How are you?
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:22 am
I am fine.
A group for contestants and lovers of the Channel 4 game show 'Countdown'.
http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/
Well, I'm well. I'm good as well, but that's well different.Lesley Hines wrote:But since it's you asking, I'm good. Knackered, busy, but otherwise good
Can't really complain if you pay up.John Gillies wrote:Pissed off. Just paid £17.25 for a £12 ticket to go and see the Jim Jones Revue at King Tuts soon, from the robbing bastards Ticketmaster.
£2.75 booking fee which annoys me every time but £2.50 for postage (standard delivery).
Ludicrously, it would still cost me £2.50 'postage' if I went to pick up the ticket in person from the venue!
Not exactly an expensive night out, since the support is the excellent Lewis Floyd Henry, but all these extra charges on concert tickets really makes my blood boil
Rant over.
What?Charlie Reams wrote:Can't really complain if you pay up.John Gillies wrote:Pissed off. Just paid £17.25 for a £12 ticket to go and see the Jim Jones Revue at King Tuts soon, from the robbing bastards Ticketmaster.
£2.75 booking fee which annoys me every time but £2.50 for postage (standard delivery).
Ludicrously, it would still cost me £2.50 'postage' if I went to pick up the ticket in person from the venue!
Not exactly an expensive night out, since the support is the excellent Lewis Floyd Henry, but all these extra charges on concert tickets really makes my blood boil
Rant over.
I hate this terrible rip-off! Anyway, here's my £17.25.Gavin Chipper wrote:What?Charlie Reams wrote: Can't really complain if you pay up.
OR MAYBE Jason Larsen and Charlie...Charlie Thingy...are twins!!!Dinos Sfyris wrote:Larsen's hacked Charlie's account.
Oh yeah it's Charlie REAMS. i have the memory of the goldfish. is it true that goldfishes dont have 3 second memories: they have no memory...??Soph K wrote:Charlie...Charlie Thingy...Dinos Sfyris wrote:Larsen's hacked Charlie's account.
Yeah, but it's not just that it's a rip-off - it's that they're deceptive about the price. Online things are often like that so unless you want to take a stand and miss out on loads of things you want to see and have a more boring life, you have to pay the prices.Charlie Reams wrote:I hate this terrible rip-off! Anyway, here's my £17.25.Gavin Chipper wrote:What?Charlie Reams wrote: Can't really complain if you pay up.
Sadly (but perhaps not for the goldfish) it isn't true. They've done experiments which prove that goldfish can remember complex mazes in order to get food. Or something like that... I forget the details.Soph K wrote:Oh yeah it's Charlie REAMS. i have the memory of the goldfish. is it true that goldfishes dont have 3 second memories: they have no memory...??Soph K wrote:Charlie...Charlie Thingy...Dinos Sfyris wrote:Larsen's hacked Charlie's account.
Oh. How long is a goldfish's memory, then?Mike Brown wrote:Sadly (but perhaps not for the goldfish) it isn't true. They've done experiments which prove that goldfish can remember complex mazes in order to get food. Or something like that... I forget the details.
From Wikipedia: Goldfish have a memory-span of at least three months and can distinguish between different shapes, colors and sounds. By using positive reinforcement, goldfish can be trained to recognize and to react to light signals of different colors or to perform tricks, such as the limbo, slalom, fetch, and soccer. Fish respond to certain colors most evidently in relation to feeding. Fish learn to anticipate feedings provided they occur at around the same time everyday.Soph K wrote:Oh. How long is a goldfish's memory, then?Mike Brown wrote:Sadly (but perhaps not for the goldfish) it isn't true. They've done experiments which prove that goldfish can remember complex mazes in order to get food. Or something like that... I forget the details.
Soph K wrote:Extremely random thread.
Agreed. For that Arcade Fire one in Dublin I tried to book tickets directly off the band's own website where they had a handling fee, but it was smaller than ticketbastard's (can't remember the figures) and they were only charging it once, even though I was trying to book four tickets. I couldn't in the end as they didn't accept my laser card. Ticketbastard will charge you four handling fees for one bloody transaction if you're booking four tickets, even if you're booking online and choose the e-ticket option, where they don't even have to print a ticket and post it.Gavin Chipper wrote: Yeah, but it's not just that it's a rip-off - it's that they're deceptive about the price. Online things are often like that so unless you want to take a stand and miss out on loads of things you want to see and have a more boring life, you have to pay the prices.
