Saturday, June 18, 2005
Oh for crap sake...
I watched a new reality show that was written and starred in by the same guy who created the documentary "Supersize me" where he ate nothing but McDonalds for 30 days-remember that piece?
Well, in his new show, This zillionaire writer/director/actor does different things for 30 days that normal-average or below average individuals do all the time, I guess he is trying to step in their shoes and in doing so, make another zillion dollars from their misery.
The one I watched was that he and his fiance lived on minimum wage salaries for 30 days. He hurt his damn wrist from doing some menial landscaping job he got which involved shoveling and it swelled so the poor baby felt he needed to go to the ER,on the same day,his fiance got a raging bladder infection, probably from schtuping her boyfriends dirty wang that he got from all that landscaping he did. Well, he got his wrist xrayed and an ace bandage was wrapped around it-That was the last the audience ever heard about his stupid wrist boo-boo other than this ER visit cost him over $500.00, which on his minimum wage salary, cost him about every penny he had. (I knew from experiance,the wrist injury did not sound like a big issue-but guys are big babies.) The girlfriend's hospital bill was over $400.00 and all she got was a perscription for some antibiotics.Her minimum wage salary about covered that. There was no money for anything extra, not even food. They got an apartment in a rat and drug invested neighboorhood in Ohio because that was all they could afford to get. Yeah, try this again this time, living on minimum wage in California.
The zillionaire and his spoiled fiance were so glad when their 30 days were up,I think they threw up a little.
Cant wait for next week's show.
Oh, by the way, before I forget...
Has anyone ever tried to sign up for bill paying services that are not a part of your bank? Well, I am signed up with my bank for bill paying services, but they take their fucking time getting your payment to the people it needs to go to, generally 3-7 damn days. So this bill paying shit thru your bank is great if you are never close to the date you need to get your payment in. The next best thing, I have found, is to either sign up with the people you owe money to,go into the facility to pay your bill or pay the people over the phone. I owed a payment to Citibank credit card by monday or they would punish me by surrounding my apartment with the SWAT team, charging me a late fee of something like 30-50 bucks, documenting the lateness in my record,stealing my computer and murdering a relative.
So, I thought, I'll pay by phone-they have a service. I called them and an automatic voice came on to say, I would be charged 14.99 for this service, but they will gladly charge my credit card. "14.99,assholes-No fucking way", I thought.
Next, I thought I would sign myself up on their free computer billpaying service.
So,I attempted to register for this service and was told 9 times that my password wasnt right, it needed 6-32 characters,a numeric value,a punctuation mark,cant use a portion of your name, cant use your mother maiden name,at least 5 capitals, no letter "e" can be used,a character from captain kangaroo may be used but only in all capitals and under no circumstances can you use the word sushi in your password.
1 hour later after I satisfied the requirements for the password, I got an error message telling me the server was down. So I had to start all over again. I finally got registered on to this Citi-card bill paying service, clicked on this, and was told that I cant use this service yet for bill paying for 5-7 days.
So,I thought,perhaps I will have to pay the 14.99. Then the lightbulb went on..I went into my nearest Citibank and paid the bill. I got a receipt so I better not hear that they didnt receive my payment on time!
Shit, it would have been easier for me to see the president.
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In March 1992 a man living in Newtown near Boston Massachusetts received a bill for his as yet unused credit card stating that he owed $0.00. He ignored it and threw it away.In April he received another and threw that one away too. The following month the credit card company sent him a very nasty note stating they were going to cancel his card if he didn't send them $0.00 by return of post.He called them, talked to them, they said it was a computer error and told him they'd take care of it.
The following month our hero decided that it was about time that he tried out the troublesome credit card,figuring that if there were purchases on his account it would put an end to his ridiculous predicament.However, in the first store that he produced his credit card in payment for his purchases he found that his card had been cancelled. He called the credit card company who apologized for the computer error once again and said that they would take care of it. The next day he got a bill for $0.00 stating that payment was now overdue.
Assuming that having spoken to the credit card company only the previous day the latest bill was yet another mistake he ignored it, trusting that the company would be as good as their word and sort the problem out. The next month he got a bill for $0.00 stating that he had 10 days to pay his account or the company would have to take steps to recover the debt.Finally giving in he thought he would play the company at their own game and mailed them a check for $0.00. The computer duly processed his account and returned a statement to the effect that he now owed the credit card company nothing at all.
A week later, the man's bank called him asking him what he was doing writing a check for $0.00. After a lengthy explanation the bank replied that the $0.00 check had caused their check processing software to fail.
The bank could not now process ANY checks from ANY of their customers that day because the check for $0.00 was causing the computer to crash. The following month the man received a letter from the credit card company claiming that his check had bounced and that he now owed them $0.00 and unless he sent a check by return of post they would be taking steps to recover the debt.
