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******* banks.
Chase locked me out of my account because I initiated a wire transfer to Chile on Friday. To do the wire transfer online I had to first log on to my account online using my user name and password (1st security check) then to do the wire transfer I needed to get an activation code sent to my mobile (2nd security check). However, this isn't enough, the bank not happy WITH THEIR OWN SECURITY MEASURES lock down the account and require me to call them direct and go through another batch of security checks to get the account unblocked. I mean WTF?? |
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TV programs about diet and nutrition, I just watched part of an appalling example.
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waiting in a q with hot food and punter at checkout is pissing around, chatting to the cashier, fumbling with vouchers
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scientists referring to pluto as a "dwarf planet"
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You want to get the taste for bananas back. It'll be all you can eat in a few years ;) |
Middle aged women making us work in at a refrigerated temperature, excluding the wind chill, because they *need* the air con on, all day every day, rain or shine, summer or winter. FFS.
And they're trying to be a carbon neutral company �� |
Usually it's the other way round and middle aged woman love the heating on making everyone else roasting hot
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They give you a "taster" of different places that you may want to check out and then revisit for longer ( e.g. for us Venice and Barcelona for example). You pay up front for your cruise and don't have to worry too much about other costs ( unless you want to book excursions, play in the casino on board or buy souvenirs in different ports). Entertainment is excellent and staff are brilliant ( on Thomson cruises anyway). Food is all included (eat whenever you want!). There is always something to do (even when at Sea). Your luggage is taken off of you at the arrival airport and delivered to your cabin on board ship. When you leave the ship your luggage is collected from you and you don't see it again until you arrive back at your London Airport. Cruises are just totally relaxing! |
The cruise I just went on was on a ship with 3,000 passengers.
I can totally see why some people would dread the thought of being in a floating hotel with that many people (and for sure there are a good number of Beatleboys about) but we've taken to it like ducks to water. We were 50 before we did our first one though - and it's not something we would have seriously considered before that. |
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Maz.
"I just spent ten days cruising around Svalbard - apparently further north than 99.9998% of the world's population - with 100 other passengers. Blue whales; polar bears and puffins. Not too sure I recognise the picture you paint." Dear God. __________________ |
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saying that all cruise ships and cruises are the same is rather like saying that all hotels are the same.
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The checkout operator must ask the customer if they needs bags and if they want help with their packing. Asking someone with a full trolley if they need bags is stupid, we all know that, but if you don't say it and you were 'mystery shopped' then you're in trouble. You also have to scan at 30 items a minute, with the till recording how fast you check and the supervisor checks at the middle and end of your shift if you are scanning below or under 30. I had people get pissed off and shout at me, but what could I do? |
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And on the note what ******* cretin at Tesco decide it was a good idea to have Indian food cooking away from 10am to 10pm right at the front of the store, puts me right off food buying. I cannot imagine the sales from the take away counter the negative effects of curry wafting around while you shop for food. And I like a curry! Even the staff at customer service moan about it. |
Cruises always come across for people who lack the wit or imagination to arrange their own holiday. I did have this kind of confirmed when my parents dragged me on to one aged 15, ******* awful. People put on weight because they supply food 24/7 and all you do is eat as there is **** all else to do.
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I can imagine.
Some hotels can be awful, but you'd never say they all are. There are some truly magical cruise experiences to be had out there, mainly in those places which it is difficult for the traveller to reach any way other than by sea. And there are also some wonderful holidays at sea to be had : they may not be for everyone, but that's probably a good thing that we don't all want the same thing, yes? (As an example, I cannot imagine a worse way to spend two weeks than on a Caribbean beach : Sandy Lane is my idea of hell, (and it's vastly over-priced for what it is as well). Chacun a son gout, as they say. |
Ha I just Goggled one of the Vessels, looks more like a Cross Channel ferry by todays standards!
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When you've visited every place you'd like to in Europe for lengthy holidays, city breaks etc. and you can't imagine finding enough to do spending yet another two weeks there, cruises are a good way to easily explore new places, as others have said. Going back to the same resort in Spain, France, Italy or wherever year after year shows more of a lack of imagination, IMHO. |
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I've got nothing against cruises except Tom. He's a wanker.
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Most Med cruises, for example, only sail overnight whilst you are asleep. So you are somewhere new everyday. |
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Our most recent one enabled us to visit many places we'd not seen before such as:
Stockholm, Helsinki, St Petersburg and Bruges - and the Baltic Sea was flat calm for much of the journey. |
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My phone doesn't half take good pics, I've noticed. :)
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Threads that cruise off topic.