AKA the Ryanair Effect. I find it mildly annoying that Mr O'Leary's mob are able to get away with quoting headline prices that are one-way only and exclude taxes, baggage charges etc. But where they really take the piss is in slapping on a £5 fee for paying by credit card, not once, but per person, per flight. So for two of us flying to Dublin, that's an extra twenty quid for using what's usually the only available payment option. Or, in the words of the utterly brilliant Fascinating Aida, "How the feck are you s'posed to pay if not with feckin' plastic?"Andy Wilson wrote:Ticketbastard will charge you four handling fees for one bloody transaction if you're booking four tickets
Oh, right. That's quite interesting, actually.Mike Brown wrote:Goldfish have a memory-span of at least three months and can distinguish between different shapes, colors and sounds. By using positive reinforcement, goldfish can be trained to recognize and to react to light signals of different colors or to perform tricks, such as the limbo, slalom, fetch, and soccer. Fish respond to certain colors most evidently in relation to feeding. Fish learn to anticipate feedings provided they occur at around the same time everyday.Soph K wrote:Oh. How long is a goldfish's memory, then?
I've never understood why they do some of these things. A while back I was very resentful about paying £112 of extras on a basic fare of £0.00 for two of us to go to Pau, in southern France. But if they'd offered me an all-in fare of £30 one way I'd have thought it was a bargain. Anyway since then I've acquired a free FairFx pre-paid Mastercard. Going to Seville on Thursday. Price advertised on the Ryanair website as "from £20.99". I've paid £83.96 for two return flights. Is this a record?Phil Reynolds wrote:AKA the Ryanair Effect. I find it mildly annoying that Mr O'Leary's mob are able to get away with quoting headline prices that are one-way only and exclude taxes, baggage charges etc. But where they really take the piss is in slapping on a £5 fee for paying by credit card, not once, but per person, per flight. So for two of us flying to Dublin, that's an extra twenty quid for using what's usually the only available payment option. Or, in the words of the utterly brilliant Fascinating Aida, "How the feck are you s'posed to pay if not with feckin' plastic?"
I think this is a record for any offer that's ever said "from". "Save up to" is the same.David Williams wrote:I've never understood why they do some of these things. A while back I was very resentful about paying £112 of extras on a basic fare of £0.00 for two of us to go to Pau, in southern France. But if they'd offered me an all-in fare of £30 one way I'd have thought it was a bargain. Anyway since then I've acquired a free FairFx pre-paid Mastercard. Going to Seville on Thursday. Price advertised on the Ryanair website as "from £20.99". I've paid £83.96 for two return flights. Is this a record?Phil Reynolds wrote:AKA the Ryanair Effect. I find it mildly annoying that Mr O'Leary's mob are able to get away with quoting headline prices that are one-way only and exclude taxes, baggage charges etc. But where they really take the piss is in slapping on a £5 fee for paying by credit card, not once, but per person, per flight. So for two of us flying to Dublin, that's an extra twenty quid for using what's usually the only available payment option. Or, in the words of the utterly brilliant Fascinating Aida, "How the feck are you s'posed to pay if not with feckin' plastic?"
DOES NOT COMPUTEMarc Meakin wrote:no furniture but i got me a nice crib.
Got a nice one of these today. Domino's dropped a sheet of 2-of-1 vouchers through the door, proclaiming "up to £350 savings!". To actually attain the £350 saving you'd have to buy 44 of their largest and most expensive pizzas, 3 litres of coke, 2 garlic breads, two chicken combos and two Strippers (yes, really), and all in the two weeks before the vouchers expire. What a deal!Jon O'Neill wrote: From their website: "10% of Confused.com car insurance customers could save up to £628.53, and 97% of Confused.com car insurance customers could achieve a saving." - why can't they just say 97% could save up to £628.53?
NOW I AM CONFUSED.COM LOL!
The confusion is created because of the double meaning of "saving" as in spending less than you expected and "saving" as in not spending at all. I think the comic is suggesting that advertisers want to make you think of the second one when really it's the first one.Jon O'Neill wrote:I never understood the last panel in that one. As you said in your post, you have to spend a lot to save the maximum.
Oh yeah, I was being silly. Maybe I fell for it.Charlie Reams wrote:The confusion is created because of the double meaning of "saving" as in spending less than you expected and "saving" as in not spending at all. I think the comic is suggesting that advertisers want to make you think of the second one when really it's the first one.Jon O'Neill wrote:I never understood the last panel in that one. As you said in your post, you have to spend a lot to save the maximum.
Basically if you don't get xkcd then you're just a corporate slave, working for The Man.Jon O'Neill wrote: Oh yeah, I was being silly. Maybe I fell for it.
