All quiet on the blogging front recently, hyperbolic geometry is keeping me busy. Once I finish my dissertation it’s straight into exams for a couple of weeks until I pop out a free man on the 16th May.
That will be interesting. I’ll be unemployed!
Oh and my fandabby hyperbolic tree whatsomograph will be open sourced and put on the site once it’s all signed off and the code is frozen. In the mean time this should keep you entertained for all of 30 seconds.
Well as expected I didn’t get a call back from Tesco this morning about my order. I managed to get through to the store after about 10 minutes of trying but the delivery manager wasn’t there so I left a message. Of course I never got called back.
Called a bit later and she finally answered the phone. She gave me some story about a driver being ill last night which she didn’t find out about until I started chasing the order! So if I hadn’t chased it would I never have seen my money or my order again!!
So she reschedules it for tomorrow, two days after the order was due, but while she’s tapping away on her keyboard she mutters “At least I didn’t lie to you…”. WHAT THE HELL! I expect you to be honest with me! That’s not a bonus! It’s not a good thing that I should be pleased about, its a normal thing that should always be the case.
She offered me a ¬£10 discount which isn’t nearly enough for the trouble we have been through. I think she expected me to be impressed by that gesture but I totally wasn’t. She should have driven over here herself and filled my fridge, freezer and cuboards with all of my food to make up for all this crap.
I hope for their sake that it comes tomorrow.
UPDATE: Order finally arived at 1:30pm (44 hours late)
UPDATE 2: Thanks to Matt for pointing out some of you may be seeing Google ads for Tesco even though I am bashing them on this site. I am rather conflicted on whether you should click on them or not ;-).
It’s no secret that as students with no car and living in the middle of Birmingham that doing a big supermarket shop is near impossible. And so we rely on internet orders and deliveries from the major supermarket chains to keep us fed. Out of all the supermarkets that provide this serivce Tesco are without a doubt, hands down the worst around and we have literally tried them all.
So please peruse the following list of atrocities inflicted on us by Tesco (I’m sure there are more I have forgotten, feel free to comment):
- Van ‘broke down’ so delivery was rescheduled for later in the week
- No delivery because the driver ran out of time and went home
- Driver dumps all the food crates on the pavement with no method of moving them to the flat and drives off
- Driver spends five minutes on the phone before stopping to look in my direction and give me the delivery
- Delivery never made, rescheduled for the following day. No vans available so a staff member turns up in his car with our delivery in his boot! Most of the things after being taken on and off vans and in out of cars several times is damaged. While we load up our trolley he discusses with us the finer points of Tesco deliveries.
That was the last time we dealt with Tesco delivery until today. I recieved an email from them earlier in the week that encouraged me to try them again after the recent bad service I had. What the hell I needed some food, they couldn’t be as bad as last time I thought! Lets book them for between 5 and 7 tomorrow.
So 5pm came and went. Two hours elapsed and still nothing.
So we call head office who have no idea what is going on with the order. They phone the local branch but there is no reply and tell us they will call back when they do.
No call back is made. So we call again and the branch still isn’t responding. In the year 2006 a huge supermarket is incapable of answering the phone. This supermarket is open 24 hours. They run deliveries right up till midnight.
What the hell! Where is my food!
So now we wait to be called back tomorrow morning when hopefully someone can actually pick up a phone and put it to their face. But I know this is not going to happen.
This was your last chance. I gave you one more try after you pleaded forgiveness. Why offer what you can’t deliver? Why tell me you have changed when you clearly haven’t? You messed up and screwed us over. So I only have one thing to say,

FUCK YOU TESCO!!
I have been searching all over the place for these stupid Danish cartoons of Mohammed that seem to be causing such a riot accross the Middle East and finally came accross them here.
All I can say is get over it, it’s a bloody cartoon.
Wow I am actually posting from my phone using the new opera mini! mini.opera.com
Things will be quiet on the blog front for at least a few days while I knuckle down and hammer out my January exams. It’s the final year so there are no room for cock ups, I hope everyone else going through the same thing right now has good luck, I know I need it.
In the mean time do not visit wimp.com, you will waste a ton of time. See you after the jump!
This whole Blair vs Chirac thing is just getting silly now. I accept our food isn’t the finest in the world but worse than Finland? Come on! If Paris gets the olympics tomorrow, which it probablly will, he’s going to be even more smug.
There is no way this stuff can be real, it’s just crazily good. Wow.
via BoingBoing
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