or this one:

PING: to strike with a hard blow,

as in "shut up or I'll ping ya".

and another:

PING: to be rough or brutal with

as in "I want to take you home and ping you".

Value for money the Aussie way

A 2007 study found that the average Australian walks about 900 miles a year.

Another study found that Australians drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year.

That means, on average, Australians get about 41 miles per gallon."

Bloody good value that!

What brands of weasels do they drink?

(Weasels = Ockor beer, usually LITE..... yukkkkkk)

I am still waiting for a reply from my bloody bank in the UK.

When it's mortgage time , I have joined the steam age and send them money electronically. I press send and whammo, they get the money in the Isle of M. Quick clean, painless and surely to everyones advantage? So why do they charge a receiving charge ? I save all their bloody admin costs and they still want their pound of flesh. I have sent three very nicely worded requests for them to explain exactly why they want to charge an exorbitant amount of money for them to receive, painlessly, a sum of money they are demanding for fukc's sake !!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhh

Ah Limpy, it's all to do with THEIR convenience. Many places, for which one has a recurring debt, have set up sytems to handle direct debits so that the handling of invoice receipts is totally automated and payments are guaranteed to be made on time. This makes their preparation of financial statements, and assumptions based upon them, so much easier and also ensures a guaranteed confidence in the cash flow position at any point in time. Effectively, these mobs (and those that don't do it are becoming the exception rather than the rule) are fining you for their inconvenience, notwithstanding that you are paying on time. The point is to provide the customer with an incentive to convert to direct debit (by way of a disincentive to continue electronic transfers.)

Great thing about being a senior citizen, is bank that receives ya super, gives you a no charges account.

Well, here in NZ where all but 2 banks are Aust owned.

If I set up an auto payment online, it costs me a once only 50c, big deal.

All transactions are free from base account.

Surely banks in UK are similar.

OOOOOOPS, forgot, HSBC, RaboBank are offshore owned, but the BIG banks are Ockor, stand alone, no management from OZ.

Value for money the Aussie way

A 2007 study found that the average Australian walks about 900 miles a year.

Another study found that Australians drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year.

That means, on average, Australians get about 41 miles per gallon."

Bloody good value that!

Good One

Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin!

Ah Limpy, it's all to do with THEIR convenience. Many places, for which one has a recurring debt, have set up sytems to handle direct debits so that the handling of invoice receipts is totally automated and payments are guaranteed to be made on time. This makes their preparation of financial statements, and assumptions based upon them, so much easier and also ensures a guaranteed confidence in the cash flow position at any point in time. Effectively, these mobs (and those that don't do it are becoming the exception rather than the rule) are fining you for their inconvenience, notwithstanding that you are paying on time. The point is to provide the customer with an incentive to convert to direct debit (by way of a disincentive to continue electronic transfers.)

Thanks mate,

Interesting view and I imagine spot on. Sad thing is I get paid in one currency and have debts in a second ( and a third !! ) Thus the amount constantly changes with currency fluctuations, making direct debit a non-starter. I'll join the anarchists and burn the bloody place down on my next home visit.

"Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin!"

Is that leprechaun-speak?

No I'm taller ?

Ah Limpy, it's all to do with THEIR convenience. Many places, for which one has a recurring debt, have set up sytems to handle direct debits so that the handling of invoice receipts is totally automated and payments are guaranteed to be made on time. This makes their preparation of financial statements, and assumptions based upon them, so much easier and also ensures a guaranteed confidence in the cash flow position at any point in time. Effectively, these mobs (and those that don't do it are becoming the exception rather than the rule) are fining you for their inconvenience, notwithstanding that you are paying on time. The point is to provide the customer with an incentive to convert to direct debit (by way of a disincentive to continue electronic transfers.)

Thanks mate,

Interesting view and I imagine spot on. Sad thing is I get paid in one currency and have debts in a second ( and a third !! ) Thus the amount constantly changes with currency fluctuations, making direct debit a non-starter. I'll join the anarchists and burn the bloody place down on my next home visit.

