Recent content by red_harrington

If you've had a positive experience of dealing with RM customer service reps than count yourself lucky. My experiences over many years (I have a mailorder business) have been the complete opposite.

I'd love to join you but been feeling bad for the past couple of days... just turned positive for covid!!

Given that their website is designed to look nice and friendly but is actually the most convoluted, twisted example of doublespoken enshitification that exists on the internet I'd be hard pressed to find their T&Cs, and even if I were to find the relevant clause in what's no doubt several pages...

In March I sent an item tracked and insured to USA. It was packaged well but got knacked by rough handling. So I put in a claim for the cost of the goods, £250. Here we are over 3 months later and they say they will give me £150. ??? I would like to know their reasoning behind this figure but...

The bloke was mentally ill. You can't just kill people because they're ill. Anyway I don't really want to discuss the death sentence on this thread it's been done to death already on other threads (pun intended).

Let's face it, armed with just a baton and some pepper spray, would you go after a screaming nutter wielding a samurai sword who's standing by the body of a child he's just murdered? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyx0xkjmmgo I feel so sorry for the poor kid's family.

This ^^^

Also commentators & pundits (stand up Rio Ferdinand) referring to an amazing piece of skill as 'ridiculous' Please, it's NOT ridiculous, it's 'excellent, fantastic, superb' or any number of other similar synonyms To refer to something 'excellent' as 'ridiculous' is... ridiculous

Superior Player of the Match

£8k a WEEK? Someone is making a serious amount of money out of this

Really? It's like saying to someone 'Here's some bread and cheese, go and make yourself a sandwich. But don't eat it.'

So you don't want them to have nukes, but you do want them to pursue a nuclear weapons programme.... which will end up with them having nukes?

You could say any decade was 'bad' but as this thread has shown, whether you're young or old, the 90s was actually pretty good So expo, which decade was the best?

I thought it was interesting that the Iranian ambassador to the UK said the attacks are a violation of Iranian "sovereignty and territorial integrity". If I was the reporter present I would immediately have asked if he thought the same of Russia's incursion into Ukraine.

Breaking into an RAF base, vandalising planes, and getting away with it? Surely not... but it's been done! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24nppdx0lo I really never thought security around an RAF base, of all places, could be so lax