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Astoundingly enough, I have found a phone company more inept, more incompetent, more irritating, and more irresponsible than BT. After the fiasco of July to September 2006, I would not have thought it possible. Yet it is true: TalkTalk takes the metaphoric cake for utter idiocy!
The way that the morons at TalkTalk have handled my request to set up a line in the new flat was shameful enough... and it is the reason why, more than one month after moving, we are still without a landline in our new home. I shall not bore you, gentle readers, with a long and detailed recap of our dealings with these nincompoops. Suffice to say that, after both my beloved![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cheshcat and I spent several fruitless hours on the phone with various departments, I finally gave up, cancelled my request, and shopped about for a new phone company. With any luck, we should have a landline again come on December 13th, the morning after my return from Japan.
One could reasonably think that such would be the end of it, yes? One could... but, alas, one would be wrong. Adding the proverbial insult to injury, the person in TalkTalk's cancellations department failed to properly process my request and thus I was recently billed for a month of phone service that we did not receive. Oi! Not only have attempts to obtain a refund been futile, but even our efforts to switch off the account have proven to be beyond the meager capabilities of TalkTalk's staff. Indeed, it seems quite likely that they are all set to bill us again, later in December, for a second month of service not provided! To prevent this, I bypassed their people and had my bank remove their Direct Debit access to my account. I may not be able to procure a refund, but they shall certainly not pull that stunt again!
In the meantime, I find myself wondering if the United Kingdom has any good consumer watchdog organizations equivalent to, say, the Better Business Bureau. Although I hope that I have, at long last, seen the back of those incapable gits, methinks that this may be too much to expect.[*] As such, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst is a worthy paradigm, and I should assemble the requisite knowledge to arm myself if need be.
[*] My suspicion is that, after refusing to close the account, they will go after my impeccable credit rating when they find that I have prevented them from collecting monies to pay for service that we do not want and are not receiving.
The way that the morons at TalkTalk have handled my request to set up a line in the new flat was shameful enough... and it is the reason why, more than one month after moving, we are still without a landline in our new home. I shall not bore you, gentle readers, with a long and detailed recap of our dealings with these nincompoops. Suffice to say that, after both my beloved
cheshcat and I spent several fruitless hours on the phone with various departments, I finally gave up, cancelled my request, and shopped about for a new phone company. With any luck, we should have a landline again come on December 13th, the morning after my return from Japan.One could reasonably think that such would be the end of it, yes? One could... but, alas, one would be wrong. Adding the proverbial insult to injury, the person in TalkTalk's cancellations department failed to properly process my request and thus I was recently billed for a month of phone service that we did not receive. Oi! Not only have attempts to obtain a refund been futile, but even our efforts to switch off the account have proven to be beyond the meager capabilities of TalkTalk's staff. Indeed, it seems quite likely that they are all set to bill us again, later in December, for a second month of service not provided! To prevent this, I bypassed their people and had my bank remove their Direct Debit access to my account. I may not be able to procure a refund, but they shall certainly not pull that stunt again!
In the meantime, I find myself wondering if the United Kingdom has any good consumer watchdog organizations equivalent to, say, the Better Business Bureau. Although I hope that I have, at long last, seen the back of those incapable gits, methinks that this may be too much to expect.[*] As such, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst is a worthy paradigm, and I should assemble the requisite knowledge to arm myself if need be.
[*] My suspicion is that, after refusing to close the account, they will go after my impeccable credit rating when they find that I have prevented them from collecting monies to pay for service that we do not want and are not receiving.
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Also, from what I gather, you and I are now metamours (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=metamour), yes? Very spiffy! I approve heartily of both your taste and that of the lovely
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I like the word metamour. I'd seen it before; maybe it was in that talk in your journal some time back about the word compersion, another one I rather like, and which works well here! (I don't recall what it turned out the UK equivalent was, but it's one of the very few cases where the American version seems a little classier to me.)
I've commented to people on how funny it is that, though I knew you already, I didn't meet Danaeris through you; it was coincidental. Life is nifty like that sometimes!
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It is, indeed, isn't it! *big smile*
I've not encountered the use of the word "metamour" all too often in the States. More frequently, I've run into things like "SOSO" ("significant other's significant other") or "OSO" ("other significant other") which, whilst cute, I find to be somewhat clumsy. I rather prefer the simple elegance of "metamour".
In contrast, the UK equivalent word to "compersion" is "frubbly", which I find distasteful and juvenile. Come to think of it, it might have been kinder of me to not remind you of the existence of "frubbly" had you managed to forget it! :-D
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Alright; let's spread 'compersion' east of the Atlantic and 'metamour' west of it! Ready? Go!
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I'm all down for your plan to linguistically spread "compersion" to the East of the Atlantic and "metamour" to the West of it. Only question is this: I'm in Japan right now, which is somewhat half the globe away from the Atlantic -- roughly equidistant via East or West. So, um, which do I spread? ;-D
(Actually, I think the answer would then be "both" -- particularly as neither term is in use here and polyamory is not really a known concept!)