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Banditry
I wrote this as a response to someone on B3ta, but realised it might be useful for a wider audience: First, get your debts cancelled, written off, paid, or otherwise disposed of. The Citizens Advice Bureau will explain this best. Don't pay anyone anything for advice - it won't be any better than the CAB's … Continue reading How to rebuild your credit rating
B3ta's Question of the Week is on banks and banking. Oddly enough, the consensus is 'against'. However, someone called 'Star Wars' has a rather nice post going against said consensus, which distills most (not all) complaints that people make about retail banks and penalty charges: I opened a bank account once in the full and … Continue reading How dare you provide me with goods and services
Says Railway Eye, a cynical and Tory-leaning transport blog: There is certain information that voters and taxpayers might reasonably expect a Government department to know. Or at least have a reasonable stab at. Such as just how risky NatEx's very aggressive bid for the East Coast franchise was; bearing in mind that the previous operator … Continue reading Rewriting history, recession edition
Supporters of nuclear weapons systems like Trident generally justify the cash by saying things like 'dangerous world, Kim Jong Il and Ahmadinejad very bad men, we can't just disarm'. Or, more cynically, 'place on world table, we can't just disarm'. I'm not totally sold on this argument - after all, the US will continue to … Continue reading Yes nucular, no Tridentular
Following this research into GE-made Airbus engines cutting out in ice, he say: So far as the GE-powered AF 447 is concerned, the potential woes go on mounting: * Dodgy AF training for weather * Failure to change course for weather * Sensors buggered by extreme temperature and/or turbulence * Avionics gave up - handed … Continue reading Our aviation correspondent writes in
Noting the correlation between 'people who make noise complaints' and 'miserable bastards who're jealous that other people get to have fun'. # It's one-to-one in my book. # I've never made a noise complaint. It's only noise, FFS: sleep through it, or kill yourself if you're too pathetic to manage that # Actually, that's a … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-12
A lot of moaning about corporation tax in leftie-blogland today, for no particularly discernible reason. How about this as a 'no big corporation tax dodging' principle to adopt at G8: * All countries adopt the current UK system of charging the parent company tax at the national rate for its home country, with all tax … Continue reading Tax proposal
Yes, Mumbai is indeed hotter and damper than London. Including all of London's Turkish baths. # Good @realdmitchell article, most of the commenters are ignorant fucktards: http://bit.ly/IY5YC #gasthenonswearingcuntwits # I agreee about 75% with this piece - http://bit.ly/10sbZI - but 100% with running it now rather than deferring to sentimental 'respect'-ery # Idly contemplating whether … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-05
That joke isn't funny any more: