pinkduchess v HSBC

[pinkduchess]

hey jo, thats cute. glad you found your discrepancy

[freakyleaky]

Thats good Jo! Did you draw that?

Pete, you have got to have that in your sig!!!

[jowalshy]

I'm afraid I did draw it. Sorry it looks like a 5 year old did it. Do you like the pink flag?

[freakyleaky]

Thats great Jo! I think pete will love the flag!

[Castlebest]

I do its brilliant I will put it in my sig

 

pete

[pinkduchess]

laughing @ the flag

[jowalshy]

Here is one for you Freaky. Sorry it looks a bit like notches on a bed post....lol

 

[freakyleaky]

Here is one for you Freaky. Sorry it looks a bit like notches on a bed post....lol

 

There would be alot more it they were!

 

Thats great Jo! Lovin it! Will squeeze that into my sig somewhere!

[pinkduchess]

what a stud!!

[jowalshy]

[pinkduchess]

lol - thats freaky!! it looks like a fish

[jowalshy]

[jowalshy]

[vandermerwe]

Hello Fans

 

¡O mierda!

 

And that was the last post I made before crisis struck. But at least it was on my favourite site: pd - v - HSBC (not that we see much about Honkers and Shankers there these days!)

 

After using that bad expression, the demon banker struck and - yo sentí como un huevón doble reculiado - the computer crashed. Being Saturday, there was nothing I could do until Monday when the local expert (they are not in abundance in the heart of Van country) said he thought the power pack had blown and he might be able to look at it the next day.

 

Tuesday afternoon I pick the beast up (£65 to you squire), take it home, connect all the wires and - zilch. Too late to call local expert so take it back next day when. I am told, I had switched it onto 115 volts and it had blown again. "Make it £60 this time mate"- lucky day obviously. Get it back, wire it all up but can't access e-mails or even respond to pd so LE agrees to make a house visit (more than my doctor would!).

 

"I'll show you what's wrong" says Van tapping away at the keyboard like Liberace on substances - and, naturally, the bloody thing works perfectly.

 

"Well, we'll just make it 30 for my time" says LE (I love the way they drop any reference to currency when they're on the make).

 

I carefully stash away all the cables and position the box of tricks alongside the desk and try (a) to access internet banking and (b) post something for my duchess friend. No way.

 

Into town again today and come back with new keyboard ("I'll do it for 6 quid for you guv.") about which I suppose I can't complain, and now I can post to Pink Duchess - ah bliss indeed!

 

Thanks so much for your PM and I've spent a pleasant afternoon catching up on what I had missed. Special thanks to Jowalsky (who I now know is a she and not a Polish he) for the accent advice - easy isn't it when you know how?

 

Will keep my head below the parapet on the subject of rugby to avoid causing embarrassment (phnah-phnah - you ain't seen nothing yet) but would enjoy a pisco sour - the national drink of Chile that has the reputation of more bad language (see above!) than any other Spanish speaking country - gazing with Pete and Lattie at the sunset sinking over Prescott Towers.

 

Now, to pontificate, and explain why accents are not only desirable but also essential in Spanish. I can only quote from a letter in "Private Eye" after "The Independent" informed its readers it was dispensing with accents. The writer advised he would not be using The Indie's columns for sending seasonal greetings to Spanish friends as, he wrote, "the word for year in Spanish (año) is accented whilst the unaccented word - ano - can mean something slightly different and somehow 'Wishing You All A Happy New A***hole doesn't sound quite right.

 

Mind you, that was we all became so anti-banker.

 

You're welcome to come and give private tuition any time pd

[jowalshy]

Hi Van, Jowalsky here...lol.

 

Here is a pisco sour I prepared earlier for you:-

 

[vandermerwe]

Sorry Jowalshy - I was going to get new glasses until I had to spend all my dosh on computer bits, but it looks just like the real thing! Three or four of those and even Prescott Towers would look good.

 

And, sorry pd, I still haven't answered your concern about unfurling your 'f'. I was referring to the four symbols at the bottom of every post the last of which looks like the letter 'f' on an orange background. I tried clicking it once, couldn't understand where I was and lost the message I had been intending to post.

