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erastes*I think I've just had the worst mince pie in the World. Overwhelming cloves, and bitter walnut. *mouthbleach*
*You'd think that at the end of a very busy year, when an assistant has been working for ten solicitors (where most of the other assistants are only working for three or four, they might get her a little something, wouldn't you? Yeah. Me too. That must happen in other universes.
*Question: Why is it in films - seems to be American films I think - that a child can take control of the parent's credit card? Is this something that can happen? It seems bizarre to me. What about the signature?
*Film Night: Enchanted: Utterly - UTTERLY - brilliant. I appreciate a good piss-take, particularly when a giant corporation really laughs at itself and this ticks all my funny-bone boxes. It's a great kid's film, but it's even better for adults, particularly the "Disney Geeks" on my flist - and I know I have quite a few. I spotted many references to Beauty & The Beast, Snow White, Aladdin, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty just to name a few. I need to see it again to catch all the stuff I missed. The songs are SINGABLE straight out of the theatre (which in my book is the benchmark of a good musical) and Canaries Chick and I were singing "Love's True Kiss" all the way back to the carpark. Highly recommended, and probably the best film I've seen since POTC1. Timothy Spall (having just blown my socks off as Fagin) stuns me again with a Dandini role to Prince Edward. I could have done without the annoying chipmunk, though - to be honest.
*I'm sure there was something else, but I forgit.
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Date: 2007-12-20 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 05:10 pm (UTC)I am so not a fan of mince pie. My cousin brought one to Thanksgiving dinner last month:P
I adore Enchanted. Disney is the evil empire but damn they do make some good movies.
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Date: 2007-12-20 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 05:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 06:40 pm (UTC)Credit cards: It depends. I used to use my mom's credit card when I was a teenager. Sometimes she'd send a letter of permission with me but when we realized no one ever even checked we stopped bothering. Basically. It's the cashiers who are too lazy to check or ask for ID. I would sign my mom's name sometimes, and my own name other times. When I worked as a retail cashier I ALWAYS checked to see if the signature on the back of the card matched the sig on the receipt, and if it didn't, or if there was no signature on the card, I'd ask for ID. Some people would get annoyed over it, but most were grateful that for once somebody had actually asked.
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Date: 2007-12-20 07:00 pm (UTC)God bless her and wish Santa will bring her whatever she wishes! ;)
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Date: 2007-12-20 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 08:58 pm (UTC)Then Again, I live in the land of Starbucks. And Microsoft.
Neither sell mince pie.
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Date: 2007-12-20 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 09:16 pm (UTC)I'm not a great fan of the mince pie either, really. but it's christmas, it has to be done! :)
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Date: 2007-12-20 09:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-12-20 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 09:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 09:22 pm (UTC)Unless you can deliver Mark Strong for Christmas Day?
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Date: 2007-12-20 09:26 pm (UTC)Great! Then it might definitely be a film for me. Thanks. :)
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Date: 2007-12-20 09:34 pm (UTC)We don't even have a Secretary's day.
If someone used a credit card here, like they did in the film, they'd be arrested!
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Date: 2007-12-20 09:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 09:57 pm (UTC)"Why not?! I'm his wife, I can use his card!!"
"I'm sorry, Ma'am, but the last names don't match and I have no way of knowing you're his wife."
"I just told you I am! I don't have to have my husband's last name!"
"Ma'am, what if some woman stole your husband's wallet? She could run up huge charges on his credit card if no one cared that their names were different." (If course, I didn't ask her why, if she's so hot to use his credit card, they didn't just get the damn bank to issue one in her name. Gotta be polite, even to the idiots.)
"I don't care! I'm his wife and I can use his card!!"
[sigh]
My manager made me take it. :P
The only thing I can think of is it's because if you report your card stolen, you're not responsible for any charges incurred after that point. So the retailers are going to take any card that goes through, figuring that if it's stolen the owner won't have to pay anyway, and if it's not then they don't want to piss off a customer, no matter how stupid the customer's acting. I still get annoyed, though, because credit card theft and fraud protection is one of the justifications for credit card interest rates being so high. :/ Personally, I'd rather the clerks pay a bit of attention when they're handed the card.
Angie
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Date: 2007-12-20 11:38 pm (UTC)Damn. I was with you right up until you said this, and now I wouldn't dare see the film because POTC is hands down the worst 'successful' film I've ever been forced to sit through.
Pity about the pies. I love fruit pies. I'm going to try making baklava. That should be interesting!
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Date: 2007-12-21 12:37 am (UTC)And I suppose this means I'll have to try Enchanted after all.
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Date: 2007-12-21 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-21 07:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-21 11:40 am (UTC)