I had a polish girl call at the door back home, but she had sketches and actually had art equipment with her... I was ready to don my pwning hat but she was a bit of a hottie so I gave her time to show me some of her stuff. Ended up paying her £10 to sketch my dog (how many of you expected me to say blowjob just then?)

Next time I'm home I'll take a picture of her sketch, its really good!

me!

None of us?

EDIT: Damn you, Lung...

My avatar isn't working. But apart from that everything looks OK.

Anyone know of any good deals going down today at all?

erm.. good deals for what?

Black Firday, some places do it here too.

Um, I got 5 jam donuts for €1, not deal of the century or anything

tbh i've still no idea what you're on about! i've not seen any good deals yet though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)

"Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, which is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season."

So it's like January and July sales but related to thanks giving... planning on a shopping trip to New York or something Matt?

Some places have deals on the same day over here too. Apple for example.

I've never seen any, hadn't even heard of Black Friday until you just mentioned it... seems like an American thing to me, with the odd American company bringing it over here.

Checked places like hot uk deals and there doesn't seem to be much on, wait for bank holidays and public holidays for sales. Keep checking places like hotukdeals and moneysupermarket for the rest of the day though, some other places might start doing some deals.

I sat on the phone during lunch time to Scottish Power (I lost my pre-payment gas card and have had no heating, gas for the cooker or hot water for a few days) and it said that I'd have to wait 7-12 minutes. I was on hold for 25 minutes, and then the fucking twat on the other end disconnected my call the second he answered. I was/am fucking fuming.

My dad had called them earlier as well as he thought I wouldn't have had the chance, and they said it'll take them 6 weeks to get me a new one. Six fucking weeks for a shitty wee bit of plastic? c**t.

They told me to go to the post-office as they'd give me a spare card... went to the post office next to my work, and the person said they'd worked their for years and had no clue whatsoever as to what I was on about. I'm going to check my local branch first thing tomorrow morning, and if they've not got one there, then I'm probably going to stab someone to death.

I think the time has come for you to unleash your MMA skills.*

Orange did the exact same thing to me (twice!) when I phoned them up about my girlfriend's phone, so I went to their shop and they said they couldn't sort the problem out in branch and I had to do it over customer services... which actually cost money to phone! So I made a massive scene in the shop (which was inside a shopping mall) and what do you know - the manager of the shop got on their landline and phoned customer services on my behalf and sorted it out for me.

Surprise fucking surprise, I hate being fobbed off or having the blame passed around, if you represent the company then it's YOUR fault!



*But only if they're smaller than you, you've only had two sessions remember!

A fuss will well and truely be kicked up tomorrow if the post-office doesn't have these spare cards they're on about. I've only had my tea twice this week, one was a chippy & 1 was 2 sandwiches with meat that was off, I need the bloody gas on!

That's fucking mental, I wouldn't stand for that, I get pissed off with companies at the slightest of things, half a day without gas and I'd be threating to take them to court, phone up the papers and switch suppliers over some bullshit about elderly relatives freezing to death or something.

Do they have any physical branches you can go? I'm guessing not?

Not as far as I'm aware. I don't even know where they're based. My dad said he specifically mentioned the branch of the post office up at my bit so I'll try to remain calm until I see what they've got to say - the one near work is just a small addition in the back of a Costcutter so they prob don't have all the same facilities.

I don't have my own landline so haven't really had the opportunity to moan at them in person, and the ridiculous wait on the phone this morning put me off even trying. I was gonna tell them that I had a 2 year old and only saw him at the weekends and couldn't have him coming to a cold house with no hot water or food, to ensure they came out tonight or tomorrow, but the pleb on the other side probably saw how long I'd been waiting and thought "fuck this, can't be arsed with another complaint" and hung up.

I went to the post office this morning, and guess what... the lady behind the counter didn't know what I meant and said that they never offered that service either. I was ready to blow up. I took a detour to the local corner shop on the way back home to get a pot noodle and some milk and ended up asking there out of desperation, and it turns out that you can buy a spare at any Pay Point, so I now have gas. The card cost £8 which was an absolute rip-off for a shitty wee bit of plastic, but I'm just glad that it's over and I will hopefully never have to try to contact an energy provider again.

I managed to magically lose £20 last night. There were 6 of us at a friend's flat, no drinking was involved, I gave someone a £5 note for my part of the chinese we ordered, which left me with two £10 notes. Someone else only had a £20, so I gave them my two £10s for the £20 note. I distinctly remember putting it in my wallet and putting my wallet on the table. When I woke up this morning the money was gone and my wallet was folded differently (it's got 3 bits and I usually fold the right bit over first, then the left bit - but this morning the left bit was folded first).

To be honest I trust all 5 of them and wouldn't like to think they'd steal from me, especially since they all have jobs and I'm on the dole. I haven't spoken to one of the people but he would never steal in a million years, especially from me. The other 4 are denying it and I've searched everywhere to see if it fell out or if someone maybe moved it out of the way and dropped it and hence it fell out, but I couldn't find it.

I'm ruling out theft because I have faith in my trust for them all and they're all good people. Plus they know that if I found out (after making such a big deal about it) they wouldn't be friends with any of us anymore because stealing is one thing - lying and stealing is too far.

So basically I managed to lose a £20 note without even leaving my friend's flat. When I was asleep, everyone else was too and I would've heard anyone taking it while I was sleeping because it was right next to me. So if someone did steal/hide it, they must've done it when I was out of the room.

I'm raging - I never lose money. Plus my dole money doesn't come through until Monday and I was planning on going out tonight - but now I'll need to get a loan off someone which I don't want to do. I was going to just give it a miss but I've not been out for ages, so it should be a good laugh.

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Oh, and to top things off, I fell on my ass on the way back home this morning thanks to an icy pavement. Had I not just lost £20 I probably would've laughed because it was quite a comical fall, but it just pissed me off even more. Got a bruise on my leg because I fell on a button on my jeans, and I have a slight graze on my face. I love winter...

That sucks. In that situation there's not much you can do without potentially damaging relationships; however, if your wallet hadn't changed positions, you weren't drinking, never left the flat, no one else came into the flat, the money was missing & your wallet was closed differently, then there is only one explanation for that.. a ghost never took it, and a sharp breeze never flapped your wallet open and blew a note out the window..