Comments on: I hate Powergen

By: todaysdaze

todaysdaze — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:38:31 +0000

Living stateside I am curious, do you even have a choice with your electricity supplier… maybe you should be getting angry with them for wasting money advertising when they could reduce your bills!!!!

By: Oli

Oli — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:51:25 +0000

Or Leeds United (If only i was a glory supporter)

By: Four Dinners

Four Dinners — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:38:26 +0000

From a business point of view it could be worse. They could be sponsoring Oldham Athletic

By: Sam Cullum

Sam Cullum — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:56:49 +0000

As an ex customer of Powergen I can confirm that they are actually crapper than the weather.

At least with the British weather you kind of know what you are going to get – what it doesn’t do is bill you for the whole sodding (new development) street, because someone at HQ cocked up, and then take it all out of your bank account in one go – even though you elected for monthly ’small’ direct debits, causing your mortgage to bounce, bunch of tossers. aRRRRGH!

By: melanie

melanie — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:38:10 +0000

Tell Powergen to send you a sunlamp, a nice relaxing chair, and an environmental tape of ocean waves and gulls. Then, maybe spending on electricity may be more appealing.

or come visit us in sunny so cal!

By: Mr Farty

Mr Farty — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:35:48 +0000

It’s all them windfarms innit? Cultivating hurricanes is hardly a recipe for fair weather. They should build something useful like stripper factories.

By: Curious

Curious — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:19:11 +0000

haha…so did mr. angry missed out on a bbq ..and sex outdoors? i’d be pissed too.

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:15:05 +0000

Whiners. I live in a goddam desert where we still pay weatherpersons to put on recently-whitened smiles and announce that they thiiii-i-i-iiiiink it will be hot today! And tomorrow! And the next! And isn’t our weather LUUUverly? I hate the goddam desert.

By: GH

GH — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:02:07 +0000

Given the overwhelming crapitude of Powergen, being associated with the weather is a step up. The subtext is probably, “yep, the weather’s crap, but we don’t care cos you have to pay us anyway”.

GH.

By: bromman

bromman — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:35:28 +0000

I’d start a petition and pylon the pressure.

By: Glammer

Glammer — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:55:51 +0000

Just wait ’till global warming really kicks in and those sunny places desertificate. Powergen shares through the solar-powered roof, my friend, then you’ll be sorry.

You can always put on a pullover, but you can’t take off skin cancer. Think about it.

By: marycub

marycub — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:45:50 +0000

The weather has been so un-fekin-predictable recently = unpredictable leccy = power cuts.

Still managed a great BBQ yesterday though Coastal Essex misses a lot of the rain that the rest of the country gets

By: Doris

Doris — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:50:49 +0000

I assume they hope that if it’s a crap forecast we could all be in the mood to turn up the heating and tumble dry our washing indoors.

I thik the weather would be better sponsored by the manufacturers of alcoholic beverages. “Pissing it down? Why not piss it up?” There you go, instant sunshine.

By: Dr J

Dr J — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:25:59 +0000

I always took it that they were literally claiming responsibility for the weather itself, not the forecast, in a post-modern “Ooops, sorry we’ve smegged-up the planet, but what the hell, at least you can watch Ant and Dec coming up next with a bunch of tallentless no hopers that deserve to die in the next tsunami!” sort of a way.

A bit like how the IRA used to claim responsibility for their outrages by saying “The Brits made us do it so there!”

*Not that I’m really trying to compare powergen to the IRA (at least not if they are in any way litigious)no , not me, Angry made me do it….*

Horrible weather we’re having today, don’t you think?

By: S

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:48:03 +0000

The weather should be brought to us courtesy of Waste Disposal Experts…..Delivering the Crap.

A weatherman/woman…what a job!
- No targets to hit
- Negative feedback is expected so you wouldn’t be held accountable
- AND if you make the biggest balls ever (think Michael Fish) everyone just laughs it off…..what a Doddle!

Just thought: The traffic report could be brought to us courtesy of Wonderbra – Helping with the hold-ups ;o)

By: Oli

Oli — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:44:35 +0000

Not only that but the weather forcasts tend to be wrong, so not only does the sponsorship connotate shitness it also implies unreliability, just what you need in your electricity supplier.