Empathy black hole

By shellbom - 17/11/2009 21:33 - United Kingdom

Today, I rang British Gas to cancel my boiler cover, as I'm totally and utterly skint. I told her the reason was I was getting divorced, moving house, losing my job, and had no income at all. She was very sympathetic, and said, "How would you like to pay your £37 cancellation fee?" FML
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xCrackerx 3

I'll translate for you, #2. Clearly you don't understand English. I'll try Ebonics. Today, I holla'd at my gas company to cancel my plan, cuz I'm broke as ****. I told her my baby momma was leavin' me, bouncing up outta my crib, I ain't gettin no mo' chedda from my job and I got nothin' in the bank. She was all sad for me and shit, and she said, "Yo, how you wanna pay yo damn cancellation fee?" FML.

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ShaunathinShavis 0

There is more British jargon in this fml alone than I have heard in the last year

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killurbeer 0

hahahahahahahahahahahaha! #44 is ******* awesome!

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valuemeal2 1

WTF is a boiler cover? I can figure out "skint" from context, but I don't know what a boiler cover is. A cover for a boiler?

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srak 0

AMERICAN TRANSLATION Today, I called my gas company to cancel my gas, as I'm totally penniless. I told her the reason was I was getting divorced, moving out, and losing my job. She pretended to care, then said "How would you like to pay your 62$ cancellation fee?"

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Ligerie 0

no it would be 37 dollar fee, There is no exchange rate where a person lives, I live in germany right now If I shop at an H&M and buy a purse for lets say 15.00 euro, I could go back to the states and buy the same purse for about 11.99 (only because tax is not included). I wouldn't pay around 21 dollars for it like you guys are suggesting by asking the exchange rate. (I hope that makes sense)

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flying_vegan 0

You're an idiot. If all you had to do was change the $ to £ to constitute an exchange rate then there'd be no point in having different currencies, as they'd all be valued exactly the same.

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Ligerie 0

Then how do you explain the H&M thing. That's true, I did that. You don't make 1.50 to an American dollar, you make 1 and I make 1, but if you had to leave the country you would exchange it, in which case you would lose money from an American dollar.

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flying_vegan 0

Every pound I make is worth $1.67. If I need to go to the US, obviously I need to exchange my pounds to dollars as they wouldn't be legal tender. But if I exchange £100, I don't get $100, I get $167.54. I don't know about the H&M thing, frankly it seems like a one off.

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blastvortex 3

Hah. How could you not see that one coming? Being broke doesn't excuse you from paying fees either. Nice try, though. #65: Stop that. It should be obvious enough even for people that don't understand British colloquial dialect. And if they can't figure it out, that's what Google is for. Don't pamper lazy butts; it's too much like feeding gulls - if you don't stop pampering them, they won't stop finding they're own answers.

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blastvortex 3

*"Their" own answers, I should say. (Whoops, I can't believe I just did that.)

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blastvortex 3

*And I meant to say, "they'll stop finding their own answers." Damn, not exactly firing on all thrusters tonight, am I? ...... *makes a self-note to go to bed quite soon*

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DynamicDave 11

Thank you, 65. I only understood about 50% of that FML and i'm on the iPhone app on break at work. Yes, to those who are going to flame me, I realize the iPhone has a web browser but I'm about to go back to work and it's so slow.

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stridercab 12

Then chances are you read too much ****** Harry Potter and damn Narnia and wish you were british anyway.

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KarelessKitten 0

Does anyone *bloody* read anymore? Pick up a book, people! Like a lot of other people have said, it's no wonder the rest of the world thinks Americans are retarded. Americans are devoid of culture and ignorant fools. It's a f*cking shame too. Open up your mind to something outside of your own tiny existence.

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Bassplyer 0

tht caused u a minor incovinrnce(spelling fail)

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