 

Another example of lack of computer training.

 

By the way I got my parachute account - now to try and make it work on-line.

 

Best wishes to all.

 

Van

[jowalshy]

I have no idea what the four little symbols are. They only came on a few months ago. I am sure I mentioned them on my own thread. I will have a look later and see if it shows any light on it.

[jowalshy]

whether this is of any help I do not know:-

 

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Furl (from File Uniform Resource Locators) is a free social bookmarking website (furl.net) that allows members to store searchable copies of webpages and share them with others. Every member receives 5 gigabytes of storage space. The site was founded by Mike Giles in 2003, and purchased by LookSmart in 2004.[1]

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A social bookmarking site like del.icio.us or Simpy, Furl enables members to bookmark, annotate, and share web pages. Topics are used to categorize saved sites, similar to the tagging feature of other social websites. Additionally, a user may write comments, save clippings, assign each bookmark a rating and keywords (which are given greater weight while searching), and have an option of private or public storage for each topic or item archived.

Considered one of its main features,[2] Furl also privately archives a complete copy of each page that a user bookmarks, making it accessible even if the original content is modified or removed, an antidote for link rot. This also allows full text searches to be made within the archive. To avoid claims of copyright violations, this archived copy is visible only to the member who bookmarked the page. Other users are directed to the publisher's site, where the content can be viewed depending on membership requirements and privacy settings.

Users may see lists of other users who have furled a URL, and read their comments (if made public) to find users who share interests, supporting folksonomy. A dynamic recommendation list is available to each user, automatically based on the sites already saved by him or her and other users with similar interests. Lists of the most popular items for today (and by topic) are also available. It's possible to subscribe to a user's archive (or to a set of topics in a user's archive) to get daily email notifications whenever new items are filed.

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[jowalshy]

Sorry guys but I want to vent some frustration. I have a Halifax Current account and for many many years I have had an overdraft facility on it of £250 (which came with the account when I opened it) six months ago I increased the overdraft to £300 for six months. Now six months on I assumed that my overdraft facility would revert back to £250. But alas no. It reverted back to £0.

 

Just phoned them and was told that they now could not give me an overdraft facility at all!!!!!!!

 

I explained to them that the £250 overdraft facility came with the account when I opened it and did not specify a time for renewal of it. The lovely lady went away to have a chat with her manager and then came back telling me that my £250 overdraft facility would be restored (yipee I thought). The catch is, it is only restored for a year and then will have to be reviewed again. I wish that I never increased the overdraft facility now. I should have kept it at the unreviewable limit of £250 six months ago.

 

Oh well. Que sera, sera.

[lateralus]

i think this is a sign of things to come, jo. the banks have to make their money somehow and if the charges aren't going to be legit - they will find their ways of skewing it out of us one way or another.

i saw a poster in town today - students - free £1500 overdraft and i felt like breaking the window! those poor kids - it's how so many are suckered in - they don't understand the concept that in effect it is a 0% loan - but god help you if you go over it - that's when all the trouble begins and it is like selling your soul to the devil for 1500 - because ultimately it is 1500 that will at some time have to be paid back - it's not just 1500 of the bank's money - once you accept it - it is your debt to pay back - like digging yourself into a hole. i know it serves a purpose but to me, it serves the bank a much bigger purpose - catch them in your net early and keep them there forever -

 

talk about venting frustration - sorry about the rant - just had to!

[jowalshy]

We all have to vent our frustration every now and then.

[Castlebest]

When Midland gave me my overdraft many moons ago they decided they had to review in every 12 months and charge me £80 a time then HSBC decided I couldnt have an overdraft anymore and charged me £150 a month for going overdrawn

 

pete

[jowalshy]

Ironic is a word that comes to mind.

[johnnymitch]

Not the word I had in mind - nor Pete, I'm sure

 

But it'll have to do on a family forum.........:grin:

[pinkduchess]

hey all

 

van - good to see you back in the loop. excellent post as usual. libarace on substances made me laugh