Rant number 328
My wife's had an operation this week- nothing serious and she is just fine.
For reasons unknown - rather than using the hospital that is half a mile up the road - they went for the one in Halifax, which made walking a non starter.
As such, when it came to visiting her yesterday, I had to take my trusty small blue car (which I did.)
The car park has barriers at the gates, and so the visit cost me 1.50 - which I think is a bit rich.
My poor wife needed visiting - to feel better and they took advantage of the situation for monetary gain- which frankly pisses me right off.
People in hospital don't want to be there, and the environment is bloody miserable!
I believe that positive thinking heals people and that should surely be what the hospital staff wants.
Making it harder and less appealing for family to make your patients feel better is ridiculous!
Thieving gits!
Rant over.
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Friday, 23 November 2012
Monday, 11 June 2012
Rant 163 11/6/12 Subject: Pay day loans
Rant number 163
Today, me and a colleague got talking about pay day loans.
I really haven't got much nice to say about them at all, so its time to get stuck in with the less nice stuff I suppose.
The pay day loan then: lets start with what they are.
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A pay day loan is a small loan of up to around £200, intended to (as the name suggests) carry you through to pay day. This on its own is not a bad concept.
They aren't doing it to be nice though, they're doing it to make money: a lot of money.
The average APR (annual percentage rate) for a payday loan, comes to around 27,000% - or around 80% a bloody day. This means that if you borrow say £100 for 20 days, you could be paying back a couple hundred pounds - just to break even.
To do it, you'd have to be desperate or very naive. Either way they don't give a shit.
For all of their friendly facade, these companies are pure - fucking - evil. They want to trip you up, gift you trapped, then put the boot in. Its what they do.
What frightens me most of all, is that no-one has put a stop to it yet. How can trapping people who don't know better be in any way acceptable in our struggling economy.
There should be other help out there that exists. Banks which give them proper loans, credit societies - anything surely!
I just don't understand why they won't do something about these parasites!
Bastards.
Rant over.
Today, me and a colleague got talking about pay day loans.
I really haven't got much nice to say about them at all, so its time to get stuck in with the less nice stuff I suppose.
The pay day loan then: lets start with what they are.
]
A pay day loan is a small loan of up to around £200, intended to (as the name suggests) carry you through to pay day. This on its own is not a bad concept.
They aren't doing it to be nice though, they're doing it to make money: a lot of money.
The average APR (annual percentage rate) for a payday loan, comes to around 27,000% - or around 80% a bloody day. This means that if you borrow say £100 for 20 days, you could be paying back a couple hundred pounds - just to break even.
To do it, you'd have to be desperate or very naive. Either way they don't give a shit.
For all of their friendly facade, these companies are pure - fucking - evil. They want to trip you up, gift you trapped, then put the boot in. Its what they do.
What frightens me most of all, is that no-one has put a stop to it yet. How can trapping people who don't know better be in any way acceptable in our struggling economy.
There should be other help out there that exists. Banks which give them proper loans, credit societies - anything surely!
I just don't understand why they won't do something about these parasites!
Bastards.
Rant over.
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