Gibberings CLXXXVII - Feeling Funky (monkey)

[BigG]

The fake (Chinese) stuff is REALLY harsh....i know what you mean about people smoking it regardless.

Someone told me today (on my lunch break) that i shouldn't be smoking while wearing an ambulance uniform as it set a bad example!!...told them to fuck off like as I was far to cold to smoke bollock naked!!!

Bad example.....pah!!

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

Look Around You. The supermarkets tend to have printed stock lists and prices, right at the counter.

Do they fuck... Not anywhere that i go, and i travel all over the country. You must just be lucky...

 

[BigG]

ASDA and Morrison's don't...they just have a plain white shuttered cabinet with all the cigs, baccy etc behind it...the prices are behind the doors too. You cant see anything until they open it....its stupid...hows that gonna discourage anyone...

I think in Australia or somewhere they have cigs in plain white packets with no markings on at all (I may be wrong but I'm sure I read that somewhere)

 

[Don Luigi]

The fake (Chinese) stuff is REALLY harsh....i know what you mean about people smoking it regardless.

Someone told me today (on my lunch break) that i shouldn't be smoking while wearing an ambulance uniform as it set a bad example!!...told them to fuck off like as I was far to cold to smoke bollock naked!!!

Bad example.....pah!!

Aye I remember getting some Chinese GV and it was nearly black. GV is usually too damp for me anyway but this stuff was terrible. It didn't even weigh 50g.

I still have a half empty pack of these laying around from donkeys ago. The second worst cigarette I've ever smoked, the worst being some Bulgarian ones my mate brought me back.

Some reports online suggest that they commonly contain insect carcases and dry wall. I was rolling a joint with a 'Palace' cigarette (burgundy packet, damp as a tap) in my teens and there was a piece of wood with blue paint on it inside the cigarette. It made the joint burn funny.

 

[BigG]

it made the joint burn funny.

lmao!!!

 

[ScotchMist]

Fuck no!!...who'd want that job

Who'd want it indeed

I too have Dutch family. All the times of been to Amsterdam ive never took advantage of the free accommodation. I don't think they'd appreciate the state I'd come rolling into their place in for days on end thougH
....!

 

[Allein]

I too have Dutch family.

Bollox, that's just what you tell customs

 

[BigG]

I too have Dutch family. All the times of been to Amsterdam ive never took advantage of the free accommodation. I don't think they'd appreciate the state I'd come rolling into their place in for days on end thougH
....!

Haha!!...my surname is actually a really common word in Dutch but try telling it to the person manning the phone in the call centre in New Delhi when your trying to get you broadband fixed and its like banging you head against the wall....

Its easier to just pretend to be called John Smith.....

 

[Don Luigi]

Its easier to just pretend to be called John Smith.....

That's what a lot of the Indian call operatives do.

When I was working in one call centre, we had a department in the Philippines that I had to call many times each day and they had such great names. ''Hello, you're through to disputes, this is Angel/Rb/Peanut/Barbie speaking..''

 

[BigG]

That's what a lot of the Indian call operatives do.

When I was working in one call centre, we had a department in the Philippines that I had to call many times each day and they had such great names. ''Hello, you're through to disputes, this is Angel/Rb/Peanut/Barbie speaking..''

Haha!!.. I know what you mean. The NHS has a department called Shares Business Services (SBS) and for reasons best k kw to themselves they contracted it out to an indian call cantre (these are the people responsible for paying bills and sorting out online invoices etc..)....anyway they are utter shite and there is a total communication block....even my mate Gurmeet who is Indian cant understand a fucking word they say.

With my surname though its not just call centres abroad that cause problems. just phoning a pizza or a taxi is a fucking minefield... .i genuinely do sometimes just say "its for me smith"...it saves so much hassle

 

[Shambles]

I will do... im a stubborn cunt who doesnt like to admit defeat... im Waving a white flag now though..




Time to get it done

Just to belatedly echo the general sentiment on this, Mr Mist. I'm currently waiting on a place in rehab myself. I don't necessarily see it as admitting defeat so much as finally deciding to become open to other possibilities. Way I see it as that at worst you're no worse off, at best real positive change is given a chance, and if nothing else it's a new and different experience to add to the tapestry.

Go fot it and I hope it sees you right

 

[BigG]

Good luck to both of you....you're both really nice blokes and ill be routing for you both....

 

[Shambles]

Are admin letting members deactivate their accounts now? With them letting marmalade deactivate her account. Is it now for all members?

Just to point out that Mz Marmz did not "deactivate her account". The details are not public because it is not a public matter. Suffice to say Mz Marmz was neither banned nor deactivated her account. As with all situations, there is a backstory and context which is only of relevance to those it is relevant to.

Any member is free to use the traditional "deactivation" methods of either personally deleting all their posts or to simply scramble their password so they effecively disable their account themselves. Obviously such actions are pemanent and should be carefully considered.

 

[Septonn]

Haha!!...my surname is actually a really common word in Dutch but try telling it to the person manning the phone in the call centre in New Delhi when your trying to get you broadband fixed and its like banging you head against the wall....

Its easier to just pretend to be called John Smith.....

Come live here while you guys are still part of the EU

At the moment it's all the rage amongst Dutch companies to send Dutch people to South Africa amongst other places, pay them local salaries through subsidiary companies there and let them to call centre jobs so you'll be speaking to actual Dutchies somewhere on the other side of the planet

 

[BigG]

Not that I'm planning on doing in Shamby but how does scrambling your password work?

I take it you couldn't just then hit the "forgotten password" button and then be e-mailed a new one? (which I've done loads of times cos I'm shit with passwords )

 

[Shambles]

AFAIK BL doesn't provide a "forgotten password" service as evidenced by how often folk get wasted and/or paranoid, change their p/w then bitch about having to start a new account from scratch. The methodology is simple - either go the traditional route of getting wasted and changing p/w to some random shit or go straitedge and just change p/w by randomly hitting keys without looking.

Once again, this is a permanent and irreversible action and anybody who does it will not have access to the original account. Any subsequent accounts should be flagged up to staff to avoid infractions for creating alts. It's fine to create a new account so long as the previous one is acknowledged and/or no longer used (depending on specifics of the situation - obviously will not be acceptable for folks trying to dodge excessive points on an account).

 

[ScotchMist]

Just to belatedly echo the general sentiment on this, Mr Mist. I'm currently waiting on a place in rehab myself. I don't necessarily see it as admitting defeat so much as finally deciding to become open to other possibilities. Way I see it as that at worst you're no worse off, at best real positive change is given a chance, and if nothing else it's a new and different experience to add to the tapestry.

Go fot it and I hope it sees you right

I thank you and wish you all the best with your own stint in there..

I'm not so much admitting defeat, ive admitted defeat in the the methods in which I've being trying to overcome it..

Good luck to both of you....you're both really nice blokes and ill be routing for you both....

And I thank you. You're not so bad yourself, also good luck with your own detox

 

[Shambles]

I'm not so much admitting defeat, ive admitted defeat in the the methods in which I've being trying to overcome it.

Nicely put. I am in concurrence

 

[BigG]

Shambles - it does have a re set password option....I've used it dozens of times....it emails you a link which you press then emails you a new password.

I'm gonna try I now and copy and paste the email you get.

 

[alasdairm]

AFAIK BL doesn't provide a "forgotten password" service...

the bl forgotten password page is here: Lost Password Recovery Form

for obvious reasons, we can only send the reset information to the email on file for the account so if you no longer have acess to that email, you're s.o.l.

alasdair