boring equipment to the moon and start building underground cities there, which still have no atmospheric pressure, btw, the whole idea of "cities on the moon" is pure bunk. Literally EVERY informed scientist knows this. Why has no one told Elon? And why is he pushing this comic book vision of cities on the moon all of a sudden?

Polestar? cramped cars and cluttered too. If 'coz you hate Elon' is their USP then they aren't confident in their product.64,000 units sold in '25 and just had a 300m bailout to keep going, I wouldn't bet on them with my car cash. Buy Tesla, a reassuringly popular no 1 in the world product from a company that makes money and accumulates free cash.

Polestar is trying to shade Elon Musk and Tesla in their new ad. “Choose Conquering Mars (good luck with that).” “Choose popcorn Robots.” (Optimus) “Choose ignoring the science.” “Choose plastic interiors.” Insane.

BS. Grok catches your lie…. - This reply counters a viral clip of Elon Musk rebutting Bill Gates' 2020 skepticism on electric semis, arguing PepsiCo's Tesla Semis only haul lightweight snacks to avoid weight limits and road damage, but overlooks Gates' broader point on battery density. - Real-world PepsiCo data from 2023-2024 tests show Semis achieving 425-500 mile ranges at 65 mph with full 82,000-pound gross weights, including heavier beverage loads, aligning with U.S. highway axle regulations and refuting lightweight-only claims. - Independent studies, like those from InsideEVs and Teslarati, confirm no pavement damage issues in deployments, as the ~5-ton battery fits within standard semi limits, with ongoing 4680 cell advancements projected to extend viability per DOE battery research.

Pepsi uses them to haul light weight chips and snacks. Basically use them to haul air. Hauling heavy loads is not an option as the truck weight (battery requirements) plus load weight will exceed roadway load restrictions. As is today, they would tear up the pavement and leave deep furrows which collect water and increase safety risks. . So, Gates is right on this one until higher density batteries are developed.

Bill Gates visited Elon at the Tesla Giga Texas factory and told him straight up: "It’s impossible to have a long-range semi-truck. It doesn’t work" Elon replied: "We literally have them. Drive one yourself. Pepsi is using them RIGHT NOW" Gates just kept saying: "No, it doesn't work" Today, Tesla Semis are hauling cargo 425+ miles for one of the biggest companies on Earth Imagine being this confidently wrong, refusing to accept reality, and somehow the media still sells him as a "climate expert" 🤡

@robprogressive Absolute scam. And then there is the bigger scam when they market replacement cars when you have a no fault of yours accident at grossly inflated hire costs for the other insurance company to pickup and then to add insilt to jury they almost always contest hire car charges.

Insurance feels more & more like a massive scam Someone in an old Toyota Yaris reversed into my Aston Martin DBS I tried to claim on the insurance Her insurance, not mine, because it was her fault. My car was stationary  Her repair bill: £50. MY repair bill: £5,000 And not ONLY did my trying to claim on HER insurance put MY insurance premium up… It put the premium up on all my other cars (7 cars) including business partners’ cars AND my business fleet of cars (total 15 cars)

AND for the next FIVE years. WTF For a car reversing into my PARKED car A  week later I stopped at a junction & some guy went into the back of my f*cking Aston Martin again Of course he was sorry Another 5 grand repair bill. So that's 10 grand for two claims I can't make Imagine if I’m ill and YOUR health insurance goes up, because I touched you I mean, that would be a scam, wouldn’t it? Have you ever tried to claim for anything? Almost impossible to get any money  And if you do, you end up paying MORE & your premium is higher that it was  Why is no one talking about this?

@HazelAppleyard Blame lies squarely at the people who are taking the piss. Those with real need are diminished by those with moderate conditions. Unfortunately our society rewards and promotes unwellness.

Fair?

@aishamusic @MeghansMole looks like it was furnished out of a charity auction.

@MeghansMole Marsh Farm is by no means a "shoebox." It looks like an average, middle class family home. However, it is significantly less grand than where Andrew Windsor was living at Royal Lodge so to him it would be a punishment:

This is Marsh Farm, this is where Andrew Mountbatten Windsor will be living in on the Sandringham Estate The media is calling this a “shoebox” Im sure many, many families would wish to live in a “shoebox” looking home like that one for FREE

@Wisdom_HQ “Are you OK Elon?”

You are sitting next to Elon Musk, what would you ask him?