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A taste of Republican blogger craziness: "Hey, nationalised medicine = death panels. Therefore this democrat who's wife just broke her back should have her euthanised.. Dude, seriously, what the fuck? Via zoethe

Darkest use of the TV theme tune I've seen (warning, bloody, NSFW)

Warren Ellis on God(s) via warren_ellis

The True Meaning Of Easter via theweaselking. The rest of the website is also good.

Amazon advice...

Recently I ordered the complete everything ever of Babylon 5, and was looking forward to sitting down to watch it with mapp (who half owns it due to me suggesting it as a way to pay off what I owed him from when my card was cancelled for half a week). When it arrived, having be prewarned by one of the reviews, I went through all of the DVDs inside to check they were the right ones.

They weren't. I had two copies of Crusade, and none of Season Two B5. I was all :(

I speak to amazon, they go "Send it back to us, we'll send you a new one at the same time, we'll repay you for sending it. If it's worth over £50, you should make sure it gets signed for."

I trundle down to my local post office, given the size and weight, plus the value of it, they reccomend a 2 day delivery thing that gets signed for, and insures the stuff. Given that if they don't get it back, Amazon will charge me for the item a second time, I agree this is a good idea, and pay the £12.50 for it.

I've just got an email from Amazon saying that they're going to pay me back the "FreeReplacementReturnShipping Refund: £1.24".

£1.24?!? There was no way I could ever send those DVDs back for that little, it's a chunky and solid box with about a hundred hours of video on 42 disks in 14 boxes. My guess is that £1.24 is what it would cost to return a single DVD in single box, as those can go in the 'thick envelope' size.

So, I'm planning to communicate to them that it cost me rather more than £1.24 to get the box back to them, so refund me the full postage you fucking fucks, but in a more polite, yet still reasonable forceful manner.

Having had not much experience in official complaints of this manner, I'm looking for advice from my friendslist – firstly on whether I should complain via phone or email, and secondly for general advice on the specifics of doing so, how to terms stuff, and so forth. All advice will be gratefully received.