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1. Do you still wear that corset?
2. Does your hair-hat itch under the studio lights?
3. How did anyone ever expect us to believe that T J Hooker could have chased and caught anyone on foot?
Re:I bank with Lloyds TSB ...
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I was unaware that Lloyds TSB were so enlightened. I've had accounts with Barclays, Midland and Natwest in the past where this was NOT the case, cash was treated just like a cheque - I ended up with Nationwide because they treated me in the same way that Lloyds seem to treat you.
that's bullshit and you know it - how do you explain the 2-7 day wait on CASH paid over the counter in the UK high street banks?
Re:UK seems a little better.
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what, by Direct Debit you mean? It's down to bad experience - BT, Cellnet and my local council have all taken excess money from my account via DD in the past so I'm just not going to give these fuckers direct access to my funds anymore. I've also incurred a lovely late fee from my credit card company TWICE when sending cheques to pay my account. When you pay over the counter you get a stamped, dated RECEIPT. If you don't believe that banks try and charge a bill-paying fee just try it yourself. I no longer have any dealings with BT, but the HSBXC incident was less than a year ago so I'm sue that the policy is still the same.
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you seem to be living in a different UK than me. I attempted to pay my BT bill at HSBC (THEIR FUCKING BANK!) and was told I'd need to pay a £5 fee for paying my bill; I attempted to pay my MBNA bill at the Royal Bank of Scotland (THEIR FUCKING BANK!) in CASH and was informed that I'd need to pay a £20 fee and that the payment "could take up to four days" to be registered on my account; I attempted to pay another credit card account £500 in cash over the counter at a nationwide branch only to be refused because "we don't have the facilities to deal with large amounts of cash at this branch". What?? A bank that can't deal with money? Fuck them all, I now bank with smile - and they haven't tried to fuck me over YET.
that's all very interesting, but if your TFT display is running at 60Hz, you REALLY ARE wasting anything above that. My CRT display runs at 100Hz, so it seems sensible to assume that 100Hz+ is a good aim point for performance for me. In practice I know that my favoured flight-sim (X-Plane) is just fine at anything above 25fps. So turn frame sync on and stop worrying about going from 200fps to 300fps, it's just completely meaningless.
well as someone who's played he original, C=64, Amiga and MacOS ports I can assure you that the REAL Dragon's Lair was one of the most pointless, uninvolving and overhyped games in history. If you've ever played one of those late '80's CDi games (Alone in the Dark?) you've already been there and done that 1000x better. Tis new 3D version looks like a run of the mill 3D platformer - so think inferior Jack & Daxter and that probably covers it.
.pdf is a major ballache? how about fucking.doc? take the irritation of.pdf (with it's FREELY downlaodable cross-platform reading client) and multiply by a fucking million with.doc and it's $400 Mac and Win only MS Office shitbag client.
I must confess that I think Ericsson's got Nokia beat on the UI, but my T-39m DEFINITELY just doesn't lock onto the mast as tenaciously as my girlfriends 8950.
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1. Do you still wear that corset?
2. Does your hair-hat itch under the studio lights?
3. How did anyone ever expect us to believe that T J Hooker could have chased and caught anyone on foot?
I was unaware that Lloyds TSB were so enlightened. I've had accounts with Barclays, Midland and Natwest in the past where this was NOT the case, cash was treated just like a cheque - I ended up with Nationwide because they treated me in the same way that Lloyds seem to treat you.
that's bullshit and you know it - how do you explain the 2-7 day wait on CASH paid over the counter in the UK high street banks?
what, by Direct Debit you mean? It's down to bad experience - BT, Cellnet and my local council have all taken excess money from my account via DD in the past so I'm just not going to give these fuckers direct access to my funds anymore. I've also incurred a lovely late fee from my credit card company TWICE when sending cheques to pay my account. When you pay over the counter you get a stamped, dated RECEIPT. If you don't believe that banks try and charge a bill-paying fee just try it yourself. I no longer have any dealings with BT, but the HSBXC incident was less than a year ago so I'm sue that the policy is still the same.
you seem to be living in a different UK than me. I attempted to pay my BT bill at HSBC (THEIR FUCKING BANK!) and was told I'd need to pay a £5 fee for paying my bill; I attempted to pay my MBNA bill at the Royal Bank of Scotland (THEIR FUCKING BANK!) in CASH and was informed that I'd need to pay a £20 fee and that the payment "could take up to four days" to be registered on my account; I attempted to pay another credit card account £500 in cash over the counter at a nationwide branch only to be refused because "we don't have the facilities to deal with large amounts of cash at this branch". What?? A bank that can't deal with money? Fuck them all, I now bank with smile - and they haven't tried to fuck me over YET.
that's all very interesting, but if your TFT display is running at 60Hz, you REALLY ARE wasting anything above that. My CRT display runs at 100Hz, so it seems sensible to assume that 100Hz+ is a good aim point for performance for me. In practice I know that my favoured flight-sim (X-Plane) is just fine at anything above 25fps. So turn frame sync on and stop worrying about going from 200fps to 300fps, it's just completely meaningless.
you really should seriously think about getting a life
animation will continuously improve?? Why the fuck is Treasure Planet so crappily animated compared to Pinocchio then?
well as someone who's played he original, C=64, Amiga and MacOS ports I can assure you that the REAL Dragon's Lair was one of the most pointless, uninvolving and overhyped games in history. If you've ever played one of those late '80's CDi games (Alone in the Dark?) you've already been there and done that 1000x better. Tis new 3D version looks like a run of the mill 3D platformer - so think inferior Jack & Daxter and that probably covers it.
maybe you could get a paper round and save up a couple of hundred for a 21st century computer...
my thoughts exactly. I had a Mac with a Platypus BOOTABLE ram drive in it over 5 years ago.
would you like to come up to my room and listen to the Black Beauty theme tune?
just a thought
you've obviously never taken a ride on a TGV, Thalys or Eurostar train
What the hell is "Google" and why should I care that this website that no one has heard of can "search the web" for information?
eh?
i love it when a plan falls apart!
> Switzerland big luxury, Canada SUV
I've heard that it sometimes snows in Switzerland too
no-one cares
sorry
you flatter us indeed! We have always been in awe of your Nixon and Kissinger.
Fully fledged humanitarians both.
"So why not buy a cheaper PC (yes, even with Windows thrown in) and install OsX over the top?"
because that would be impossible?
How can you claim that Americans speak English?
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the SECOND time!!
holy fucking crap!
.pdf is a major ballache? how about fucking .doc? take the irritation of .pdf (with it's FREELY downlaodable cross-platform reading client) and multiply by a fucking million with .doc and it's $400 Mac and Win only MS Office shitbag client.
Fuck Microsoft
I must confess that I think Ericsson's got Nokia beat on the UI, but my T-39m DEFINITELY just doesn't lock onto the mast as tenaciously as my girlfriends 8950.