Not being able to park outside my own house even though I have a parking permit. |
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Just kidding, they really float my boat. |
People who leave 2 sheets of bog paper on an otherwise empty roll and can't be arsed to put a new one up. People who leave a thimble full of milk in the bottom of the bottle and put it back in the fridge.
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Discussions on the pay gap between men and women, where someone argues that there shouldn't be one only to go on and say women are better than men at some particular skill or task, or men are better than women at some other task, therefore perpetuating the very stereotyping that helps to fuel the pay gap.
The majority of jobs can be filled by a man or woman so no difference in pay should exist because of gender, only ability. |
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I believe some Muslims believe they are haram and others do not. IT's a question of hadith, I suspect. |
Your right Maz, it is down to the individual, so believe it is haram.
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Waitrose lorries
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Menus which offer 'deconstructed strawberry trifle'
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People who take cups/glasses/beakers into work toilets.
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Everyone's turned into Judith bastard Chalmers. Oh for the days of Butlins camps where you went for dinner at the same bloody time and sat in the same bloody seat at the same bloody table every f*cking day. Pissholes.
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Hey fever. Totally shit at the moment.
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We were 50 too when we went on our first cruise. We don't like the larger ships, to us they are blocks of flats on a hull. - That's why we have stuck with one good company that has smaller ships. |
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The telephone ringing for too long in a film or TV show . Can't explain it , just really annoys me .
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I am sure there are hundreds of us. BBS poo siblings. This could be a movement (excuse the pun). |
Eating, reading, drinking a frappucino from Starbucks, whatever is all wrong on the bog as you're basically breathing in poo particles for the time you're there.
The only reason for staying any real length of time is if you get halfway through wiping and realise a second batch is on its way or you over did the chili the night before and the burning needs to calm down |
Why do certain people not know how to behave in a work toilet? In this country we don't bring up a load of phlegm and snot and spit it into the sink. If you have to do that then spit it into the bastard urinal.
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Top tip: Chili/curry burns are can be soothed by placing the bog roll in the freezer the night before in readiness for the morning onslaught. |
When you make a donation to a charity and forever more you get endless e-mails and regular mail asking for more donations...
Makes you never want to donate. |
Other _____ are available. We know. It's not funny either.
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That latest bunch of ambulance chasing ***** now advertising on TV - ClaimMoreDotCom, or something like that.
"Had a claim that was settled recently? Claim more. We will go over your case files and if we think you could have got more we'll take things up on your behalf". Parisitic bastards. Vomit inducing. |
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Pimp My Claim I shit you not Gooders |
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people who steal my milk at work. have tried labelling it as "spat in" but still it gets taken.
have genuinely purchased some extra strength laxative today. clear, odourless and tasteless which will be going into a "trap Pint". have some of that you twat. |
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This bummer who gets everywhere.... BBC lovvies!
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BT
Got a call from them yesterday: "We are ringing to let you know that we are going to start charging for BT Sport from now on". "No you're not, my deal was for it to be free". "Yes, but we have exclusive Champions League games this season". "I don't give a monkeys, I'm not interested in the Champions League". Upshot is that I still get it free for the next 12 months - I have never and will never pay for subscription channels. |
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People still insisting on calling this year two thousand and fifteen.
Its 20 Twenty 15 fifteen ffs. No one, in their right mind, says the Great War began in one thousand, nine hundred and fifteen or man first walked on the moon in one thousand, nine hundred and sixty nine, so why do they persist? |
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As seventeen fifteen, eighteen fifteen, nineteen fifteen etc....
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Didn't the Great War began in one thousand, nine hundred and fourteen?
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Mini Burgers. If you are going to bother, eat a real burger, you twonks. If you go to an event, and see these f*ckers being offered, leave. The host clearly doesn't give a f*ck about you. Nearly always as dry as a nun's arsehole, with no room for a proper dollop of relish. Cheapest thing on the canape menu. Satan's snack.
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People buy them like this. What a load of c*nts.
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Ambulance sirens.
Is it really necessary for them to have that ear piercing feckin thing blaring at 1000 decibels?!?? Took my colic suffering newborn out for a walk in the pram yesterday to try and stop her screaming. Finally got her dozing off when this noisy feckin ambulance startles her back awake and screaming again. I wouldn't mind but there was actually no traffic around at the time to warn of their existence. Doesn't half feel that those behind the wheel are doing it in a 'look at me' way, making sure everybody knows what a feckin important job they're doing. |
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