[Yudster]

Colchester Zoo is the primary breeding centre for Red Pandas in Europe.

[Latina]

Right again hope this doesn't sound daft, but do they farm in Uraquay or in the UK?

My situation:

I live in Fife, Scotland, have done for 20 years (was born in England). My parents live in Scotland, still in the family home I mainly grew up in, which is a few miles from me. This is where they keep chickens. Dad's from England and Mum immigrated from Uruguay in the late 70s. Prior to that they each grew up on farms; Mum in the Uruguayan countryside and Dad in the Yorkshire Dales.

However, they're planning on leaving Scotland and moving down to Cumbria in 3 years' time to go back to farming (more than just chickens) when Dad retires. They've already bought a farm but it needs a lot of work. I stayed there last weekend.

[Boboff]

Ah, all makes sence.

They have done a good job with you!

[DevilsDuck]

my wife breaking her 3rd and 4th metetarsal(sp) and being plaster casted from knee to toes! atleast she has a personal taxi now!

[Jill]

Oh dear! On the day you pass your test too! I couldnt drive at the time when my other half broke his collar bone in three places playing rugby so getting to places was a mare.

Annoying me today are the childish people that I work with. I need a new job, I hate it so much.

[Latina]

Update on the seagull chick (hopefully the last one): He's now disappeared, and as there isn't a feather in sight I'm hoping it's good news. The only problem is he was limping the last couple times I saw him. Mum reckons he got attacked by a crow, and it also killed his confidence cos he wasn't walking all over the place anymore, although he was still eating as much so he must have still been healthy.

Unless he reappears it'll remain a mystery, but I'm happy with that.

[Johnny 1989]

Update on the seagull chick (hopefully the last one): He's now disappeared, and as there isn't a feather in sight I'm hoping it's good news. The only problem is he was limping the last couple times I saw him. Mum reckons he got attacked by a crow, and it also killed his confidence cos he wasn't walking all over the place anymore, although he was still eating as much so he must have still been healthy.

Unless he reappears it'll remain a mystery, but I'm happy with that.

Fingers crossed that he finally got the courage to fly & is now off flying round the country

[DevilsDuck]

you will get away with just over......they only do people who are really taking the piss! And car spedos are always out by a few mph in your favour!

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Heres a solution - don't break the law. Speed kills.

[kendra k]

Sort of related to speeding - this morning I almost got doored on my bike whilst riding to work. I narrowly missed by swerving (almost) into another car. Stupid lorry was blocking the bike lane! Then the jerk followed me for a block after I told him to pay attention. Today's going to be a bad day.

[MK Chris]

Heres a solution - don't break the law. Speed kills.

[Jill]

Annoying me today is the system we use at work is so painfully slow and keeps freezing

[DevilsDuck]

join the club Jill. we have had two failed system upgrades recently and each time little bits have stopped working and now freezes all the time!

[jocky85]

How some people always come out the s**t smelling of roses.

Conniving b***ard

[Nicola_Red]

Stomach cramp. OW.

[Johnny 1989]

Like Jill & Duck we've been having * agro with our systems at work, one of our systems dated back to the 1980's but was DOS based & runs on Windows. This week a new Intranet based system was introduced, however that one doesn't "talk" to the other one, problem is that other systems we use to order what we need to still send the data to the old system. None of us have had any training on the new system so it's all guess work & because I seem to have got the hang of parts of it everyone keeps coming up to me to solve their issues.

Not only that they've turned off the main one up North (where the main centre is) and they refuse to talk to anyone because "it's not in their remit" wankers

Anyway I'm smiling now as I'm currently enjoying a load of beer

[DevilsDuck]

yay beer! The cure of all that is evil......until monday!

[chrysostom]

http://www.blackpoolcitizen.co.uk/leisu ... ear__BBC2/

looking for moyles contract news on google, and this comes up.

no mention of anything moyles related...until the last sentence

Striking the right balance between puerile and funny is always difficult (something Chris Moyles has never managed) so let’s hope the boys get it right soon.

[Johnny 1989]

http://www.blackpoolcitizen.co.uk/leisure/8265058.Review___Top_Gear__BBC2/

looking for moyles contract news on google, and this comes up.

no mention of anything moyles related...until the last sentence

Striking the right balance between puerile and funny is always difficult (something Chris Moyles has never managed) so let’s hope the boys get it right soon.

Just another unnecessary dig by some arsehole that wishes he could be as successful as Moyle, Clarkson, etc. but got stuck with a local paper that'll probably be his career high

[MK Chris]

No, my account has not been hacked, we sold a TV on Ebay and someone bought it. Basically they put through the Paypal funds and sent a van to pick it up - the funds were there (albeit held, but we looked that up and it said it was normal for funds to be held for a period of 21 days if you have very little seller history), so I let the driver take it... then after he left, it came up as a dispute on the account that they'd used someone else's Paypal account and this morning it's come up that he's used someone else's Ebay account and they've deleted the listing - so now we have no TV, no money and I'm extremely pissed off.

