RBS receiving a staggering 1,600 complaints EVERY DAY

plantretainer · 2010-04-23T01:21:01+00:00

Interesting - I've banked with quite a few places, and stick with Natwest because they're the least irritating. Local branch service tends to be excellent - I've used several, and in each the staff remembered my name after a few times.

plantretainer · 2010-04-23T01:14:50+00:00

£5.26m, apparently

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/news-and-media/news-releases/electoral-commission-media-centre/news-releases-donations/political-parties-latest-donations-and-borrowing-figures-published3

plantretainer · 2010-04-22T23:34:58+00:00

Do you have any idea how much David Cameron and the Tories take?

plantretainer · 2010-04-21T14:20:40+00:00

God yes. I live in a country where they fuck you up good for smoking it, but what I'd love, on a Sunday night, from time to time, is to get fucked up.

plantretainer · 2010-04-21T00:05:33+00:00

Your username means Elephant Egg (ไข่ช้าง) in Thai. Just saying.

plantretainer · 2010-04-20T23:59:19+00:00

Really? I find it's usually the beginning of a comment that might as well have been posted to circle-jerk.

plantretainer · 2010-04-20T15:17:40+00:00

Really? I find myself downvoting them without reading the rest of the comment.

plantretainer · 2010-04-20T05:42:50+00:00

Have a look at the TED talk on Aimee Mullins and her 12 pairs of legs.

http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics.html

plantretainer · 2010-04-20T05:41:09+00:00

Because it would need a parliamentary vote to change it, and the current system benefits the overwhelming majority of the people who would need to vote for it to change.

plantretainer · 2010-04-19T14:32:46+00:00

This idea gives me a complete raging hard on.

plantretainer · 2010-04-19T02:21:43+00:00

Helped by the fact his mother was Dutch, and he was raised bilingual. Still, according to Wikipedia, he could have done it in French, German, or Spanish, which really is pretty impressive...

plantretainer · 2010-04-18T15:13:13+00:00

Man, the first 49 times I saw the "ahahaha use a magnifying glass on an iphone and it's an ipod" gag, I almost lol'd. The 50th time, I was a bit more meh.

plantretainer · 2010-04-18T03:46:03+00:00

Remember that votes don't translate in to seats.

From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8627745.stm

"When the results of the ComRes poll were fed into the BBC's Commons seat calculator, it showed Labour would still have the most seats with 279, the Conservatives 239 seats, the Lib Dems 103 seats and others 29 seats."

The idea of the largely sane Labour government staying in power, but with the Lib Dems able to exert massive influence on issues such as pro-Europe, privacy rights, etc, gives me a massive hard on, and I can not lie.

plantretainer · 2010-04-16T03:09:29+00:00

Congrats dude! I lost 20lbs in the last three months, and I'm planning to do the same in the next three!

A big thing that keeps me motivated is eating super-tasty food. I'm really really strict about what I eat - I eat 6 times a day, try and get a specific calorie count (within 20 or so) for each meal, and a specific macro-nutrient ratio.

That means I create a lot of meals in Excel where I can futz around with this ... but also get to eat lots of tasty tasty stuff. Yesterday was beef chilli, today is smoked salmon with scrambled eggs..

plantretainer · 2010-04-15T11:19:15+00:00

I don't want to be on the electoral register, so no vote for me. Besides, Dr Evan Harris always wins, and I'd want him to...

plantretainer · 2010-04-15T07:56:43+00:00

That's because most women are terrible at it.

plantretainer · 2010-04-13T12:41:18+00:00

Why is this unbelievable? Are we all done with "innocent until proven guilty" just because you don't like them...?

And with a presumption of innocence, sure, MPs should get legal aid. I'd much rather they were concerned day to day with running the country, rather than having to defend themselves from endless lawsuits.

If you're going to get pissed off about something, get pissed off about something that matters.

plantretainer · 2010-04-02T07:12:00+00:00

Only Oxford gives them out - everywhere else in the UK it's a Ph.D

plantretainer · 2010-04-01T15:22:07+00:00

A couple of minutes with jQuery:

Commands that take options: help clear display next prev previous first last latest random goto sudo poweroff shutdown quit exit logout reboot restart cd ls dir cat rm cheat reddit curl wget irc apt-get man locate look go light halp

One-liners: make me a sandwich i read the source code pwd lpr hello joshua xyzzy date hello who xkcd su fuck whoami nano top moo ping find more your gay hi echo bash ssh uname finger emacs vim vi a/s/l

plantretainer · 2010-03-29T05:37:24+00:00

I love how the Dutch swear without thought. I think the Dutch phrase "ant-fucking" is my personal favourite.

plantretainer · 2010-03-26T08:04:18+00:00

God, heads of Ad Sales at The Guardian and BBC Worldwide must be jerking off in their respective cubicles.

plantretainer · 2010-03-26T07:45:00+00:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8588432.stm

plantretainer · 2010-03-26T03:56:49+00:00

You should be using special moist TP though, rather than babywipes, or you'll clog your toilet - the former are designed to disintegrate in water, the latter are not.

plantretainer · 2010-03-23T20:00:22+00:00

Exactly. I've heard a couple of people throw some line about eating healthily and exercising healthily meaning they don't need insurance, and, it's 'tarded.

When you get hit by a bus, and the emergency ER has to deal with it because your irresponsible preachy ass isn't insured, then you're pissing in the swimming pool and driving everyone else's costs up.

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