There is nothing better than good customer service

A few weeks ago (being the bargain shopper I am), I bought myself some train tickets to London via thetrainline.com. I had never actually used this website before but my mother had recommended it as a cheap way to get the tickets I wanted for the same journey and so rather dubiously i must admit, I purchased my tickets.
Normally on a journey to London I have to pay around £40 and yet on the train line I only ended up paying £12 in total. 10 points to Gryffindor! But I was convinced there was a catch somewhere. My tickets were meant to have arrived by now, in fact I was told that it would only take 5 days, but it has been 17 days now and there has been no sign of them. At this point I felt pretty disheartened and I was convinced my money was gone and I had been classically fleeced but in a last ditch effort at salvaging something if anything, I called their customer service team.
Within two minutes of calling I was speaking to someone and within five minutes of calling they had understood my problem and compensated me with new tickets, which this time will be delivered to a station and I can collect them. I am so impressed with their customer service I know I will definitely be using them in the near future once more.

Pompeii

It wasn't the greatest of movies nor was it the worst. To be perfectly honest the film barely made an impression on me; the plot line seemed somewhat confused not to mention unbelievable (I mean who really can hope to out run a volcano). Although I must admit that the action packed fight scenes and some occasional shots of perfectly sculptured pectorals definitely compensated for the obvious flaws.

                       

If you remove the twenty or so minutes of actual fighting within the film, what you’re left with is about a hundred minutes of what could essential be a fairytale. Though the entire thing was littered with improbable scenarios, I found that there were three scenes so ludicrous that I could not help but laugh.

These scenes are in no particular order whatsoever.

Scene 1) The hero (Milo) is chained and must fight a legion of trained gladiators along with his newly acquired accomplice (Atticus- AKA the big black guy who dies because unless its Django, the black guy always dies). Despite the fact that the two are restricted in their movements, they still successfully defeat the multitudes of trained gladiators. Like what the actual fudge! Not only would they have got their arse beat in a more realistic setting, they would not even have managed to kill one man let alone the whole lot of them. Obviously in true Hollywood fashion each trained killer respectfully waited for their turn to be killed cause no one ever fights dirty!

Scene 2) it’s not only men that respect Milo enough to wait before killing him, the volcano (possibly the antagonist in this particular case) really does possess some commendable manners. In the times when a serious discussion is taking place She (cause the volcano is obviously a pissed off woman) would politely quieten down and stop erupting cause you know, that’s just how volcanoes roll -.-

Scene 3) The one thing above all else that really annoyed me though was the one omissions they made through the entire movie and I mean absolutely no-one died from toxic gas inhalation. Like seriously though, there’s a big volcano spewing toxic gas and not one person dies from it. NOT EVEN ONE?

Pretty mediocre film I must say, I think my little sister and her imaginary friends could probably have thought of something more believable but oh well. The abs were most definitely worth it.