An hour into trying to get a contract to sign and it's still firing out test pages
Yeah I've had this problem with HP laser printers. I thought I would make my life easier by buying an expensive laser printer rather than the cartridge printers that are slow and take forever. Ha ha. I found that the HP laser printer was an absolute heap of junk and a waste of £150. The tray broke and Currys wouldn't fix it. Got it working again but every time you try and get it to print, you seem to be messing around for 20 minutes before it prints anything. And you can't seem to do anything without getting tied in to their weird online network thing. How hard can it be to just send something to the printer and get it printed? It is astonishing how this has got harder over time, rather than easier.
Now its run out of ink i'm throwing it way and replacing it with a cheap £30 inkjet printer that you plug in when you need to print something.
False economy. Get one of the refillable Epson ones. They charge the actual price for the printer so they don't have to make it back with ink cartridges and various user-hostile tricks to make sure you keep buying the ink cartridges.
Got one. Very pleased. 8550 in fact - prints A3, which is great for proofreading.
Only concern is the high front end price but I got a two year guarantee for free.
Thanks both, very helpful. Yes, I suspected that HP are essentially recruiting you in to their 'ink subscription' service which requires you to be online so they can continuously harvest your data - seems to be behind many of the complications involved in trying to getting the printer to do its job.
The £700 price tag of the EPSON alternative is a bit off putting though, for a personal (rather than business) purchase for occasional use.
Increased chatter that a Russian attack executed by four Russian Kamov Ka-52 in the South went of the cliff. All four of them reportedly have been shot down. Waiting for verification. #Ukraine #Zaporizhzhia #Kherson https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1580147289527836672
An hour into trying to get a contract to sign and it's still firing out test pages
Yeah I've had this problem with HP laser printers. I thought I would make my life easier by buying an expensive laser printer rather than the cartridge printers that are slow and take forever. Ha ha. I found that the HP laser printer was an absolute heap of junk and a waste of £150. The tray broke and Currys wouldn't fix it. Got it working again but every time you try and get it to print, you seem to be messing around for 20 minutes before it prints anything. And you can't seem to do anything without getting tied in to their weird online network thing. How hard can it be to just send something to the printer and get it printed? It is astonishing how this has got harder over time, rather than easier.
Now its run out of ink i'm throwing it way and replacing it with a cheap £30 inkjet printer that you plug in when you need to print something.
False economy. Get one of the refillable Epson ones. They charge the actual price for the printer so they don't have to make it back with ink cartridges and various user-hostile tricks to make sure you keep buying the ink cartridges.
Got one. Very pleased. 8550 in fact - prints A3, which is great for proofreading.
Only concern is the high front end price but I got a two year guarantee for free.
Thanks both, very helpful. Yes, I suspected that HP are essentially recruiting you in to their 'ink subscription' service which requires you to be online so they can continuously harvest your data - seems to be behind many of the complications involved in trying to getting the printer to do its job.
The £700 price tag of the EPSON alternative is a bit off putting though, for a personal (rather than business) purchase for occasional use.
Far from an expert, indeed had similar series of disasters with inkjets but have been impressed by a relatively cheap Brother laserjet. A couple of years in, no issues at all.
Country is Borked if this now an option for takeaways.
It's interesting how many of the Russian PoWs interviewed by Ukraine for propaganda purposes (clear Geneva Convention Article 13 breach) are utterly fucked with debt from Russia's lightly regulated micro-loan shysters. There are reklama for them all the time on Russian TV.
Penny mordaunt’s expression as Truss defends her catastrophic mini budget is something to behold #pmqs
She must be thinking if just 9 Tory MPs voted differently a few months ago where she would be now. Tory MPs who voted for Sunak only have themselves to blame.
"What we will make sure is that over the medium-term the debt is falling. "But we will do that not by cutting public spending, but by making sure we spend public money well."
Can anyone explain how spending the same amount of money more wisely will reduce the debt?
So the IFS say there is need for a £60bn cut to public spending. Truss says she will cut £0. I wonder who will be proven right - and having made a very clear statement on the floor of the House how does she get out of it?
So the IFS say there is need for a £60bn cut to public spending. Truss says she will cut £0. I wonder who will be proven right - and having made a very clear statement on the floor of the House how does she get out of it?
"What we will make sure is that over the medium-term the debt is falling. "But we will do that not by cutting public spending, but by making sure we spend public money well."
Can anyone explain how spending the same amount of money more widely will reduce the debt?
Spend it more wisely and you might have higher growth, which will reduce the debt over the medium term.
Several fawning questions from backbench MPs that not only clearly are written by the whips but the MP is very clearly reading the scripted question in a terribly slow and wooden way.
"What we will make sure is that over the medium-term the debt is falling. "But we will do that not by cutting public spending, but by making sure we spend public money well."
