J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Far Queue

Just looked the webcam for the lower area, and it looks to me like it is snowing heavily now.

Hope the downhill is still on tomorrow, I'm looking forward to learning the course for the beginning of Feb :twisted:

13 full sleeps plus a quick pre drive nap after work to go for me.

OK, trying to remember my physics here. I am pretty sure that lightning simply wants to ground itself to earth following the easiest path. If on a drag lift, you will offer it a route to earth and there is a strong chance you will take a big hit. However, if suspended from a chairlift, unless you are hit directly (in which case all bets are off) the cable itself will act like a giant conductor and run the charge to earth via the suspension poles or the motors at each end.

You may get some issues if it does earth out through the motors, as I suspect that will cause the lift to stop running and may involve a full evacuation.

Equally if you are in a cable car, and the car gets hit, I suspect it will act like a faraday cage and pass the charge round the occupants of the lift and up to the cable to seek a path to earth.

Hope that is correct, I'm sure someone will correct me if it is wrong.

:twisted: Great shot sir!

Would you be interested in joining a pub skittles team?

:shock: :shock: :shock:

HEAVY RAIN :cry: Only two weeks till I am supposed to be out there.

Snapzzz wrote:

Far Queue wrote:

Because the other 25p is the VAT and will probably be in a different total :lol: .

But that would be £1.20 then surely?

Nope. £1.25 will produce 25p VAT at current 20%. Therefore £1.25 plus 25p = £1.50 as quoted :-)

Snapzzz wrote:

That cannot really happen.
If you go over 15mb then they warn you, if you do it again they automatically move you to a £5 a day tariff for 50mb a day (thats a good deal) and on top of that everybody has a maximum cap of £120 for data in a month.

if you are using more than 50mb a day then you are not skiing enough!

Cannot comment for the others, but the contracts all look similar. Orange specifically state that if you sign up to one of the roaming deals, the EU data cap is removed. Once you exceed the amount of your deal all data is then charged at full rate (£3+ per mb) witn NO limit and I doubt any warnings :shock:

Orange Roaming Bundles

Quoted from that page..

Just to let you know, when you take this bundle, we will remove the EU data limit of 16MB, giving you unlimited web browsing on your mobile. Remember, once you have used your bundle allowance, you will be charged £3.07/MB which will be uncapped

Snapzzz wrote:

Incidentally I checked my bill and they only charged me 1.25 a day...not sure why.. :-)

Because the other 25p is the VAT and will probably be in a different total :lol:

The one issue which bugs me with these add ons, is that once you sign up, your data cap is removed, potentially leading to horrendous bills if you are unfamiliar with the way your phone works.

Pablo Escobar wrote:Vodafone gives me 25mb free per day in foreign countries.

Interesting. I see you need to be on a contract with over 1200 minutes for it to be included, otherwise it is £2 per day for 25mb.

Sadly, I dumped Vodafone a few years ago, as their coverage in my area was terrible and their customer service was appalling :(