Comments for Talking Bollocks

Comment on Wonga – greedy and irresponsible lending by Jelena E

Jelena E — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:49:24 +0000

I used wonga few times and it is really fast and easy to use. Their charges are very high, but if you need money NOW it is up to you to make a choice. wonga accepts people on benefits and not many lenders do this. When I tried to find a loan, filled in plenty of application forms and find out that most of the lenders who say they accepted my application are spammers who just trying to steal my money. I decided it is better to pay those charges, but to get money that I need and not just pay to spammers for false promises. Especially those brokers or what ever they call them self… Take fees for finding loans at set APR, but when it comes to processing, actual lenders they find say they can not approve application or just changing APR to much higher than was agreed between you and brokers. Also txt messages started coming to my mob. At the beginning I was receiving minimum 20 messages and about the same calls from “lenders” who asked me to pay them first month installment by some international money transfers services, buying some coupons or other similar stuff. I did not paid any of them, because I made research on internet on each number and company I was contacted from.
With wonga… well at least it is safe. Also I know someone who took the loan fro wonga, was not able to repay it, extended it for another month and was not able to repay again. He called wonga and explained situation. They asked when he would be able to repay the amount. No more charges or interests was added to the existing amount. Actually they just friz it and he repaid then in 2 payments within the next 2 month. This did not affected his account in any way and he was able to use the services in the future.
Also if you repay the amount you borrowed earlier you paying interests only for the period before you repaid. I do this very often.
If you can live with out borrowing, do it.

Comment on Tibetans killing themselves to protest Chinese opression by jenwhite

jenwhite — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:40:12 +0000

Unfathomable.

Comment on travel photography – Objectifying the subject by jenwhite

jenwhite — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:20:29 +0000

Or.

We may be striving to capture their simple dignity.

I refer you to the site of my friend, Dana Gluckstein: http://danagluckstein.com/contents.html

Comment on Harp Guitar by Mad Music Fan

Mad Music Fan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:12:26 +0000

Want to see something REALLY different? Even though harp guitars have been around for years, google TIM DONAHUE, or type in his name in youtube search. He plays an electric harp guitar that he invented and designed in the early 80′s.

Comment on Tooting, Balham and the Fucking Joggers by Nadeem

Nadeem — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:23:20 +0000

Excellent stuff Nigel. Good observations except Mirch Masala. I would not rate its food as “good”. . Nadeem

Comment on Mainstream News vs The Blogosphere by jenwhite

jenwhite — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:55:19 +0000

Great post. Submit it to Huffington.

Comment on Thank God for Diane Abbott by glenys

glenys — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:09:21 +0000

I think that there are many things at play here. One of them is that the world has gone fucking bonkers and noone is allowed to say anything anymore without being strung up by the nads and dragged through the virtual streets of anywhere and everywhere. Some of that is a good thing cos people have got away with some stupid stuff in the past. She does have a point in my opinion and even if she doesn’t have a point but just has an opinion then i think that she should be allowed to say it, isn’t that we are all fighting about? A democracy? It might be history in alot of people’s eyes but actually, the whole racism thing is alive and kicking and it is not that long ago that atrocoties were carried out in our country and that should not be dismissed easily. Yes, Diane, should temper her words slightly if she is to mouth off in the public eye but she is opinionated and that is what gets most people to the place that she is at. You are not going to get many fence sitters climbing their way to a place of political power and influence unless you are called Nick Clegg. People could argue that black people can say stuff and white people can’t which is totally missing the point and just enters into a national game of racism tennis which is akin to playground talk of ‘he said she said’. Also if we hang draw and quarter people every time they open their mouths then we are going to end up with a bunch of bland buggars who read from a script and not from the heart and i do not want to live in a country that is prescriptive and predictable.
That racism is alive and well is an indisputable fact. The whole Stephen Lawrence thing has gone a long way to prove that we have institutional racism here and that does not come as a great surprise. What does come as a great surprise is that people are still whinging on about the fact that it is not happening here.
And that is what i think after a bottle of wine which is pretty damn impressive that i should be thinking anything at all!

Comment on Mainstream News vs The Blogosphere by Rosemary White

Rosemary White — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:00:42 +0000

Your point is very eloquently made, as you say it does not dilute our knowledge or the media’s but provides us all with a wider perspective and stimulates further communication. All too often “experts” are rolled out for comment on their areas of specialism, which in terms of reporting and academic evidence is vital. At times the reality of life applied to this evidence and events reported can feel a bit like tunnel vision, blogs can provide further peripheral capacity.

Comment on Thank God for Diane Abbott by jonesxxx

jonesxxx — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:34:08 +0000

We have no evidence that Brian True-May would not employ black actors.
He was asked at some informal gathering about a program which is a weird old fashioned stylised English village and we have a few snatches of his conversation. For that we brand him as racist.

It is this that I despise. The same with Diane Abbott. Most people know little about her but from one tweet she has been judged as racist. It’s pathetic. It’s prejudice and bigotry.

Comment on Thank God for Diane Abbott by Joe Martinez

Joe Martinez — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:26:09 +0000

Dianne Abbot went to Oxford University: which makes her pretty academic—what she said was a taken out of context, but nevertheless a little silly. This doesnt mean that you can justify the racist who wouldnt employ black actors or the condoning of war crimes by Newt Gingrich.
Dianne was making the mistake of tarring all white people with the same brush (no pun intended), whilst the British empire was undoubtedly a criminal and oppressive scam, the majority of White people did not benefit from it: just a few super rich criminals: ditto slavery. I think it is wrong to make the criminal enterprise of Imperialists a race issue: it is a class issue.