once again, i gotta go :/

[kryt]

Well, its happened, the 200 pound phone bill that noone wants. Ive just got it, and im fraid im gonna have to dissapear for a coupla months untils its paid and, hopefully when i return, i shall be on ISDN

but all shall see
See you all in a coupla months
Kryten
your Friendly Protagonist Type Bloke

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[old.TUG]

200 quid? Bargain!!!

Mine was 330.. not good really specially seeing as im unemployed at the mo... oopz!

 

[kryt]

1. 200 quid for the month not quarter
2. i just sold me logitech formula force wheel and pedals for 80 quid

so fuckit

back online

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[old.TUG]

fuck me 200 quid a month!!! I think u better give those porn sites a miss now m8

lets see - 200*12= 2400...

O dear im disconnecting RIGHT now!!!

 

[old.[GA] Shovel]

I think we may as well ignore Kryten next time he says he's leaving.

1 ."I'm leaving GA".... "Oh OK I'll come back"
2. "I'm fed up and ****, I'm giving it all up".... "Oh OK I'll come back"
3. "I've just run up a £200 phone bill by forgettting to check my pay scheme with NTL".... "Oh OK I'll come back... Ooo, I can afford ISDN too"

Number 3: how does that work?

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[old.[TFC]Perplex]

Shovel, piss off. Krytes awight.

Kry mate...think yourself lucky. When I was living in Reading my phonebill was £240 + a MONTH for 1 and a half years.

it rocketed to over £400 one particular month when I bought EverQuest. (I promptly snapped the EQ CD in half after getting that bill)

Either way....just more drivel

See ya Kry

 

[kryt]

erk perp! f00king hell!
well Shovel
ISDN - 116 quid for line conversion and 35 quid for an Asuscom ISDN card - the starting costs
Rental is 40 quid a month, including 15 quids of calls
Add that to the Claranet 80 deal
thats 29.99 for 80 hours
Thusly, 70 quid per month, will give me, what i worked out at 4 hours a night, and all weekend with my curent BTI account.
Compared to a 200 bill thats quit a saving

Anyway, Everquest sucks

Long Live Quake 2, Frag or Be Fragged

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[Xtro 2.0]

Yes I'm bumping an age old thread but it made me laugh.

Remember the phone bills of dread?

I racked up bills of about 3-400 quid a MONTH due to Tribes, QW, etc.

Anyone else rack 'em up? Gf would go crazy and her parents couldn't ever telephone us of course.

Thank god for unlimited access now.

/edit: some old faces in this thread btw

 

[Damini]

We got one once - £700.

Bt were such bastards about it.

"We like to contact our clients when there phone bills are higher than normal, in case they are not aware of the situation. We do this to safeguard our clients from excessively high bills they were not expecting. Your bill for this quarter is currently at £780."

And, ever since then, I have hated BT. I enquired when they were going to be introducing flat rate internet charges, like they have in America, and I was completely reemed by them.

NEVER. They said, and started laying into me over why it could never ever happen, naive annoying girl who went to america and saw how cheap they got the internet for.

Boy, wish I'd kept that e-mail now.

 

[bigfoot]

Yeah I got my first £260 bill through from NTL (for a month) and had to go out and get a job in a betting shop to pay for it (and all subsequent billz).

 

[mank]

I think I managed something like £800 in a quarter during the summer holidays. I didn't understand the concept of peak rate and how much it cost etc and I'd spend most of the day online without knowing how much it was going to be. It was quite a surprise when it arrived, I was only 13 or something and my parents went 'a bit mental'. That was playing lots of Q2

 

[ECA]

I managed to piss my parents off by running up a 650 quid phonebill playing tribes one summer *cough*

:-]

 

[Xavier]

Back when ClaraNet had that annoying autodialler my system used to automatically connect for hours at a time, even when I was out (yeah, ok, never turned the PC off - so partially my fault...)

I was woken one morning by crazed screams from downstairs, turns out NTL delivered not one but three envelopes of phone bills for my account into the hands of my crazed landlady who opened one on autopilot and saw the bills total of £280... or so she thought.

So after much shouting and argument I went upstairs with all three envelopes and looked in the other two - turns out the £280 was the running total for bill 2 of 3 or something, total payable about £435...

Thankfully I'd just sold my car so I paid it there and then, but for the next few nights I had nightmares of this crazed old woman creeping into my bedroom with a carving knife :scared:

 

[Jonaldo]

Originally posted by Xavier
Thankfully I'd just sold my car so I paid it there and then, but for the next few nights I had nightmares of this crazed old woman creeping into my bedroom with a carving knife :scared:

Marriage?

 

[Munkey-]

Gosh, havent seen those chaps in ages.

I used to rack up 400 quid phone bills playing Jedi Knight non-stop on freeserve.

as xtro said. thank god for unlimited access

 

[old.Dillinja]

Highest one I ever had before I got broadband was 70 quid, doesn't seem so bad after seeing some of yours.

 

[Sir Frizz]

The most i've racked up is about 40 - 50 quid.

Yeah, i'm a good boy.

 

[Jonaldo]

Racked up about £300 bill downloading certain software on a 14.4k modem on my Amiga some years ago
And this modem was a huge fan cooled box with a flip down front and lcd display

edit: oh this was before I knew what the internet was all BBS's (I'm no bluebox haXx0r)

 

[WPKenny]

I think our biggest bill was about 400 quid back when I played on wireplay for 2.5p/min.

 

[pcg79]

ditto Kenny - but i was like 12 -my mum went through the roof.

 

[PR.]

The most expensive I had was £160 in a month, at the time I was only earning £160 a month

 

[Yoni]

£800 for one month was my worst :uhoh: it was after that I left the Isle of Man and moved to the UK where I could go online for an unlimited time

 

[Teh Krypt]

I spent £135 in 2weeks on the phone to a certain girl. Those long nights on the phone were worth it tho!

 

[mank]

There is a blatant joke here which I'm not going to make because he'll throw a strop and I'll get banned.

someone else do it, please

 

[FatBusinessman]

Don't need to - the joke is much funnier in potentia.

 

[Jonaldo]

Originally posted by mank
There is a blatant joke here which I'm not going to make because he'll throw a strop and I'll get banned.

someone else do it, please

um?
Knock knock?

 

[Will]

Originally posted by mank
someone else do it, please

Something about 50p a minute?

 

[Sar]

£175 per month.

Thank GOD for broadband.

 

[mank]

Originally posted by Will
Something about 50p a minute?

Something like that, yeah. Premium rate, baby!

 

[Xavier]

:uhoh: