Just means every time someone open a page with one of Bish's post in it my site has to provide the image costing me bandwidth

Nothing major for a 2k image but generally cheeky

Hmm. Perhaps it's time to see if Caz is still worthy of the crown as Official Cheeky One...

Two possible solutions: Make Caz the Cheeky Queen, and Bish can be Princess Cheeky, or we can just start referring to them as the Cheeky Girls...

I think it's worth a poll, (and yes, it should be made sticky)

Who's with me on this...

I genuinely lol'ed.

On another note, if I've now been called "the saucy minx" twice by two different people (I nearly typed "members ) does that make me "the official saucy minx?"

I think a sig change is called for!

Done

I am fed up with my bank. After writing to the CEO of their parent company, I finally get a phone call this afternoon.

"Hello. This is xxxxxxxxxx calling from your bank regarding your recent letter. Could you confirm your date of birth, please?"

They always start the telephone call with that script and refuse to tell me the name of my bank. I know it's genuine because I was expecting a call from them, but it's absolutely ridiculous and sounds very suspect.

Peter.

They refuse to tell you the name of your bank?

WTF, what if you have more than one account with more than one bank? If you ask them to identify which bank they are calling from, before you give them any information, there is nothing to stop them from responding. Data Protection works both ways.

Exactly. I have asked them in the past to be more specific, but they claim they cannot for "Data protection" reasons. I don't recall any other company having this issue.

I felt sorry for this lady because she is genuinely not allowed to name the bank, but I just told her to write to me regarding this issue.

It all looks a bit suspect when you call from a "Blocked" number, don't use my full name, refuse to tell me my bank's name and give out a non-publicised telephone number to call back on.

Peter.

Whilst reading your post I had a call from my Bank !

They identified them selves and which accounts they look after for me without me identify myself other than saying yes it was me !

I'm not quite sure which is more worrying

Agreed, but what's confusing me is that there is nothing in the data protection act that states someone from a bank, contacting a customer can't say which bank they're calling from!! I used to work for the Nationwide and I called mortgage and banking customers all the time, telling them that I was calling from the 'Wide, and then validating them once I'd established who I was. Sounds distinctly fishy to me, and in future I'd suggest you hang up, call back to your banks call centre and ask to speak to the person who called you, that way you'll know.

Peter, I suspect the call was not from your bank, they may have been fishing for vulnerable people, no bank (especially these days) would risk the wrath of the FSA by being that cagey. Call back to their publicised number and validate yourself, ask to see if there is a record of anyone accessing your account information, if not then you'll know it wasn't kosher.

I do know that this was 100% genuine, but it doesn't do a lot for confidence in your bank really.

Peter.

It certainly doesn't and they're not doing themselves any favours. If I were you I'd make things as difficult as possible in the event that they need to speak to you. As I said before, Data Protection works both ways, take the full name of the person calling you and if they won't identify who or where they're calling from, hang up and call back to the proper number to find out if they're for real. You may be 100% certain it was genuine *this time* because you were expecting a call, but what about when you're not??