Yes there's little you can do, it seems. You can write them letters, complain on the telephone, go in and jump up and down at them in person and at the end of the day, nothing will have changed.

"Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin!"

Is that leprechaun-speak?

Yes it is! I thought you'd google it. (where's Moss when you need him?) it means "There's no fireside like your own fireside". It's a classic Irish saying. It's also difficult to say for a non-Irish speaker. I wonder if I can find a sound file...

Found this link, but it's poor, doesn't do it justice at all. It should be said quickly and with rhythm and an Irish lilt - still better than nothing...

http://www.daltai.com/proverbs/weeks/week15.htm

Well if you hadn't confirmed it's Irish, I would have guessed at Vietnamese or similar. Maybe (as you say) it's due to the quality of the file. (I've never heard or heard of the expression before.)

Well if you hadn't confirmed it's Irish, I would have guessed at Vietnamese or similar. Maybe (as you say) it's due to the quality of the file. (I've never heard or heard of the expression before.)

It's a classic. I have a wall-hanging with it written in ancient Irish text. I try it on all my friends. English speakers have most difficulty with it because of the 'lilt' required to get it right. I tried it on my next door neighbour who's from Kerala in India, he nailed it first time! I must try to record it myself and post it to allow you to hear it properly. Like I say Moss will know it very well.

Tape it and save it Tiggs...................Will make a fine 10,000th.

'

Joseph WILLIAMSON built a network of tunnels under Liverpool, which have

only recently been discovered.

The sole objective was to provide employment to men.

There appears to be no other reason for the existence of these tunnels.

They are being renovated as a tourist attraction.

Now that's what I call Random !........

I think they used them to store hub-caps

'

Joseph WILLIAMSON built a network of tunnels under Liverpool, which have

only recently been discovered.

The sole objective was to provide employment to men.

There appears to be no other reason for the existence of these tunnels.

They are being renovated as a tourist attraction.

Now that's what I call Random !........

I have visited these and it's mad. Why would anyone do such a thing? I can't velieve it was just to give employment to men after they returned from war, has to be more to it! Nice workmanship though!

The most random number is 17.

The most random number is 17.

Of all of Television scripts that Dennis Potter wrote I think the "Singing Detective" is the one that remains my favourite. I can still see "Dry Bones" routine with the high-kicking nurses and the bossy doctors as chorus boys.

Perhaps Mr Potter should get a nomination in the Hall of Fame

...but then again I'm just in my randomisation mode.

I think they used them to store hub-caps

I read where after the war, Paris authorities checking out the Paris Catacombs, found piles of bones.

On investigation, they were cat bones, dumped by a restaurant above.

The restaurant was a favoured haunt of the nazis...........PMPL.

The restaurant specialised in rabbit dishes.

Wascawee wabbits.

The most random number is 17.

Of all of Television scripts that Dennis Potter wrote I think the "Singing Detective" is the one that remains my favourite. I can still see "Dry Bones" routine with the high-kicking nurses and the bossy doctors as chorus boys.

Perhaps Mr Potter should get a nomination in the Hall of Fame

...but then again I'm just in my randomisation mode.

I loved the singing detective!

A good idea about that sound file. In the vein of that Scottish one. 'It's a braw bricht, moonlicht nicht the nicht.'

Aussies have one too; 'Your shout'. Simple, but full of meaning.

I have a colleague who is a singing detective.................We all hate him.

I have a colleague who is a singing detective.................We all hate him.

No you're mixing him up with the "Laughing Policeman"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZPkrkT6BVQ

I must post this on the Dance Music thread ((Just As A Wind Up)..

Laughing or singing, it matters not. Bloke is still a TURD !!

Nice Vid though

Charles Penrose.

The original, "Laughing Policeman."

That is a real classic, had an old 78 with him singing, great.