This got better... My wife talked to customer service Monday (I should add this account is my Mother-in-Law's who is 90). They would not reset the password because they were not talking to MiL. Wife says she has Power of Attorney on all her finances. They want a copy of said PoA which is understandable but they want it faxed.

My wife tells me this, and I tell her we have a .pdf copy I can e-mail them so she calls them back. Nope they only accept faxes.

WTF... it is 2016 isn't it? who still uses faxes?

Anyway, I faxed it this morning knowing full well it will not get to the right person or will be followed up on - which Is why I hate faxes.

And they wonder why there was a mortgage crisis (it was the bank she has her mortgage with).

Having to wait a month and a half for Virgin media to come round to your house and spend what is probably a couple of hours at most to fit their internet in your house.

Domino's pizza, Sutton. Getting txt offers even though I have told them to stop and blocked the number. They find a different one to use,and what makes it worse I haven't had a pizza from them for years.
(I think next time I go to Sutton I would like to do what that Pat Tate did to the manager, from the film bonded by blood).

Wow I hope someone scans it onto a floppy disk for storage.

Royal Bank of Scotland by any chance?

No, some no name brand... M&T Bank. Out of New York I believe.

Maybe I've misread your post, but have you really said that your Mum-in-law is still paying a mortgage at the age of 90! :eek:

I was fortunate that my mum had used her local bank for 50 years by the time she needed my assistance, and then the cashiers got used to me coming in on her behalf. They knew I had Power of Attorney and I carried ID with me in case they wanted it, but they were v helpful to us.

Internet is great, but sometimes I find the good old face-to-face contact is by far the most productive, and can even be quicker in certain situations.

Virgin bloody Media still sending me shitty junk mail every six weeks even after I filled out a web form that someone that someone kindly put up on this very thread, asking them to please stop it.

I'm not sure what the intention is by sending junk mail but this has had the effect of ensuring that I will never ever chose to use any of their products for the rest of my natural life.

Come to think of it, maybe it's Sky sending them all on the sly as part of a dastardly plot...

Its election time over here,the Politicos are now showing their faces in public for the first time in years,and expecting to get a welcome when they turn up at our door.Trapped one of them last evening, I invited him in,and handed him a prepared list of fourty of the most complicated topics i could think up,some of the questions were little to do with politics,eg,The price of pizzas in Dublin,Do penguins have knees,Was Doris Day really a virgin mother of three,The Syrian crisis.The poor fellow looked slightly scared as our Dobermans sat either side of him.I suspect he wont be calling here again any time soon.

Mighty Deals. No customer service number at all. Only email that auto respond. 3 months my issue been going on.

WARNING DON'T BUY ANYTHING VIA MIGHTY DEALS.

My bloody doctors surgery that have told me they don't have a nurses apt to syringe my ear for another two and half weeks. WTF, does she only work one hour a day. I mean ear syringe take what 10 mins tops.........

Data Protection breach. Report 'em.

blue jeans and what people say when i say that

Pardon?

On a serious note, it could be worse, same thing happened to me a couple of years ago, except I needed both done, and they won't do them both at the same time. So I had to wait 2 weeks to get one done, and another week for the other, did think about going to casualty but was told they don't usually do it.

Is this an American thing perhaps? Or maybe companies are scared of attachments and viruses. A few years ago I was setting up services for work from a US company and a Canadian one. I had to fax a form to the one in the States no matter what, absolutely refused to accept anything by email. The Canadian company also asked for a fax but when I said this is 2016 and you are supplying an internet (inernet) service so why can't I email a PDF file, I was told "ok than that will be fine" oh bloody hell I'm boring myself to tears here what am I on about ffs.

01483 412 978

From here.

You're welcome. :)

No, you read correct - with another 7 or 8 years to go!

Another one of those "differences" between our two countries.

Wait..... You were once employed by someone ? :eek:




:D

Astonishing.

In the UK a bank could possibly be charged with miss-selling a mortgage that went beyond someone's working life. There can be exceptions, but 90, wow!

All mortgages have to be paid off by the time you are 70 in the UK right?

I guess it is no big deal to be honest, my wife inherits the condo, and pays off the balance when she kicks.

Go fund me wasters. Was making a donation today, homeless stuff, for the first time on go fund me and was given the option at the end to support other requests. The full of people who put up beer funds or car funds or holiday funds. Just work for them as the rest of us do you lazy w4nkers.

Don't know if it's that prescribed, but you would need to demonstrate that you'll continue to receive an income large enough to cover your mortgage.

Most mortgages in the UK last 25-30 years, so people will finish before they retire.

The lack of subtitles on Amazon Prime

Sitting near the away fans at Selhurst.

When eating, people who take food off their fork or spoon with their teeth. Ok if the food has just been served and it's piping hot fair enough don't burn your lips but otherwise USE THEM instead of subjecting others to listen to the scraping of metal against teeth you chavvy bastards. Also people who eat with their mouths open. Keep your cement mixers to yourselves.

