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ventaNow it's getting scary...
Venta v. the AA, part 3.
(Part 1, Part 2)
I have just written a very snotty letter to the AA. The mother is busy checking it for me, to make sure I've said nothing libellous, and I was passing the time by phoning them to ask to whom I should address my grumblings.
This does, I suppose, at least make me realise that (contrary to my speculations the other day) people do call the AA for purposes other than to say "my car's broke".
However, I got my address. The spelling of building in which the AA's head office is apparently housed (Fanum House) seemed to be such a bizarre collection of letters that, ever suspicious, I thought I'd google to check.
As it happens, the spelling was right. But I found this, which is great. All hail our alien masters (who may or may not be running the AA, I'm not quite clear.)
Venta v. the AA, part 3.
(Part 1, Part 2)
I have just written a very snotty letter to the AA. The mother is busy checking it for me, to make sure I've said nothing libellous, and I was passing the time by phoning them to ask to whom I should address my grumblings.
This does, I suppose, at least make me realise that (contrary to my speculations the other day) people do call the AA for purposes other than to say "my car's broke".
However, I got my address. The spelling of building in which the AA's head office is apparently housed (Fanum House) seemed to be such a bizarre collection of letters that, ever suspicious, I thought I'd google to check.
As it happens, the spelling was right. But I found this, which is great. All hail our alien masters (who may or may not be running the AA, I'm not quite clear.)
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Date: 2004-12-07 03:48 pm (UTC)Without checking the website
Date: 2004-12-07 03:51 pm (UTC)(I associate this more with the RAC, 'cos it's what my father used to do when we went on holiday.)
(My car's not broke, but it might be in future)
(Somebody else is selling me a car which might be broke)
And... ?
Re: Without checking the website
Date: 2004-12-07 03:58 pm (UTC)Re: Without checking the website
Date: 2004-12-07 03:59 pm (UTC)Stop it! You have no discernable accent!
Re: Without checking the website
Date: 2004-12-07 04:01 pm (UTC)Re: Without checking the website
Date: 2004-12-08 12:00 am (UTC)Count yourself lucky with the throttle - new-fangled modern cars have throttle-by-wire, where if the engine management computer (computers? in cars? Whatever next) decides it doesn't like the inputs it's getting, disables it. :)
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Date: 2004-12-08 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-08 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-08 02:14 am (UTC)(I'm afraid I didn't quite follow why it's in Memphis :)
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Date: 2004-12-08 02:16 am (UTC)I'll send it right to you
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Date: 2004-12-08 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-08 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-08 02:25 am (UTC)Having written this last night, I'd forgotten the subject line ;)
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Date: 2004-12-08 07:48 am (UTC)Would this be:
"Dear AA,
You suck.
Yours, Venta."
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Date: 2004-12-08 07:51 am (UTC)I don't have the moral highground very often, I thought I might as well enjoy it while I had ;)
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Date: 2004-12-08 08:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-08 08:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-08 08:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-08 02:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-09 02:18 am (UTC)Is it possible to accidentally libel/slander someone? I thought that "not malicious" was a valid defence in both cases.