yeah?

yes he maybe a bit of an arse, but anyone who can't see that good ol'USA is after him is a little naive . . . IMHO democracy needs a few thorns in its side like him :) <anyone heard of Private Eye?>

and in a short, recent period of time when the DoHS has been shown to be the pathetic paper tiger it is, well some daylight shone can't hurt can it?

SO guys, a short infomercial: hassling tourists does NOT keep your country safe! get it?

no?

thought not . . . . <sigh>

still happening @ 11:30

up & down like a whore's knickers this morning

mainly authentication errors

couldn't talk to my ISP as they are clearly using ip telephony :(

and the reality is that

NW online banking is down again this morning

got in then it told me I'd pressed the back page key and kicked me out

let's see what today's excuse will be . . . let's get going with that break up HMG eh?

fixed my arse!

as of 8:45am their on line banking is completely down

been with NatWest since 1973, dropped their credit cards 2 years ago for a much better product

guess it's time to move current account - you maybe shocked to learn that they don't have 1p of our savings / investments / pensions etc = best decision we ever made

and breathe

. . . the world is at one again

BBC?

I see so many adverts on here I like to skip those as well - I mean if I have to watch another damned Miranda ad I WILL scream and boot the TV

now all I need is a solution for radio ads!!

</rant>

they just don't

. . . need any more help to be asshats

I live on a modern estate, they laid trunking some 17 years ago, they did the same on the 2 adjoining estates

It took them >15 years to work out that if they laid trunking some 100m from the main road & then pushed some fibre down it into the estates that they could connect up several hundred houses easily without digging

The shame is that 18 month later when I enter my address into there ordering system, guess what it says?

Yep you guessed it "Your home isn’t in a cable area"

I'll stick with my 6m ADSL(not bad over 3.5km of horrible quality wires), there again I specify, own & control my own modem / router - and have some idea of what I am doing. BT Openreach engineer tested it a couple of years back & swore I'd never get over 3, his face was a picture when I showed him :)

well what a bunch

of intolerant buggers you are! :)

in August on a train after my summer hols to London

a woman opposite was very rude to me - all I was doing was LISTENING on an ear piece to call, miserable bitch!

so I moved when another table came free at next station

then she got a lady + 4 young kids (not all her own) sat next to / opposite her, all very excited, one with headphones singing loudly, brother complaining also loudly + other excited :)

bloke (= complete wanker) opposite her calling all his mates to tell them he had Olympic tickets, then arrange his Saturday golf game

what did I do wrong? will guess that I missed the opportunity to

1) tell the sour faced bitch to get her sorry fat arse to the "quiet coach"

2) tell the sour faced bitch that I was doing a deal to keep 250 people in work for the next 5 years (she was SO damned busy that she was reading chick mag - so probably one of very many parasitic civil servants without a REAL job)

3) wish her a nice day as we left and say "careful what you wish for bitch in future"

</rant>

Mav

<sigh>

that's all :(

be careful

I do hope that their logo doesn't have rounded corners or they could be on the wrong end of an Apple law suit

excellent news

<-- I'd like to buy him one of these

now we just need to fix the system that allowed this to get so far (& explain to our cousins that their legal system stops when it reaches the Atlantic)

surströmming ?

didn't see either of them eating it, there again it would have cleared the restaurant

those lot do eat some weird stuff over there

NatWest on line system message @ 06:30

<quote>Unfortunately we are once again experiencing technical issues with our systems and account balances have not updated properly overnight. This means where money has gone into a customers account, there may be a delay in it appearing on their balance.

We can assure our customers that this problem is strictly of a technical nature and we continue to work hard to resolve this.

We also recognise this is an unacceptable inconvenience for our customers, for which we apologise.

Staff in our branches and at our call centres are ready and available to answer any questions and help where they can. </quote>

= don't hold your breath for a fix any time soon customer, after all it's Friday!!

this is the same bunch of idiots who sent my January credit card payment set up on line to completely the WRONG credit card account reference and then blamed the CC company until someone (maybe the FSA) forced them to fess up that they'd cocked up (again)

I've been with them since 1973 and all was well until RBS took over but time is running out I think.

investigation required

to get to the bottom of this

OK OK I'm off though wasn't my cock up (oo-err missus)

yawn

bored already

@ Green Banana

"And The Rich People In Dirt Poor Countries

..will buy iPhones as feverishly as the buy BMWs and Mercedess."

assuming you mean Mercedes then if you ever bought one of those over priced pieces of crap then you'd know you were talking utter BOLLOCKS

go ahead & buy a western badged, over priced piece of crap made in cheap labour countries (to the major detriment of workers there) but please don't fool yourself about the quality eh?

wish I had a £1 (or €1.20) for every iPhone user I had heard screaming at their phone for being unable to pick up a call / hold onto a call

TBH if my Nokia 6210 had BT (for hands free car use) it would never have left my side, I have a basic BB now and does all I need - BT connection / battery life / address push / basic calendar functions, just a shame it doesn't go all week without charging

"it's only a phone love"

would you take advice?

from someone who clearly can't write grammatically correct English?

if you've ever been there

you'd know it's full of w*nkers - especially the taxi drivers

you owe me a new kb

"jub juice bandit " fantastic

made my week

how did he escape ?

. . . from Middle Earth?

waiting for the trolls

c'mon where are you?

It's feeding time !!!

Friday

"Or the Duke-Nukem-is-coming website.”

my screen needs cleaning now

top stuff !!

waste of time

who gives a shit?

they awarded one to Al Gore (OK, jointly with IPCC) - so this is meaningless POS organisation

Norwegians (and Swedes to some extent) should hang their heads in shame at the political pawn it has become

DDOS for the FTW!

where are you Anonymous when we REALLY need you to do something REALLY useful? <sigh>

awesome

only thing is there's probably someone try to sell one of these already to the government

3.6.9

the goose drank wine? (oops! showed my age again)

seriously definitely a case of YMMV as this version is much more stable for me

or even better?

. . . don't use PayPal at all

quite a few companies have lost my business because of switching to PP, they probably don't care because their costs are lower (and sales as well obviously, but no bean counter measures that)

and yes my bank is just as bad at not following their own advice about links <sigh>