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Teacher Training Days?
Do it in the summer, not when both parents are at work and have to sort out child care. And, funny how it’s always on a Monday!
lollys mate
Ah, dear old Orange. I changed from dial up last May to Orange broadband and kept getting an intermittent connection. I went through the call centre farce and then managed to get a UK customer support e-mail address which referred me to the Indian call centre. Anyway to cut a long story short, after 5 or 6 letters , over 25 e-mails and several telephone conversations with UK personnel I finally managed to get something done in January of this year by finding out the name of the director for Orange Broadband and guessed at what his e-mail address would be attaching all of the e-mail correspondence with it. Luckily I guessed correctly but after not receiving a reply for three or four weeks sent a snotty e-mail stating he was as bad as his staff. Lo and behold my problem was solved. It turned out that they had me on the 1mb connection what they promised me would be available when it turned out my exchange would only accept half the speed. I managed to get over 90 quid compensation and all in all 8 months free connection. I am still with them and haven’t had a problem since but most likely will change provider when/if I move house. Let me know if you want his e-mail address.
THOSE POP STARS AND FODTBALL STARS AND ACTORS THAT SCROUNGE FOR MONEY FOR CHARITY ON TELEVISION WHY DONT THEY DONATE HALF OF THERE INCOME THEY WOULD STILL BE MEGA RICH EG TERRY WOGAN THE BECKHAMS JONATHON ROSS AND OTHER RICH SCROUNGERS I AM SURE THE CHARITYS WOULD BENEFIT TO THE TUNE OF 100 MILLION PLUS
While we’re on the subject of phones, I listened to a great conversation yesterday between my best friend Jenni and some tw*t called Richmond in India answering her mobile query. Poor Jenni has been woken up at 12.45 AM every night for the past week by a call reminding her to top up her phone!
She could not get through to this idiot how inconvenient this was, and she was almost in tears by the end she was so angry! I loved the part where Richmond asked if he could call her Jennifer and Jenni replied "You can call me Santa Claus if you like, as long as it get’s these calls stopped!"
His answer was for her to turn her phone off
Anyway, MY gripe is smoking, end of story
And now we’ve got the ban, I’m subjected to even more smoke because people stand outside to do it and I have to walk through a waft of stinky smoke to get anywhere.People who travel abroad pretending they are going to help kids. When all they really want to do is make a total fool out of the local hocus-pocus with teddy bears and then complain when they get caught out.
THOSE POP STARS AND FODTBALL STARS AND ACTORS THAT SCROUNGE FOR MONEY FOR CHARITY ON TELEVISION WHY DONT THEY DONATE HALF OF THERE INCOME THEY WOULD STILL BE MEGA RICH EG TERRY WOGAN THE BECKHAMS JONATHON ROSS AND OTHER RICH SCROUNGERS I AM SURE THE CHARITYS WOULD BENEFIT TO THE TUNE OF 100 MILLION PLUS
Quite agree in the case of footballers, as nobody with such a paucity of intelligence (as most of them undeniably are, barring notable exceptions such as Le Saux and Dowie) and surfeit of idle time has any business being given so much disposable income to waste on tasteless, ostentatious guff.
I do, however, tire greatly of Jonathan Ross’s name being held up as an example of overpayment and excess.
The figure of £18m quoted for his BBC TV contract overlooks the fact that it is a four-year one, i.e. £4.5m per year; and he only gets to see half of “his” £0.5m annual wage for his Radio 2 show, the rest going to his producer / co-presenter.
Output since 2006 has comprised around 40 episodes of Film each year; his Friday Night With… show which has endured for six years now (a lot longer than most other attempts at porting across the Letterman format over here); numerous documentaries on all aspects of Japanese popular culture (writing / presenting / producing); other pieces on the British comics industry; plus the obligatory Comic Relief tomfoolery.
I wouldn’t presume that that haul is necessarily enough to placate his fiercest critics out there, but I’d sooner he was doing all of that for £4.5m p.a than some prima donna footballers kicking a ball around, failing to qualify for major tournaments (even granted an easy-ish group to get out of), crashing sports cars and falling off supermodels for one or two million pounds more.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Anyway, MY gripe is smoking, end of story
And now we’ve got the ban, I’m subjected to even more smoke because people stand outside to do it and I have to walk through a waft of stinky smoke to get anywhere.My biggest gripe Political Correctness, Borroughill eat your heart out.
bono and sting
ex smokers who winge
people who dont say thank you when i have held the door open
parents who use the "naughty step " and other supernanny methods
commentators who go on about a beaten jolly and completely ignore talking about the winning horse
commentators who only mention the first 5 in running thru the race
meglomaniac starters
cj on eggheads
old people who push in front of me in a q and think they can get away with itTax
Lefties
Chavs
Newspaper articles containing the words "Diana" or "Madeleine McCann"
People who walk slowly down the street
Ken Livingstone
The Circle Line
The Northern Line (Charing Cross Branch)
People who put milk in their tea/coffee first
MorningsThat’s the only branch of the Northern Line I ever use Mesh – great section from Tottenham Court Road south
The footballers who pledged to give the money to help the nurses and well erm they didn’t
The Central Line – too many people on it in rush hour, some hotties though
The Hammersmith and Shitty Line on a Sunday – just run the bloody thing all the way through to Barking
Taxed bonuses – if it’s a bonus of X amount you should get that amount
Boots, Holborn – why is it the only one not open on a Saturday? It’s when I need to use it
Waitrose – bring back that Turkey, Stuffing and Cranberry Sauce wrap.More to come
Martin
Don’t even talk about taxed bonuses!!
But I.S, do you ever have to faff around at Kennington on the Northern Line? That’s the catch you see
No, not had the pleasure of getting that far South I’m afraid – sounds like I’m very lucky.
Taxed bonuses just drive me mental
When you go to the toilet for a King Richard III (with the turtle’s head about to pop out), and whoever was in there last used the last of the toilet roll….
[b:27m04j92]and didn’t bother to replace it![/b:27m04j92]
loooooooooooooooooooooooll!!!! R O A Rs! turtle’s head
oh dear, what is this place like
thank you Pegwell Pensioners dithering in supermarkets at the weekend.
GO IN THE WEEK, you’ve got loads of time then. Stay out of my way on a Saturday morning.
Just watching now on the telly. What would you put in Room 101?
Let’s say three things…ok four
Mine are.
1) Those toilet roll holders you get in service stations (and the like) toilets. The big ones with enormous rolls of sand paper ’tissue’ paper. Cos when you need it and pull the roll, it always tears and you can never find the end again. You have to shove your hand up it (the holder!) to find it and it always happens to me.2) ‘Having to’ buy a car park ticket at 5.50 pm for 40p when I could have parked for free at 6.00pm. 40p for 10 mins instead of an hour. Been done for this.
3) Mindless vandals who scratched my car.
4) Stamp duty. How unfair is this on those that live in the South (generally)? I will be paying more than 9.5 grand in stamp duty for my 3 bedroom semi costing upwards of £360.000. I could buy a palace in the North if I wanted to live there for less than 250,000 and pay less % in duty. CRIMINAL
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