Pimp That Snack

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  1. Ich bin ein Berliner Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:55 pm #1
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    Aaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhh

    I hate BT! The phone lines in my area have been down for two weeks now thanks to a lightning strike and all BT have done is dig up a hole and cut a pipe open. I have had to resort to hijacking a computer at work to catch up on the latest.
    It's also messed up my Putfile site (Comrade Stalin is very angry) and I can't listen to BBC 7 online.

    ET says: ET phone home. But BT have clearly made this impossible.
  2. pimpdaddy Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:53 pm #2
    What I want to know is, if you phone goes dead, how do you tell BT? Ring them? [Smile]
  3. chocolate 800 Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:01 pm #3
    You may mock PD, but when the emails were down at work, we rang BT and we were told that to try and co-operate in fixing the problem, we had to go onto the internet and go to a certain email address and tell them the problem

    HOW - TELL ME HOW!!!!! [Laughing]
  4. pimpdaddy Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:55 pm #4
    There's a hole in my bucket, dear liza dear liza [Very Happy]
  5. Pimp Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:14 pm #5
    BT sucks. I had wireless internet with them and the connector stopped working. 1 month later their technical support still had no idea what was wrong and we ended up buying a new connector.

    They would've done better by picking their technical support from a zoo. At least the call center wasn't in India though - I could actually tell what they were saying.
  6. InkyUK Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:07 am #6
    Yeah BT suck our internet used to keep going off every 10 mins or sometimes evey 2 mins and it was ment to be broadbad so we kept telling them that we might need a new router but they kept asking us to ring up and go through all this crappy stuff like have you turnd it on and off blah blah blah for about 3 months finaly we got throught to someone who had half a brain cell and sent us a new router and has workd fine ever since.
  7. Wakey Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:49 am #7
    When we move house, we're going to investigate the Sky broadband package - anyone else know anything more about this? We've only mooted the idea but it's got to be better than any other provider. We're on Telewest at the mo but it does seem a bit pricey, although the service is good.
  8. Himji Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:05 am #8
    SKy BB looks very good. THeonly downside is it's not avaioable yet so yo ucan't get it yet and also it hasn't been tested so it may be crap and slow.

    I'm told though by a sKy engineer friend of mine that it'll be a very good service but that could just be company propoganda....
  9. Wakey Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:15 am #9
    Ya, the issue at the moment does appear that it's not available! [Laughing] All the signs are good, but as you say that could be tish and pish...

    Thank heavens we're not moving just yet (the offer I have just telephoned the estate agent with is probably the most insulting thing they've ever heard!)...
  10. em'n'mz Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:55 pm #10
    well at least u can change from bt. i live on an island with only 1 network
  11. blueeyes Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:41 pm #11
    quel Island?

    Sorry - nosey!

    (may be quelle... can't be bothered to work it out. Waved goodbye to prper French last year!)
  12. em'n'mz Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:49 pm #12
    jersey the original not the 1 in america who copied our name
  13. blueeyes Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:50 pm #13
    Ha ha, I was hoping it'd be Guernsey cos I have a friend there!
  14. em'n'mz Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:53 pm #14
    gernsey is rub ish compared to my wonderful jersey. jersey is actually quite good but there isn't much to do at my age.
  15. blueeyes Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:55 pm #15
    No, so I've heard.

    I'd have to agree with the Guernsey thing... seems they have to do some quite odd things to have fun. That *may* just be my friends though.

    I see a pattern emerging... [Confused]
  16. em'n'mz Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:57 pm #16
    lol so have u just finshed school?
    n wat are these ways to have fun?
  17. blueeyes Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:00 pm #17
    Ha, well my friend made this really bizarre DVD. Essentially just boys messing around. Some of it's very very funny. It involves things like odd effects with a cuddly chicken and odd fake adverts involving the setting fire to socks with faces on.

    Ah, boys.
  18. blueeyes Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:02 pm #18
    Oh!

    Aye, I have just left the skule.

    Or school, if you *must*
  19. em'n'mz Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:03 pm #19
    hmmm reminds me of sum guys i know who video each other jumping over ppl on skate boards (around 3-4 ppl who get jumped over) and them jumping out of secound story windows (what idiots)
  20. blueeyes Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:04 pm #20
    Yes, I was glad to know that is wasn't really like that. there was some intellegence to it!

    Quite a lot in fact.

    Not just... mindless destruction!
  21. em'n'mz Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:09 pm #21
    are u sure but i think all the guys in jersey have a screw loose to jump out of a secound story window which had a sky dish right outside.
    i think a more wired fact is that 2 of my friends have dun it but hey there 15 and mad.
  22. Ich bin ein Berliner Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:47 am #22
    Berliner updates you: It took BT three weeks to fix the phone lines. After six weeks without the internet I still have nothing. I am now using a friend's PC. And have have just found out my computer has been written off because the ethernet is faulty. So I've had one hell of a bad summer. My entire snack pimping ideas have gone to waste, but on the other hand I have discovered the delights of home brewing...
  23. beddo Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:04 pm #23
    If its just the network adapter that is faulty there's no point in writing it off..they only cost a few pennies so put a new card in and get rid of the old one.

    With regards to you phone line being off...ask BT about compensation. They aren't obliged to offer it but if asked there are certain circumstances where they are obliged to give it. We got a month's free line rental for every day they were late installing a phone line for us - got a whole year free which suited me fine [Smile]
  24. king pimp III Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:33 pm #24
    Ich bin ein Berliner wrote:Berliner updates you: It took BT three weeks to fix the phone lines. After six weeks without the internet I still have nothing. I am now using a friend's PC. And have have just found out my computer has been written off because the ethernet is faulty. So I've had one hell of a bad summer. My entire snack pimping ideas have gone to waste, but on the other hand I have discovered the delights of home brewing...


    hmmm who wrote pc off for a network card ?
    you could fit a new 10/100 card for a grand total of £4.
  25. pimpdaddy Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:41 pm #25
    I concur with both of the last two comments. Home-built PC ftw.
  26. Ich bin ein Berliner Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:28 pm #26
    Mahaaa! Berliner is back online! Celebratory pimp in the pipeline!
  27. LadyV Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:49 pm #27
    Welcome back berliner!
  28. beckly Thu Sep 21, 2006 4:32 pm #28
    Going back to the BT thing, we spent ages trying to get out wirless router to work but its all ok now. Its very hard to find someone who actually has a clue what you're talking about.