Double or Nothing Dating

September 27, 2007

Okay, so me and Brit finally did something we talked about for a long time but never really had the nerve to try – double dating. Now I’m beginning to think we were right to have waited so long. I think we were waiting for the combination of the right people, the right time, the right places to go…or maybe we were just convinced it was a silly idea and wanted to put it off for as long as possible! And considering how it worked out in the end when we finally went for it, maybe we should have kept waiting all along.

We both chose guys we met online, but not the same service. I’ve talked before about Brit sticking with an online service that just brings her nightmares. Her thing, not mine, so we agreed to try our luck by different methods. Of course we both knew what each guy looked like, but neither of us had met their respective dates yet. So it was like most online dating, right? Half-blind or something. Hers was a twenty something computer guy, very shy and long on silences, mine was more of a jock about the same age. Right off the hop it didn’t look like a great combination, but of course we knew better!

We all went to a movie first, but we should have decided beforehand because when we got to the multiplex there was an immediate argument between Brit and my date over which film to go see. With a lot of theatres to choose from, this went on for a few minutes and it was tiring to say the least. I even ended up going into Starbucks with HER date to chill and wait for them to make up their minds. Great start, huh? Finally we settled on his choice all along, Shoot ‘Em Up, which was just another long boring kill-fest that guys can’t seem to get enough of. Brit shared popcorn and seemed to be getting along well with her silent date, but mine was totally into the movie from start to finish and there was no sharing or contact between us. Another great start…

So no sooner had we walked out of this lame movie than Brit and my date start bickering again, this time about which club to go to! I’d just about had it by that time and I was even ready to grab her date and run off with him somewhere, anywhere. Why not? A silent computer guy is much better for me than a loud obnoxious jock that has to get into a fight over every social decision. So what happened next?? You guessed it – the two couples went their separate ways to different club destinations! I kind of felt like the odd person out because there was absolutely no electricity between us, where on the other hand Brit and her date seemed to go much better together.

So I cut out with a headache and cut him off, one date too many for me. But Brit’s still seeing the other guy. Is it one out of two or two out of three that ain’t bad? I forget, but whatever, I guess it’s not in my favor this time.

 

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How To Choose A Beauty Salon

September 9, 2007

There are some horrible stories in the news about catching staph infections and having allergic reactions in beauty salons so I thought I would go to the trouble to write a bit about how to choose a salon that has some integrity.

First of all it is probably a good idea for you to check out a beauty salon before you make an appointment. It doesn’t matter how famous someone is who goes there or what your friends say. A girlfriend can lead you astray because she may not want to give her real beauty secrets away and tell you where she really goes to get her nails or hair done. Your own eyes, sense of smell and judgment will tell you if it is a clean salon and if it is the place for you.

The salon should also be affordable. The best way to find about the treatments at a beauty salon is to ask for a breakdown of their rates and their treatments, which should be readily available in a brochure that they hand out to customers. If a beauty salon does not have this kind of brochure then they are probably not reputable and may change their prices at whim. It also means that they probably change their staff all of the time.

Another good way to find highly rated salons in your area is to look through the services offered listings in local high-end magazines. Often these city style magazines have rating systems that can help you choose a quality high-end beauty salon that you can afford. However avoid reviews where it looks like the Salon that has paid for an ad as the review might be rigged in its favors.

In general it is probably a good idea to avoid beauty salons that are in the more run down areas of town. You also probably have less insurance against an infection or fried hair as the result of a bad perm job if you go to a beauty salon that is a hole in a wall or run out of someone’s home. These cottage industry style beauty salons often cut corners to pay the rent by doing things like not sterilizing their tools, reusing tools and using old product. This can be a recipe for disaster for your looks as well as make you ill.

The best beauty salon is usually located in a more upscale end of town or in a shopping center. Usually they are chains that have some kind of quality control or cleanliness policy in place. As is true with many things in life, the more you pay, the better you will be treated. So in this sense the rates of a beauty salon can tell you a lot about the quality of service that you can expect.

However one drawback of using the more expensive salons is sometimes they have real attitude. Remember that you don’t have to pay money to be treated in an arrogant or insulting way by some guy who thinks he is the next judge of America’s Top Model or Queer Eye show.

 

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The Best Date Treatments At Day Spas

September 3, 2007

I really like preparing for a date at a day spa. There are a lot of great ones in Miami where I live one. The thing is –do you know what beauty are worth the money and which ones should you choose if you have never been to any type of day spa before? Well talk to me I have had every day spa treatment in the world

One of the most popular and worthwhile services offered at many day spas is the therapeutic massage. This is a massage, sometimes done with essential oils or specialty creams in which a masseuse manually manipulates your skin and muscles. This calms my nerves and I find also stimulates the skin by bringing blood circulation to the surface.