The man, who had been considering buying his wife a computer for her birthday, bought her a typewriter instead.
Well, in his new show, This zillionaire writer/director/actor does different things for 30 days that normal-average or below average individuals do all the time, I guess he is trying to step in their shoes and in doing so, make another zillion dollars from their misery.
The one I watched was that he and his fiance lived on minimum wage salaries for 30 days. He hurt his damn wrist from doing some menial landscaping job he got which involved shoveling and it swelled so the poor baby felt he needed to go to the ER,on the same day,his fiance got a raging bladder infection, probably from schtuping her boyfriends dirty wang that he got from all that landscaping he did. Well, he got his wrist xrayed and an ace bandage was wrapped around it-That was the last the audience ever heard about his stupid wrist boo-boo other than this ER visit cost him over $500.00, which on his minimum wage salary, cost him about every penny he had. (I knew from experiance,the wrist injury did not sound like a big issue-but guys are big babies.) The girlfriend's hospital bill was over $400.00 and all she got was a perscription for some antibiotics.Her minimum wage salary about covered that. There was no money for anything extra, not even food. They got an apartment in a rat and drug invested neighboorhood in Ohio because that was all they could afford to get. Yeah, try this again this time, living on minimum wage in California.
The zillionaire and his spoiled fiance were so glad when their 30 days were up,I think they threw up a little.
Cant wait for next week's show.
Oh, by the way, before I forget...
Has anyone ever tried to sign up for bill paying services that are not a part of your bank? Well, I am signed up with my bank for bill paying services, but they take their fucking time getting your payment to the people it needs to go to, generally 3-7 damn days. So this bill paying shit thru your bank is great if you are never close to the date you need to get your payment in. The next best thing, I have found, is to either sign up with the people you owe money to,go into the facility to pay your bill or pay the people over the phone. I owed a payment to Citibank credit card by monday or they would punish me by surrounding my apartment with the SWAT team, charging me a late fee of something like 30-50 bucks, documenting the lateness in my record,stealing my computer and murdering a relative.
So, I thought, I'll pay by phone-they have a service. I called them and an automatic voice came on to say, I would be charged 14.99 for this service, but they will gladly charge my credit card. "14.99,assholes-No fucking way", I thought.
Next, I thought I would sign myself up on their free computer billpaying service.
So,I attempted to register for this service and was told 9 times that my password wasnt right, it needed 6-32 characters,a numeric value,a punctuation mark,cant use a portion of your name, cant use your mother maiden name,at least 5 capitals, no letter "e" can be used,a character from captain kangaroo may be used but only in all capitals and under no circumstances can you use the word sushi in your password.
1 hour later after I satisfied the requirements for the password, I got an error message telling me the server was down. So I had to start all over again. I finally got registered on to this Citi-card bill paying service, clicked on this, and was told that I cant use this service yet for bill paying for 5-7 days.
So,I thought,perhaps I will have to pay the 14.99. Then the lightbulb went on..I went into my nearest Citibank and paid the bill. I got a receipt so I better not hear that they didnt receive my payment on time!
Shit, it would have been easier for me to see the president.
__________________________________________________________________________
In March 1992 a man living in Newtown near Boston Massachusetts received a bill for his as yet unused credit card stating that he owed $0.00. He ignored it and threw it away.In April he received another and threw that one away too. The following month the credit card company sent him a very nasty note stating they were going to cancel his card if he didn't send them $0.00 by return of post.He called them, talked to them, they said it was a computer error and told him they'd take care of it.
The following month our hero decided that it was about time that he tried out the troublesome credit card,figuring that if there were purchases on his account it would put an end to his ridiculous predicament.However, in the first store that he produced his credit card in payment for his purchases he found that his card had been cancelled. He called the credit card company who apologized for the computer error once again and said that they would take care of it. The next day he got a bill for $0.00 stating that payment was now overdue.
Assuming that having spoken to the credit card company only the previous day the latest bill was yet another mistake he ignored it, trusting that the company would be as good as their word and sort the problem out. The next month he got a bill for $0.00 stating that he had 10 days to pay his account or the company would have to take steps to recover the debt.Finally giving in he thought he would play the company at their own game and mailed them a check for $0.00. The computer duly processed his account and returned a statement to the effect that he now owed the credit card company nothing at all.
A week later, the man's bank called him asking him what he was doing writing a check for $0.00. After a lengthy explanation the bank replied that the $0.00 check had caused their check processing software to fail.
The bank could not now process ANY checks from ANY of their customers that day because the check for $0.00 was causing the computer to crash. The following month the man received a letter from the credit card company claiming that his check had bounced and that he now owed them $0.00 and unless he sent a check by return of post they would be taking steps to recover the debt.
The man, who had been considering buying his wife a computer for her birthday, bought her a typewriter instead.
