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Handrejka

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  1. The Indians who man the phones for LloydsTSB certainly haven't, which is why I now have Internet banking. :D

     

    Perhaps there is a method in their madness.

     

    Likewise, but for HSBC. All perfectly amiable, but they ask you to spell EVERYTHING! :lol: Even London ! :D

     

     

    There are lots of reasons for that though not just being unable to spell. I work in offshore phone banking and believe me everything HAS to be confirmed back with the customer even words like Street etc as we have to cover ourselves and you get into trouble if you don't check spellings. Having said that I've seen some very odd spellings from my English speaking colleagues including the misspelling of box

     

    Secondly with bad telephone lines, noisy call centres and different accents it can be easy to mistake words so again you have to check

     

    It's bloody stupid I know but don't blame the poor call centre workers


  2. well I'm sorry but I'm a Maggie Child and if she haddent brought in pole tax then we would all be better off.

    Since Labour have been in thers no industry in this country at all. If you dont pay you phone bill then a Indian calls you to find out why???It s just a taxation counrty now

     

     

    I'm sorry but you really have no excuse for your poor spelling then


  3. I have his e-mail address. Do you want me to contact him? Or if anyone has had more to do with him than I have then I can pass on is e-mail?

    So do I, but he's big enough to fend for himself so I vote we leave him alone and he'll come home wagging his tail etc....

     

    Fair enough. I'm putting 10GBP on him never having existed and he was just a mass hallucination of ours


  4. Find out what religion you are with the Belief-O-Matic

    The one true faith, Pastafarianism, wasn't one of the available options, so I came out Secular Humanist.

    Oh God, now I'm sure to burn in Hell. :angry:

     

    I'm a Unitarian Universalist ( 100%) <_<

     

    Okaaay. I'm with Magere Hein in describing myself as an atheist, so I don't know where that Uniwotsiting Unithingimibobby came from!

     

    I got exactly the same result as you and I describe myself as agnostic bordering on atheist. Oh well


  5. A billionaire businessman who last year headed Scotland's rich list has just a few weeks to live because of terminal cancer, it has emerged.

     

    Oil and gas magnate Paul van Vlissingen has returned home to his native Netherlands to die

     

    Never heard of him.

    Weeks to live....Anna Nicole had better get her skates on.

    (It was she who married the elderly dying billionaire, wasn't it?)

     

    It was indeed Windsor


  6. I can tolerate mistakes on-line. I know I make typos too, but I hate it when people make mistakes at work or in official letters.

    Several years ago I worked for a small Dutch company and at one time it was hiring new programming staff. I was given the task of selecting a applicants for an interview. Since writing skills are important in that line of work, I binned all letters containing language errors. From about a hundred letters exactly eight remained.

     

    In the same company I worked with a man from London. His written English was so bad that he asked me to correct his letters to customers. :unsure:

     

    regards,

    Hein

     

     

    That really doesn't surprise me.


  7. and maybe teachers don't always put in the the effort, but after taking that class, and thinking about the poor sods who do that all day every day, i don't entirely blame them.

     

    Try doing it in a different languge. I've taught English overseas and German and French over here. The English as additional language pupils made far fewer spelling mistakes than their English cotemporaries, their grammar was of similar standard.

     

    I can tolerate mistakes on-line. I know I make typos too, but I hate it when people make mistakes at work or in official letters.

     

    I gave up teaching and I now work in international banking and the spelling of my coleagues is frightening. Sweeden for Sweden, Boks for Box, Portyugal for Portugal and Bangcock for guess where are some of the gems I've seen. "Don't forget cake's for tomorrows cake sale" is the only one that has made me scream though


  8. :)

     

    you have hurt my captian kirk doll's feeling. i had to put him between lt. uhura doll and yoman rand doll to cheer him up, which really pissed off dr. mccoy doll. he was in the middle of an examination (dammit jim, i'm a doctor, not a movable toy). mr. sulu doll was still checking out mr. checkov doll's behind. mr. spock doll just had no comment.

     

     

    I bet he raised an eyebrow though

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