Oi. Mate. Got 10p?

[hirez]

Some amusements:

'Volumptuous'

'Cylon tea'

Ringtones. (Sorry. Easily pleased.)

O2. Well, I say 'amusement'. It's probably closer to 'resigned lack of surprise'. For the last year-and-a-bit, they've failed to make MMS work for me. This morning I demand a PAC from them. I have just been in receipt of MMS spam. What a useless shower of crap.

[FX: Fiddling]

Lj2me works now. And Azure. Bastards!


Not amusing:

The continuing legacy of Thatcherism. People now emit thatcherite dogma as if it were 'the way it's always been'. This is terribly sad. Not just because this is the point where The Youth do things I find impenetrable and repugnant.

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[yaruar.livejournal.com]

oddly anouth this morning i recieved my first piece of MMS spam from a number 2020. deleted it immediately, must be spamming o2 customers atm.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That would be O2, since that's where mine came from.

They can't be mithered to make MMS work in the general run of things, but as soon as paying punter makes it obvious he's going to up-sticks, everything bursts into life... FFS!

Dear O2,
If you want me to continue to use your shoddy excuse for a mobile service, you can send a kilo of assorted psychadelics round to the usual address. If it's not delivered by latex-clad totty piloting a Holden Monaro, the deal's off.
Love, JH-R.

[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

I'm bored of them being annoying now. I'm switching to one of those deals on orange for students where you get four hundred million (or thereabouts) free texts and lots of minutes to call people for about 3p.

[medusa.livejournal.com]

I think I must have missed 'volumptuous'!

I missed most of the Thatcher years (it seems like a long time ago now) so am not sure which comments you mean and am curious to know now! ;)

[reddragdiva]

What Thatcherite dogma in particular?

(this is my "feeling old" icon)

[medusa.livejournal.com]

I keep wondering this but then I wouldn't know Thatcherite dogma if it hit me in the face!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It's probably Messrs. Tron and Colours winding up the aged, but the attitude that if you want some educating you should pay for it strikes me as desperately broken. There's no defending it, it's just wrong.

See, we have (or had) this implied social contract where in return for your tax, the country will look after you when you're poorly, make sure you're not going to starve or go homeless if you're unable to earn a living wage and supply you with the standard of education you think you'd like. The theory goes that you get a set of people who are happy to live where they do and go off and have happy and productive lives and feel empowered to do the right thing for the current and following generations.

If you go off and run a country like a grocer's shop ("You can't have that. It wants paying for. D'you think I'm made of money? More'n my job's worth. Etc") then you'll end up with people understanding little more than some twisted version of money, because that's all they've got time for. Personal pension. Value-add. Brand awareness.
Bollocks to that.

[steer.livejournal.com]

'Cylon tea'

"How about a cuppa?"

"By your divine command."

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It would taste like mineral oil and be horribly poisonous, but be handed to you by some nordic goddess. Who clanked slightly when running because her main bearings were misaligned...

[steer.livejournal.com]

I think I tried to chat her up in Slimelight once actually.

[drpete.livejournal.com]

Now that sounds quite entertaining really...

I didn't make this, it was on b3ta

[metallikat.livejournal.com]

[specialunclet.livejournal.com]

rather of topic but hey its you

fiat has failed its mot due to welding

can sell it now

know anyone?

still drives just not legally

[quercus.livejournal.com]

What sort of Fiat ? An interesting one ?

[specialunclet.livejournal.com]

A reg 131 supermirafiori

2 litre twin cam lancia(?) engine job

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

The continuing legacy of Thatcherism.

Also known as "Why can't I buy a f#cking house without auctioning a brace of limbs on eBay?"

[steer.livejournal.com]

Well, I would have included "The desire to own a house." myself.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

The desire to own a house is not a product of Thatcherism.
Indeed, my parents (who are very much ex-Tories) were desiring to own a house when Maggie was still Education Secretary.
In my case, the desire to own a house boils down to the desire to be able to decorate and furnish the place in which I dwell according to my tastes, and not have to suddenly up sticks because the landlord wants it back.

[aeia.livejournal.com]

Caught the start of Watchdog on TV last night. They were looking at the worst companies of 2004. O2 were by far the worst. Billing people for calls they hadnt made, bad coverage, bad customer service etc etc.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Quite. I viewed the same thing and thought "Gosh they're going to be busy in the migration section tomorrow."

Entirely coincidentally I'd been up to Chavland to engage in Commerce and see about a new phone.

[diffrentcolours]

Unfortunately, for those of us born in '79 and later, Thatcherite dogma is the way it's always been, experience counting for more than study of modern history. Confrontation and education is normally more productive than discontented muttering.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

don't get me started...

It's not just education and attitudes to the same, it's the whole "rights" society arsewipedness that demands that everything has an owner and by Arioch that owner has an obligation to screw as much as possible out of everyone else on the planet.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Let me take a wild guess here - you're old enough to remember 1979 ?

HiRez has put his finger on something here - it's the post-Thatcher generation, the early twenties at most, who just don't realise there could be any other way to think about things.

[loulou666.livejournal.com]

Problems with o2? Really? You fail to surprise me! ;P We've been having problems since December when Reed Mobile stopped existing and I had to become a direct customer of o2. Long story, but they have the worst customer service. Ever.

Cylon tea

[ex-halja931.livejournal.com]

I bet it would taste similar to something that the dentist might use in your mouth. Certainly, it would taste more synthetic than organic . . . that is if it was made _from_ Cylons.

Now, if it was made _for_Cylons . . .