Archive for July, 2005

27
Jul
2005

6

fucking bastarding delivery companies

Here’s a letter I sent to Amazon after ParcelForce managed to display even more incompetence then usual.

Hi,

I recently ordered from you and the delivery company managed to screw up the delivery (not the first time this has happened to me).

I was in my flat and watched in disbelief as the ParcelForce van drove past and circled my building before leaving without dropping of a note (which makes them think your crazy when you enquire without one and the site blatantly says they tried to deliver).

Since delivery costs a bit already (my first class delivery has now resulted in me getting 4 buses to pick up my parcel then walk home with it from their depot in the middle of nowhere). I seriously propose you tell them to implement a ‘Phone the customer instead of pissing them off policy’.

For another £1-2 they will phone you rather when they cannot get hold of you and can arrange to leave it with a neighbour, in the garage etc. Or in my case I can tell them how an intercom works to save me £5 in bus fares.

A lot of people complain about delivery services and I belive it’s all justified. Please, please, please ask them to phone the customer, I don’t mind paying, it’s a lot cheaper then getting a taxi/bus to their depot.

Thanks for listening,
Joe Wright

And here’s ParcelForce’s Aberdeen phone number as they don’t usually give it out: 08700 844 589

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08
Jul
2005

5

an eventful yesterday

Well yesterday was rather shocking for everybody. Yesterday I was awoken by a cracking sound in the hall, I thought it was the electricity switches going after something had shorted, testing my bedside lamp proved this wrong. 5 seconds later the sound occured again so I go to investigate, still half asleep and I hear someone walking away from my frontdoor. I think nothing of it.

5 hours later my flatmate phones me from outside the front door, he can’t get in. Turns out someone was using a crowbar to break into my flat, a broken lock and a shattered door frame proving their effort. 4 months ago the upstairs flat was robbed in a similar fashion while they were out, the attempted thief must of been scared away by hearing my footsteps.

So I’ve been thinking what would of happened if he hadn’t heard me, he would of broke in and saw my standing naked in the hall half asleep. My friend Paul comforted me by seeing this sight alone would of scared him away, I’m not so certain. Odds of me taking on a guy with a crowbar and winning are as likely as Henman winning Wimbledon. My South African flatmate reckons that people in the UK wouldn’t want to attack someone, whereas in S. Africa they would be very likely to kill you. He was quite bemused that I told the neighbours about what had happened, apparently people in S. Africa don’t ever talk to their neighbours.

Just feeling lucky that I’m being a lazy bastard this week and staying in the flat, otherwise I would have more then just an iPod lost. Of course I wake up later to find that London has been attacked, I found Ken Livingstone’s speech quite moving but being up in Aberdeen makes London seem so far away that I only think about the attack when I read the news. It’s not in my thoughts like 9/11 was when that occured.

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01
Jul
2005

0

Link Movies!

So in between playing World of Warcraft all the time I go to pub quizes on a Thursday night. During which there is a movie linking round where you have to link 2 movies together by an actor that is in both.

After thinking about this for a while I decided to make a program so I could cheat on my phone. 4 hours later I can unveil to you…. my Kevin Baconizer!

Put in 2 movie titles in and it will tell you the common actors in the movies. Simple and effective.

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