Perpetual annoyances:

- Piers Morgan constantly whining about Arsenal not winning trophies.
- Sections of the media that give Piers Morgan the airtime to constantly whine about Arsenal not winning trophies.
- Piers Morgan.
- Arsenal.

To be replaced in June by:

- Piers Morgan constantly whining about Kevin Pietersen not being picked for England.
- Sections of the media that give Piers Morgan the airtime to constantly whine about Kevin Pietersen not being picked for England.
- Piers Morgan.
- Kevin Pietersen.

The fact that with one game to go this week end I only got the result of one game correct (and still only got 10 points for it) in this weeks Talksport Prediction League.

I guess I really don't know what I'm doing!

Piers Morgan perving over our Suzanna Reid

You and me both mate. Was good at it last season too. Haven't had a 90 pointer all season.

Oh well - got the last one wrong too. :eek:

The #1 for me is the middle class sense of entitlement. I live in Chiswick which probably doesn't help.

My first ever job was in The Barley Mow business centre drank in the Barley Mow before they built it up and my UK bank account is still across the road in the High Street. Great memories there.

But a bugger to get to from Norwood every day for a year!

There you go again with this "I've been employed" nonsense ....

Only joking :p

Televised award ceremonies. Just tell us the result

Joe Swash putting on a posh accent and calling himself Eddie.

Kate Winslet's breathless speech was embarrassing, you haven't split the atom love.

Idiot f*ckwit pedestrians.
I can only assume they think smartphones throw out an invisible force field when they cross roads. Morons.

http://www.autocarpro.in/IMG/083/140...jpg?1446195113

Cars are left hand drive in North London?

tell me about it. only one I got was that mid-table team from Fulham:o

Me too! I had 3-0, so still only got 10 points. Had Palace as my insurance so got away with 0 there. rest all -10.

Still Jim Beglin

You get 100 points for taking him out:p:lux:

His is, he has a foreign registered car so that he can't get fined or points on his licence when triggering speed cameras:p:D

Chuggers (Charity Muggers) outside the Holmesdale Road on Matchday.

Same guy every week collecting for 'Disabled' children. Never a charity you've ever heard of and shaking his bucket.

My awful week was saved by having Liverpool to win as my banker (though not at 6-0) and getting Arsenal spot on. Still 0 for the week, though.

And Janet is top of our mini-league and keeps bragging about it...

:D :D You're almost right though. That was the only year just after I left College I did work for someone, went solo after that, working for piss all to make my boss, his wife and new baby a good living. Fuera!

Being asked for my PIN when the prompt to enter it hasn't even reached my side of the transaction. Give me a fecking chance you f*cktard!

When you open a new pack of butter, cut a third off and then not be able to wrap the rest of it up again. Infuriating.

That's rubbish; I had both of mine done at the same time.

No, some banks will extend/let you take out mortgages longer - 75 no problem, longer than that will require a bit greater discussion.

The number of soap products - shampoo, shower gel, shaving gel etc that is infused with sulphuric acid or something similar to give you a supposedly "refreshing" feeling .
If I wanted to burn the skin off my face I'd use a blow torch instead of a razor!

He'd be shit company though sitting there on his blower listening to his raas claart tunes.

Being asked as "suitable" security questions when company (bank/utility) has rung me:-

- postcode
- DOB
- how I pay my bills

No, you rang me, how about proving who you are and not with questions (like the above) to which anybody could find out the first two and have a guess at 'direct debit' with the third! :veryangry

Same utility company saying "with great respect, ......" when I am complaining; no, it's not "with great respect", it means exactly the opposite.

Trying to sort out on the phone to my bank a fairly hefty funds transfer, which worryingly appears to have gone missing, I was asked for my security number. Not having a clue what they meant I said I didn't have one, to which I was told "everybody gets one when they open their account". I explained that, in my case, I definitely wasn't given one.

I was then subjected to a polite but sarcasm laden 'perhaps you've forgotten it as your getting old routine' (I'm 56 FFS) and was informed that nobody can open an account without one as their computer systems simply won't allow it.

My request to tell me which computer system they were using back in 1976 when I opened the account was met with complete ******* silence.

Where's my ten grand you ******* ****'s?

Lame-brains on quiz programs who say, "That was a bit before my time". Pathetic.

I never answer them.

I have the same shit Nigel with HSBC who my dementia Mum has an account with. She opened her account in 1970 at Midland Bank in Streatham. As Power of Attorney they still want codes and shit she never bloody set up back then so a thing I need to deal with, although always gets done in the end, takes bastard ages on the phone talking to complete f*ckwitts.

Their legal department wouldn't even accept my Power of Attorney because it was registered in Spain! I even spent a few bob on getting it translated by a sworn court of law for them even though I didn't have to as its registered in The Hague etc etc. I have never had that problem with any other UK company when dealing with Mum's business. HSBC c*nts.

Before I embarked on this fiasco I was speaking to another Palace fan here who had had the same problem with them with his dementia Mum, he said please don't tell me its HSBC they will make everything as difficult as possible.

Best and only possible description of this bank and it's "customer service".
Worst bank ever.

