Is it just me
or are the Halifax a complete bunch of cunts. They've just charged me £98 for 'having insufficient funds' to cover 2 direct debits totalling £20.

Oh and then to top it all off, I locked myself out and spent 40 minutes 'breaking' back in to my house. If anyone's got any tips for breaking in that doesn't involve a house brick, I'd be delighted to hear them.

I need booze and now.
( Benny on the Loose; a permanent solution to a temporary problem, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:12, archived)

get a locksmith to teach you how to pop
snib type locks
It can still be done but you need something more bendy than a credit card
( Giant bunny jumping out like a large happy tourettes rabbit, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:14, archived)

From now on
I'm never leaving the house without a crow bar*




*or my keys
( Benny on the Loose; a permanent solution to a temporary problem, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:20, archived)

what schools go back today?

(Dinsdale v Spiny Norman, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:37, archived)

He he, "snib".
I've always loced that word with a passion verging on sexual.
( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:48, archived)

check the windows?
people can be bad at locking them.

failing that it's time to call a locksmith
( rob, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:14, archived)

Pfft.
JCBs all the way.
(bionic sheep, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:18, archived)

Try dealing with
Natwest from across the atlantic for 10 months.
Me:"Have You Cancelled all my Direct Debits?"
NW:"Yes, of Course Sir"
Me"Great"
...
3 months later
...
NW:"Insufficient funds to cover Direct Debit for 7.50, charging you 30 quid!"
Me:"Fuckers"
NW:"That's what you get for not cancelling your New Internationalist Subscription hippy fuckwit"
Me:"Fuckers"
(pseudosocrates, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:19, archived)

PINKO!

( mechamatsimpsk, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:20, archived)

COMMIE!


/clicks 'post' so he can can go and actually read the thread
( barnesy, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:22, archived)

You need swearing
Lots of swearing.

And the smashing of things.
( Miss Behave - Delicate little flower, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:22, archived)

That sounds like an excellent idea
*goes off on an extended swear at that be-spectacled cunt that's on the Halifax adverts*

Hmmmm.....

*drives to local branch of Halifax smashes windows & firebombs*

That's got it....
( Benny on the Loose; a permanent solution to a temporary problem, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:25, archived)

Hmmmmm
The firebombing I take no blame for.
( Miss Behave - Delicate little flower, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:29, archived)

Now this advice,
I like.
( supermoore: HUNG, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:27, archived)

I thank you
It's a speciality - the swearing that is.
( Miss Behave - Delicate little flower, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:30, archived)

I once got charged £40 for a £3 discrepancy
Twunts.
( Malchick, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:29, archived)

cat flap
My girlfriend broke in by reaching up through the cat flap to open a window.

Although ours is a magnetic cat flap this didn't deter her. She coaxed one of our cats outside then manoevred him through the flap so it would open.
( weirdbeard, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:29, archived)

That reminds me
of when a cat of mine lost his magnetic collar and headbutted the catflap for a good five minutes before we rescued him....
( Miss Behave - Delicate little flower, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:33, archived)

Arf!
Cats are so clever.
( Benny on the Loose; a permanent solution to a temporary problem, Thu 19 Aug 2004, 18:36, archived)