Florida, California or UK?!
Feb 10th 2014, 7:39 pm
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Re: Florida, California or UK?!
Rickets is a piss poor argument anyway. Most people are slightly Vitamin D deficient on both sides of the atlantic. It's not like you can't get suppliments anyway. Or drink milk.
Feb 10th 2014, 7:40 pm
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Feb 10th 2014, 7:41 pm
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Re: Florida, California or UK?!
Feb 10th 2014, 7:42 pm
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Re: Florida, California or UK?!
Re in the US, customer service depends on where you are. Indeed there are pockets of the country where people and businesses don't speak any English. I don't mean poor English, I mean NO English.
Feb 10th 2014, 7:43 pm
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Re: Florida, California or UK?!
I called the Chase customer service center the other day. I was answered by a woman with a thick Hispanic accent who gave me her name and said she was in Florida. Other than she was in Florida I couldn't understand a word she said.
Feb 10th 2014, 7:43 pm
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Re: Florida, California or UK?!
You'd be amazed, I think it's the 'negative Brit' thing. Last summer a friend of mine made a comment about how she hoped the summer was going to be better than the last one when it 'rained constantly'. I pointed out that it had actually only rained 6 days between April and the end of July - we were being re-roofed so I was watching for rain like a hawk and even had records kept daily for billing purposes. She was amazed and then admitted her memory was playing tricks when she looked back at photos and found her daughter playing in the paddling pool almost every day even in April!
We're in a very dry part of the UK, but even so it's amazing how local people seem to think it rains far more than it actually does.
We're in a very dry part of the UK, but even so it's amazing how local people seem to think it rains far more than it actually does.
Which part of the UK is that very very dry part?
Feb 10th 2014, 7:44 pm
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Re: Florida, California or UK?!
No, that was just the one I was dealing with at that time 
How can they go outside? Sure, it's always raining ...
How can they go outside? Sure, it's always raining ...
Feb 10th 2014, 7:45 pm
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Re: Florida, California or UK?!
I think it depends where you are. I was in London for 5 months last summer, after being away for several years and the place seemed overtaken by Eastern Europeans. I was told that 1 in 3 people now are immigrants in London and that doesn't include the "older/historic" immigrants from ex British Colonies. So this is not a fact, something I was told. But I quite believe it. Visually it seemed so to me.
Re in the US, customer service depends on where you are. Indeed there are pockets of the country where people and businesses don't speak any English. I don't mean poor English, I mean NO English.
Re in the US, customer service depends on where you are. Indeed there are pockets of the country where people and businesses don't speak any English. I don't mean poor English, I mean NO English.
I will not talk about customer service, lest I be accused yet again of moaning.
Feb 10th 2014, 7:46 pm
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Re: Florida, California or UK?!
Raining or not raining who gives a ..... add up how many blue skies the UK gets per year.......less than 30 .....nice.
Feb 10th 2014, 7:46 pm
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Re: Florida, California or UK?!
I think it depends where you are. I was in London for 5 months last summer, after being away for several years and the place seemed overtaken by Eastern Europeans. I was told that 1 in 3 people now are immigrants in London and that doesn't include the "older/historic" immigrants from ex British Colonies. So this is not a fact, something I was told. But I quite believe it. Visually it seemed so to me.
Re in the US, customer service depends on where you are. Indeed there are pockets of the country where people and businesses don't speak any English. I don't mean poor English, I mean NO English.
Re in the US, customer service depends on where you are. Indeed there are pockets of the country where people and businesses don't speak any English. I don't mean poor English, I mean NO English.