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Was it written by someone with a bog plunger for a hand?

Thanks for the tips - I'll take your advice.

Source?

London Underground. They ripped £13.90 from my son's oyster card for a return trip between Hammersmith and whatever the Westfield stop is, then claimed falsely that he hadn't swiped in (on machines they admitted were being repaired at the time). Will have to do the usual County Court dance to embarrass them into refunding.

I agree about Apple. I've had several run-ins with them, but there's a culture within the company that suggests not only that they can do no wrong, but their products are invariably so superior that any fault or damage must be the result of customer mishandling. I once went into the Regent's Street branch to change a plug/adapter that had gone south after just eight months. Once I'd got to the front of an interminable queue, I was confronted by a 'Genius' (heaven knows, the arrogance of this title) who went into full meltdown because I was asking him - of all people - to exchange a plug.

You were very well advised. Here's another example (among many, but one of my favourites). Landing in Turkey, one pilot says to the other: 'You take the landing'. The other one doesn't hear him. Therefore the plane lands with no one at the controls. http://www.historyofpia.com/acciphoto2.htm And yes, I have flown PIA and lived to tell the tale. Only once though, and never again.

PIA will win hands down against NTL all day long. Try complaining about this: http://www.historyofpia.com/acciphoto.htm It was attributed to 'pilot error'. Aka, the pilot forgot to put the wheels down. Truly the world's worst airline.

Why was he moaning? If he survived the flight on PIA (known to all trembling passengers as 'Please Inform Allah') he's come out on top.

And with that insight into your world, I'm out.

What would you suggest? A Toryboy app that leads you through the magical land of Whataboutery?

I'd say the one group of people to come out well from the Rangers mess is Scottish fans, who've pressured their clubs in the SPL to take a stand. Can we expect similar from League One fans before PFC ride to the top of the table with their high earners and Premiership loanees?

Hackneyed use of face palm alert. By the way, that jumbo in your street thing works - at least for my bit of London. Haven't tried it for Verbal Towers up north.

Whataboutery alert.

You KNEW this was going on? A colossal banking conspiracy to defraud and you already knew? Or are you saying: sh!t happens - so what? If so, I despair of the quality of citizenship that this implies.

Better to use your Amex for Virgin Miles - much better deal than with BA.

I don't honestly think they thought of Harold Wilson in these terms.

So on top of seeking guarantees that they they won't be punished for reneging on CVA1 and walking away from almost 100m of debt, they want to both constructively dismiss their high earners and browbeat the FL into allowing them to start racking up the debts on players again. I wonder when the PFA and/or Football League are actually going to say something with the words 'moral integrity' in it?

A tad touchy, Ducky? The second para was about you. The first was a general swipe at the cap-doffers on here. Were you counting yourself among them?

Uncle. Surely you slavering royalists could get that right. Queenie called him 'Uncle Dickie'. His original surname was Battenburg, but like the rest of the royals his family simply abandoned their German names in 1917.

I often wonder about that with some posters on here. They're what sociologists in the sixties used to call 'deferential working and lower-middle class Tories' - people whose class interests might be expected to make them opposed to a bunch non-tax-paying banking swindlers, outsourcing magnates, Ponzi scammers, corrupt politicians and hedge funders. but no - they love and admire them. The strange thing with Ducky is that he's on-message re: the Royals and their figurative but long-delayed appointment with Mme Guillotine. So he is capable of rational thought. Odd.

Good grief. So let me get this right: pointless speculation based on a single sentence in a newspaper, about a player whom no one has ever seen apart from the euros (that's if they even noticed him) is fine and dandy, but some harmless fun isn't? It's enough to make me like Turkish.

So now you've taken to making stuff up and then criticising that. Desperate.

What happened?

You too.

You are now on my ignore.