Is there anything left in Maplins?

[tim...]

you're lucky

round 'ere the last bus home is now often no later than 21:00, and it's far less rural than Lincolnshire

tim

[James Wilkinson Sword]

On Fri, 06 Apr 2018 18:58:03 +0100, tim... wro= te:

But at Ebay prices, you just buy another.

As for HDMI, I find it's a terrible design. For example, most motherboa= rds have the graphics card in position 1. Most decent gaming cases have= an indented section where the back of the cards are. This means the gr= aphics card is bang up against a part of the case that's half an inch fu= rther out. Since every HDMI plug I've ever seen is unnecessarily fat (s= hielding?), you can't plug them in. DVI, VGA, etc goes in fine. But HDM= I is overweight. So you have to find a rare motherboard with the graphi= cs card slot further down, or use the slower 2nd graphics card slot in a= bout position 4, or not use HDMI.

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A penny saved is a government oversight.

[Terry Casey]

Well,not really that rural - the City boundary is less than half a mile away and the bus route follows continuous housing all the way but immediately after I get off it goes into a loop to get back to the City again.

Anybody living further along the road has no evening service at all.

[RJH]

I was in London last week - the buses have improved beyond recognition over the past 10 years - at least within about zone 2 where I was using them. And impressed with the electric 'soft start'.

[michael adams]

You are Erena from "Peep Show", AICMFP

"God Jeremy, do you know Gail is so clever that she even reads books. For fun ! "

michael adams

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[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Does the dole pay for your Internet? Come along, wanker, just tell us.

[alan_m]

You are meant to give them water, not milk. Most cats are lactose intolerant.

[ARW]

Or buy them cat milk.

[michael adams]

So what did you mean by the question above ?

" how did they know which bus they were getting on until the on-bus announcement tells them? "

michael adams

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[dennis]

Skimmed milk is fine as long as it is UHT. Fresh skimmed milk is like water. I can't stand full fat milk any more as I have been using skimmed for so long.

[Jethro_uk]

Most adult mammals (including humans) are lactose intolerant.

Being able to drink milk in adulthood is an anomaly (possibly present due to a pressure on the human genome at some point in our exodus from Africa where almost all adult humans are lactose intolerant).

[michael adams]

Yup. There's some stuff up to 60% off now.

But the big discounts seem to be mainly off things like rechargeable batteries which I noticed were 40% off.

But they really are all over the place.

I went into the Hammersmith Branch this lunchtime. I noticed an Ion USB turntable, this one

?95.99

knocked down from a silly price of around ?140 which I found hard to beleve in the first place.

Anyway checking it out online it seems Amazon themselves, not marketplace sellers are offering exactly the same turntable

for ?89.99

even undercuttiong other marketplace sellers.

So that even when poor Maplin are laid out on the canvas, breathing their last, and unable to offer any guarentees, and despite having paid all their taxes, wicked tax dodging Jeff Bezos, with his maniacal laugh still can't resist putting the boot in.

Boooooooo ! Boooooooo!

Its almost enough to make a person boycott Amazon althogether.

Well almost.

michael adams

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[Cursitor Doom]

Conrad

were very good indeed (and way better than Maplin) when I lived in Germany. Perhaps they might ride to the rescue of the nerds among us?

[Marland]

They have had a UK website for sometime.

Quite a large range of items. Used them for some specialised electronics to semi automate operation a garden railway. The German market seems to be the main source of such things and manufacturers,Conrad?s prices were competitive at the time with the same items imported by an appointed U.K. agent or from a German shop. Most likely whoever I ordered from the items were despatched from the same warehouse.

They quote 3 or 4 days for delivery which may be too slow for some people but they do have some interesting items listed.

GH

[Adrian Caspersz]

On 08/04/18 19:37, Marland wrote: Conrad?s prices were competitive at the time with the same

They own Rapid Electronics.

[whisky-dave]

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Conrad brought rapid electronics