Yet another practical and effective service is the facial which can involve a number of practices including analysis of the skin, exfoliation deep cleansing, massage, infrared therapy toning, moisturizing and the removal of black heads. You can also get similar treatments at day spas for the entire body.

These body treatments are basically facials for the whole body that also include exfoliation, toning, heath therapy, moisturizing and massage. One of the most au-courant body treatments is a salt glow or body scrub, an exfoliating treatment where the therapist rubs off the outermost layer of dead skin cells and that stimulates the skin so the circulation is brought to the surface. This gives your whole body a healthy, fresh glow.

Another specialty treatment offered by many day spas is the body wrap. Basically there are two types of body wraps – the detoxifying wrap and the hydrating wrap. Algae, mud, fruit and seaweed are used in detoxifying wraps. Hydrating body wraps consist of such ingredients as shea butter, cocoa butter, avocado and other types of rich creams or oils. Many day spas also add vitamins, flower petals and even chocolate to their wraps to make them more beneficial and pleasant to experience.

Another common offering at day spas is the manicure or pedicures along with foot and leg massages. These massages can be done with aromatherapy. However you can also get these types of services done more cheaply at a hair salon.

Before you go for some of the more exotic services that are offered by day spas such as hot stone therapy, Thai Massage or iridology (looking at the irises of the eyes to diagnose health conditions) you might want to try some of the basic services described above to make sure that it is a quality day spa.

Quality day spas will be ones that come highly recommended by your friends and local magazines. They are also usually located in high-end areas of town. Some of the very best day spas are located inside hotel chains. Also like most things that can be purchased in life, treatments at day spas tend to be better if they are more expensive. This is because the expensive day spas hire better-qualified staff and use more expensive ingredients in their potions.

 

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complaint letter of the year

November 8, 2006

Below is a copy of a letter that won a competition in UK as complaint letter of the year…have a laugh and read on.

Complaint Letter of the Year. The British do have a way with words…. A real-life customer complaint letter sent to NTL (to their complaints dept….)

Dear Cretins,

I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone. During this three-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had

not previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and stupidity of monolithic proportions. Please allow me to provide specific details, so that you can either pursue your professional perogative, and seek to

rectify these difficulties – or more likely (I suspect) so that you can have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working day smoking B&H and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office:

My initial installation was cancelled without warning, resulting in my spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat arse waiting for your technician to arrive. When he did not arrive, I spent a further 57 minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your helpful

website….HOW?

I alleviated the boredom by playing with my testicles for a few minutes – an activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept. The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later, although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools – such as a drill-bit, and his cerebrum. Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived. After 15 telephone calls over 4 weeks my modem arrived… six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for it. I estimate your internet server’s downtime is roughly 35%… hours between about 6pm -midnight, Mon-Fri, and most of the weekend. I am still waiting for my telephone connection. I have made 9 calls on my mobile to your no-help line, and have been unhelpfully transferred to a

variety of disinterested individuals, who are it seems also highly skilled bollock jugglers. I have been informed that a telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that no telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been cut off); that I will be transferred to someone (and then been redirected to an answer machine informing me that your office is closed); that I will be transferred to someone and then been redirected to the irritating Scottish robot woman…and several other variations on this theme.

Doubtless you are no longer reading this letter, as you have at least a thousand other dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of those crucially important testicle-moments to attend to. Frankly I don’t care, it’s far more satisfying as a customer to voice my frustration’s in print than to shout them at your unending hold music. Forgive me, therefore, if I continue. I thought BT were shit, that they had attained the holy piss-pot of godawful customer relations, that no-one, anywhere, ever, could be more disinterested, less helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to their customers. That’s why I chose NTL, and because, well, there isn’t

anyone else is there? How surprised I therefore was, when I discovered to my considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless shower of bastards you truly are. You are sputum-filled pieces of distended rectum incompetents of the highest order. British Telecom – wankers though they are – shine like brilliant beacons of success, in the filthy puss-filled mire of your seemingly limitless inadequacy. Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and foolhardy quest to receive any kind of service from you. I suggest that

you cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for the services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver – any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps bemused rage. I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cats litter tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for both you and your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not become desiccated during transit – they were satisfyingly moist at the time of posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them the very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and its worthless employees.

Have a nice day – may it be the last in you miserable short life, you irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of twats.

John

 

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