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Your Ginger Fuhrer froths, "I hate my bank. Not because of debt or anything but because I hate being sold to - possibly pathologically so - and everytime I speak to them they try and sell me services. Gold cards, isas, insurance, you know the crap. It drives me insane. I ALREADY BANK WITH YOU. STOP IT. YOU MAKE ME FRIGHTED TO DO MY NORMAL BANKING. I'm angry even thinking about them."

So, tell us your banking stories of woe.

No doubt at least one of you has shagged in the vault, shat on a counter or thrown up in a cash machine. Or something

(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 13:15)
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Local history.
I'm going to try to make this QotW a bit more interesting.

Thomas Harrison was a major in the New Model Army, an MP (he sat in the Long, Rump and Barebones Parliaments) and - when the Protectorate was declared - opponent of Cromwell.

In 1649, he had been one of the judges at the trial of King Charles , and was one of the signatories of his death warrant - and for this he was hung, drawn and quartered in 1660, having refused to flee England at the Restoration. (He gave his executioner his money.) Samuel Pepys witnessed the execution, and described Harrison as "looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition".

What has this to do with the question?

Well, the site of his childhood home is now a branch of the NatWest.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 14:28, 7 replies)
You mean...
...it's not a wine bar yet?
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 14:34, closed)
Neither wine bar nor charity shop.
Or, at least, wasn't when I was last there in January.

Baffling.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 14:40, closed)
there is a donkey at the donkey sanctuary near here
that is called tom harrison. it is the name of one of my friends also. this amuses me.
(I helped save b3ta! Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 14:35, closed)
Also
I think Tom Harrisson was also an anthropologist who parachuted into Borneo during WW2 to befriend the locals and get them on side against the Chinese. Much more donkey-like.
(Smale is stuffed, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 15:25, closed)
or this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyds_Bank_coprolite
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 14:55, closed)
That's fantastic.
You have to make a proper post out of that so that we can all click like a stammering Xhosa.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 14:58, closed)
Theres a
link to the guardian, with an actual picture of said turd... its the most interesting thing I know about banks.
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 15:02, closed)

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