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28-08-2004, 15:29
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Can anyone help me out here.
On of my neighbour friends has been round this afternoon all distraught. Apparently, he sent off for a fake GCSE certificate online for his son and isn't at all happy with what he got.
He swears he ordered an 'A*'in English, but only received a 'B' which would have been £50 cheaper, but the cheeky sods charged him for the higher grade!
He has complained by e mail on three occasions but never received a reply.
He wants to know how to go about putting an formal complaint in to a arbitary body in an effort to get his money back.
Anyone help here?
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28-08-2004, 15:34
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Is it the royal "my friend" ? as in one/we?
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28-08-2004, 16:35
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I'll leave that to one's imagination.
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28-08-2004, 16:40
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Why would he want a "fake" GCSE certificate anyway?! Didn't his kid do any good in their exams or summat? 
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28-08-2004, 16:53
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Quote:
Originally posted by Rich
Why would he want a "fake" GCSE certificate anyway?! Didn't his kid do any good in their exams or summat?
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I kinda think this is ment to be a joke........................
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28-08-2004, 16:54
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No, they don't bother sending him to school. They just buy qualifications. He's going to be a doctor so God help his patients!
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28-08-2004, 16:57
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Quote:
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Why would he want a "fake" GCSE certificate anyway?! Didn't his kid do any good in their exams or summat?
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How long have you been a member here now Rich?
This is Sam Miguel. It's a joke.
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28-08-2004, 17:02
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Dear SM,
I am sorry to hear about your neighbour's plight. If their son is as thick as he appears to be, maybe the problem can be alleviated by telling him that B comes before A in the alphabet. He just needs to be retaught his B.A.C.s.
Glad I could help.
markham (BSc in bovine faeces)
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28-08-2004, 17:05
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He never learnt his B A C's, Markham.
I asked him who knocked down the walls of Jericho and he said it wasn't him.
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28-08-2004, 17:39
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I asked him who knocked down the walls of Jericho and he said it wasn't him.
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Tell him it was Lyons of Judah, a competitor in the iced dairy products market.
Incidentally, they diversified and opened Cheeses of Nazareth nearby.
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28-08-2004, 17:54
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I sent off for a D in ironing for my lad, but they've sent him an A* in Physics instead. Does your neighbour want to do a swap?
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28-08-2004, 21:43
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I gotta P in swimming, would be willing to swap for a D in ironing.
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29-08-2004, 08:26
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Aaah! The famous P in swimming. Would that be the 'silent' P.........as in bath and shower?
Sorry bonny, no deal. A* in physics must be worth at least an F in art. Or maybe even two F in arts!!
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29-08-2004, 10:40
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I sent off for a D in ironing for my lad, but they've sent him an A* in Physics instead. Does your neighbour want to do a swap?
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I'm seeing him this afternoon - he's knocking me a few twenty pound notes off on his printing press - so I'll ask him.
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29-08-2004, 20:22
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Why not skip the GCSEs and go straight for a Doctor of Divinity from the Reverend Pastor Aloysius T Burgerbar of the West Virginian Seminary of Religious Thought and Gene Pool Stagnation?
After all, a Doctor is a Doctor is a Doctor, so wht not skip that tedium about finding out how people tick and just sign up as a doctor for the NHS? Now they're being told not to poach from overseas they'll nede all the help they can get.
Is he any good at staying awake for 6 days without seeing the King of the Potatoe People?
Joe
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30-08-2004, 09:02
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Quote:
Originally posted by Sam Miguel
I'm seeing him this afternoon - he's knocking me a few twenty pound notes off on his printing press - so I'll ask him.
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Sam tell him to be careful not to make too many twenties. A "friend" on mine got ten years for making big money.....three mm too big to be exact.
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30-08-2004, 09:04
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Quote:
Originally posted by Sam Miguel
I'm seeing him this afternoon - he's knocking me a few twenty pound notes off on his printing press - so I'll ask him.
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So he can count to 20 then.
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10-10-2005, 19:20
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Sam Miguel--my youngest son has just started 6th form college after gaining a*s and a's passes in all subjects!--hes worked dam hard all through primary and senior school and got the top marks out of the whole school!(gcses).----unless this a joke about your friends son---i can only say this!---if his kid hasnt got the brains to succeed,no amount of hoodwinking etc. will alter that fact!
one word springs to mind--pathetic!!
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10-10-2005, 20:22
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He doesn't need GCSE's now you can have them deferred these days.So he has no need to feel inferior to other people.
I think the government brought this scheme in to stop people who never bothered to go to school suing the whole of the education system.
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10-10-2005, 20:26
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Quote:
Originally posted by mikeyspikey
Sam Miguel--my youngest son has just started 6th form college after gaining a*s and a's passes in all subjects!--hes worked dam hard all through primary and senior school and got the top marks out of the whole school!(gcses).----unless this a joke about your friends son---i can only say this!---if his kid hasnt got the brains to succeed,no amount of hoodwinking etc. will alter that fact!
one word springs to mind--pathetic!!
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You don't remember Sam Miguel then mikeyspikey?
Do a search of some of his other 'wind-up' posts. 
Alas we haven't heard from him for a long time, but believe me, Sam's posts were very rarely serious. He is missed by us all I think. 
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