Which is why they wanted a unique cell phone number to identify my account...
Which is when I stopped using Facebook (about 7-8 months ago).
Just use a Pay As You Go SIM card, just keep it for facebook and nothing else.
Debit cards and credit cards look the same but they're completely different things.
They look similar, my debit card has debit printed on it. Not that a shop ever gets close enough to read the card. They can tell them apart from the number however, hence how they know to offer cashback with a debit card but not with a credit card. It also allows different surcharges.
And that TV guide covers all channels, not just the one you've called the Teletext up on.
CEEFAX always had full listings for all of the analogue channels, and I think it had them for digital channels as well.
I feel sure that in the early days CEEFAX only carried BBC programme details, and ORACLE only ITV programme details. There were no all channel TV guides until 1991, just the Radio Times (BBC) and TV Times(ITV). Newspapers had all channels, but only a day at a time. For many people the Christmas/New Year double issues of Radio Times and TV Times were an annual event.
Just to clarify (in case anybody asks), Orange also block Skype.
But T-Mobile don't. There is not yet an EE network, as far as I (as a T-Mobile customer) can see it is just a roaming at present. On my phone I can see which network I am using, internet conectivity seems to work better when connected to T-Mobile.
But never plastic. Lord no, never plastic.
They are acceptable on carnival day and in the mosh pit.
and "tomato sauce".
Thats where my French fell apart in a French McDonalds. Had ordered the food perfectly and was asked what sauce for the Nuggets, my answer "Tomate". Total blank look, then I said "Ketchup". Up to then had never occured to me that Tomato Sauce and Ketchup are not interchangable everywhere. They sell beer in McDonalds in France.
fuel theft (in the form of drive offs)
Wait, what? This is still a problem?
Just switch to a "pay before you pump" system. If it's good enough for prostitutes, it's good enough for your petrol/gas.
Or: Implement a vast database to track everyone's fill-ups using CCTV. Yeah, that's probably the proper British approach... carry on.
How does pay before you pump work in practice? With my own car I can usually work out how much fuel it will take, give or take a few litres. But I want it full, even 2 litres under is 20 miles off the range. What happens if you guess high and can't get all the fuel you have paid for into your tank, do you get a refund? I can see this being a big problem with high (rental) cars where you have never filled them before and you return them full, otherwise you get stung for a refueling fee.
Also, you are forgetting about the Chunnel
And ferries, and hovercrafts, and the UK-Irish border.
The hovercraft stopped many years ago, bumpy horrible thing they were. Cost me a set of shock absorbers they did.
It's not "business hostile", it's just unfair.
As an experienced driver with a long no claims discount I'm much less likely to have an accident than a spotty chav in his "souped up" supermini - you know, the one where the stereo cost more than the car, but with go-faster stripes and exhausts the size of cannons.
Under your proposal I'd be subsidising him even more than I already am.
I'd propose instead that we simply get people to obey the fairly sensible laws about vehicle insurance and licensing, and punish those who don't.
I totally agree, I paid my high premiums when I was a teenager. The system of earning a no claims bonus gave me an incentive to be a better driver, with the result that as a 24 year old I have earned sufficient no-claims to be able to insure an open top sports car.
Charging everyone the same through fuel would provide no incentive to be a good driver
how does that work if your parents are nondrivers
I guess you are at a disadvantage. Most people start learning to drive by watching their parents, years before they ever sit behind the wheel.
Does Germany have usable public transit?
Germany is famous for it, particilarly for puncuality.
But like anywhere else, it is at its best in the cities, if you live in the countryside you need a car.
With your bare hands?!?
