Flamekebab
@Flamekebab@piefed.social
- Comment on Barclays Joins Wall Street-Led Exodus From Net-Zero Alliance 48 seconds ago:
As if I couldn't hold them in lower esteem.
- Comment on High street banks lose £100bn in deposits as UK savers shift to online rivals 6 hours ago:
I'm not surprised. I don't remember when a branch was actually helpful. I always felt like I was an inconvenience for them, getting in the way of whatever it was they were really supposed to be doing.
I used to use Lloyds for business banking and their branch support got worse to the point of having no one to speak to in person at all.
For my personal accounts I tried to change my name and found that they had their own, unpublished, rules for how deed polls work (that didn't align with the government - various extra requirements on who the witnesses could be). They had the gall to act as if **I was the daft one.
My business account was actually with TSB for a while following the split with Lloyds and I tried to move it to Lloyds. They needed it in writing but told me handing it in at a branch was fine. I found some months later that they'd ignored the letter completely!
I remember Halifax being wildly unhelpful when I wanted to withdraw some money from a special account that only allowed two withdrawals a year. Pissed me off enough that I withdrew everything from the account and closed it because of their attitude.
NatWest were also impressively shit when I was a teen. I bounced a check by about a quid and they fined me for it. Then they fined me because the fine left the account overdrawn. Never paid them back after that, unsurprisingly.
Santander... Yeah, not great. I have an organisation account with them and they're just a huge pain to deal with.
So if as a personal customer and as a business customer they've no interest in dealing with me, why would I continue to be a burden to them?
In the dustbin of history with you, you uppity twats.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 20 hours ago:
I could see what it was going for but it felt like a chore to play so I stopped.
The term "over-embroidered" springs to mind.
- Comment on Regret, resentment and Reform UK: jailed Rotherham rioters one year on 1 day ago:
Looks like a pattern of poor critical thinking skills.
- Comment on In the olden days, when people got married a lot younger, there were probably lots of grandparents in their thirties 1 day ago:
In my family the men tend to have children quite late in life. I'm nearing 40 and my grandfather was a Victorian (born 1897).
- Comment on PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming 2 days ago:
There have been some great games with development times that long.
Can you name some? I don't mean to be derisive, I just literally can't think of any right now.
- Comment on PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming 2 days ago:
Unfortunately they're not significantly more fun despite that.
- Comment on PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming 2 days ago:
Yeah, I've been watching from the sidelines and still haven't seen anything that moves the needle sufficiently.
Where are the games?!
- Comment on Xbox players in the UK must verify their age to keep access to social features - Dexerto 3 days ago:
I was honestly just being flippant.
I do find it quite obnoxious how Microsoft handles Xbox stuff. There's a lot of "because fuck you" to their interface design.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out new profanity guidelines for creators, utilizes AI to identify teens 4 days ago:
Being friendly to advertisers feels ethically unsound to me.
- Comment on Xbox players in the UK must verify their age to keep access to social features - Dexerto 4 days ago:
Finally a way to be rid of that crap? Amazing.
- Comment on pragnent 4 days ago:
A colleague titled a slide "how is babby formed?" at work a few weeks ago. Still makes me laugh.
- Comment on Eurythmics straight-up kills that guy 4 days ago:
To steal a joke from Milton Jones:
My sister suffers from hayfever, diabetes, and vertigo. I try my best to be supportive but I'm not sure whether my efforts are going down so well. I've sent her flowers, chocolates, and sometimes I just give her a call to say hi(gh).
- Comment on Wes Streeting says striking doctors ‘will lose a war with this government’ 4 days ago:
That doesn't sound like something someone in a favourable position would say.
- Comment on Third of UK teenagers who vape will go on to start smoking, research shows 5 days ago:
Teenagers making poor choices? That doesn't sound right. Why back in my day we were all sensible!
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 6 days ago:
Best of luck with that, idiots. How are you planning to tell the difference between my personal VPN and my work VPN?
- Comment on Ofwat to be abolished as ministers look to create new water regulator 1 week ago:
Why are Reform an inevitability? They couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
- Comment on We all sleep alone soundly; Maybe the key to a happy marriage is separate beds 1 week ago:
The room is pretty tiny so it's mostly bed!
- Comment on We all sleep alone soundly; Maybe the key to a happy marriage is separate beds 1 week ago:
I sleep much better when my wife is nearby. We have a super king though so she isn't exactly smushed against me, she's just nearby.
- Comment on Christian group wins legal battle over preaching ban in west London 2 weeks ago:
Ew. Street preachers of any religion are a fucking plague. If you want to help people there's plenty of work to be done that doesn't involve promoting your cult. No one wants to hear your useless ramblings about your preferred deity.
Those people trying to give out religious materials targeting children enrage me too. It's bad enough trying to target vulnerable adults but kids? Dreadful.
- Comment on High on snus in school: The hidden nicotine pouches shredding teens' gums 2 weeks ago:
I find it bizarre that snus is advertised. It's a fucking tobacco product!
- Comment on 'Climate change doesn't exist,' says Reform UK mayor despite third summer heatwave 2 weeks ago:
Fuck that party and the fossil fuels they rode in on.
- Comment on Protecting democracy from big money: Why the UK's new elections strategy doesn't go far enough 2 weeks ago:
I'll take some forward movement over sliding backwards like we usually do lately.
- Comment on Labour backbench MPs push for tough, wholesale changes to gambling regulation 2 weeks ago:
The notion that companies can donate is fucked up. Bribing cunts.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 2 weeks ago:
Won't someone please think of the poor oppressed drivers!
- Comment on More than 150 farms in England caught using local water illegally 2 weeks ago:
I hate that godsdamned slogan.
- Comment on We should be able to legally have a different name just for work for better work/life separation 2 weeks ago:
I'm reminded of someone at work who jokingly introduced himself as Nightwing. I genuinely cannot remember his real name.
- Comment on We should be able to legally have a different name just for work for better work/life separation 2 weeks ago:
Restaurant seems generous.
- Comment on More than 150 farms in England caught using local water illegally 2 weeks ago:
Farmers doing something dodgy? That's so out of character!
- Comment on We should be able to legally have a different name just for work for better work/life separation 2 weeks ago:
Ironically I've never changed my username. It dates back about twenty five years and I have it printed on clothes. Occasionally someone recognises me online.