Heartland

Our Andy's card?

https://www.blackcard.com/

Nah - it can't be that A. Taylor.
It's too goff for him.

Gimme the rate, kissed and toll'd

Good old Visa - always a little late with a good idea.



It cannot be coincidence that American Express came out with their black card with an annual fee of $2500, exactly one-tenth of 's payout for a certain album which he had no hand in. Additionally, internal memos at Amex's indicate that the company originally began discussing the Centurion card in 1996, 10 years after that album's release. Holders need to have an annual spend on a credit card of $250,000 (the fee times 10 - you can see how this all ties together). The latest incarnation of the card is made from anodized titanium, which was a major component in printing presses back in the days when newspapers were printed on rolling presses - a method of printing is known in the trade as "hot metal".
Couple this with the fact that the expression "american express" was used by benzedrine addicts and speed-freaks in the UK owing to the drug's association with the beatnik era in the US ("What's the matter with you? You look exhausted." "Oh, I've been riding the american express for a week trying to finish the album.") and you can see how close the relationship between the company and has been over the years.

[/Grassy Knollington]

I hope you are all thoroughly ashamed of yourselves, I ken it's a slow post day but FFS!

James Blast wrote:I hope you are all thoroughly ashamed of yourselves, I ken it's a slow post day but FFS!

Hey, you can ignore the obvious all you like but when tickets for the next tour say "That'll do nicely, sir" on them you can't say you weren't warned.

The AmEx black card was invitation only for existing platinum cardholders, this one you can apply for. Nowhere near as exclusive.

I think $495 would definitely put me in the exclusive class 'of money than sense'

if(!u.see('me')||u.loc!=me.loc){me.exist=false;you.makeBelieve=1;}if(eye.see==0){heart.break=0};if(you.leave){me.disappear()}

c:\lyrics.cpp(1): error: syntax error.

if(!u.see("me")||u.loc!=me.loc){me.exist=false; you.makeBelieve=1;}if(eye.see==0){heart.break=0;} if(you.leave){me.disappear(); }

EvilBastard wrote:Holders need to have an annual spend on a credit card of $250,000

You're lucky if you manage to find enough places that accept AmEx to spend more than a fiver a year

Obviousman wrote:You're lucky if you manage to find enough places that accept AmEx to spend more than a fiver a year

I've found 1 or 2 restaurants in my manor that don't take it, and Scores (a [ahem] gentleman's club in these parts) stopped taking it when some bozo claimed that the $50k or so that he put on his corporate Amex one night was fraud despite having signed for every transaction after $5k and confirming with Amex by phone when they called him to verify the charges, but apart from that I've never had a problem. Even the carpet sellers in Esfahan happily accept it (or rather their banks in Dubai do). Best thing about it is that I can get Virgin airmiles every time I go shopping which means that trips home to see my mummy are basically free.

Speaking of which...
Q. Why was the little Eggyptian boy confused?
A. Because his daddy was a mummy!

Yeah, I use my Amex (NOT Black card!) for just about everything. There's a few places around here that don't take it - normally cheap restaurants.

James Blast wrote:I hope you are all thoroughly ashamed of yourselves, I ken it's a slow post day but FFS!

pot.kettle.

... DC57489 ... not? ...

EvilBastard wrote:Even the carpet sellers in Esfahan happily accept it (or rather their banks in Dubai do).

Their European colleagues beg to differ

weebleswobble wrote:

James Blast wrote:I hope you are all thoroughly ashamed of yourselves, I ken it's a slow post day but FFS!

pot.kettle.

lighten up or put this overcoat on

James Blast wrote:

weebleswobble wrote:

James Blast wrote:I hope you are all thoroughly ashamed of yourselves, I ken it's a slow post day but FFS!

pot.kettle.

lighten up or put this overcoat on

Can't see our Paramount Leader going with a US banking conglomerate, matching initials or not.

Surely he needs something accepted on, er, the Reeperbahn?

I have a fake American Express gold card in my wallet (came from a piece of mail delivered to my work last year) that I leave sticking out of the pocket in my purse just to be a flash git, and also so that people standing behind me in ATM queues will want to mug me even more