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Fags

by Shipscook @ 2008-06-02 – 13:45:52

I saw a story in today's Metro that was doubtless placed by HM Customs press office telling us that you can only buy 200 fags to bring home from places like Bulgaria, Hungary or Slovakia despite their EU mambership.

Why is this? I thought if you could prove that they were for personal consumption ( and a good hacking cough ought to be enough for that) your duty paid limits froma another EU country were limitless. Can this be legal between EU countries.

Oh silly me I forgot its because Eastern European gaspers are dirt cheap and the government's minions in Customs just make up the rules to suit themselves.

I stopped smoking about eight years ago and one of the things that makes me happy about that is that I have not been handing my more of my cash over to the government to waste of foreign adventures supporting Dubbya, rebranding govt departments and trying to co-erce us all in to living the life of a monk.

Technology eh?

by Shipscook @ 2008-06-02 – 13:04:51

Well today is the sixth day without home broadband. I have spent what seems like hours on the phone to our providers technical wizards in India, who seem to be of the opinion that the problem is our router as its the only non BT bit of kit we have.

When I asked why the old BT supplied modem didn't work either they told me it was because it wasn't compatable with the Window Vista that came with the new machine. So now we are signed up to another BT contract and should soon get a Vista compatable home hub to run enough lappys to drive the Ark Royal.

As if that's not enough the remote for the digi box stopped working, which may have had something to do with the glass of Morrison's finest Sicillian red I dropped in my lap on Saturday night. Typically there is no control panel on the box itself so without the remote its completely fucked, especially as it's stuck on bloody Sky 3 with its diet of Cops Eat Pot Noodle and second rate American shows.

On the positive side it does mean that I can upgrade to a digital recorder and replace both the old digi box and the ancient VHS recorder that won't record digi channels.