Jan Moir

satnav · **Posted:** Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:07 pm

Jan has clearly had a tough week if she thinks this is news:

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My friend, who lives in West London, needed to cancel her milk delivery for a couple of days over the half-term. Previously, she left a note in a milk bottle for the milkman, or phoned a nice lady in the nearby depot.
This time, the depot number was mysteriously disconnected so she had to track down Milk & More — previously Express Dairies — via directory inquiries. To cut a long and distressing story short, she ended up having to cancel her milk order by speaking to a call centre . . . in Manila.
Memo to Milk & More: Instead of festooning your website with bunting, Union flags and a ‘jubilee-milk’ promotion, why don’t you patriotically employ staff closer to home than the Philippines?

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z1xEZgalgz

She was cancelling milk for a few days how the heck can that be distressing?

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:23 am

All smacks a bit of the ex-sailor from Plymouth Dave met once. And that telephone... not just diconnected, mind you, but mysteriously disconnected. As if some unseen dark force was at work. Glad I read that bit with the lights on... :roll:

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:40 am

Hang on, didn't Littlejohn have a story recently about a dairy call centre in Manila?

I smell shenannigans.

satnav · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:06 am

Yep Richie wrote this on the 24th May

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Press 3 for the Vanilla from Manila
Edna Earle gets a daily milk delivery at her home in Orpington, Kent. Recently, when it still hadn’t arrived by 10pm, she decided to ring the local Dairy Crest depot, four miles away in West Wickham.
A heavily accented young woman answered, asked for her details, postcode etc, and said she would look into it. She would email the depot and get back to Edna. Email them? Wouldn’t it just be easier for Edna to call them direct?
Sorry, they don’t take phone calls from customers any more. It’s all handled centrally. Edna asked the woman where she was speaking from.
Manila, came the answer.
I know I’m getting old, but I can remember a time before the miracle of globalisation when if you wanted to order an extra pinta or add a carton of vanilla yoghurt, you’d leave a message in the bottle.
Failing that you could just call the depot. These days you have to ring the Philippines.
For English, press one. For gold top, press two...

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z1xHkOPCmm

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:16 am

Old news in Somerset, it would seem. The Weston Mercury covered it in Aptil...

http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/ ... _1_1359192

Not a very good sadface, though.

Althea · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:17 am

It does seem a little silly though, doesn't it?

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:21 am

Milk churnalism!

Daley Mayle · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:27 am

<groan>

Althea · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:30 am

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:32 am

Althea and Red Arrow win Feedline/Punchline of the month competition; the prize is a supporting slot on Jim Davidson's next tour.

:lol:

Love you guys.

Althea · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:36 am

Excuse me whilst I go over there and turn my Lawgiver on myself.

shyamz · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:59 pm

Why does Jan Moir hate the flags and bunting on Express Dairy's website? I thought she'd be all in favour of patriotic crap like that in jubilee month?

And who the hell is still getting their milk delivered by milkfloat in west London these days? If it's one of the areas of west London where I imagine Jan would pick her friends then they all get it delivered from Ocado.

Really, I've not heard of milkfloats doing the rounds of west London for years, at least nowhere near as much as they used to.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7419

satnav wrote:

Jan has clearly had a tough week if she thinks this is news:

Quote:

My friend, who lives in West London, needed to cancel her milk delivery for a couple of days over the half-term. Previously, she left a note in a milk bottle for the milkman, or phoned a nice lady in the nearby depot.
This time, the depot number was mysteriously disconnected so she had to track down Milk & More — previously Express Dairies — via directory inquiries. To cut a long and distressing story short, she ended up having to cancel her milk order by speaking to a call centre . . . in Manila.
Memo to Milk & More: Instead of festooning your website with bunting, Union flags and a ‘jubilee-milk’ promotion, why don’t you patriotically employ staff closer to home than the Philippines?

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z1xEZgalgz

She was cancelling milk for a few days how the heck can that be distressing?

The mail has plenty of readers who enjoy interacting with people from the Phillipines.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7419

The Red Arrow wrote:

Milk churnalism!

The hook!! The hook!!

ezinra · **Posted:** Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:05 am

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A Friends Reunited survey suggests that more than 20 million of us keep photographs of former partners and lovers following a break-up. Not only this, we keep them for ever.

Why? I only do it because a few of my exes are still wanted by Interpol.

Ba doom tish.

Because some people are adult enough to stay friends with their exes? To be able to talk openly about past relationships with their new partners? Not to buy into the Mailite columnists' cliché that women see each other as rivals and are obsessively suspicious of their partner's history?

NB This snippet of Moir's follows a long rant in which she heaps scorn on a 22-year-old for not wanting to stay with her boyfriend for ever and ever.

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