I really only use them if I’m in a rush (Reading, Newbury and Oxford are close-ish). One of the items is down from £34.99 to £13.99. The other is a compact, basic but functional stereo pre-amp kit for £3 for which my radiogram customer has a need - too cheap to refuse really.
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I called back. Presumably customer service gave the store a bollocking. Now my stuff is ready for collection.
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Must admit they were handy when I lived in the area - perfboard and those useful little Velleman mains-LED kits!
Mind, you could always guarantee they’d be out of stock of whichever fuse size/rating combo you needed.
Their stocking policy has ALWAYS sucked, and more than anything else is prolly why they’re going under.
Yes. I always try to call the shop before going, unless I happen to be going past anyway or the website says they have 20 in stock. Their fuses can be very handy but the problem is they don’t identify the manufacturer so you can’t check the I2t blowing threshold. The more I learn about fuses, the more I realise that this number is nearly as important as the current rating.
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Well at Ieast you didn’t blow a fuse. I would have done.
Jesus, idiots on Facebook market. Agreed to buy a sound bar from someone who lives basically just around the corner. I say when I can go, and he says fine. Then he’s out, and now he’s gone totally dark. He’s marked it sold - is that to me? If not, wouldn’t a simple message to say so be a useful courtesy?
Whoever thought naming ‘storms’ over here was a good thing.
Futile cuntery of the first water.
And so begins the new year gym membership spam email campaigns.
I confess I’m struggling to understand this. On the one hand Hunt is saying he’s sorry for a situation which is “absolutely not what I want”. On the other there was an NHS manager on the Today programme this morning explaining that this isn’t a crisis because after last year’s experience (crisis ?) they put plans in place to manage the situation and if something is planned for then it can’t be a crisis (actually we could argue about that, but never mind).
What it boils down to is that the left hand of the NHS is planning for an eventuality which the right hand absolutely doesn’t want. Is this what they call ‘competition’ within the NHS ?
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Having plans is one thing, not funding them to actually succeed is quite another. Hunt is culpable for another difficult winter and unstable/ unsafe services.
This. It is part of the the well known golden three step rule:
The ‘new’ publicly funded Mersey bridge near that complete shite hole Runcorn. So, we pay for it and now you have to pay £2 each way, you can fuck right off. And only the people who live near the North side get free passes, how does that work, there are two ends to the fucking bridge you wankers.
Only in the UK.
In what way is apologising acceptable? It was entirely predictable, and under his control. He’s basically said that he’s incompetent, but that seems fine nowadays.
I don’t recall seeing that on strictly
I am surprised that a man of your education, wit and sensitvity would watch such a show, let alone admit to it in public.
I’m surprised you even mentioned education, wit and sensitivity 
You got me there, I generally don’t, I’m usually found peering at AA, but Louise does, so it catches my eye on occasion