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  • Bunnyinthelights
    Bunnyinthelights Posts: 15,278 Forumite
    Good luck E-bay Queen, please let us know how it goes.
    Empty pockets never held anyone back, only empty heads and empty hearts can do that -Peale
  • bathgatebuyer
    bathgatebuyer Posts: 2,522 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Been on hold to Talk Talk for 2 hours now. Does anyone know any jokes while I wait for one of their numpties to stop filing their nails and pick up the phone? I ctrl c'd some comments to their Customer Services people an hour ago:

    "Hi - I have been on hold to your 'second line of customer faults' number for about 40 mins now on a mobile and to say I'm absolutely irate about the dismal level of customer service is an understatement. After spending a day at work, the last thing I need is an unpredictable internet connection - it's taken me over 2 hours of rebooting and reconnecting my filter tonight to get a signal - and an unanswered customer service number listening to that annoying song (Who the hell is the 'instigator' and does he know anything about getting my broadband fixed?) and that annoying woman "We A-pologise < and ts essential for your voice to get particularly high-pitched when saying the 'p' in apologise> for your continued wait..............."please restart the guitar riff to Something in the Air.....).

    ALL I WANT IS THE SIGNAL ON MY BROADBAND LINE TO BE CHECKED. PLAINLY, IT IS POOR OWING TO THE CHECKS ON THE LINE THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN UNDERTAKEN OVER THE PAST FEW PHONE CALLS.

    Congratulations - that's now 47 mins I've been on hold to your inept, disgusting excuse for Customer Services and my patience has officially run out.

    JUST GIVE ME MY MAC CODE AND I'LL LEAVE TALK TALK AND GO ELSEWHERE FOR MY SERVICE. Now, presumably I have to press 1 for a MAC code and a 20 min wait? Press 2 for some annoying patronising music. Press 3 to be driven to the point of insanity by some daft bint saying 'A-pologise' in an unecessarily high-pitched voice.

    Quite frankly, you have sunk to new depths for Customer Service.

    I am a Customer. You provide a Service. I give you money for that Service. You have not provided anything like a service but have costs me even mor money than necessary in phone calls and having to visit internet cafes to check my emails.

    With any luck, this email will reach you before I die of boredom and you may actually be able to do something to fix my broadband problem signal.

    At the moment though, the signal and your service are !!!!
    ."
    Almost debt-free, but certainly even with the Banks!
  • Bunnyinthelights
    Bunnyinthelights Posts: 15,278 Forumite
    oh dear...
    Any joy yet???
    Empty pockets never held anyone back, only empty heads and empty hearts can do that -Peale
  • bathgatebuyer
    bathgatebuyer Posts: 2,522 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    No - I gave up. Looks like I'm changing internet supplier though!
    Almost debt-free, but certainly even with the Banks!
  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    Oh dear BGB.....they're a nightmare aren't they. My Mum and Dad are with them and they had unbelievable problems getting it all set up.

    Um....what do you call a sheep with no legs??

    A cloud...:rotfl:
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
    :smileyhea
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  • System
    System Posts: 178,375 Community Admin
    10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Two biscuits walking down the street
    and one biscuit says to the other biscuit
    'where do you live'
    and the other biscuit says
    'im not telling you, you will nick all 'mi clothes off the washing line'
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  • System
    System Posts: 178,375 Community Admin
    10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    2 bowls of sick walking down the street
    WHen one bowl of sick stops and starts crying
    The other bowl of sick says
    'whats the matter, why all the tears'
    and the other bowl of sick says
    'i was brought up here'
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  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,556 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Bathgate - I'm on talktalk too and have had a lot of problems over the last few days so perhaps it's them not us!

    Sorry forgot a joke.

    What's red and sits in the corner? A naughty bus!
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  • Bunnyinthelights
    Bunnyinthelights Posts: 15,278 Forumite
    I don't get the biscuit one Len...
    Empty pockets never held anyone back, only empty heads and empty hearts can do that -Peale
  • Ellidee
    Ellidee Posts: 6,216 Forumite
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    I don't get the biscuit one Len...

    Yea for a joke it really takes the biscuit. I imagine , if Len was a biscuit, that he'd be a jammie dodger. Bunny a bourbon cream and Snags of course a jaffa cake !
    IA however hmmm a garabaldi maybe -whaddya think ? Myself of course just a plain old tea or a digestive at a push.:D
    Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. William James
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