Phone Company from Hell

I usually don’t like to complain about 3 (the phone company, not the number). But I think they have taken annoying to another level.

Every day at least 3-4 times a day I get these stupid Big Brother Alerts. I signed up to the BB pack the year before last and I’m still getting these stupid SMS alerts. I really don’t care that Person A and Person B are talking about energy levels. Seriously…who would?

While I’m sick at home I decided to give 3 a call and ask them nicely to stop these alerts. If you’re not aware, 3 outsource their call centre to India. So you end up with someone saying their name is “Paul” or “Sue” when you know it’s not.

I asked this “Paul” to stop the alerts, I never requested them, I don’t want them, they annoy me. “Paul” checks a few things on his system (which I’m certain is all written in Hindi) and tells me that he will need to check with someone else regarding this. Fine, I tell “Paul”, confer away. He comes back to me after I’ve been on hold for oh 5 minutes and tells me “There is nothing we can do about stopping these alerts”. What is that kind of garbage?

At this point I’m starting to lose it slowly. Well if I don’t want them, why am I getting them? “Paul” doesn’t know the answer to this. So the slowly losing it has turned into lost it. Now everytime I call 3 it’s because I have a problem and everytime the calls end the same. Me losing it at the stupid “Paul” or “Sue” at the other end. No they can’t tell me why the direct debit hasn’t changed when it should have. No they can’t tell me why I was charged for something that I didn’t use (this one went on for about 6 months. Every month there it was…a $15 charge for On3 Content I didn’t apply for). They can’t tell me anything!

3 in general isn’t a bad phone company. Hell I love my call cap! And the free minutes..doesn’t get any better than 3! But the call centre lack of knowledge is starting to make me insane. At times I feel as though it’s their way to poke a stick in me saying “We took jobs from Australia! hahaha”. (But that’s another issue) I just want these morons to actually read what is on the screen or learn how to get answers to the questions people are asking.

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Electronic Cigerettes

As you guys are probably unaware my Fiance and I are smokers, and from time to time we have cut down on the number of cigerettes we have during one entire day from the moment we wake up to the sleepy hours just before bed time, of course this has been an ongoing process where some days we tend to follow the idea remarkably well and there are other days where the amount of cigerettes we inhale can almost certainly engulf an entire chimney with no room for Santa Claus.

There also has been on a number of occasions where we have been frowned upon from bypassers just walking on the street simply because we were enjoying a cigerette.

But, even with our attempts in cutting down the intake of cigerettes, maybe we can try a recently announced electronic cigerette as reported on Sydney Morning Herald.

It feels like a cigarette and looks like a cigarette, but it isn’t bad for your health.

Now with a marketing slogan much like the one above would definately be appropriate. According to the sources, a Chinese company is marketing the worlds first electronic cigerette. Obviously it’s a product aimed at the smokers who intentionally do want to quit, yet still want to smoke for two reasons to have the nicotine sensation and also inhaling which most quit-smoking related products on the market don’t include which will set this newly release product high amongst its competitors.

“It feels like a cigarette, looks like a cigarette, it even emits vapour. In many ways, it is like an actual smoking experience, and that’s what makes us different,”

But with the current set price at $252 ($208US) a piece, that might be a limiting factor in terms of generating high sale figures, but if this becomes a piece that can be used time and time again, it may well worth the money. My Fiance and I will be looking at this definately when it will be hitting our Australian shores.

Information Source:Sydney Morning Herald

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House medical drama just got better

House takes on a new step into medical drama, with the added mystery and mind boggling problems which, Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) and the rest of his highly trained medical team must find a solution to. (Although those characters are just thrown in for more of a laugh really… to be honest)

Although usually it is just a one man team thanks to the brilliant work by Hugh Laurie who plays the character quite well with the unshaven, seemingly unorganised and all round illmannered attributes; which are just a touch of the surface on his personality.

Deep down when you watch a few more shows you see just what kind of doctor he really is, (don’t let the walking cane thing fool you) Dr. Gregory House is a mastermind physician whose unconventional thinking and instincts really set him apart from most other doctors and has landed himself a great deal of respect in the clinic (even though some of his patients may not thinkso)

On first impression, it may seem the producers of this show wanted to follow a similar theme to that of Ted Danson’s Becker, a comedy focused on probably the most illmannered Doctor and followed with a few interesting characters, which made this show some what watchable, but seemed repetitive at times.

House and Becker have one thing in common, the most illmannered doctor is their best bet in treating a patients’ health. But House seems to carry on this further, creating more of a medical drama where the random mishaps are just an added bonus to the show (best of both worlds really).

Now the show is up to its’ third season, you would think by this stage the idea of an illmannered doctor with a high reputation in terms of medical knowledge would get tiring, but this isn’t the case with House.

Of course there are dead periods in the show just like any other popular tv shows like for example; towards the end of season one, when we see Dr. House’s past companion arise on the set along with past relationship issues, sure this was an interesting side of Dr. House we as the viewers never thought we’d see but even at times it just did not fit House’s character well.

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