Sort it out, Tesco! An online voucher for something I haven't even ordered can be used, but not the one that would actually be useful

One of the biggest taxi firms in the country (and it's a small country) has no drivers, I'll be waiting ages on this smaller firm and all to go to Tesco because for some reason they don't deliver to one of their own bigger stores... I'd happily see this country H-bombed it's so retarded - sh1t like this happens on a daily basis here.

Please, please, please, please, please tell me that you emailed them and began with the line "Houston, we have a problem!"

Damn, I wish I'd thought of that....... And the actual quote is 'Houston, we've had a problem'. They changed it for the film to make it sound more present than past.

To make it more... tense? Did you see what I did there? Did you? Did you!

Tesco again - forced to select a new password that was 8 characters long, had at least one upper case letter and a number. And it still told me it was weak... Oh, and I had to wait for an email to come through just so I could use this new password. All I wanted was to put an order in to take advantage of the delivery service I pay monthly for and do it while there were still slots!

What should have been a five minute job became more like 15 and with a lot of OMJF'ing thrown in to boot when their website utterly FAILed the mobile browser challenge.

I have a very keen vegetarian 'friend' on Facebook.
She's just posted a picture of a dog and a cow with the caption 'Why love one but eat the other?'
BECAUSE ONE IS A CARNIVORE AND THE OTHER IS A TASTY HERBIVORE, YOU IDIOT is what I want to write, but I'm doing it in here instead.
As you were.

are you quite hyper? mr half greek cypriot semi-pup?

Only 8 characters? If a site forced me to use an 8 character password, I wouldn't use it. All mine are well over 20 characters. If a site puts a limit, especially such a short limit, then it isn't doing passwords properly.

I decided to enrol on a course after being sponsored for it. It's through the local medical school. Normally would cost something like £1000. All great. They send me a form to fill in. Rants:

1. It's not designed as a proper form in Word so check boxes for things like ethnicity are square boxes that have been drawn. Means I can't really fill it out online and have to print it out.
2. They want to know my qualifications - degree should be enough but it looks like they want A-levels and GCSEs. WHY?
3. They want to know where I've studied. Not just university, but secondary education. Again WHY?
4. I have to do a personal statement.

Remember, there are healthcare professionals who pay £1000-1500 for this kind of course. You'd imagine they'd make lives easier for people.

I plan to fill in the least amount of information and see what happens.

Because a degree doesn't mean you're capable of GCSE maths. Or that your English skill is sufficient (and yes I know a medicine degree probably means you're ok with both those things).
As the institution has probably standardised record keeping, it'll want to know these things. It is, after all, an educational institution. It likes knowing what your potential for learning is. It likes to know what your total score is.
It wants to know where you've studied because it can also (if needed) get in touch with those places to make sure you are who you say you are, and that you've attained those qualifications. We get students applying who say they've a qualification at X level, and when we check it's nothing of the sort.

Holy crap. I haven't had to do junk like that since we were forced to fill in our National Record Of Achievements at school, almost twenty years ago. What a waste of time that was. No one's ever used them since.

That NRA was a load of bollocks but we had to do it. Personal statement is useless.

ION: amazon reckon they tried to deliver but said they couldn't get in. We were open at the time they allege to have attempted delivery. Either they were too feckless to open the door or they lied n

Personally I've no issue with the general concept of eating dog. One doesn't tend to find them round here mind, and those countries that do eat it tend to have some of the worst animal welfare on the planet.

I have a problem with eating carnivorous animals, everything else is fair play


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