if i ever have a dotter she's gonna be trained in muay thay, krav maga and brazilian jiu jitsu, plus have a CC license. men are shit.

True story.. teenage girl "accidentally" let of mace in my classroom last year.. evacuated the entire building.. two fire trucks two ambulances.. i had a chest cold and the mace mixed with my mucous, the core of my chest was burning so bad later that night i contemplated the ER

i have a fun story from many many years ago that involved a can of mace, drunkenness, a test shoot... and distractedly pissing afterwards. ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch! i think i'm lucky i was drunk because it probably hurt less. but it hurt so much it's the only thing i remember from that night.

anyway, a good pepper spray is good shit, ladies. if it can neutralize a bear it can fuck up a two-legged predator. don't leave home without it. just watch out for the wind!

jesus christ! i thought getting it sorta in my eyes once was bad.

both you guys' stories. yeesh.

i'm sorta debating going and telling my neighbours upstairs to shut the fuck up. whatever they're been doing for the past hour sounds like a bowling ball hitting the floor over my bedroom. fuck this.

ooof... apartments. i do not miss that. is this the new place or the one you'll leave soon?

place i'm leaving. gonna start packing after this weekend. i have two weeks until my mini vacation. ugh.

the french will start bangin on your floor with a broomstick if you're making a racket

most decent people will get the message

my experience with gringo yahoos however is that instead of piping down with this signal they start to communicate in morse. it's probably the same with yahoos all around but i don't have that experience.

calling the cops is a bit much unless it's domestic violence

but asking the building manager to talk to them is probably the best thing-- if there's a guard/super/porter/something on duty

it's always tricky to talk to neighbors... they can be pretty nice or they can be real assholes

one time i had a noise complaint for some salvatrucans under my floor...went to talk to them it was like 40 people crammed into a studio apartment having a party. they woulsn't shut it. security guard wasn't around. i started bangin on their ceiling. their response was to send 4 drunken guys to pick a fight with me--i tried talking but they just kept insulting and trying to invite me out. so i called the cops who swiftly arrived & broke the party. poor fuckers were evicted soon after-- they had it coming though...trashed the place, beer bottles in corridor, overoccupancy (5 people in a studio), etc. lucky for me they weren't armed that day--they could have shot through the flimsy door. uffff....

i don't miss living in a shitty apartment with shit neighbors

Just checked my mobile banking and I've had my account cleared out but some unauthorised money transfer. Tried calling the fraud hotline but it's only open 8am - 9pm... The joys of 24 hour banking!

oh, damn, dude!!!!

i'd offer you a drink if i could upload one

well, don't panic-- i had a couple of scams done like that once and all my money was returned-- though they were small sums

oh no, that's awful, stu :[ i hope you can get it back. happened to me a few times and got a bit of it back- hopefully you have better luck.

@ schizo

so what happened with the shit-kickin', speed-takin', truck-drivin' neighbors upstairs?

Shit, good luck. Do you have card protection?

it went on ebbing and flowing til 4:30-5 and eventually i heard security at their door, so the folks across from them must have said something before I ever did (I took a sleeping pill and got too tired to move). they're international students, and I hate to generalize but a lot/most of them are here totally alone/have no clue about a lot of customs/know english just enough to pass toefl so it's a perfect storm of getting away with crap.

oh, you could have totally lorded it over them, then (maybe).

good thing they're not like the characters in that beck song

suchfriends-- haha. god, i don't miss the semester i was in the dorms. i don't know how anyone does it.

which beck song?

and eh, i could, but given my precarious situation here i don't like drawing attention to myself.

I think all major banks protect against this type of fraud now so I'm not too worried and think I will get all my money back... Should find out today.

you should not be worried. this happened to me before and I got my money back (someone withdrew a lot of money from my account in Medelin, Colombia).
I am not sure about Britain but as long as Slovakia has this kind of law offering account protection, I am not worried about UK not having one.
In fact, I think this is something regulated by the EU itself, so worry not.

It happened to me 4 times before. The last time I went to withdraw some cash and the next day it turns out that some people were buying themselves shoes in Berlin. I always got my money back though. I'm not sure what it's like for other banks, but Halifax made the process of getting your money back easier by refunding your account up to £300 without asking you to report the crime to the cops. They do that for you. If they nicked more than that amount from your account you'll have to report it to the police first and then you go to see them.

if anyone wants me to show them the proper computer security to avoid this crap, pm me.

personally i dont use a smartphone for banking and never will.

wi fi hotspots are not safe. not shielding your pin with your hands is not safe. not touching the atm to see if its got a fake cover put on is not safe