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MSE News: Maths PhD student can't comprehend complicated bank charges

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  • StixUK
    StixUK Posts: 94 Forumite
    Simple, give everyone a basic bank account for 12 months and then upgrade to current account with NO overdraft facility.

    I asked first direct the other day, why can I still spend past my £250 overdraft and why can I not put a stop on it...we can't is what they said...load of old tosh!
  • rageagainstessays
    rageagainstessays Posts: 2,147 Forumite
    edited 24 January 2012 at 9:15PM
    opinions4u wrote: »
    Perhaps the Maths PhD student is another example of lower academic standards these days.

    Just a point right here: Academic standards are not lower, the elderly make themselves feel good by saying so.
    “Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
    ― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
  • opinions4u
    opinions4u Posts: 19,411 Forumite
    samc1234 wrote: »
    Just a point right here: Academic standards are not lower, the elderly make themselves feel good by say so.
    Oh the irony.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    well

    I don't have a Ph.D in maths and I don't understand overdraft T&Cs
  • chucknorris
    chucknorris Posts: 10,795 Forumite
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    edited 23 January 2012 at 8:41PM
    samc1234 wrote: »
    Just a point right here: Academic standards are not lower, the elderly make themselves feel good by say so.

    Why would that make someone feel good? It actually disgusts me rather than makes me feel good.
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
  • rageagainstessays
    rageagainstessays Posts: 2,147 Forumite
    chucknorris wrote: »
    Why would that make someone feel good? It actually disgusts me rather than makes me feel good.

    It just seems to be something that the media and older people keep saying for no reason that I can think of, therefore based on this I have made the assumption that it must make them feel good. They may compare academic standards, but to what? a time in history when most people were functionally illiterate. At least these days most people can read.
    “Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
    ― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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