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brataccas wrote:
Ive just bought the complete series of a "comedy?" Its called faulty towers and throuroughly proves that foreign English people are vastly eccentric :shock:


I've no idea if you're being serious or not Bratty, but :lol: :lol: :lol: anyway.

And here's another one for good measure :lol:

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I am being serious :|

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I am being serious :|


You must have known what Faulty Towers was before you bought it, otherwise you probably wouldn't have bought it? :?

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Just for the record, it's Fawlty Towers, and is the most sublime farce ever made for British television.

Bratty, perhaps it might help you better understand the eccentric foreign English. Don't forget to watch the episode called The Germans.

:lol:

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Just for the record, it's Fawlty Towers, and is the most sublime farce ever made for British television.

Bratty, perhaps it might help you better understand the eccentric foreign English. Don't forget to watch the episode called The Germans.

:lol:


+1 to all that, including me adopting Bratty's spelling mistake for no apparent reason :oops: :lol:

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Instead of refunding the £3.75 charges that PayPal seemingly fraudulently took from my card, my bank have now refused to help.

I got a Visa Debit card because, according to my bank's website, it gives me a "Higher level of purchase protection". When I agree to pay £5.00 for a product and I actually get charged £6.25 by PayPal, surely I should be protected. What the hell is the use of the protection otherwise?

Even though it's PayPal's error, I do believe the bank should refund me. I have actually spoken to Sir Fred Goodwin's secretary and have been assured he will sort it out to my satisfaction. I'll believe that when I see it!

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What happened to it?
Ask my niece, who's upstairs in bed with it, and the other 60 or so children in her school who are currently at home suffering from it. One boy was coughing up blood.


For bratty: 8 Freemason Myths.


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FREEMASON MYTH 1
Masonic Symbols Are Everywhere

It's true that Masonic symbols are anything but lost, said Freemason and historian Jay Kinney, author of the newly released Masonic Myth.

Freemasonry is rich in symbols, and many are ubiquitious—think of the pentagram, or five-pointed star, or the "all-seeing eye" in the Great Seal of the United States.

But most Masonic symbols aren't unique to Freemasonry, Kinney said.

"I view the Masonic use of symbols as a grab bag taken from here, there, and everywhere," he said. "Masonry employs them in its own fashion."

The pentagram, for example, is much older than Freemasonry and acquired its occult overtones only in the 19th and 20th centuries, hundreds of years after the Masons had adopted the symbol.

Likewise, the all-seeing eye saw its way to the Great Seal—and the U.S. dollar bill—by way of artist Pierre Du Simitiere, a non-Mason.

The eye represents divine guidance of the U.S. ship of state, or as Secretary of the U.S. Congress Charles Thompson put it in 1782, it alludes "to the many signal interpositions of providence in favour of the American cause."

There was one known Mason on the committee to design the seal, Benjamin Franklin. His proposed design was eyeless, and rejected.



whoa, nearly missed this post thx :P

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Even though it's PayPal's error, I do believe the bank should refund me. I have actually spoken to Sir Fred Goodwin's secretary and have been assured he will sort it out to my satisfaction. I'll believe that when I see it!


As in 'Fred the Shred'? :shock: :?

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As in 'Fred the Shred'? :shock: :?

No wonder she thought I was thick. I've just looked on Wikipedia and he's no longer the chairman :oops:

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pcernie wrote:
As in 'Fred the Shred'? :shock: :?

No wonder she thought I was thick. I've just looked on Wikipedia and he's no longer the chairman :oops:

Peter.


So, this secretary... :shock:

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I appreciate the sheer scale of demand on YouTube, but that doesn't help when you've had that 'must look that up' moment and you fcuking can't :x

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Neither the bank or PayPal can work out why I have been charged for each transaction or where my money has actually hone. I have spent the day on the phone to both of them :roll:

FSA complaint, here I come!

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pg2114 wrote:
I have spent the day on the phone to both of them :roll:


Is it really worth it for £3.75? Or am I missing something here?

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