To get the stains out of your white shirts:
– For old stains: soak the shirt in white vinegar or use a prewash stain remover.
– For new stains: soak the shirt in ammonia.
Then wash the shirt in the hottest water possible for the fabric using an oxygenated bleach or a product containing enzymes.

I have just noticed and believe that Bell Canada has been incorrectly charging the GST and PST on my Bell Mobility account.

My exact example is as follows:

Plan charge of $20
Usage charge of $22.80
Long Distance charge of $3.00
Subtotal of $45.80

The above was/is undisputed and agreed upon by both Bell and myself. However the discrepancy lies with the tax amounts charged.

They were charging $2.31 for GST and $3.76 for PST. I can’t tell you why I decided to double check the amounts but I do periodically with all my bills and when I did I discovered that those amounts were incorrect. 5% GST on $45.80 should be $2.29 and 8% PST should be $3.66.

The difference was only $0.12 but it was the principle of the matter. If Bell is doing this with all of its customers they are making quite a mint! I spent just over an hour on the phone with Bell, and at times it got quite heated. In the end I got my $0.12 back but couldn’t get it through their heads that their system was improperly calculating the amounts. And for the life of me they refused to follow the simple calculations on a calculator. Now I will be going back through my previous bills to see just how much they have over charged me.

After talking to a couple of my own friends and asking them to double check their bills, they too have small discrepancies. I know its only a few cents, but on a large scale, Bell is potentially taking in millions of dollars that they should not be.

I am curious to know if anyone else has had the same complaint or if I am missing something?

Let’s do the math together, shall we?

Actual math: $45.80 x 5% (GST) = $2.29

Bell’s math has to be either $45.80 x 5.05% (GST) = $2.31  OR $46.25 x 5% (GST) = $2.31

For the PST:

Actual math: $45.80 x 8% = $3.66

Bell’s math:  $45.80 x 8.22%= $3.76  OR $47.00 x 8% (PST) = $3.76

Now a simple calculation on say 3 million customers being overcharged $0.12 per month = $360,000 per month = $4.32 million a year from miscalculating the tax.  Nice work if you can get it.

Bell’s math is just wrong.  Or am I?  Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Not Just your Dirty Mind

I see a lot of the innuendo, but what’s up with this girl lying down at the bottom?

People with real talent amaze me.

Ctrl-Alt-Up – right side up

Ctrl-Alt-Right – 90 degrees

Ctrl-Alt-Down – 180 degrees

Ctrl-Alt-Left – 270 degrees

Not that I would, but people who leave their computer’s unattended need to have this happen to them. Often.

1.Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a bellybutton. (it was sewn up through several operations)

3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.

4. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop even your heart!

5. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

6. Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until they are 2-6 years old.

7. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

8. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

9. The average housefly lives for one month.

10. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

11. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

12. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.

13. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

14. If coloring weren’t added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

15. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

16. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.