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Just got my phone bill for the Christmas period where we went to Oz for 2 weeks, Singapore being my base and SingTel being my provider. Talk about bill shock, $2,987 data roaming charges.
Reduced by $2,948 because of the temporary roaming plan I used, it is really scary that without the plan some poor bastard (me last time) would be up for almost 3k.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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What have you do to get a bill of almost 3K for two weeks!?!?!??!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Approx 150mb of traffick, email and only essential web. Oz roaming charge are truly eye watering.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: essential web
That's a typo.
It's missing an 'n', an 'o', a 'p', and an 'r', and all the other letters are superfluous.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What's sad is that for 3k he could've gotten several real life an 'o', a 'h', a 'k', another 'o', a 'r', a 's', and of course an 'e'.
Jeremy Falcon
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Yeah but the wife would not have got her emails and would have a new pair of bookends!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: only essential web
qv pron
veni bibi saltavi
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In Cairns, in summer, pron is not required, you can see all the eye candy you want just walking down the street and then you can go tho the beach!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Are you really sure you want to know that? 
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Yeah, when I went on holiday I got a text stating: 14€/Mb.
Being on holiday and not in the mood to go figure out how to turn off data roaming and such, I just left my phone in airplane mode and turned only Wifi on.
Added bonus: I wasn't bothered by any phone calls / texts 
Tom
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I have done that in more enlightened countries but Oz still live in the dark ages in some respects, wifi is not available everywhere and we did not have it where we were staying.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Hmm that does make it a bit difficult.
I had WiFi in the hotel, and that really was enough, I didn't need to be available for anyone or need to read my mails instantly so I just checked them in the evening.
Tom
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I remember hearing of one Canadian who went down to Florida for 2 weeks and was downloading movies galore etc.... WITHOUT a roaming plan - her bill was in the 70 or 80Ks....
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Yes, once bitten...
During Hurricane Wilma, our company lost power, etc.
I traveled up north, and every client called me on my cell.
I did NOT THINK about the minutes. It was pretty much 10hrs/day, every day, on the cell,
sometimes with 3 way calling... For 7 business days...
I was LIT... I called Sprint, they basically said "Tough", you should have pre-purchased extra minutes. I changed my plan to a plan that has a FIXED rate of $0.10/min if I go over my minutes... (Years later, I have never used it).
I turned the bill in on my expense report. I think I was 3,000 minutes over at 0.45/min.
My boss was visibly shaken, but eventually paid it...
After that I have been extremely careful. There should be a setting "After $600.00 shut the phone off!" But you know the phone company doesnt want that.
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Which just goes to show that the amount they want to charge is shullbit.
Like a doctor's bill that magically gets negotiated down to 10% of the original once an insurance company gets involved.
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The One And Only Real Movie Quote Of The Day
Only high-powered, neurotic, castrating, Manhattan career bitches wear black.
Which movie?
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
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Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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First thing that popped into my head was Uriah Heep - Lady In Black, but it's not a movie 
Rambo: First fashion choice
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The Powerpuff Girls? 
V. wrote: The One And Only Real Movie Quote Of The Day
Is there a pseudo version of the One and Only MQOTD as well?
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Catwoman
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The Black Cat
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Come dine with me
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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And Greed is Good?
Life is too shor
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