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One Direction confirm Zayn Malik has left the group | Music | The Guardian.

I guess this news isn’t going to impress many either.

It’s a brave decision though, hope he understand what a normal 22 year old is else he’s going to have a lot of trouble being one.

Jeremy Clarkson dropped from Top Gear, BBC confirms – BBC News.

How typically BBC and it’s Old Boy network that regardless of who Clarkson has attacked over the years they’ve made their excuses and let him carry on yet, he attacks one of the ‘Boys’ at the BBC and he’s sacked!

It says way more about the BBC than it does JC. Even when announcing the news the man from the Beeb was practically apologetic as though, if he could find some way of letting it go he would. I’d not be at all shocked were JC not back on Top Gear in 2016

Now, sadly, this does leave rather a lot of confusion for those booked for a ‘Top Gear Live’ event. I am not entirely sure what is going to happen there but, surely all must be cancelled now? As of the latest I’ve been able to discover, the organisers and promoters are certain the shows will go ahead as planned with the Top Gear presenters, May, Hammond and Clarkson. Whether they can legally use a man sacked from the show to represent it internationally is another question, one which would be a major embarrassment to the BBC.

But, good old Jeremy eh? A bit of a knob says James May, well, that’s kind of an understatement mate. He’s a sexist, homophobic out of touch snob is what he is coupled with a large degree of racism thrown in and total disregard for anyone who doesn’t think how he does.

My personal experience of the man was when he unusually refused to meet the guests on a show he co-hosted with Ruby Wax and his reason was that he didn’t want to spend any more time with that sort of people than he had to … the show was about gay parents.

Perhaps now Top Gear can get back to what it used to be really good at, presenting cars in a fun and entertaining way across the broad range, not just Super Cars. Perhaps it can get back to letting the cars be the stars and not how Clarkson and crew now have it that the cars are almost an annoying interruption to their version of entertainment

I cancelled them nearly 2 months back because they were costing too much … I look at my account with them and it seems they overcharged me, on average, £20 a month based on actual usage. When I left I got charged a £60 fee for leaving and that still left me in credit by nearly £40!

I’ve been trying to get the money back for a while but they say they won’t pay until a 3rd party organisation verifies that the switch was all above board and my meter readings are likely to be accurate! They already done this for gas and I was ‘honest’ there, my last meter readings for electricity were slightly higher than the estimate OVO made so, you’d think they’d take it as a given I am not trying to commit fraud but, anyway …

Stupid me didn’t cancel the direct debit with them, today they took another £163 from my account!

Spoke to OVO, they said they’re entitled to keep taking payments until they finalise everything and they’ll refund me with my last bill which can take up to another 3 weeks!

I mentioned that they are not agreeing with my current viewpoint on the matter (or words to that effect). I then spoke to a manager who said they’d made one or two mistakes and agreed, taking the money was in error as they’d agreed to take no further payments. She suggested I contact my bank. Did that and the money should be refunded this evening. How much longer I have to wait for the final amount OVO owe me is anyone’s guess ….

That said, the council owe me nearly £400, have done for a couple of weeks and I am still waiting for that too. When I pay people, my lovely bank gets it into their account within 2 hours and often within seconds. Strange how many companies ‘cannot’ do the same thing.

Spending too long trying to work out how to do what isn’t really that important, how to change a crew logo to get a transparent background … I know, it’s the riddle of the century!

Well, I worked out and the finished bit says that the background is transparent, just need to wait see if it ever actually uploads to the game now!

The white should be invisible when used in the game so, we shall see.

On another note …

My mystery bug seems to be getting better, yay! I also really do feel Vision Express cannot make glasses! I am sure the lenses are not thinned at all, they are way thicker than my old pair which were no more thinned than the new. With the new pair giving me headaches because of the pressure, I am not a haply bunny!