Category Archives: Rants

Posts where I’m ranting about someone or something

Things to do when you are unemployed

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Steve

Well I’m still sort of offically employed : my last pay cheque arrives this Friday but I’m laid off. So I’ve been using an old Toshiba Satellite SA30 laptop running Ubuntu and its OK but its only a 640*480 display … Continue reading →

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When Endowments go wrong

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Steve

Back in 1993 I bought a flat in Cheltenham, a nice flat it was too. OK when I bought it it didn’t actually exist and was just a muddy swamp but I saw it being built. I stood in it … Continue reading →

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Someone, somewhere hates us

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Steve

Early Friday morning (about 01:55) our car alarm went off. I went down stairs and found that the windscreen had three holes in it. I deactivated the alarm and went and phoned the police and gave them all the details. … Continue reading →

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Oh No. Not again!

Posted on August 27, 2008 by Steve

Those were the thoughts of the bowl of petunias in The HitchHikers Guide to Galaxy when it suddenly came into existance miles above Magrathea. Oh No. Not Again was what my wife and I said when we came out of … Continue reading →

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United Airlines – Fly the Unfriendly Skies : Part 3

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Steve

Well they processed the refund sometime in the past couple of weeks. It appeared on the Credit Card statement we got the other day. I still have heard nothing from them, not a sausage, not a peep, not a word. … Continue reading →

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United Airlines – Fly the Unfriendly Skies : Part Two

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Steve

Early in June after battering my head against the wall over the fiasco with United Airlines and their inability to refund money they took from us I found that their refunds department now had an email address rather than a … Continue reading →

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United Airlines – Fly the Unfriendly Skies

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Steve

I’m not in a happy mood at all. At about 6am on Thursday February 28th we got a telephone call from Kathy’s sister telling us that her dad had died unexpectedly. It was obvious that Kathy, at least, needed to … Continue reading →

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Cheltenham – not a nice place to live

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Steve

Got up this morning and found the 93 has been vandalised again So in the past 8 months: 93 – smashed windscreen 93 – dents in the roof from some scrote running over it 95 – smashed windscreen 93 – … Continue reading →

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Differing levels of Vandalism

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Steve

A week after I phoned to police to tell them that our 95 had been vandalised I get a letter through the post from Gloucesteshire Police. Its depressing reading – says so much about what our police force has become: … Continue reading →

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Why Do People…

Posted on December 3, 2007 by Steve

vandalise other peoples property? Heading out today after the frost had cleared I noticed that the windscreen on my Saab 95 Estate has been smashed. It was OK when I parked it at 6:20 on Friday evening but I didn’t … Continue reading →

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