Oh and Opus Cards run by Lloyds Banking Group, thank you so very f@#king much in issuing cards to a secondary card holder who has not been authorised for 5 years, abusing confidential customer information, losing a payment of £455, never calling back or escalating matters and generally being complete 'c u next Tuesdays' you utter f%#king nob jockeys!
--- update 7 Dec 2010
The threat of using a small claims court summons to recover the funds 'may' have changed the 'takes 14 days minimum to find a payment' to actually being located and credited overnight. Don't pat yourselves on the back Opus Cards you are still complete shitbags!
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GiffGaff
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Monday, 29 November 2010
Caption Competition
A favourite pic of mine back from an article in The Sun last year.
Ed Spiliband
Sums up the Labour Party pretty much at the moment.
Captions anyone?
Ed Spiliband
Sums up the Labour Party pretty much at the moment.
Captions anyone?
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Citibank, Lloyds Banking Group fail!
I have a citicard credit card. At the moment Citibank have decided to dispose of this portfolio and retain egg credit cards which they purchased a while back. My card is being sold/transferred to Opus cards managed by HBOS arm of Lloyds Banking Group. The transfer happens on the 21st November.
Me, Mr X is the account holder and Mrs X used to be an additional card holder but no longer. So Imagine my surprise when Opus send Mrs X a letter containing two cards, one for her as the main account holder (she's not!) and one for me as an additional card holder (I'm not!).
So several issues here. As citi are still the card provider I ring them the see what has gone on. Not our fault contact Opus. I pointed out to them that they released information about an obsolete card holder. The Indian call centre had no escalation procedure, line management to raise my concern. I managed to get the telephone number of Citicard/Egg data protection officer but as I am an outgoing customer the cock has not replied to my voicemail.
-- update --
Citibank DPO had been trying to call me back but my phone had been the issue, not routing calls. He was very helpful but all focus is now on Opus as to why they transposed the data they received!
Opus call centre does not open until 21st November, leaving me no method to raise concerns of potential fraud, credit file misuse and data protection violations with them. I tried a different tack of contacting BoS credit card call centre but they have no information until 21st and advised me to contact Citi with regards to why HBOS had sent incorrect cards?? What the f...?
In summary, Citibank you are US cocks of the highest order with no regard for UK or EU data privacy law or any sense of customer service. The US moans about BP oil spill but wraps Britain into it. But when you send out fucking google cars harvesting private data in every country that's ok is it??
Opus/Lloyds Banking Group you are total cocks for engaging with future customers but not providing feedback channels to your communications!
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Me, Mr X is the account holder and Mrs X used to be an additional card holder but no longer. So Imagine my surprise when Opus send Mrs X a letter containing two cards, one for her as the main account holder (she's not!) and one for me as an additional card holder (I'm not!).
So several issues here. As citi are still the card provider I ring them the see what has gone on. Not our fault contact Opus. I pointed out to them that they released information about an obsolete card holder. The Indian call centre had no escalation procedure, line management to raise my concern. I managed to get the telephone number of Citicard/Egg data protection officer but as I am an outgoing customer the cock has not replied to my voicemail.
-- update --
Citibank DPO had been trying to call me back but my phone had been the issue, not routing calls. He was very helpful but all focus is now on Opus as to why they transposed the data they received!
Opus call centre does not open until 21st November, leaving me no method to raise concerns of potential fraud, credit file misuse and data protection violations with them. I tried a different tack of contacting BoS credit card call centre but they have no information until 21st and advised me to contact Citi with regards to why HBOS had sent incorrect cards?? What the f...?
In summary, Citibank you are US cocks of the highest order with no regard for UK or EU data privacy law or any sense of customer service. The US moans about BP oil spill but wraps Britain into it. But when you send out fucking google cars harvesting private data in every country that's ok is it??
Opus/Lloyds Banking Group you are total cocks for engaging with future customers but not providing feedback channels to your communications!
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Thursday, 14 October 2010
Chilean Miners Rescue
This has been compelling viewing, and a truly remarkable feat of human endurance. Add to that during the rescue itself the sense of family and national pride it really does make you think. Sky News coverage has been very good but I wished they hadn't used the Lemmings On Screen Graphic, a bit too much.