Can anyone explain how spending the same amount of money more wisely will reduce the debt?
Growth. The anti-growth coalition just need to believe harder and trust the Truss.
Liz Truss's response on public spending in PMQs (there won't be cuts) shows v real tension between politics & economics at play now. Politically she needed to say it or cause havoc among her own MPs but it's about the worst thing she could have said for economic credibility. https://twitter.com/KateEMcCann/status/1580156316466626561
So the IFS say there is need for a £60bn cut to public spending. Truss says she will cut £0. I wonder who will be proven right - and having made a very clear statement on the floor of the House how does she get out of it?
It could be both. If the IFS are speaking in real terms, and Truss in nominal terms, then its possible for both to be right.
So the IFS say there is need for a £60bn cut to public spending. Truss says she will cut £0. I wonder who will be proven right - and having made a very clear statement on the floor of the House how does she get out of it?
Sack the chancellor would be step 1
It was genuinely a revelation the other day when you said you had been a long-standing Tory voter. Just shows how damaging the recent lot have been to their traditional supporters.
So the IFS say there is need for a £60bn cut to public spending. Truss says she will cut £0. I wonder who will be proven right - and having made a very clear statement on the floor of the House how does she get out of it?
An hour into trying to get a contract to sign and it's still firing out test pages
Yeah I've had this problem with HP laser printers. I thought I would make my life easier by buying an expensive laser printer rather than the cartridge printers that are slow and take forever. Ha ha. I found that the HP laser printer was an absolute heap of junk and a waste of £150. The tray broke and Currys wouldn't fix it. Got it working again but every time you try and get it to print, you seem to be messing around for 20 minutes before it prints anything. And you can't seem to do anything without getting tied in to their weird online network thing. How hard can it be to just send something to the printer and get it printed? It is astonishing how this has got harder over time, rather than easier.
Now its run out of ink i'm throwing it way and replacing it with a cheap £30 inkjet printer that you plug in when you need to print something.
False economy. Get one of the refillable Epson ones. They charge the actual price for the printer so they don't have to make it back with ink cartridges and various user-hostile tricks to make sure you keep buying the ink cartridges.
Got one. Very pleased. 8550 in fact - prints A3, which is great for proofreading.
Only concern is the high front end price but I got a two year guarantee for free.
Thanks both, very helpful. Yes, I suspected that HP are essentially recruiting you in to their 'ink subscription' service which requires you to be online so they can continuously harvest your data - seems to be behind many of the complications involved in trying to getting the printer to do its job.
The £700 price tag of the EPSON alternative is a bit off putting though, for a personal (rather than business) purchase for occasional use.
I'd been waiting till Which consistently recommended an inktank printer with decent printing gubbins and this family was the first - ET-8500 is A4 printing only; 8550 is A3 and A4 etc printing (but A4 scanning/copying only).
There is a minor issue of ink bleed through from photos but this is probably just a combination of the paper I use and my laziness in not adjusting the setting. Doesn't affect me.
I am a moderate user (researcher at home) printing 10s or even 100s in a day, and I have only had to refill it once, 10 momths on, after the initial filling, and even then there is plenty ink left in the bottles. One also needs to buy a replacement overflow/dribble sponge eventually but mine is not even a quarter of the way full.
Edit: still have my HP printer with a few cartridges to use up. Useful as a backup printer/scanner, though it's great not to have to buy cartridges like smarties - third party ones were hopeless, they didn't work or do so reliably when they did work.
There'll be no spending cuts, Liz Truss declares to #PMQs. That's it then - she's going to abandon her mini-budget tax cuts. That, or the markets crash spectacularly on Friday. https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1580157296273158144
Yeah I've had this problem with HP laser printers. I thought I would make my life easier by buying an expensive laser printer rather than the cartridge printers that are slow and take forever. Ha ha. I found that the HP laser printer was an absolute heap of junk and a waste of £150.
I think the problem there is that 150 quid is not an expensive laser printer -- it is a cheap laser printer, and thus it will have been value-engineered to death. I spent 250 quid on my multifunction HP laserjet and it's still working fine 9 years later...
I find the advantage of laser over inkjet is for the very-occasional-user: if you need to print one document every three months then what I found was that an inkjet would always have dried up ink and not print properly. (Perhaps they're better these days? I switched to laser a decade or more back.) Because toner is powder, not liquid, a laser printer won't have this issue.
Do none of these people think about inflation and "real terms" being noticeable by its absence from her phrasing? That is her get out.
It’s not a “get out” at all. She’ll get slaughtered for real terms departmental cuts.
If she plans to do a Theresa May and attempts to spin the unspinnable, she’ll be gone in no time. There isn’t a Tory majority for real terms cuts across the board.
