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Nuggets Mahoney

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  1. Bloomberg (May 2013): Wheeler Sold Kiwi to Weaken World’s Best-Performing Currency
  2. I find a all-juice turbo cider a bit too strong taste wise. Instead, I recently tired making up a gallon batch with 3L apple juice + 2L filtered watered + 250g sugar. Fermented to dry then bottled with some additional sugar to carbonate. Left to condition for about 3 months. It came out well (if you like dry cider) imho. I bottle my home brew in scrounged (and sterilised) commercial beer bottles. I can't help noticing that my recent batches of scrounged bottles are distinctly smaller than the same brands were even as recently as 2-3 years ago. Lots of shaving of alcohol content too.
  3. In Christchurch (NZ) there's an operation just like that called the Red Shed. I think I bought one thing from it in a dozen visits. The older tools were carbon steel and had been allowed to rust beyond salvation. Newer, stainless steel tools were just plain broke beyond salvation. (If you were looking for spare keys for Spectrums and Walkman drive belts it was the nuts though)
  4. In the volumes I usually buy stuff at, it can kind of make sense, sometimes. Otherwise, you're right. They stink.
  5. Absolutely. I was in one only the other day. Looking at price labels, wincing and whistling. Tremendous fun.
  6. Generally speaking, the range of DIY and gardening stuff Wilkinsons stock is well chosen, well priced and competitive with on-line prices imho. They don't compete at the quality end of the scale but that's not their business. B&Q don't appear to be trying to compete with anyone. The Wilkinsons stores I've visited do muck up the plants and bulbs side of things badly though. They display them in uncomfortably warm stores till they sprout, dry out and die. Unless you pick up stock as soon as it arrives, it's a waste of time and money all round.
  7. Those stores can be quite handy for bulk stuff that's not always economic to buy on-line. Not sure you can sustain a national retail chain selling sand though.
  8. The last couple of years' hefty RM parcel rate rises must be hurting smaller traders. For the life of me I can't see how any small on-line trader can compete with the likes of Amazon when Amazon is clearly benefiting from chunky discounts from Royal Mail. I receive stuff in mahoosive Amazon boxes that would cost ordinary folk more in postage alone than Amazon are selling the delivered items for. On top of that, if you order stuff direct from the Far East those merchants can also ship lower value items to you for less than just the UK postage, excluding the item, would cost a UK-based merchant. Pay Chinese mail rates, delivered by Royal Mail at the receiving end.
  9. Unless the retailer goes bust in the meantime, or the recipient doesn't get round to using the voucher which, generally speaking for gift tokens and vouchers, is very often. They certainly make sense to the retailer. Gift tokens, even more fiatty than the fiat used to buy them with.
  10. Other possible reasons include... wiki: General Motors streetcar c********* (additional source: the plot of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
  11. PS I chose to use the expression 'Max Keiser wrong, again' because a fellow forum member who is keen on conspiranoids such as Keiser and David Icke occasionally uses the turn of phrase 'David Icke right, again' whenever a favourite stopped clock happens to tell the right time. I was just doing my little bit to deal with that particular confirmation bias problem.
  12. I would hazard to guess not many. So, basically, Keiser's calling something that, in the long run, sooner or later, is probably inevitable. By the same token, he could equally, and just as usefully, appear on our screens babbling that we're all going to die. Keiser's entertaining but he lacks the Oracle-like powers that some who link to him appear to believe. That'd be all I'm trying to say.
  13. ... and Tramadol Nights was the spirit of 'embarrassingly unfunny' made flesh. Presumably, when Boyle comments about the IRA Brighton bombing in that Keiser video he is trying to pass off an endorsement of murder as a joke. The 'joke' is not funny impo which just leaves an endorsement of murder.
  14. Here we go... Max Keiser : 99 Percent Probability Of A Systemic Collapse Before Next Apr Max Keiser wrong, again Someone asked on that thread... I listed a few but it didn't seem to matter. The combination of the stopped clocked effect with people's desire to only remember when their heroes seem to get things right is powerful. Keiser's Iceland film was spot on, pretty much everything else has been wrong, or ripped off from other commentators. He remains an entertaining carnival barker though.
  15. wiki: Glittering generality 'hardworking' is a particularly obvious and irritating one, but expressions like freedom, justice, democracy are equally subjective, hard to pin down and, when uttered by a politician, ultimately meaningless.
  16. Yes! And if they refuse to pay, lock them all up. Even better, prohibit the production of alcohol entirely. What could possibly go wrong?
  17. If Facebook charged you sixty quid every time you stuffed up because of its confusing, deceptive interface how popular do you think it would be?
  18. The boarding pass thing is something that might catch you out once but is avoidable if you have your wits about you. But it is clearly intended to catch people out The website itself is laden with a confusing variety of buttons and dialogues and banners and deceptively worded guff that clearly is intended to get people to click on the wrong thing; make a mistake or order something they don't necessarily want. I missed a new 'opt out of paying for junk' button yesterday, the page wouldn't advance and even after I clicked the box the whole session locked out when I tried to pay for the flights. It's terrible, just plain terrible.
  19. I dread using the Ryanair website. I just bought some tickets for elderly relatives yesterday. I defy anyone to use that website and argue that it is not deliberately made as user unfriendly as possible. Ryanair is the only major on-line trader I'm aware of that goes out of its way to make the ordering process painful and laden with traps. Other companies see support calls as a cost. Ryanair try to stuff you up so they can gouge you with additional fees. This is loan shark stuff. This isn't about people expecting more than they pay for. This is about deceitful practices that cross the line into fraud in my personal opinion. I wouldn't use them at all except for the fact that, in our case, my family needs to travel somewhere near to a particular airport in the middle of nowhere and there is no competition flying in there.
  20. Quite I'm inclined to think the people arming and training the Islamist nutters/ mercs/ noble freedom fighters know full well what happens but are kind of hoping ordinary mortals aren't keeping up or, more likely, don't give a monkey's about a 'quarrel in a far away country'. This is a decent read on the background; Sykes-Picot and sundry other not especially honourable shenanigans... Amz: A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East
  21. As it should. Any images of Blair should be accompanied by the theme music from The Omen as a matter of course. Look what happened to anyone who was a threat to his leadership - John Smith, Mo Mowlam, Robin Cook... Gordon Brown lived, of course, but that's arguably a fate worse than death
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