As I said, my bank, a big one, just says "we don't need you to do that any more" whenever I've phoned to try and tell them, so I've just given up doing so now.Originally Posted by Giggles
As if their system is somehow sophisticated enough to know that it's me using my card at Bangkok airport's cash point for the first time ever in 15 years of having it.
I had lived here at least 2 years, possibly 3+ before Yorkshire Bank decided that taking money out in the US was potential fraud.
I had to go home (remembering where I was sat when having to conversation tells me how long I had been here), chuck some money on Skype and place a call to their helpline to explain that I had been taking pretty much the same amount of money out of my bank on a constant basis for 2 years before they decided to flag it and, no, its not fraud, its rent. So please fix it before my rent is late.
I can just notify my bank online if I'm going to use my card abroad. I assumed that was normal practice.
I do that now, but having been here for so long I never anticipated it to be a problem.
Is that debit or credit card Lee?
I'd never use the former abroad.
Debit. I've never bothered with getting a credit card.
Maybe that's where the difference lies then.
Mine is the same, I notify for debit as I don't have a credit. You don't need to notify for a credit card. Not with my bank anyway.
Had a cough all weekend and it's peaked over the past 12 hours in that I've basically found it impossible to get any sleep. Didn't fall asleep til gone 3am and woke up about 2 hours later in a coughing fit. Attempted to get back to sleep, but gave up at about 6am.
Fucking infuriating.
What was supposed to be a day of leisure, with nothing to do but sleep in and catch up on various bits of TV and film will now be spent trying to block out the end of days soundscape going on outside. On two days notice the council are digging up and relaying the entire street starting at half eight this morning.
Piers Morgan is getting money from the National Lottery to be in its adverts. I don't care if I end up working in a box factory. All advertising must die.
How Americans hold their cutlery.
Example?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eati...nsil_etiquette
See american fork etiquette.
Does anyone really swap hands for every mouthful? That sounds insane.
What the fuck? How did you come across this?
America
Yeah that's not true either. If you're eating with just a fork, it's in your right hand. Otherwise it's left and right as normal.
That's FUCKING MENTAL.
You see it in American tv shows sometimes.
You must watch really boring American TV shows if that's the sort of shit you pick up on.
It was in True Detective that I noticed it.
I don't know what swapping them around is about, but holding the fork in your right hand (if you're right-handed) makes much more sense. It's the fork that benefits from precision, seeing as the knife tends to only have one movement.
I hold my fork in my (dominant) right hand. The other way is stupid. Swapping is weird though, and I can't picture how the "like a pen" grip works.
Fork in the left hand knife in the right. I'm sort of ambidextrous because of my drumming though so it doesn't bother me.
Surely the knife if the precision tool, it requires more dexterity.
Yeah, I don't get how the fork needs precision.
I don't think either is particularly demanding...
On a side note I hate burgers that are so big and cumbersome that you can't comfortably:
a) Hold and bite
b) Cut up with a fork and knife
In the end it just ends up as a mess on the plate.
Uvverwise I miss my mouf.
Fucking cutting up a burger, jesus christ.
Ok you arseholes, what's wrong with that then?
Nothing wrong with cutting up a burger if the situation demands, fuck boys.
There bloody is. Although you're probably too weak to lift a whole one given the wreck that is your body so I suppose it's forgiveable for you.
I would only cut burgers when my moustache was fairly long and I was in public.
If you've got something in your burger which is going to cause havoc when lifted (chilli burger or something) then you'd be a mong for trying.
If you've paid more than say eight quid for a burger, you really shouldn't be eating with your hands.
Fancy burgers really are a load of shit. If you can't pick it up there is no benefit to it being in a bun.
The bun is nice?
I don't have anything against them in principle but the idea of a burger being 'fancy' (I suppose they are in comparison) always strikes me as a bit odd. If you want a 'fancy' beef dish then surely you go somewhere good and have a steak instead of ground up anuses in a bun.
Fancy burger places that can't keep a bun in tact need to burn.
A burger from a fast food joint, yes, scoff it how you wish. If you're eating in and have ordered a burger, then I fucking dare you to start picking the fucker up. Dare you.
Never seen the fork hand change occur in the wild.
Cutting a burger.
Ordering a burger to eat at home.
Lastly, I like fancy burgers. Also the non-fancy ones. Fast food ones can fuck off though.
Why wouldn't you?
Huge lol at Dav sitting in Wetherspoons eating his beer and burger with a knife and fork.
Eating beer is a new one.
Pinky out
My mum couldn't stop laughing or taking the piss out of her boyfriend for about a week after she saw him eating a pizza with a knife and fork. Fair response I think.
With massive burgers I sort of understand it, but whenever a burger is too big to eat with my with hands I usually just think it serves me right for being a greedy bastard.
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