» Banks

Summarising the posts so far...
I opened a bank account once in the full and reasonable expectation that the banking system existed entirely for my benefit. Because of this, I didn't bother reading the paperwork I'd signed; nor did I take much notice about my credit cards, overdraft limit, or anything else like that. After all, when the banking system is designed around your personal needs, desires and proclivities, it's up to the banks to keep up with you.

Or me, in this case.

So I am, of course, full of righteous indignation about the manner in which these huge corporations have utterly failed to give their undivided attention to me, and - worse - the way in which they have utterly failed to read my mind and sort out all my banking requirements on my behalf without my even having to ask them.

I'm also disgusted by the way that these businesses seem to think that they can behave as though it's important to make a profit. What temerity! What kind of world is it when a bank thinks that it exists to sell goods and services and make money from those sales, just like any other business? After all, I think we've already established that the system is for MY benefit, and mine alone. I think it's disgusting that they should be able to charge me fees just because I really can't be bothered to look after my own finances. It's not as if I get anything in return (except interest on my savings and access to loans when I need them - but they don't count).

I'm steaming with rage about the way in which, that time when the ATM went mad and doled out free £20 notes, I had to repay what I'd been given by accident.

Personally, I blame the Illuminati, the Bildeberg Group (I don't know what this is, but I've heard of it, and it sounds sinister) and the Jews.
(Fri 17th Jul 2009, 12:43, More)

» School Projects

Recycling's good, right?
As part of my A-level English, I had to to an extended essay. I can't remember exactly how long it was, but there's a part of me that thinks it was around the 5000 word mark. It could be on a topic of the candidate's choice.

I chose to write something about the political themes in Anthony Burgess' work. It took me a long weekend to write. Looking back, it's not a great piece of work - certainly not publishable - but it was reasonable, and I was proud of it at the time; in due course, it got me the A. (Let's face it: an A at A-level in the mid-90s wasn't exactly a mark of high achievement...)

A couple of years later, I was a finalist at the University of Redbrick, and one of my courses was on politics and the arts. It was assessed by exam and - thanks to an easy-going tutor - an essay on a subjct of our choice.

Hmmmmm, I think. I think I have just the thing for this..., and I dig out the disk with the A-level project on it. (Christ only knows why I had it nearby, but that's not important.)

It needed fiddling with a bit - but nothing too much. A couple of hours later, it was printed off and ready to submit. It got a first.

Hurrah for Anthony Burgess.
(Fri 14th Aug 2009, 10:53, More)

» Thrown away: The stuff you loved and lost.

2000AD
Is that still in print? It's 2008, people!
(Thu 21st Aug 2008, 9:17, More)

» I don't understand the attraction

Blow jobs
Nope. Sorry. Don't understand the attraction.

I'm as red-blooded a male as you're ever likely to meet, but face-fucking leaves me cold. I just don't get it. Why would I think it erotic - hell, why would I think it even minimally decent - to expect someone to accept a mouthful of spunk? It strikes me as indicative of a deeply brutal, misogynistic way of seeing a partner.

(I accept that the last sentence belies a heterosexual bias - but you can alter the sex of the "recipient" if you want. It's an unpleasant way to treat another person either way.)

But now the oddity: I don't feel the same way about going down on a woman. I quite like that.






I realise that I don't often answer QsotW in earnest. Normal abuse will be resumed shortly.
(Thu 15th Oct 2009, 18:29, More)

» Stuff I've found

More porn
My Dad's.
(Fri 7th Nov 2008, 11:32, More)