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
My piss boileth over!!!
http://bit.ly/d8IQI0
Truly outrageous Expose of a Feckless Benefits Scrounger in the UK!!
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Truly outrageous Expose of a Feckless Benefits Scrounger in the UK!!
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Petrol Prices just 17 months on
Just been looking back at my emails from www.petrolprices.com
What are we paying now 115 -119p per litre?? In less than 2 years on!?
It really does take the piss!
Station : Tcs Black Cat
Address : Great North Road, Chawston, Bedford, MK44 3BE
Brand : Total
Distance : 3.29
Price : 94.9p
Updated : 06-04-2009
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Station : Tempsford Service Station
Address : Tempsford Road, Sandy, SG19 2AF
Brand : Shell
Distance : 4.89
Price : 94.9p
Updated : 04-04-2009
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Monday, 20 September 2010
Tommy Boyd Pubcasts
Don't miss them!
Tommy is joined for more general pub banter – from the arcane to the poignant - by Mark, Fiona and Jason. Thanks to Matt Hollick for the technics and the crossword questions.
http://mrtommyboyd.wordpress.com
Tommy is joined for more general pub banter – from the arcane to the poignant - by Mark, Fiona and Jason. Thanks to Matt Hollick for the technics and the crossword questions.
http://mrtommyboyd.wordpress.com
Barenaked Ladies Gig and Smartphones
I was lucky enough to win tickets for a Barenaked Ladies gig at the O2 Academy in Leeds last Friday.
As I glanced around I noticed the amount of people taking photos and video with their mobile phones and it suddenly occurred to me just how much my iPhone and satnav had been used in the entire process of getting and being there.
First, was winning the tickets themselves. I was using the twitter client for the iPhone when Absolute Radio tweeted the competition question to win a pair of tickets. I tweeted back the correct answer in under a couple of minutes and I was a winner.
Then there was the SatNav with it managing to get us around the traffic on the A1 as we headed North and also directing us to the nearest car park to the venue. The result was we could leave home with very little continguency time as we did not need to use the paper map, drive blindly into traffic jams and get lost in central Leeds. Then I used Google Maps on my iPhone to get a walking route from the car park to the venue.
Once inside I was taking photos, HD video on the phone and posting some of the photos straight to Facebook.
It is only just over ten years ago, when I would be at home beating my computer keyboard around the walls because my 28k dial up modem had failed for the umpteenth time to connect to Compuserve or Daemon. Now we have broadband speed and processor power in our pockets, an always on community. They say the next billion of the world's population to be connected to the internet will be via mobile devices first.
I wonder where we will be in another ten years?
As I glanced around I noticed the amount of people taking photos and video with their mobile phones and it suddenly occurred to me just how much my iPhone and satnav had been used in the entire process of getting and being there.
First, was winning the tickets themselves. I was using the twitter client for the iPhone when Absolute Radio tweeted the competition question to win a pair of tickets. I tweeted back the correct answer in under a couple of minutes and I was a winner.
Then there was the SatNav with it managing to get us around the traffic on the A1 as we headed North and also directing us to the nearest car park to the venue. The result was we could leave home with very little continguency time as we did not need to use the paper map, drive blindly into traffic jams and get lost in central Leeds. Then I used Google Maps on my iPhone to get a walking route from the car park to the venue.
Once inside I was taking photos, HD video on the phone and posting some of the photos straight to Facebook.
It is only just over ten years ago, when I would be at home beating my computer keyboard around the walls because my 28k dial up modem had failed for the umpteenth time to connect to Compuserve or Daemon. Now we have broadband speed and processor power in our pockets, an always on community. They say the next billion of the world's population to be connected to the internet will be via mobile devices first.
I wonder where we will be in another ten years?
Thursday, 9 September 2010
The Extreme Action Spider
He's been hanging on for the past two weeks, three floors up on the office window, and his web has withstood the recent wind and rain.
I bloody hate spiders though!
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I bloody hate spiders though!
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