My two pennorth
I have been getting calls from my energy suppliers for years asking me to book a smart meter install. I just keep telling them I don't want one and the poor sod in the call centre accepts that and we get on with our days. Then a month or so ago I got one of these calls and the PSITCC said that if I accepted a smart meter they would pay me a hundred quid. I said no thanks and we got on with our day. If they try that one again I am inclined to try to see how high they are authorised to go. A hundred is not attractive enough but if I can get them up to a grand.....
ALSO. The TV ads featuring a caricature Albert Einstein figure make me determined never to cooperate with any company that would sanction their production. AE was one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists that ever drew breath. He was not some bumbling mad inventor and to portray him as such just gets on my nerves (comment toned down for public consumption).