The tone of the "goodbye" is altered depending on how long you have spent checking out your one item. If too long it is the equivalent of F*** **F in much the same way as "have a nice day" can sound.
Many decades go I went to Amsterdam entered The Beanery installation at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. After 30 seconds or so I was apologising to various inanimate objects for bumping into them. It really was an immersive experience.
I tend to by my diesel at a Sainsburys PFS. Now Argos is owned by Sainsburys they use it too. And, it appears, Ebay/Paypal
too right....
Gaff is talking s**te as usual .... he is well named
ATM......
Might be different next week.
And when was Halford's ever a normal retailer?
Interesting how some pubs/restaurants/hotels/cafes/offices want more info than others.
Some are OK with my first name and mobile number others want a surname and mobile phone number and others want a post code to go with the name and number.
Many of the details are just written on sheets of A4 paper left on the bar or on a table as you enter and available for anyone to read, others actually use separate pieces of paper to post into a box to keep them from viewing eyes.
The better ones have a member of staff using a clip board to take your details (either when you enter or after you are seated).
I do believe that it will soon be a requirement to produce ID before you can enter these premises.
Thin edge of the wedge.
Given your dislike of 'foreign / ISO values like Hz and modern stuff Jim, shouldn't that have been 'my 78.7402" long ebay £1 18s 9½d barrel ended Jagwire'?
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So this is an Ikea branded Raleigh Shopper / Twenty / Stowaway?
Cheers, T i m
Well obviously I'm always good boy, as she clearly likes me.
As it happens I don't believe that for one minute so I'm definitely not going to hang around on purpose just to check.
What I did find a bit disturbing was when one chain changed the voice to a man which I interpreted subliminally as being ordered about, which maybe suits some women shoppers but not me.
Funnily enough theres a theory that the more literally lifelike they appear clock faces aside, the more off putting that are.
Whereas a robot like Asimo
michael adams
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For some reason I'm not seeing "Jim GM4DHJ ..." s post
So without being argumantative for its own sake, as if, your actual beef is with whoever is responsible for not deleivering the cable on time.
Have you actually asked them ?
How do you think all the old biddies who live in your area manage when they need things doing on their bikes ?
Obviously they'll try and sell overpriced overspecced bikes to idiots with more money than sense if given half a chance. Wouldn't you ? But that doesn't mean they'll turn away business from customers who aren't out to prove they have more money than they do as mere shop assistants.
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yes one xmas instead of getting a hi fi or something they wanted ieeka gave their staff bikes....the grateful staff mostly sold them off for peanuts I bought three of them ....keep two at the trailer park.......most people take the ieeka sticker off them but I didn't it gives people a laugh and when they ask about them is gives me a operchansity to slag off their kitchens .....ieeka never sold them to the public but used some as props in the shop...I hate ieeka having built one of there crappy kitchens 15 years ago then they changed the design and you cant get cabinet fronts etc any longer.....
well the problem was for years my father swore by Dooleys when they were under the railway arches in Moss street for our Raleigh Trent tourists....I had one with the chrome tail fin on the chain cover...he was friendly with old Mr Dooley but in recent years sons took over and it became a fancy place for all the types I mentioned and they recently moved to a fancy shop....I stupidly was looking for a rear rack for some old clunky bike and they tried to take the piss out of me probably because those thousand pound bikes don't use rear racks...anyway never went back...f*ck them .....I have a Dahon 20 inch 7 speed a Raleigh oakwood....20 inch Raleigh anniversary model and the ieeka bikes and an electric scooter ...had loads of bikes over they years and it is how I keep fit and I work on them all myself so I know a thing or two about them and don't deserve being slagged off by shops or prats on here...thanks.....
I use the volume control to mute the sound on the touch screen. Tesco's self checkouts are particularly irritating, especially when scanning fruit and veg.
Were you your normal self by any chance?
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Nice.
So is that one thing or two?
What are they?
What OOI? I quite like the look of the Reid offerings and have seen quite a few about:
Not been cycling for a while because of the Mrs arthritis and the dog walking and do miss it. I did go out a while back on a Pashley Pronto (same as the later Mailstar Postman's bike, in England anyway) I'd rebuilt and that was interesting.
Other than when you should or shouldn't 'let off steam' at shop staff?
Wasn't the writing on the wall though? If the shop changed it's profile (as many have to be able to stay in business), but you still went there, knowing you were no longer their typical customer to ask for something you probably had a good idea they would no longer stock?
It is frustrating when you want to talk about something important (to us all) and people think it's funny eh Jim?
So, did you get the rack after all? If not I have a perfectly good chrome steel one that was on a Raleigh Shopper (20") you can have.
Cheers, T i m
Lovely.
Result for you then.
So are they Raleigh folders, the 20" 'Shopper'?
I bet you are a real hoot to meet up with ...
Ok.
Hardly surprising though eh?
I fitted a Schreiber kitchen myself probably 20 years ago and it's all still fine. I could do with a new door (the trim got melted when someone left the oven door ajar) but wouldn't assume they could still supply one.
Cheers, T i m
Give them someone elses phone number
no the oakwood has 28 inch wheels......
erider model 15 coming up two years old....should only do 22Kph but it does 38Kph....naughty
that bloke wasn't being funny he was nasty big difference......
yes got plenty of racks and boxes.but thanks anyway...
WHAT YOU CAN'T IGNORE ID THE POUNDLAND MACHINES GOING HO HO HO AT XMAS OR PRETENDING TO BE ELVIS....calm down now jim....tee hee
that's the wee ieeka bike fixed...nice to have a back brake that works again......stupid design with the outer cable split into two and it has nothing to do with the folding mechanism ...why do they do that lets all the crap in???
All those bikes yet never thought to keep the odd one or two brake and gear cables handy just in case.
In a Wilko near you, if you have Wilkos in Scotland.
So he tried Halfords !
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nope.....last cable I had to do was on an American huffy years ago.....
Clydebank and Ayr...too far away .....
and your problem is caller ?...I know you're just obnoxious...at least Tim has a real point at times....you don't.....
Is that what we might now refer to as a '29er'?
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Sorry, do you ride it in Europe Jim, we use mph over here?
Ah, an electrically assisted bicycle with a step through frame.
"Oxfords not brogues'. ;-)
<snip>I guess it depends on the people and the subject.
Np.
Cheers, T i m
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