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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago. I paid off a credit card bill in full, only to be presented with a statement last month for 66p. I chalked this up to maybe not leaving enough time for the transaction to go through, having left only a couple of days before the 'payment due' date. Anyway, failure to be able to pay it off on line resulted in my writing a cheque to clear it (which, having checked my bank balance today still doesn't seem to have been processed, some two weeks after I posted it).
Got home this evening to find a new statement, which indicates that the 66p has indeed been credited to my account as of 4th August. Yay! I'm debt free, apart from the three grand owing on the other card. That's good. Phew. Etc. Then I scanned down the statement to find that my new outstanding balance is.... £0.01.
How the shuddering fuck can this be???? Do I really need to write another cheque for a fucking penny? What will be the interest accumulated if I just don't pay the fucker off this month? Writing the bloody cheque and posting it, plus the administration, will cost disproportionately more than the outstanding debt, ffs! As will ringing them tomorrow.
I dunno. I bet they're all terrorists. Just wait until Fox Noos gets hold of this...
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 20:18, 197 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm not wasting nearly 40p and the cost of an envelope doing that. They'll just have to send the bailiffs round!
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 20:53, Reply)

Burn them
Fall over a dog
Apply for a visa
Honda accord them
YM
Just a few of the replies that will no doubt be spawned by this thread, so I thought I'd save people some time. My personal choice would be to burn them, but then I advocated stabbing people to a surprised cashier in boots this evening.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 20:34, Reply)

when you plunged the knife in to her chest cavity...
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 20:36, Reply)

when there's people waiting behind them.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 20:40, Reply)

I agree. It's like people that argue over clubcard points, the dicks
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 20:42, Reply)

as long as it's at the fucking CUSTOMER SERVICE DESK which the lady was trying to tell her so she would fuck off and let her serve other people. Don't blame the cashier that the stuff she has rung up correctly has not shown up on your receipt when it's clearly an instore problem with the pricing instead. Bastard customers.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 20:48, Reply)

If so, walk down there (free) and chuck a penny at them while shouting "FUCKTARDS!"
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 20:35, Reply)

burn it first and then throw the penny at the smoking corpse.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 20:49, Reply)

Yeah I suppose you could try that. I'll stand behind you with a flamethrower though just in case.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 20:53, Reply)

Until next Friday morning, he is mine...DiT, you realise that this time next week you'll be a married man. I was thinking that this evening while I was shopping for a FUCKING HANDBAG. Yes that's right a fucking HANDBAG. Me. Handbag. All kinds of wrong.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:41, Reply)

Or are you trying to entice a rather trollish cunt out of the woodwork?
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:47, Reply)

nudge nudge wink wink
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:51, Reply)

that's a disgustingly distended pair of wrinkly clits.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:52, Reply)

or would it be clitori?
Not terribly bothered about the spelling, more that I have TWO WHOLE CLITORIS' and i'm too tired to use them right now
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:56, Reply)

But YM managed to get it back out again with one of her discarded breast pumps and a large vat of KY jelly.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:57, Reply)

One very sexy one of which I babbled at at length earlier. I'm sure she understands though
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:52, Reply)

I bet all the kids will want one of them soon.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:58, Reply)

But this one is mine...all mine
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:01, Reply)

I've got one too, but I'm told its proper name is a Sporran.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:58, Reply)

( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:01, Reply)

Fucking glad I didn't pay that. All my other bags say Karrimor or Lowe Alpine on them.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:14, Reply)

I actually had to go on a more girl friendly forum I use and ask what the bag inside the bag was for. Apparently it's to keep it from getting dusty. WHO KNEW!?!??!?!?!!!!!
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:07, Reply)

this is a perfectly serious thread and you're hijacking it with your pseudo-sexual innuendo type testosterone flexing on line flirting!
*cries*
*clicks om moneysavingexpert in the hope of sensible consooomer advice*
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:42, Reply)

I thought they only dealt in sacred coos
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:43, Reply)

Just for that I'm not going to change it.
*pokes tongue out*
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:48, Reply)

isn't that right grandad!
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:50, Reply)

Are you sure you're not going to turn up at the "if anyone here knows of any lawful impediment why these cunts should not be married" bit?
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:00, Reply)

sorry I thought you were DG, I didnt' read your name properly.
I'll have to make you something now.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:01, Reply)

You give my missus massive chebs and everything!
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:03, Reply)

He's got the biggest fucking pair of bollocks I've ever seen on a rodent.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:58, Reply)

The more you handle him, the bigger they get until he's got his very own spacehopper.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:04, Reply)

Especially if their name is Trevor or fluffy.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:16, Reply)

He sounds enchanting
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:22, Reply)

Which is now owned by Barclays, with whom I bank. So I guess I could do that, yeah.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 20:50, Reply)

It is a bloody pain, I know. I've spent half the day arguing the point with crapital one about their unholy hikes in APR. To the point where I've had to apply for another card, something I didn't want to do. Gits.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 20:52, Reply)

