ttj - Tom Jones

In the course of finally closing the banking relationship with Sparkasse Schwaz, I decided to take out 100k EUR of the remaining balance via purported currency converters Currencyfair, to CHF and on to a CHF bank account. Starting out a year ago as gold at UBS, before UBS closed my account for not yet having an Austrian TIN, and then encountering Sparkasse Schwaz's comically-mishandled compliance ordeal, these funds are now some way through a "compliance cascade", and the costs of pleading to keep them long-ago exceeded their nominal value. In the latest episode, Currencyfair have encouraged me to send the funds in, only activating checks after they are in possession of them.  Instead of operating the service as normal, and clearing up any checks in the background, they have put the withdrawal "on hold", in a way almost indistinguishable from confiscation.  The amount "on hold" also does not show as an account balance.  The balances are all zero.  The ...

A type II recline seat prick is someone who reclines their seat into someone else's space when it's not night time, and the cabin staff are serving food and drink.  To get their own face above their own tray, when taking a mouthful, the victim of a type II recline seat prick has to head-butt the seat prick's seat.

 I started by searching "fly innsbruck london" on google.  Austrian Airlines had bought an ad.  I clicked on the ad.  It returned a simple error page "You don't have permission to access this resource on the server". I went back and selected a different link under austrian.com.  I filled in the flight details.  There were several form glitches, for example only the digits "20" of the year in the date were visible. On form submission, I got a page with title "Challenge Validation" and "We are processing your request".  It never progressed.  Nothing happened. Instead, I went to skyscanner, and then easyjet.  Easyjet had failed to sell me tickets last time [0].   How will they do this time? [0] < https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2021/12/easyjet-fails.html > Again using my old account (which used to work fine 15 years ago), they again forced a password reset, again switching workflow from web site to email to do this (very bad). I ...