Don’t **** with the family
Just read another headline on the BBC News site – “Extortion trial of son of Mafia godfather ends in hung jury”.
Isn’t that a bit ******* harsh? I thought they just bribed them or threatened their kids. Isn’t there a retrial if the entire jury is lynched?
Hygiene
Many’s the time I go for a slash (urinate, for you foreign types) and people comment afterwards “have you washed your hands?”
The answer’s pretty much almost always “no”. I’m 31. I no longer piss all over my hands when I go to the toilet. It took practise, but finally I managed it.
However, if I have a **** and my finger goes through the paper then I’ll make sure I scrub it all out from under my fingernail.
Pipex in “are ****” shocker
I have been on hold to Pipex customer “support” for 55 minutes as I type this. My internet connection is, frankly, bollocks. I’ve checked with my neighbour who’s on the same phone exchange via AOL and is having no problems.
Pipex, on the whole, have been shitter than they have been good over the years. Fine when things tick over, but when it goes wrong it goes really wrong. I’ve had:
- their mail server crash and take a week’s worth of mail with it (when I was in Nigeria a couple of years back)
- 2 years of constant line-dropping until they finally put the issue through to BT who fixed it within 2 days
- this dodgy connection
- an hour-long call cut off while still on hold without ever speaking to anyone
- a snail-mail letter never replied to when I complained
- more than one support call logged by email with a response saying I would have a human getting back to me within 24 hours… and never heard back about it ever
- this current call – 60 minutes on the dot
- a failing to put a proper spam and virus filter in place on their email servers, instead choosing to supply users with a “reduced price” Norton solution – which is completely useless in regards to webmail. And then refusing to reply to my complaints about this
- consistantly refusing to remove my Pipex email address from the CC: field on all their emails to me, despite constant complaints and reminders to do so as it causes all their “important” mails to go into my spam bin (this in turn due to the previous issue)
- an utterly useless “service status” page that tells you about problems after they’re fixed, including an item about their news servers that’s been up there for over a year
Well, **** ’em. I gave them a chance over the years and I can’t be bothered any more. I’d quite happily shift, but I have some problems. One is finding somewhere cheaper that’ll do migrations (i.e. I don’t have a noticeable disruption in service or a reconnection fee) and one that won’t tie me in for too long as I’m toying with moving house within 12 months.
Soon as I find somewhere, however, I am offski… Does anyone have any recommendations? I’d prefer a non-capped solution, but I’m prepared to go for something with a reasonably large download limit. And I only need 1Mb as that’s all my exchange is capable of.
