Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,658
    First.Aspect said:

    Pross said:

    My phone regularly correcting a correct word with an incorrect version of the same letters but with an apostrophe e.g. changing were to we’re and ill to I’ll making me look even more stupid than I am.

    Samsung keyboard?
    All my Apple devices do that, drives me bonkers.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,148
    First.Aspect said:

    Pross said:

    My phone regularly correcting a correct word with an incorrect version of the same letters but with an apostrophe e.g. changing were to we’re and ill to I’ll making me look even more stupid than I am.

    Samsung keyboard?
    No iPhone, you’d think it would be programmed to understand context a bit better. It recognises the correct version in the prediction options but changes it after I finish typing.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 19,511
    Wheelspinner said:

    First.Aspect said:

    Pross said:

    My phone regularly correcting a correct word with an incorrect version of the same letters but with an apostrophe e.g. changing were to we’re and ill to I’ll making me look even more stupid than I am.

    Samsung keyboard?
    All my Apple devices do that, drives me bonkers.
    G Board too.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 19,511
    TheBigBean said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Frances Coppola (she who challenged Farridge on TV) agrees that the CEO had to go for breaching confidentiality. But she's resolute that Coutts themselves were well within their rights.

    Has anyone argued their actions in closing his accounts were illegal?

    Yes.


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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 60,598
    edited July 2023
    Pross said:

    Could be worse though, Stevo’s post above has gone wrong making it look like he’s arguing with himself! :lol:

    Do you know how to expand quotes? ;)

    Anyway he knows who he is. Maybe he hasn't replied because he's headed off down to the bottle bank? :)
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,756
    briantrumpet said:

    TheBigBean said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Frances Coppola (she who challenged Farridge on TV) agrees that the CEO had to go for breaching confidentiality. But she's resolute that Coutts themselves were well within their rights.

    Has anyone argued their actions in closing his accounts were illegal?

    Yes.


    If I read that right, it's suggesting that it could have broken information retention laws by creating the dossier of publicly available information on their customer for a specific purpose. Seems a stretch. Is there anything I missed?
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 16,683
    I don't know how there can't have been a GDPR breach, unless Farage is the initial source. Which he isn't as far as I understand.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,756
    First.Aspect said:

    I don't know how there can't have been a GDPR breach, unless Farage is the initial source. Which he isn't as far as I understand.

    The source of what? If the dossier, then it was him that released it, having obtained it via a subject access request.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,969
    Things that annoy me?
    The longevity of this stupid Farage story.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,625
    edited July 2023
    pblakeney said:

    Things that annoy me?
    The longevity of this stupid Farage story.

    I do think it's interesting.

    I think back in the 60s, 70s, etc, there was very much a feeling that the important institutions were run by people who were broadly from the right of the political spectrum, across most of the West. Those on the left were thus counter-cultural, working against the institutions who's default was not aligned with their values.

    I do think that is no longer the case; I think those on the right, even if they are electing right-wing governments, feel that the big institutions, both state and private, are run by people who fall somewhere on the left hand side of the spectrum.

    I think that's broadly right too; the right wing spectrum nowadays is mainly an appeal to the retired or near retirement, and plainly those institutions are run by people of working age, who nowadays are the most likely to vote towards the left.

    So I think the right do genuinely see themselves as counter-cultural at this point. And so that is why they're playing the victim.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,084
    kingstongraham said:

    First.Aspect said:

    I don't know how there can't have been a GDPR breach, unless Farage is the initial source. Which he isn't as far as I understand.

    The source of what? If the dossier, then it was him that released it, having obtained it via a subject access request.
    Seems that Farage's employer at GBN was betting on NatWest shares falling.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,969
    rick_chasey said:

    pblakeney said:

    Things that annoy me?
    The longevity of this stupid Farage story.

    I do think it's interesting.

    ...
    Nah.
    It's just a guy trying to keep himself in the limelight. No need to overthink it.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,625
    edited July 2023
    pblakeney said:

    rick_chasey said:

    pblakeney said:

    Things that annoy me?
    The longevity of this stupid Farage story.

    I do think it's interesting.

    ...
    Nah.
    It's just a guy trying to keep himself in the limelight. No need to overthink it.
    Disagree. What are the conditions that mean it is catching interest.

    There is a general feeling that the modern left (not trade unions and coal strikes) have captured the institutions, and the reflexive response to this Farage thing; even stevo talks about it being captured by the "woke" movement; is indicative of that broader trend.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,625
    You see it a lot in the US. BlackRock is the new Goldman. It towers over the rest of the financial services world, (runs over $9 trillion in assets..>!) in a country where they are heavily financialised.