God, she's dumb, she's going to be utterly destroyed during a general election campaign.
She's Theresa May without the humanity.
Listening to Truss is excruciating. So not only has she got all sorts of ill-conceived ideas, she will be utterly incapable of persuading people during a campaing. Even Starmer, who is quite dull, would make mincemeat of Truss in a debate. Truss is far worse than May.
LOL. The Energy Price Guarantee, as Truss said the main part of the recent budget, is very much in the spotlight now.
And as I have been explaining for weeks, both Truss and Starmer are up to their eyebrows in this “sewage” of wrong approach to the problem.
There is some truth in the fact the energy relief scheme is far too generous
You are most welcome in my meadow. I was so alone here, but there are a few of you coming through the gate now. 🥰
Actually I did not dispute your observations at anytime and if we had politicians who could put on one side tribal politics and design a scheme as large as this to protect tax payers from giving largesse to those who do not need it
"What we will make sure is that over the medium-term the debt is falling. "But we will do that not by cutting public spending, but by making sure we spend public money well."
Can anyone explain how spending the same amount of money more wisely will reduce the debt?
Well you could argue that some spending - science research, infrastructure - will lead to more growth than other spending - state pension, fighter jet imports - so you could bring the debt down by changing what you spend money on. But that would still involve cuts to some budgets. And forecasting the extra growth is difficult.
God, she's dumb, she's going to be utterly destroyed during a general election campaign.
She's Theresa May without the humanity.
Listening to Truss is excruciating. So not only has she got all sorts of ill-conceived ideas, she will be utterly incapable of persuading people during a campaing. Even Starmer, who is quite dull, would make mincemeat of Truss in a debate. Truss is far worse than May.
We're basically seeing what would have happened if IDS had ever become Prime Minister
Do none of these people think about inflation and "real terms" being noticeable by its absence from her phrasing? That is her get out.
It’s not a “get out” at all. She’ll get slaughtered for real terms departmental cuts.
If she plans to do a Theresa May and attempts to spin the unspinnable, she’ll be gone in no time. There isn’t a Tory majority for real terms cuts across the board.
Real terms department cuts happen quite frequently though.
She'll say that the Department of Administrative Affairs has had a 4% increase to its Budget, Starmer will say that's a real terms cut, she will repeat that she's given a 4% increase to its budget and we need to spend this extra money wisely.
On energy consumption every single person I speak to is talking about what they are doing to reduce it. Not using the tumble dryer. Short cycles on washing machines. Avoiding using the central heating. Reducing time the hot water is on. Layering up. Turning off unused lights. This is all easy to do stuff. We just never bothered before. This is going to add up to a big reduction in energy usage.
I've never seen a PM lose PMQs 6-0 before. Bizarrely bad.
Hang on. She said "I am genuinely unclear" TWICE. That makes it 8-0. And then hung the economy on "no spending cuts" which will implode the market by weekend. That's 9-0. At least.
@JackElsom@MrHarryCole One source said of former leadership hopeful Penny Mordaunt she didn't know where to look.... "she spent the whole time looking up at the ceiling" 🔥
Maybe Penny is looking for a source of divine inspiration to get them out of this mess?
Penny could have looked at her colleagues and described them:
Cock Cock Cock Cock ...
Mordaunt is the only person at the top of the party with the emotional intelligence and charisma to separate herself from the rest of the Tory brand at this point.
Like I say, it doesn’t matter. The narrative is Liz Truss is a disaster, so everything she does will be seen through that prism. But she’s done OK at PMQs today. Solid performance. https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1580158895297040384
On energy consumption every single person I speak to is talking about what they are doing to reduce it. Not using the tumble dryer. Short cycles on washing machines. Avoiding using the central heating. Reducing time the hot water is on. Layering up. Turning off unused lights. This is all easy to do stuff. We just never bothered before. This is going to add up to a big reduction in energy usage.
Yep this is the first time ever I've not put heating on when there's been a bit of a chill.
Yeah I've had this problem with HP laser printers. I thought I would make my life easier by buying an expensive laser printer rather than the cartridge printers that are slow and take forever. Ha ha. I found that the HP laser printer was an absolute heap of junk and a waste of £150.
I think the problem there is that 150 quid is not an expensive laser printer -- it is a cheap laser printer, and thus it will have been value-engineered to death. I spent 250 quid on my multifunction HP laserjet and it's still working fine 9 years later...
I find the advantage of laser over inkjet is for the very-occasional-user: if you need to print one document every three months then what I found was that an inkjet would always have dried up ink and not print properly. (Perhaps they're better these days? I switched to laser a decade or more back.) Because toner is powder, not liquid, a laser printer won't have this issue.
