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🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hang on I'm just turning the air conditioner off, that's one thing. |
0:03.0 | There we go. |
0:06.0 | So in a very recent episode we discussed an idea called professional |
0:16.7 | complainers which involved writing letters of complaint and sending them off |
0:21.4 | Tim and I were both a little bit enamored by the idea so we've decided to give this one a real go and write some complaint letters which we're going to share with you today and then we're going to send them off and see what happens. |
0:32.8 | This is exciting. I like this. This is a good idea. |
0:35.8 | Yeah. Well, we're about to see if it's a good idea. |
0:37.8 | Yeah. |
0:38.8 | Yes. |
0:40.8 | So, I've done a couple, Tim's dumb one. |
0:45.4 | I thought maybe I'd go first with the short one |
0:47.1 | just to sort of set the tone |
0:48.4 | before we get into some of the meatier complaints. |
0:51.2 | All right, all right, all right, now who's this too? |
0:54.0 | This is too, the editor of The Times newspaper in London. |
0:58.0 | Okay, the London Times. |
1:00.8 | And do you need to set the scene at all or do you just launch in? I think it speaks for itself. So just imagine yourself with your posh letter opener somewhere in London opening a letter from me. Here's what we've got this is the most respected |
1:14.8 | establishment newspaper is that right in yeah yeah it's pretty yeah it's pretty |
1:19.5 | yeah it's pretty sort of formal and that's you know yeah paper of record sort of thing good stuff okay |
1:24.4 | dear sir I'm writing to complain about your daily times two crossword I am not |
1:31.6 | writing about the cryptic crossword which is way too hard. |
1:35.6 | Frankly I have no idea why it gets the more prominent position on the back page every day. |
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