    Larry Fink talks a lot about responsible, sustainable investment and he's become a lightning rod or that kind of attention. Rockstar capitalists are now trying to be green and cuddly, they talk about the value of diveristy, the value of psychological safety in their companies and they talk about disinvesting in Oil & Gas and weapons and investing in renewables and lifting the poor out of destitution.

    Those on the right now feel those institutions, which used to be on their side, are no longer.

    That's what this Farage thing is about. Coutts is a byword for the elite and the establishment. Now that institution is talking about people like Farage being unpalatable; that's a shift.

    Farage is politically astute enough to pick up on that and run with it. But the conditions have to be there for this thing to take off.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,523
    rjsterry said:

    kingstongraham said:

    First.Aspect said:

    I don't know how there can't have been a GDPR breach, unless Farage is the initial source. Which he isn't as far as I understand.

    The source of what? If the dossier, then it was him that released it, having obtained it via a subject access request.
    Seems that Farage's employer at GBN was betting on NatWest shares falling.
    Think he took that position a while ago.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,523
    Quite a few people think this is a decent issue for Farage to get campaigning about, so some good might come of it.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,756
    I bet he's said something about bakers and gay marriage in the past.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 16,683
    edited July 2023
    kingstongraham said:

    First.Aspect said:

    I don't know how there can't have been a GDPR breach, unless Farage is the initial source. Which he isn't as far as I understand.

    The source of what? If the dossier, then it was him that released it, having obtained it via a subject access request.
    The bank will be the data controller, and Farage the data subject. I think the "data" would include whether or not his balance exceeded £1M, and even whether or not he had an account and whether that had been closed with or without his consent. That is all personal data. That data was shared with the BBC by an employee of the dara controller. It does not appear to have been disclosed with consent.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,756
    Now the Coutts CEO has resigned. This is all a bit silly now, isn't it?
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 60,598
    kingstongraham said:

    Now the Coutts CEO has resigned. This is all a bit silly now, isn't it?

    Why do you say that?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,625
    Who knew Farage in 2023 would be good for the exec search business, eh?
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 60,598
    rick_chasey said:

    Who knew Farage in 2023 would be good for the exec search business, eh?

    It's also created a weird 'reverse polarity' situation where the right are saying there needs to be more regulation of banks and the left of centre brigade saying that banks need to be left to make their own decisions :)
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,756
    Stevo_666 said:

    kingstongraham said:

    Now the Coutts CEO has resigned. This is all a bit silly now, isn't it?

    Why do you say that?
    Because I'm not aware of him doing anything wrong.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,756
    I don't think a CEO should resign every time someone feels they are treated unfairly by a bank.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,625
    Stevo_666 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Who knew Farage in 2023 would be good for the exec search business, eh?

    It's also created a weird 'reverse polarity' situation where the right are saying there needs to be more regulation of banks and the left of centre brigade saying that banks need to be left to make their own decisions :)
    This is exactly what I mean about the switch in which side of the spectrum believes they have the institutions on their side.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 19,511
    kingstongraham said:

    I don't think a CEO should resign every time someone feels they are treated unfairly by a bank.


    There's also a process going on to assess culpability.

    I'm no fan of the banking industry, but my impression is that Farage is just seeing what he can wreck in retribution for the hurty feelings, and flexing his political muscle in the same way that Trump does, especially as Johnson seems to have vacated the space.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 60,598
    kingstongraham said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    kingstongraham said:

    Now the Coutts CEO has resigned. This is all a bit silly now, isn't it?

    Why do you say that?
    Because I'm not aware of him doing anything wrong.
    You think he resigned for no reason then?
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,084
    kingstongraham said:

    I don't think a CEO should resign every time someone feels they are treated unfairly by a bank.

    Clearly they almost never do.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,756
    rjsterry said:

    kingstongraham said:

    I don't think a CEO should resign every time someone feels they are treated unfairly by a bank.

    Clearly they almost never do.
    Quite.
  • Jezyboy
    Jezyboy Posts: 3,536
    I'm still surprised there isn't more fuss around the news that the chief pretend anti establishment censored banks (or banked) with the poshest bank out there. I'm also continually surprised by how well a retired politician (who never successfully got elected as an MP) and part time news presenter on a low production value channel, manages to play the media. I guess he deserves a congratulations for that.

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