Seems not to be a problem, I have been printing 5 docs a year for 4 years on the one inkjet
Toppest tip of all is: avoid wireless printers at all costs and NEVER expect them to work with a phone or tablet.
On energy consumption every single person I speak to is talking about what they are doing to reduce it. Not using the tumble dryer. Short cycles on washing machines. Avoiding using the central heating. Reducing time the hot water is on. Layering up. Turning off unused lights. This is all easy to do stuff. We just never bothered before. This is going to add up to a big reduction in energy usage.
Even if you can afford to pay for it, I think reducing energy usage right now is preceived as the moral & patriotic thing to do. Every therm you don’t use is a therm that can be used in other parts of the EU that are more dependent on gas than we are, ensuring they make it through the winter.
Celtic have been fined over “provocative” anti-monarchy banners displayed by their fans at a Champions League match last month, less than a week after the Queen’s death.
One banner spotted in the Celtic section of the ground during their 1-1 draw with Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk in Poland on September 14 stated “F*** the crown”.
Another read “Sorry For Your Loss Michael Fagan” — a reference to a man who broke into the Queen’s bedroom in 1982.
The Scottish champions have been fined €15,000 (£13,000) by Uefa’s control, ethics and disciplinary body over what was described as “a message not fit for a sporting event (ie a provocative banner)”.
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The £700 price tag of the EPSON alternative is a bit off putting though, for a personal (rather than business) purchase for occasional use.
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1580147289527836672
Had any good halal meat recently?
Bookmark this one.
https://twitter.com/KevinASchofield/status/1580154348645990400
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brother-MFC-L2710DW-Wireless-Connected-Printing/dp/B078GS3TSJ
Go now Truss.
SHOOT MORE DEER
Mind you anyone else would be 40 points ahead.
You are comical
https://twitter.com/JGForsyth/status/1580154997198950402
Truss sticks to her leadership campaign words that she wasn't planning more spending cuts
"Absolutely", she says.
Starmer pocketed that answer like a key Exhibit A for the case for the prosecution when the Medium-Term Fiscal Plan is published.
https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1580155045869649921
So pretty much fish for the past few weeks.
They have to put her out of her misery and get rid before Christmas.
Can anyone explain how spending the same amount of money more wisely will reduce the debt?
And as I have been explaining for weeks, both Truss and Starmer are up to their eyebrows in this “sewage” of wrong approach to the problem.
https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1580155970193268736
She's destroyed the Tory party for a generation.
https://twitter.com/KateEMcCann/status/1580156316466626561
"She's going to have to undo everything fiscal" in the mini-budget, says one who backed her.
https://twitter.com/Smyth_Chris/status/1580156232207282176
https://twitter.com/hzeffman/status/1580154891548315649
There is a minor issue of ink bleed through from photos but this is probably just a combination of the paper I use and my laziness in not adjusting the setting. Doesn't affect me.
I am a moderate user (researcher at home) printing 10s or even 100s in a day, and I have only had to refill it once, 10 momths on, after the initial filling, and even then there is plenty ink left in the bottles. One also needs to buy a replacement overflow/dribble sponge eventually but mine is not even a quarter of the way full.
Edit: still have my HP printer with a few cartridges to use up. Useful as a backup printer/scanner, though it's great not to have to buy cartridges like smarties - third party ones were hopeless, they didn't work or do so reliably when they did work.
She does not have the support of the Tory MPs.
https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1580157296273158144
I find the advantage of laser over inkjet is for the very-occasional-user: if you need to print one document every three months then what I found was that an inkjet would always have dried up ink and not print properly. (Perhaps they're better these days? I switched to laser a decade or more back.) Because toner is powder, not liquid, a laser printer won't have this issue.
https://www.pv-tech.org/greece-runs-entirely-on-renewables-for-the-first-time-in-its-history/
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1580154692184682496
Starmer did a good job this week, and while he implied the lack of a mandate, I think he should have asked why Truss isn't calling a GE.
If she plans to do a Theresa May and attempts to spin the unspinnable, she’ll be gone in no time. There isn’t a Tory majority for real terms cuts across the board.
A reminder Variable price cap is better targeted where needed, doesn’t waste billions on those who don’t need it and virtually pays for itself.
Labours six months at a time proposal of the Truss thing at least allowed wriggle room to doing it another way.
'We not only saved the world'
She'll say that the Department of Administrative Affairs has had a 4% increase to its Budget, Starmer will say that's a real terms cut, she will repeat that she's given a 4% increase to its budget and we need to spend this extra money wisely.
https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1580158895297040384
Toppest tip of all is: avoid wireless printers at all costs and NEVER expect them to work with a phone or tablet.
And any supply teacher I remember being in this position ended up with drawing pins on their chair and paper aeroplanes flying over their head…
https://twitter.com/tommctague/status/1580158971964379136