What bulls**t is this?

I have a Basic account who should be FREE but because of this VAT crap I have
US Dollar balance: -US$12.04

I have to pay VAT for a thing that's free? I already sended a Mail to Linden Labs but they must be busy since It's been 3weeks and I got no reply... And now my acc it's disable because I have that balance a vat charge for something that is free...

How can you charge VAT on nothing? Are you sure it's for VAT?

Have you been purchasing L$, there's a VAT charge for the transaction fee. You'd have to have purchased a shed load to get a fee like that though.

Have you bought anything at all from Linden Lab?

Have you shared your password with another user?

Have you checked your transaction history?

"Shed load", you Brits and your quaint measurements. How many drams in a shed load? Bushels? Hogsheads? Or is more linear like rods, chains, or furlongs?

Excuse me, I now have to go drive 2 miles to the store to buy a quart of milk, and three quarters of a pound of butter and a dozen doughnuts and put a couple of gallons of gas (which is liquid) in my car and all I have is a few pints of quarters and dimes to pay for it with. Although I shan't queue up for any of it.

Bloody Brits and their bloody quaint measures can all sod off! Say 'ello to the Queen for me.

At least we know what a gallons and pints are, unlike you weirdoes and your strange take on measurements

Couldn't put it better myself

Malachi, I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume this is just a poor attempt at humor rather than flaming.

The amount of anti-Americanism is way out of line in SL and in these forums. Please don't validate others generalizations about us and make us all look bad.

Ahhh well the British have been measuring and weighing things for many many centuries you see, not just for a few hundred years

I took is as humour. I don't think he meant anything malicious.

Ok. Didn't seem in character otherwise. I think I'm a little jumpy after some of the bashing recently. Maybe it's a sign I should go to bed. 4:30am here.

Well it looks like they charged VAT for the premium acc I've bought in June...
then I downgraded it and they still charged the VAT? what the hell?

hehe - I think it's how many dramas in a shedload.....

And why no mention of those hallowed measurements the peck and the gill? You need to do a boatload of more research Mal.....

Inc

Am I the only american who likes Metric???

I think it is a character flaw from too much Monty Python's Flying Circus in my formative years.

My humor is really dry deadpan, and find that it is most often read as intended by Brits. I guess I should use more smileys or sumptin. Sorry if anyone read it as anything other than self-mockery for my backward nation that sells liquor in milliliters, street drugs in grams, and has km on speedometers but not on road signs and doesn't know what metric is outside of those.

( for safety)

You havent heard of a teenth or a henry then

I LOVE Americans !!!!


It's the Yanks that I can't stand

I wouldn't single America out. Maybe it hits you more because you live there? Frankly I'm sick to death of the generalisations made about European residents in the wake of the VAT crisis, which range from typical behaviour in-world to the inferiority of our RL political systems which would undoubtedly be much different had you not stepped into the war two years too late or thrown a bunch of tea leaves into the sea a couple of hundred years before that. I've seen Brazilian residents singled out for this kind of Xenophobic treatment too, so maybe it's time to question why anti-American sentiment is on the rise here and address the other side of the problem.

Believe it or not, every continent has its morons, and they tend to be the most vocal during times of crisis. They have never, and will never, define or speak for everybody though.

H. W. Fowler, in Modern English Usage says of irony:

Irony is a form of utterance that postulates a double audience, consisting of one party that hearing shall hear & shall not understand, & another party that, when more is meant than meets the ear, is aware both of that more & of the outsiders’ incomprehension.

Something peculiar to the British sense of humour?

Inc

It wasn't a bad attempt at humour and I thought it was quite funny. If laughs were physical objects, there would be a shedload of them on the floor of my study right now.

3 weeks ago? Vat was not announced that long ago, was it?

I hesitate to be the first to mention it, but isn't a shedload just a Bowdlerised version of a shitload?


Or is that a shipload?


How many L$ would it take to fill a shed anyway...?


*goes away muttering*

Yes.

Shed shares a common etymology with shit. "Shed" as in "separate" (from the body).

I certainly recall shedload being used before shitload by my parents and grandparents. Probably because the latter wasn't appropriate around small children. Having said that, I'm more likely to use shedload unless the conversation in question is particularly coarse or sarcastic.

Yes irony....lost on those who think its a department in the hardware store