Remember this? Remember it well? It was only last week...

We've concluded our investigation into the transaction detailed below.

We've processed the payment, and the funds are now in your PayPal account.

We appreciate your cooperation.

I believe the appropriate phrase would be GET THE * IN! I'm actually really astonished. Amazed even. But I've transferred the money to my bank account and it should be available in a couple of days.

Update time... so I'm buying my brother's present on Ebay, log in to pay the amount and notice my Paypal account has a negative balance (-289.60 to be exact - the same amount we were entitled to from the dispute). Turns out Paypal have reopened it....... so I rang them, spent lots of time on hold and didn't get any further, but they are supposed to be emailing me today. We'll see.
All I do know is that I transferred that money to my bank account, so I'm pretty sure I have to authorise the money coming out (I've cancelled the direct debit set up to Paypal, but I can't delete the link to my bank account and debit card because of the negative balance - so I need to ring the bank and ensure they cannot take any money from me).

But I am determined they will get nothing from me.

EDIT: The bank have informed me that as I have given them my card details, that is authorisation to take money out. When I asked if that means as and when they want, the woman said "basically, yes - crazy as it sounds, if they feel they are owed it, they can take it." She gave me the address and fax number of their disputes department to set that ball rolling, but I am now wondering if I cancel my debit card and get another one issued with a different card number, if they'll be able to take it.... I'm also wondering if they can take it via my bank account details, even though I've cancelled the direct debit to them.

[Johnny 1989]

No, my account has not been hacked, we sold a TV on Ebay and someone bought it. Basically they put through the Paypal funds and sent a van to pick it up - the funds were there (albeit held, but we looked that up and it said it was normal for funds to be held for a period of 21 days if you have very little seller history), so I let the driver take it... then after he left, it came up as a dispute on the account that they'd used someone else's Paypal account and this morning it's come up that he's used someone else's Ebay account and they've deleted the listing - so now we have no TV, no money and I'm extremely pissed off.

Remember this? Remember it well? It was only last week...

We've concluded our investigation into the transaction detailed below.

We've processed the payment, and the funds are now in your PayPal account.

We appreciate your cooperation.

I believe the appropriate phrase would be GET THE * IN! I'm actually really astonished. Amazed even. But I've transferred the money to my bank account and it should be available in a couple of days.

Update time... so I'm buying my brother's present on Ebay, log in to pay the amount and notice my Paypal account has a negative balance (-289.60 to be exact - the same amount we were entitled to from the dispute). Turns out Paypal have reopened it....... so I rang them, spent lots of time on hold and didn't get any further, but they are supposed to be emailing me today. We'll see.
All I do know is that I transferred that money to my bank account, so I'm pretty sure I have to authorise the money coming out (I've cancelled the direct debit set up to Paypal, but I can't delete the link to my bank account and debit card because of the negative balance - so I need to ring the bank and ensure they cannot take any money from me).

But I am determined they will get nothing from me.

EDIT: The bank have informed me that as I have given them my card details, that is authorisation to take money out. When I asked if that means as and when they want, the woman said "basically, yes - crazy as it sounds, if they feel they are owed it, they can take it." She gave me the address and fax number of their disputes department to set that ball rolling, but I am now wondering if I cancel my debit card and get another one issued with a different card number, if they'll be able to take it.... I'm also wondering if they can take it via my bank account details, even though I've cancelled the direct debit to them.

*! Surely they should contact you before they take the money back, as for you're bank, good to see they look after their customers

Hopefully this is all sorted out once & for all very quickly Topher.

[foot-loose]

EDIT: The bank have informed me that as I have given them my card details, that is authorisation to take money out. When I asked if that means as and when they want, the woman said "basically, yes - crazy as it sounds, if they feel they are owed it, they can take it." She gave me the address and fax number of their disputes department to set that ball rolling, but I am now wondering if I cancel my debit card and get another one issued with a different card number, if they'll be able to take it.... I'm also wondering if they can take it via my bank account details, even though I've cancelled the direct debit to them.

The bank can't stop a payment if you have given your card details as that is effectivly you agreeing to the third party's Ts & Cs. The bank has no way of knowing what sort of agreement you have in place with that third party or why you might want to stop a transaction going through. The policy is to allow it through and dispute it later.

as for you're bank, good to see they look after their customers

All banks will operate a similar policy.

[DevilsDuck]

the companies are there customers too!

[SAV1OUR]

July weather's shit.

Whoops, meant to post that in 3 word thread.

[Jill]

The builders doing works to our office building are annoying me in general over the past week or so (not so much today because they have buggered off as its raining) - The amount of noise they make is crazy. My head feels like its going to explode and it's constant. Also the scaffolding has been erected in such a way that when I look out the window I can see either their heads or their legs (that's not really annoying, it just freaks me out when I see kinda a floating head out the corner of my eye)