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Bumfodder - Cleaning the air

Aviva - need more fingers

Letters and Quotes

Ok, I still cannot get how this works.  Joan is getting a new car, and I'm getting hers.  She's nice that way.  I got a quote from Aviva for £309 for me to insure my new car.  Joan got a quote from Aviva (current insurer) for, not 100% sure of the number as it was more than double what others had quoted - but it was something in the order of £400.  We are both named on each others policy.  They then offered a deal to save up to a 1/3 to insure both cars.  This they said worked out at £1084.  Ar...... what.  Taking a quote from Aviva "for our 43 million customers, we aim to communicate in a clear open and timely way with the media and stakeholders"  Pity they did not include the customers in that statement.

 

Southern Electric - they came good

Bills

It is rare that Reggie comes back to give praise - but I have to admit, within a few hours of my last post going live, a manager had tracked me down and explained what things were looking strange.  He admitted they made a mistake and they would fix it immediately. 

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Simon Pegg visited my local Aldi

30 Second Rants

What happened when Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright visited my local Aldi Store?  They stood speechless and the plot for Shaun of the Dead was hatched.  Aldi seems to attract zombie shoppers.  They stand around in groups, prodding at the merchandise and making incomprehensible grunts.  They hog the space making it impossible to get around the store.  Come the checkout, they fear the light and the pain of parting with their money.

 

LloydsTSB journey to nowhere

Online Banking

Dear Board Members of LloydsTSB

As promised, I’m now formalising our complaint to LloydsTSB.  However since fuck all has happend to escalate the problems we have with your service, we are going to see if anyone takes notice now!  The recent events have demonstrated that the back office staff could not give a flying fuck about what problems they cause their customers.  Whilst I appreciate that senior management may be pissed off at not getting their bonuses as they did before the Government took a share in the company – there is no need to take it out on fee paying customers.  So, your challenge, if you have the balls to do it, is to publish for all the world to see, why this happend and why no-one can be bothered to fix it.

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We don't owe you enough (Southern Electric)

Bills

Southern Electric are taking the piss now. At the end of the summer (August 2011) my monthly electric payment plan was in credit to the tune of £275.  What that means to the dumb people reading, which are probably going to be SSE Energy Supply comptrollers, I have overpaid and you owe me £275.   Now the winter is over ... well (Feb 2012) the credit on my monthly plan has fallen to £81.  What that means to the dumb people reading, which are probably going to be SSE Energy Supply comptrollers, I have overpaid and you owe me £81.  Now the nice wee (they are scottish) people at Southern Electric have told me that they need to put my payment plan up by £25 a month because in their view I'm not going to be paying enough during the summer months to cover the cost of the electric.  Call me stupid and I'm sure the wee people from the land of snow winters and white sandy beaches are the best brains in Scotland, but in Southern England - where drought will soon turn us into desert land, we have sun and warm weather in the Summer and longer days with more light and so why the fuck do they think I'm going to use anywhere near as much electric during during the summer as I do during the winter when the house needs heating.  Cheeky fuckers.

 

What's this shit about Librios Licence

Web Sites

I was recently directed to this site which I think is a spoof, but I'm not sure.  I took a look at the Terms which it is something close to the entire site content.  What is really odd is all the Software Licence Agreement stuff that you need to agree to before - I guess read - the content on the site?  It rambles on and on about Cloud Edition, Enterprise Edition, Output files, Internal Networks, Server Use and Home Computers.  What the fuck is going on?  Is this what substance abuse does to musicians brains?  Did they find a monkey walking the streets of Ely and ask them to select random text from the ROM of a ZX81.  The Agreement is over 5,000 words long.  The News Section, covering the past 6 months is a staggering 16 words long.  OK - I need to stop now... it is too funny and almost sad.