Sad Faces in Local Papers

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:18 pm

And closed?

Patrick100 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:38 pm **Posts:** 600

Looks like a botched hair transplant.....

Quote:

When I came out of the operation an agency nurse switched a massive light on right above my head and could not turn it off.

“I was screaming in agony. Someone else had to get out of bed to switch it off. I’m waiting to see if it’s damaged my eye.”

That'll be a "No" them.....

new puritan · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:27 pm

Quite a good one in the Manchester Evening News today. Looks more vaguely psychotic than sad to me, though.

Quote:

A clothes store has launched an investigation after a student was told to lie about her income to get more credit on a store card.

A worker at Manchester Arndale’s Topshop store told student Holly Ainsthorpe to make up how much money she received each month so she would receive more credit.

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... et-credit-

Althea · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:28 pm

She looks like she's about to deliver a knuckle sandwich.

Arnold · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:37 pm

Quote:

We had sent Holly, 20, into several stores around Manchester city centre to see how easy it would be for a student, with no means to pay off a debt, to be given credit.

Identifying someone used in a sting operation doesn't strike me as a good idea.

Timbo · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:05 pm

Not to mention the fact that her credit file is now covered in search footprints. :roll:

mattomac · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:32 am

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/9744821.War_hero_likens_housing_association_to_Third_Reich/

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War hero likens housing association to Third Reich

A WAR hero told to pay the rent on his lock-up garage by direct debit or face losing it has compared a housing association to the Third Reich.

Yes Hitler was keen on his direct debit payments

Of course the Housing Association have bent over backwards to accommodate him so he goes to the press complaining they are like German Officials during the second world war.

Althea · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:40 am

Couldn't they sue him or the newspaper for slander?

Fflaps · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:44 am

And of course, Paragraph 19 applies:

Quote:

Head of housing for Affinity Sutton Sarah Paton said: “We have spoken to Mr George and explained to him why we are asking all our garage licensees to pay by direct debit but that given his personal circumstances we are happy for him to continue to pay using his payment card."

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4251

Althea wrote:

Couldn't they sue him or the newspaper for slander?

The Third Reich?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:17 am

More to the point, the article offers no information as to why he can't set up a direct debit. What is this payment card business? Does it mean he has no bank account?

Picklechu2 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:01 pm **Posts:** 639

Comment sums it up. Headline should read, "Man asked to pay by direct debit".

Fact Hunt · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:33 pm

After a few quiet weeks, this is a welcome return to top-quality sadfacing.

A War Hero with a grumpy expression AND he's holding the letter.

The only negatives are that he's not wearing any medals, and the fact that after the war he became a civil servant.

Which, being the case, presumably means he's now a millionaire, and could pay the rent with gold coins from his index-linked gold-plated tax-payer funded pension?

Daley Mayle · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 1:07 pm

Me mams the same, and she's only a mere 83 and not a war hero. She will only use direct debits under sufferance because she doesn't like the idea of someone knowing her bank details like her name, sort code and account number, she'd prefer to pay by cheque. Yes, I know.

Apparently she heard someone on that BBC leftie Moneybox who had a problem with direct debits so that was that.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7318

Quote:

Mr George was an RAF ground crew officer who enlisted in 1939 aged 18.
He served in the war until the bitter end in 1946 and was based off the Dover coast and in Africa.

The threshold for heroism appears to have been diluted again.
(No slight intended to this old gent - maybe I should have posted this in a sport are troops list).

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