Evensong.

[azurelunatic]

You know what would go over really well in reformat_songs? If I took the best bad-wedding song of all time and scripted it as an IRC log.

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008534.html -- sock yarn outrage.

My teeths are mostly happy. That triangle of gum on the backside of my upper two front teeth, the one that got ripped up, is still not happy. I think it was yesterday that the tooth with the nerve that is supposed to be dead gave two large TWINGEs, though it was a sensation of sudden pressure rather than pain as such. The area with said teeth is not happy, but since most of it seems to be connected to that little bit of ravaged gum tissue, I won't get concerned unless the problems persist after that has healed.

Snarky Lady said that hot and cold are going to bother the tooth for a while. I should avoid just chomping into an apple, too.

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[twirlandswirl.livejournal.com]

I sheered the triangley bit of gums between my front two teeth off while flossing once....

Eeps.

[azurelunatic]

Ow.

[moniqueleigh]

Meh, from my understanding of the sock yarn thing, it sounds like the explanations given to the bank quite possibly were... (how to put this politely?) not worded in such a way that the bank felt full confidence in said answers. Not "OMG, the women and their silly little yarn biz" but "Ummm, are we sure this is on the up & up?"

Additionally, the bank had to be concerened with the possibility of credit card companies killing their contracts for unsatisfactory fraud prevention, a real concern these days.

[azurelunatic]

I could see that.

[wibbble]

Don't also forget all the anti-money laundering stuff that any financial institution in most Western countries have to follow. It's incredibly strict and the penalties for letting something slip by could be ruinous to a small bank - and certainly to someone's career.

[moniqueleigh]

Exactly.

The argument of "why couldn't they just Google it?" doesn't really wash either. My dad does IT for a regional bank, and he talks about how many restrictions they've had to put on internet usage (to keep people from surfing when they ought to be working). Basically, they've got a list of "allowed sites" rather than "blocked sites," so the bank's employees may not have access to search engines.

[wibbble]

Actually, I'd say it doesn't wash for other reasons: the staff making this kind of decision may very well have had reasonably unfettered internet access (I used to work for a bank, and your access varied according to your role and how high up you were), but they wouldn't be technologically savvy enough to know what sites found via Google could be trusted or not. It's also not something you can put in a SAR (Suspicious Activity Report) - something that's going to be read, potentially, by auditors, regulators, and the gods know who. You'd need something a bit more solid than 'Googled it, looks legit'.