Originally Posted by Blind_Eagle (Post 12822021)

Trying to sort out on the phone to my bank a fairly hefty funds transfer, which worryingly appears to have gone missing, I was asked for my security number. Not having a clue what they meant I said I didn't have one, to which I was told "everybody gets one when they open their account". I explained that, in my case, I definitely wasn't given one.

I was then subjected to a polite but sarcasm laden 'perhaps you've forgotten it as your getting old routine' (I'm 56 FFS) and was informed that nobody can open an account without one as their computer systems simply won't allow it.

My request to tell me which computer system they were using back in 1976 when I opened the account was met with complete ******* silence.

Where's my ten grand you ******* ****'s?

Originally Posted by davech (Post 12822022)

Lame-brains on quiz programs who say, "That was a bit before my time". Pathetic.

Originally Posted by ElwissAtMemphis (Post 12823309)

Did anybody see Pointless yesterday? In the head-to-head, the 5 questions on the subject of The Battle of Waterloo included ...
(1) The modern country it was fought in
(2) The name of the British commander
(3) The defeated French emperor

One pair of 20-something blokes look bemused. "This isn't a good category for us; we'll say for the country ... England"

What the hell do they teach in schools nowadays!?

Originally Posted by ElwissAtMemphis (Post 12823309)

Did anybody see Pointless yesterday? In the head-to-head, the 5 questions on the subject of The Battle of Waterloo included ...
(1) The modern country it was fought in
(2) The name of the British commander
(3) The defeated French emperor

One pair of 20-something blokes look bemused. "This isn't a good category for us; we'll say for the country ... England"

What the hell do they teach in schools nowadays!?

Originally Posted by ElwissAtMemphis (Post 12823309)

Did anybody see Pointless yesterday? In the head-to-head, the 5 questions on the subject of The Battle of Waterloo included ...
(1) The modern country it was fought in
(2) The name of the British commander
(3) The defeated French emperor

One pair of 20-something blokes look bemused. "This isn't a good category for us; we'll say for the country ... England"

What the hell do they teach in schools nowadays!?

Originally Posted by jobiinthelastmi (Post 12823314)

Probably how to ice gem your hair and unlock a smart phone in a minute

Originally Posted by evvo111 (Post 12823227)

Finding out that smokescreens don't work....mainly as the Police simply follow the smoke

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wa...olice-10899227

'Simon Chaplin, 62, rigged a bucket of diesel, a pump and pipes behind the passenger seat of his Peugeot 309 to produce “colossal” amounts of grey smoke from his exhaust.'

Pc Birch said: “There was a vast amount of dense smoke coming out the back. It completely obscured the road.

“I had to slow down and keep a distance. I knew when he had turned left only by following the smoke he left behind."

Originally Posted by ElwissAtMemphis (Post 12823309)

Did anybody see Pointless yesterday? In the head-to-head, the 5 questions on the subject of The Battle of Waterloo included ...
(1) The modern country it was fought in
(2) The name of the British commander
(3) The defeated French emperor

One pair of 20-something blokes look bemused. "This isn't a good category for us; we'll say for the country ... England"

What the hell do they teach in schools nowadays!?

Originally Posted by 3 Beers at HT (Post 12823365)

You forgot:
(4) Name the year the battle took place

Originally Posted by pumaspalace (Post 12823392)

However, I never learnt about Waterloo or that period of history at all at school so I guess if you're not interested in history then you wouldn't really know.

Originally Posted by CT_Palace (Post 12823389)

WTF is ice gemming your hair?

Originally Posted by ElwissAtMemphis (Post 12823397)

If you don't know the country or exact year, fair enough. But do you really not know that The Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon?! You get that much from the bloody ABBA song, let alone GCSE history.

Originally Posted by jobiinthelastmi (Post 12823407)

Having a hair cut where it looks like an ice gem

Originally Posted by CT_Palace (Post 12823428)

Thanks but sorry, WTF is an ice gem?
I'm beginning to feel a bit dated.....

Originally Posted by Jim Cannon (Post 12823290)

This post reminds me of an argument I once had with my bank a few years ago. Now older posters may recall back in the days of people writing cheques as a matter of course, you would pay one in and it would normally take 3 days to clear. However with the advance of modern banking, it seems a cheque nowadays actually takes longer to clear, and when I pointed this out, the bloke on the phone was adamant I was wrong, the bastard.

Originally Posted by little al (Post 12823417)

History is boring until you get older, then it becomes interesting for some reason.