Tag: random shit

I just cancelled a credit card. We’re consolidating our card debt into one card with a very low lifetime balance transfer interest rate and one card that will be used regularly, so we had one that was now surplus to requirement and we decided to cancel it (as a side note, it can be a negative factor on your credit report to have lots of unused available credit, esp cards)

I phoned up the bank to have the card transferred and was immediately transferred to their “we will do anything to keep you” department. They offered schpiel after schpiel to try and keep us as customers, but the fact is that their offers aren’t all that good and we have better incentives with the other cards we have. When I told the lady on the phone this, her tone of voice went from bubbly to completely resigned while she read the goodbye statement. That level of resignation in her voice made me wonder if they’re somehow punished for every customer that they can’t keep hooked.

Boss: He left?
Underling: yes *whimper”
Boss: TO THE RACK WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!

One thing I learned from Dave Gorman’s PowerPoint adventure was that, at some point in the past, a marketing executive decided that clocks set to a “happy” time (i.e. the hands were in a semblance of a smile) were more likely to sell so now every time I see a clock display like this, I giggle.

It’s also why all of HTC’s phone adverts have 10:08 as a time display on the digital clocks :)

[15:50:07] Joe Foster: Gillian has washed my passport again, I won’t be in on monday I need to go to Peterborough to get a new one in time to travel with Juanan to Utrecht.
[15:50:10] Joe Foster: huzzah
[15:50:24] Richard Cote: ROFL
[15:51:12] Richard Cote: Why do you insist in keeping your passport in your pants?
[15:51:24] Richard Cote: you’d think you’d know better by now :)
[15:51:28] Joe Foster: because I dont carry a hand bag like a woman
[15:51:53] Richard Cote: at the price of emergency passport replacement, you might want to invest in a man-purse :)
[15:52:24] Joe Foster: and destroy my million pound street cred?!!?
[15:52:35] Richard Cote: what street cred?
[15:52:44] Richard Cote: you’re as white bread as they come
[15:53:19] Richard Cote: hell, I’m old and fat and have more street cred than you do :)
[15:53:27] Joe Foster: sure…sure…
[15:53:38] Richard Cote: tattoos count for something :)
[15:54:30] Joe Foster: So does being in a band, and being a champion drinker.
[15:55:49] Richard Cote: I will grant you the band thing is cool
[15:56:01] Richard Cote: but is unfortunately cancelled out by your magic geekery
[15:56:33] Richard Cote: Comic-book-guy has no street cred.
[15:56:44] Joe Foster: I agree the magic counts against me, but it’s more than outweighed by my partying skills and general banter.
[15:57:31] Richard Cote: true, you’re not completely white bread. You can call yourself Hovis 50/50
[15:57:46] Joe Foster: I can accept that, granary is for noobs.
[15:57:56] Richard Cote: I shall henceforth refer to you as BOB
[15:58:23] Joe Foster: gah you sound like my parents
[15:58:31] Joe Foster: they never call me joe, always bob.
[15:58:45] Richard Cote: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
[15:58:58] Richard Cote: your parents rule :)
[15:59:08] Joe Foster: they kinda do.