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Apr 04, 2018 21 Replies
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Graham.

^^^^ There I've corrected that for you. When I was at school knife making was part of the curriculum. All the boys made one in metalwork, there were no issues. The girls weren't allowed to do metalwork or woodwork, it was needlework, shorthand & typing or learning about periods…

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If you search "knives" on Ebay, the first category offered is "Children's bedroom".


^^^^ ebay.CO.UK

There I've corrected that for you.

When I was at school knife making was part of the curriculum. All the boys made one in metalwork, there were no issues.

The girls weren't allowed to do metalwork or woodwork, it was needlework, shorthand & typing or learning about periods for them.

Only if you assume I have an outdated fixed space font. I don't. I assume you were pointing at ebay, on my screen your arrows point at "knives". So, why are you insisting that it's ebay.CO.UK? This is a UK newsgroup after all.

I worked at a school about 5 years ago as a technician. I required to undo something in the lecture theatre which was held together with zip ties. I asked the 200 kids if anyone had a knife. I've never seen kids go so quiet.

Shouldn't parents be teaching their kids about periods? Why should the taxpayer fund this?

Mother's job not the father's job:-). The only time a teenage girl talks to her father is when she wants money, a lift to or back from a date or to tell him that she is pregnant.

I suspect that Graham is a little older than me. In which case he will know that that advice given about periods in his day was that women could not have a bath whilst on their period.

Exactly, was this a public information film by the water board or something? Did it damage the sewage treatment plant?

Why? Nobody I know includes the extensions in the name when talking about Ebay.

But presumably not one that lands in the bedroom. Brian

He forgot the www and the http, so I got really confused :-)

Knives don't land. Spaceships land. Knives reach their destination horizontally.

Then perhaps they should as I'm pretty sure the T&Cs are different.

I know with amazon that some studetns have requested an order from the US amazon site which isn't availble in the UK amazon site and this is with quite ordinary electronic items.

I would have thought that it was only necessary to include the extensions if you were NOT referring to the local version.

They didn't notice that the pricing was in dollars?

Strictly teh companuy is vcalled Ebay Inc...

Only if you're a lawyer.

On Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 6:37:21 PM UTC+1, James Wilkinson Sword wrot e:

I got my front discs and pads done for £230 and 4 tyres for £320. My engine has only done 2000 miles this year as well after its new cam cha in was fitted. MOT passed as well for 2018/9!

My engine has only done 2000 miles this year as well after its new cam c= hain was fitted. MOT passed as well for 2018/9!

Alfa owners have more money than sense.

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The reason your print job died unexpectedly is because we lost coolant t= o the firewall and the ether in the net blew up.

n's bedroom".

320. My engine has only done 2000 miles this year as well after its new cam chain was fitted. MOT passed as well for 2018/9!

I have got another year out of it for £550.

You have neither and never will have.

ren's bedroom".

US amazon site which isn't availble in the UK amazon site and this is with quite ordinary electronic items.

Doesn't seem to matter to them as we also have to order from the states via digikey and other suppliers, some like the sparkfun series because they us e google to search for something and teh suppliers will be sparkfun.com or the poster will have a list of componets that come from amazon and the link is from the US site. Here's an order from 16th March. 1 of

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Our creative design course required students to build something and this g roup wanted or heard about the FLORA - Wearable electronic platform, so sea rched for it. Then asked me to order it via their on-line googlesheets orde r form.

There I indicate I have this in stock (from rapid) for £12.65 and they can have it today, or they can wait for it to arrive from the USA and I'll charge them £15 + P&P.

It's about educating them what should be done, if they don;t answer the Q I 've put on the form then they donlt get their order until they do.

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