Can you ride tandem?Jon Corby wrote:DOES NOT COMPUTEMarc Meakin wrote:no furniture but i got me a nice crib.
There's obviously Freecycle where people offer stuff they don't want for free.Marc Meakin wrote:BTW. got me a table but no chairs any advice on free furniture that doesn't involve breaking the law.
Nah, I like to get up in daylight for more than half the year.Mark James wrote:I'm annoyed that we're still doing this whole clock going forward business. Instead of putting it forward an hour now and then back an hour in the autumn just put it forward half an hour now and never do it again.
In the Autumn the clocks go back, so go to bed at the normal time and you get an hour's extra sleep. In the Spring, the clocks go forward, so go to bed an hour earlier (i.e at the new time, if you put your clocks forward before you go to bed), and the ratio of waking to sleeping time is reduced. You win both ways.Michael Wallace wrote:The thing about the clock changing is that it's great in autumn when you get an extra hour's sleep, but rubbish in spring when you lose an hour's sleep.
I don't think Marc wants anything more to do with free cycles for a while.Lesley Hines wrote:There's obviously Freecycle .......Marc Meakin wrote:BTW. got me a table but no chairs any advice on free furniture that doesn't involve breaking the law.
HTH
HahahaLiam Tiernan wrote:I don't think Marc wants anything more to do with free cycles for a while.
I was going to come up with something witty and eloquent as a retort.Jon Corby wrote:HahahaLiam Tiernan wrote:I don't think Marc wants anything more to do with free cycles for a while.
I was sat next to a bloke on a course a few years ago and I happened to see that his watch was an hour slow even though we had gone to BST about three weeks previously. I pointed this out to him. He said, "Nah, it's only for six months, doesn't seem worth it."Michael Wallace wrote:The thing about the clock changing is that it's great in autumn when you get an extra hour's sleep, but rubbish in spring when you lose an hour's sleep. Solution? Let's just put the clocks forward an hour every week.
What a guy! Though if you'd ever tried to change the time on some of the clocks in my house, you might be of the same inclination.Chris Corby wrote:I was sat next to a bloke on a course a few years ago and I happened to see that his watch was an hour slow even though we had gone to BST about three weeks previously. I pointed this out to him. He said, "Nah, it's only for six months, doesn't seem worth it."Michael Wallace wrote:The thing about the clock changing is that it's great in autumn when you get an extra hour's sleep, but rubbish in spring when you lose an hour's sleep. Solution? Let's just put the clocks forward an hour every week.
I hope you told him it's actually 7 months.Chris Corby wrote:I was sat next to a bloke on a course a few years ago and I happened to see that his watch was an hour slow even though we had gone to BST about three weeks previously. I pointed this out to him. He said, "Nah, it's only for six months, doesn't seem worth it."
If ever there was an excuse to fix likes, this is it.Liam Tiernan wrote:I don't think Marc wants anything more to do with free cycles for a while.
...And if ever there was an excuse NOT to fix likes, this is it.Marc Merkin wrote:I was going to come up with something witty and eloquent as a retort.
But I cannot do any better than'fuck off monkey boy, and go shift that piano'
This has just been on the telly - it's actually "45% of customers could save up to £200!". But what does this mean? If 45% of customers could save up to £200, then presumably 55% of customers can't save up to £200 no matter what. But if the lucky 45% of customers only could save up to £200, then that doesn't necessarily mean that they will save up to £200, just that there's the potential for them to do so. So the % of customers who will save up to £200 could potentially be 0%. And since "up to £200" could equally mean £150, £50 or 1p, then the statement really means "between 0% and 45% of customers will save between 1p and £200".Jon O'Neill wrote:Has anyone seen that advert for Confused.com that says something like "80% of customers could save up to £200!"
Or it could be nothing at all. Such is the magic of "up to"!JimBentley wrote: the statement really means "between 0% and 45% of customers will save between 1p and £200".
Fucking pricks.
And that's likely to be the mode. It was in my case, anyway.Charlie Reams wrote:Or it could be nothing at all. Such is the magic of "up to"!JimBentley wrote: the statement really means "between 0% and 45% of customers will save between 1p and £200".
Fucking pricks.
Goodness, you get no luck mate.Ryan Taylor wrote:I'm ill. Again. With tonsilitis. Again.
James used to get tonsilitis all the time before we met and when we first got together. However, changing to a decent diet has worked wonders and he's only had it once in the last 12 years!Ryan Taylor wrote:I'm ill. Again. With tonsilitis. Again.