Burn them
Fall over a dog
Apply for a visa
Honda accord them
YM
Etc.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 20:54, Reply)

I ignored it and they cleared it after 3 statements. Not heard from them since.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 21:06, Reply)

You can just transfer the funds from the comfort of your swivel-chair without having to worry about the price of a postage-stamp. Just don't do this when drunk.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 21:38, Reply)

I have a bank account. It's not as secure, but it serves.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 21:47, Reply)

When I tried to pay the 66p off on line, it wouldn't work and the site kept telling me I needed to pay the minimum amount - which was 66p. Hence the cheque.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:07, Reply)

They just stopped sending the monthly bills after a while. They only charge interest on the pounds.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 21:46, Reply)

i wouldn't have paid the 6p in the first place
they will never send this to legal, so just ignore it
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:36, Reply)

It wasn't very exciting though. She was attached to a drip and she got too excited seeing me and tangled me up in the dripline. Silly rotty.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:49, Reply)

All the cool kids have got it
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 22:48, Reply)

I'll need Clendrix to help me with my pointy finger and hysterical cackle
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:09, Reply)

you just used to shove crucifixes up your clunges and spin your heads around and swear at priests.
I've seen bits of The Exorcist.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:32, Reply)

but we also did punch buggy [insert colour of choice here]
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:37, Reply)

Gwyneth Paltrow. I do not fancy her. But dye her hair ginger and call her Pepper Pots and GrrrRrrrr! /testosterone
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:11, Reply)

Time's running out for both of you
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:19, Reply)

It'd be like meeting your idols, we'd both end up disappointed.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:20, Reply)

then maybe I would. But it's a quick finger up the bum, then WHAM WHAM WHAM and a warm sticky feeling. And then a wobbly walk home.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:24, Reply)

I can't help but punch you three times in the nose and leave you to make your own way home. It's your filthy homo nature. It disgusts me.
But at the same time I love it.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:26, Reply)

you horrible violent homophobe. SEXY.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:30, Reply)

so you can sit among the big stones and think about what you did
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:38, Reply)

I just choose to act like a twat so you lot don't think I'm a snob at bashes. Really I'm looking down my nose at you all thinking WHY?
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:43, Reply)

my driver takes me to bashes in a Bently, I change out of my standard top hat and tails and put on some jeans and other clothes I borrow from the gardener and then glue on some false stubble to make you think i'm lower class.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:45, Reply)

( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:30, Reply)

I remember the call I got from your mrs afterwards.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:32, Reply)

Then his Mrs wouldn't be getting him next weekend. He'd be locked in my understairs cupboard.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:13, Reply)

Master of escapology, me. Hence why I type this now.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:14, Reply)

It really does leave you speechless doesn't it. Especially when she's dressed as a bee.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:25, Reply)

But Marvel reinvented him in the Ultimates series and took their inspiration from Samuel L Jackson.
It's almost as if the film makers knew... spooky.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:26, Reply)

to have had a purple lghtsaber too.
God I'm starting to get pissed, my fingers won't type properly...
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:29, Reply)

You're thinking of Raynaud's disease.
Could be Lupus of course
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:34, Reply)

You're just less young than you used to be. Like meself.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:47, Reply)

speaking of which, I've been up since 5am and have worked my first five day week in 8 months. I'm officially tired. Night x
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:50, Reply)

Parkinson's Disease is a bastard. I've just had Tom Cruise and Billy Connolly in all night talking about their new book/film/stand-up show.
Bastards have drunk all me coffee.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:34, Reply)

Have you lot seen this?
www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/aug/14/freddy-krueger-nightmare-on-elm-street
For those who can't be arsed, they're making a new Nightmare on Elm Street...without Robert Englund...with Earle Haley - Rorschach from Watchmen...and they're making Freddy serious. WTF?
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:32, Reply)

he's a child molesting murderer. He's not cuddly. It will still be a shit film though. The only decent nightmare is New Nightmare.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:35, Reply)

but to make a new one with a different person playing Freddy, no matter how good he is, just seems a bit wrong. Did they learn nothing from the new Friday the 13th film? Utter cack.
God I loved new nightmare
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:40, Reply)

the old Friday 13th films were also crap. They were all very bad films, but if you watch them all, you sort of amalgamate them in your head into one half decent horror, but they are generally not good.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:44, Reply)

that are now going through a revival. It's just a shame they didn't leave them the hell alone.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:47, Reply)

that wasn't actually realised. None of the original Nightmare films were that scary, but the concept is terrifying. A man who kills you in your dreams, that's a scary thought. But due to low budgets it wasn't well executed and then it was destroyed by sequels.
Actually, Friday has far less potential as it's just a generic slasher pic. I thought Jason X was really funny and an excellent way of making a jumpy horror film which was also funny.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:51, Reply)

It'll be shit.
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:35, Reply)

( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:41, Reply)

I feel stupider by the second
( , Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:44, Reply)

I just love the humour and Englishness of it.
Plus it's got a whole last reel set in a porno cinema. What's not to like?
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