NTL : You are a bunch of fucking useless wankers.
The story:
I left the UK on May 2nd 2006.
Three weeks before, I called them up, told them I was leaving and paid my final bill. They arranged to send someone round on May 6th to collect the cable box. I made arrangements with a [...]

Ok. Here’s something I’ve been planning for a while. Probably since the first day I got here in fact. And seeing as that’s been over four months now, I think it’s about time.
I can compare candy bars, pick up on the differences in spelling, accent and humor, or whine about things that are different [...]

“But everyone is fat and carries a gun!” said a friend of mine to me in an eMail the other day. Yes J, thats things you know about America from TV and the movies. Along with other over-used crass stereotypes such as “Only 10% have passports, and it’s full of crime”. [...]

My favourite local radio station here in Charleston The Drive has a tag line of - ‘The Drive 100.5 - Where it’s all about the music’. They play a good mix of old and current stuff that I like, and they stuff in an odd random tune now and then that I don’t know - [...]

Location: The Mount Pleasant Towne Centre Shopping Mall. Date: Saturday 16th September 2006 Time: Between 7.10 and 7.25pm - as the sun is setting.

Six encounters:
I’m sat on a concrete window ledge, outside the Gap store. It’s one of the those ledges where as you turn to sit your bum on it, you think “Is [...]

“Are you going to drive then?” said Leigh as we could both see outside now that it was raining.
Yup .. September is here, summer is waning, the rain is falling, and I’ve stopped wearing shorts and have actually worn trousers (pants) for the last three day in a row. It’s actually quite nice to cover [...]

i. To everyone that keeps telling me to go to BritSuperstore or similar to buy all the things I miss, here’s why I’m NOT getting any Ribena sent to me this way: The shipping is three times the amount of the drink itself!
I am not paying fourteen fucking quid ($30) for some. I love it, [...]

[17:00]
Ok, so … iTunes 7.0 downloaded.
First things first - do I get a movie? No … because it’s USA store only (and i’m still signed up to the UK one).
Instead I go straight for the games, and something I used to play to death in my teenage years.
Yup .. Pac Man on my iPod! [...]

This week I’ve caught up with various people socially in Charleston, and it seems to me that they ALL have pets.
Mainly it seems to be cats and dogs, and I’ve seen or heard about so many this week, that I’ve started to wonder: “Is it more common for people in the USA to have a [...]

Leigh had never heard of this the other day when I tried it on her, and I just wondered if it was a British thing, or just a Geoff thing. Or maybe there are loads of you out there who know this method.
Can’t remember if there are 30 or 31 days in a month? [...]

I went to the only place in Charleston today that I’ve found so far that sells Ribena. It’s the Nirlip Indian restaurant out on Highway 17. I’d seen it on their shelves many weeks back when I’d been out to dinner there, and knew that I would go back to buy some once my [...]