I'm saddened.
I read with interest all your tales of expertise in techno wizardry that make life better, and then I find you can't even arrange a Direct Debit because you don't have a bank account!

Talk about failed heroes!
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 10:09, 1 reply)

I
won't let someone who I have never met have direct access to my money, and therefore I am a failed hero.

Odd reasoning.

...and it's not that I can't...it's that I won't, through choice.

I do find it odd that I'm being judged because I don;t like to use the, ahem, services of an inefficient cartel that supplies very little value and restricts the things in life that I like to do by witholding my hard-earned cash. I earned the money, I should be able to have as much or as little of it as and when I please, not when some institution that I have lent it to tells me I can.
(dchurch bah, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 12:01, closed)

I didn't mean to make you angry...
I sort of understand - I don't have a mobile phone.

To make up, when's your birthday? I'll pop a cheque in the card...
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 17:58, closed)

lol
I'm not angry, just a bit suprised at the reaction to someone without a bank account.

It's like I've done something wrong by not needing one.

I don't use supermarkets much either, prefering to use butchers, greengrocers etc... instead, I find you get better quality at a better price, but I probably shouldn't have mentioned that either.
(dchurch bah, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 18:32, closed)