"Please disable your adblock" pop-ups

At least Janet has football in her blood... my mate's wife won our league last season, and although a TV fan of Spurs based most of her predictions on God knows what. If it was anything like the way she picks horses at the track it was the colour of the shirts teams wear!

I'm glad to say she is the only person doing worse this season than me!

Edit... just looked at our table and she moved above me after this weekend by getting zero points!

Finding out that smokescreens don't work....mainly as the Police simply follow the smoke

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wa...olice-10899227

'Simon Chaplin, 62, rigged a bucket of diesel, a pump and pipes behind the passenger seat of his Peugeot 309 to produce “colossal” amounts of grey smoke from his exhaust.'

Pc Birch said: “There was a vast amount of dense smoke coming out the back. It completely obscured the road.

“I had to slow down and keep a distance. I knew when he had turned left only by following the smoke he left behind."

This post reminds me of an argument I once had with my bank a few years ago. Now older posters may recall back in the days of people writing cheques as a matter of course, you would pay one in and it would normally take 3 days to clear. However with the advance of modern banking, it seems a cheque nowadays actually takes longer to clear, and when I pointed this out, the bloke on the phone was adamant I was wrong, the bastard.

Did anybody see Pointless yesterday? In the head-to-head, the 5 questions on the subject of The Battle of Waterloo included ...
(1) The modern country it was fought in
(2) The name of the British commander
(3) The defeated French emperor

One pair of 20-something blokes look bemused. "This isn't a good category for us; we'll say for the country ... England"

What the hell do they teach in schools nowadays!?

Probably how to ice gem your hair and unlock a smart phone in a minute

I did up to A Level History and never studied that era. I do know the answers, but from my general knowledge, not a formal school lesson. Oh, and sadly I'm not a youngster.

If a pupil drops history before GCSEs they won't have anything like a comprehensive knowledge of British history, it'll largely be the 'biggies' such as Battle of Hastings up to the Tudors, the two World Wars.

You forgot:

(4) Name the year the battle took place

This was the lowest scoring question of the 5??!!

What the f*ck did those 100 divs learn at school, whichever generation they're from.

I only studied History for 3 years (up to 14), but I have visited the Monument in Belgium en route to Euro 2000.

:D

Trying to make out his numberplate, does it say 'de juke'? I like how it says he was cornered in the farmyard.

WTF is ice gemming your hair?

This annoys me too. However, I never learnt about Waterloo or that period of history at all at school so I guess if you're not interested in history then you wouldn't really know. You'd like to think that it's basic knowledge but unfortunately there's a fair few people around who don't even know the dates for things like the Second World War!

Yes but to be fair I didn't know that exactly. I would have said 1810. The head dumbass, while thinking outloud, said something like "I'd guess 1500".

If you don't know the country or exact year, fair enough. But do you really not know that The Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon?! You get that much from the bloody ABBA song, let alone GCSE history.

Having a hair cut where it looks like an ice gem

Yeah you'd think that it would be common knowledge but Pointless has shown us that we overestimate the general population's historical understanding!

History is boring until you get older, then it becomes interesting for some reason.

Thanks but sorry, WTF is an ice gem?
I'm beginning to feel a bit dated.....

I love iced gems.

Really? I remember being fascinated from a very early age. I've got a stick men drawing of the Battle of Hastings from when I was about four.

It think you mean the Bayeux tapestry.

Do I? Did I create that without remembering? Brilliant!

Take a bow my friend, you're being very modest.

Scruff the printed numbers on the cheque so that they can't be read by machine, takes ages to clear.

That was considerably bad given the other team had already identified Napoleon.

I feel we may need to start a thread on Pointless, two more incidents of stupidity and annoyance have occured today.

Earlier on BBC1, the topic being 'famous people's surnames, beginning with the letter B', some bloke banged on about 'every one knows the Scout leader but I reckon it'll be a high score' but then proceeded to answer 'the inventor of the system of raised dots on paper' with Braille :confused: :grrr:

The irony being he won the jackpot at the end of the show.

Secondly, on Challenge earlier, the subject of 'Julius Caesar' more people (71) knew the name of the Egyptian queen who reputedly gave birth to his son than the number of people who knew the month that was named after him (66) FFS :bash:

TBF I think he knew it was 'Louis Braille' while the public answer had clearly been counted on the basis of just 'Braille' - seventy-something.

Which seemed a bit harsh on the bird who got the wrong Bronte sister - why couldn't she just say 'Bronte'?

depends if you have good teachers

Capital D when starting a sentence please.

:D

People who take a bite of food mid-sentence while talking to you.

Inconsistency

I thought everyone knew Waterloo was named after a station and Julius Caesar was named after a salad.

I don't remember ever being taught about Waterloo, Trafalgar, Nelson or Napoleon in primary or secondary school during 90s/00s.

History was all about Romans, 1066, Tudors, Slave Trade, Suffragettes, WW1/WW2, holocaust and that's it.

Any Haribo advert. Adults talking like 2 years olds is shite.

Big willies. Smelly plops.

Prick

Tits.

We have a winner for the most annoying thing ever.

Along with the ******* Malteser women!

Hot food being served on cold plates.