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With the recent tax increase here in the UK. It seems that taking drugs is actually cheaper than going to the pub. Alright so taking drugs might be illegal, But its the direction that the government is pushing the people towards which is pretty shifty in my opinion.

Recently across the news, the government have been working hard to stop binge drinking and forcing supermarkets to stop selling low priced high alcohol beer. But with this recent tax hike, Surely more people will be looking to get a drink at their local supermarket and have a party at home. Rather than spending £3 - £4 a pint.

The Metro yesterday published a price comparison chart, where it shows the price of a pint compared to the price of various drugs. Here’s how it looked:

Price of a pint - Most of the UK £3. London £4

A pack of 20 cigarettes - £5.66 (Highest price i believe)

A line of cocaine - £3

Ecstasy Pill - £2.91

Line of speed - 63 pence

Hash (Resin) Spliff - 90 pence

Skunk (Weed) Spliff - £1.70

Hit of heroin - £3.50

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This post is continued from the previous post Named Yet Another Day…35 Hours Wasted On The Phone With Virgin Media

It appears that if the net speed EVER reaches over at least 10mbps/ Then that’s your 20MBPS. It doesn’t matter if it never reaches that speed again. The point is that it has reached that speed at least once in its lifetime.

So although Virgin Media may advertise a 20mbps connection. You will never actually achieve it. I was told this by Michael Bradley at the broadband support.

The fastest connection i have had which lasted for a total of 25 seconds. was approximately 1400 kps Which by the maths of Michael Bradley is 14MBPS. Far from 20MBPS. But hey. Virgin Media don’t actually state you will ever get 20MBPS. They just say you can get ‘up to’ this speed. They also don’t tell you, that if your speed is below this on any other website/gaming/whatever. It doesn’t matter. As they say you will get these speeds form the Virgin Media network. A network which to be quite honest doesn’t interest me in the slightest.

Michael Bradley was supposed to call me back right away with his manager to speak to me. Which didn’t happen (Why doesn’t this surprise me in the slightest?) I called back 11:33 and spoke to a guy named Ian.

Now Ian seems quite smart. He explained to me that my speed is actually slower than it should be. And that there is a fault in my area. Not on my cable. But it is in my area. SO although it shouldn’t be affecting me. It might be. He raised a complaint to his managers and i should receive a call back from them with in 5 working days (Will it happen? I doubt it)

Ian was pretty pissed off with the whole thing. As he says it makes his job harder. He then advised me to call 150 and get the lack of customer support dealt with. Read the rest of this entry »

If you didn’t believe me the first time when i said Virgin Media Sucks. You might just change your mind after reading this latest post.

This whole event took place over a 35 hour period. It started on the 11th of March at 9am. And ended at 8pm on the 12th of March.

I called up regarding my slow Internet on the 11th of march quite early in the day. Me and a guy named Dan ran through some tests and both of us agreed that my speeds weren’t right. He promptly booked a Virgin Media engineer to come round and take a look. The Engineer arrived the same day. At around 3pm.

Again we ran through tests and he called his boss and got his boss to help him through yet more test procedures on the computer.

After about 30 Min’s running these tests with the engineer, he told me there was nothing else he could do. Said he needed his manager to come round with a laptop that can test all kinds of funky stuff. I was asked when i would like the manager to call me back as he was unavailable at that time. Read the rest of this entry »