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[Denny Fisher]

I asked a few american friends but parcel companies won't quote them until they have it boxed.
They wouldn't even give them a price list.
I can't even make head or tails of the sizes on usps.

Terrible

 

[D1tchd1gger]

Just found out about this.
All those moments will be lost in time
Like tears in rain. Time to die.

Spoiler: RIP Rutger Hauer

 

[HWR]

It’s hot as heck and I think someone tried to mug me when I was walking back from Chinatown.

 

[Captaaainuniverse]

It’s hot as heck and I think someone tried to mug me when I was walking back from Chinatown.

They wanted to take your cold, cold heart to cool them down. Looks like it’s time to break out a desk fan, maybe a couple

 

[HWR]

They wanted to take your cold, cold heart to cool them down. Looks like it’s time to break out a desk fan, maybe a couple

I’m just grateful my heart isn’t achy-breaky.

 

[Arveene]

It’s hot as heck and I think someone tried to mug me when I was walking back from Chinatown.

I'm enjoying the implication that you aren't sure. Was their attempt that bad?

 

[HWR]

I'm enjoying the implication that you aren't sure. Was their attempt that bad?

Well you sometimes get people coming up to asking For money and it could be for several reasons. Regardless it spooked me a bit.

 

[D1tchd1gger]

@HWR Did I miss something? Your new job isn't working here is it? You've got a AUKN Staff tag next to your name.

 

[HWR]

@HWR Did I miss something? Your new job isn't working here is it? You've got a AUKN Staff tag next to your name.

I'm doing a three month work placement in Central London which I started on Monday. I was offered a AUKN staff position yesterday and enthusiastically accepted!

 

[D1tchd1gger]

I was offered a AUKN staff position yesterday and enthusiastically accepted!

Congratulations!
I've always wondered if it's a paid position, but there's no advertising on the website so I'm guessing there's no money to use for wages and thus voluntary.

Ignore if too forward.

 

[Stiivun]

It’s hot as heck and I think someone tried to mug me when I was walking back from Chinatown.

No mugging here, and no Chinatown either, but it's indeed scorching hot also over here in West-Flanders, Belgium. Never experienced this before, not normal. Big issues with trains in Belgium and also the coastal tram is stopped and replaced by busses.
Luckily we have airco at work.

 

[HWR]

Congratulations!
I've always wondered if it's a paid position, but there's no advertising on the website so I'm guessing there's no money to use for wages and thus voluntary.

Ignore if too forward.

Thanks! I’m looking forward to writing some material for the site. It’s voluntary though you may occasionally get sent things to review.

 

[Arveene]

Well you sometimes get people coming up to asking For money and it could be for several reasons. Regardless it spooked me a bit.

Ahh, that makes sense, gotcha. I was imagining more someone pulling a knife on you and you just ignoring it

 

[D1tchd1gger]

You know you're getting old when something you owned as a kid appears in a museum!

 

[Phobos]

I'm doing a three month work placement in Central London which I started on Monday. I was offered a AUKN staff position yesterday and enthusiastically accepted!

Congrats there!

 

[Neil.T]

I was offered a AUKN staff position yesterday and enthusiastically accepted!

Congrats, dude!

You know you're getting old when something you owned as a kid appears in a museum!
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Oh my god, where/what is this?

 

[D1tchd1gger]

Oh my god, where/what is this?

It's a museum of living history in Basingstoke, Hampshire. The main body of it is set out like a late Victorian town with another part like a '30s High Street. They had dressed it all up in a WWII period look for an exhibition.
Tucked away in the back was what seemed like an old exhibition about technology in the 20th century home which was half furnished. In this display case was some late 70s/Early 80s stuff like calculators, a Walkman and early home PCs. My picture is of a ZX Spectrum + which my grandad brought us with his retirement money, IIRC. I've still got my +2 in my cupboard!

 

[Patient-X]

That Spectrum is one of them new fangled ones, with a proper keyboard. My Spectrum had rubber keys

 

[D1tchd1gger]

That Spectrum is one of them new fangled ones, with a proper keyboard. My Spectrum had rubber keys

So you had the original. Did you have the 16k or splash out for the 48k?

 

[Captaaainuniverse]

It's a museum of living history in Basingstoke, Hampshire. The main body of it is set out like a late Victorian town with another part like a '30s High Street. They had dressed it all up in a WWII period look for an exhibition.
Tucked away in the back was what seemed like an old exhibition about technology in the 20th century home which was half furnished. In this display case was some late 70s/Early 80s stuff like calculators, a Walkman and early home PCs. My picture is of a ZX Spectrum + which my grandad brought us with his retirement money, IIRC. I've still got my +2 in my cupboard!

My life is not a relic lol!
Next they’ll put up video tapes, music cassettes and maybe a Sony CD player (the ones very much like a walkman)
Should I be frightened if one of those tapes were somehow a home video of me in a batman costume I got for Christmas as a kid? Like they unearthed a dinosaur?