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At the chemists:
“I’d like some rat poison please.”
“Sorry, we don’t stock that. Have you tried Boots?”
“I want to poison them, not kick ’em to death.”
At the ball.
He “You’ll have to excuse me, I’m a little stiff from polo”
She “I don’t care where you’re from- let’s dance!”
My mother made me a neurotic, and if you give her the wool she’ll knit you one too.
The worst thing is to go round the stalls with someone else, who, on hearing the price, loudly informs you that the seller is “having a laugh” and then proceeds to make a risibly low offer on your behalf.
The second worst thing is to go round with me, and have me ask you “What do you want to buy that crap for?”
Over on the right side of the painting- a red windmill (moulin rouge) which is presumably the fake windmill atop the real-life place. Looks like can-can dancers in the front.
Came across a business in Derby (UK) that replaces the hard disc in MacBooks with solid state discs- you might find a firm near you that does this (or do it yourself!). That is said to speed up the Mac. The other thing appears to be dust in the fans- these are apparently easy to pull out and clean.
I’ve got a MacBook Pro from about 2011. It had a problem with the fans running fast; turned out to be a “Mac Cleaner” that had installed itself. Has a MagSafe 1 with the usual frayed connection, to the point where it’s wired up using a terminal block right near the plug. Wish I’d taped the damn thing up. Going to bodge it up with a new lead and plug- getting into the transformer and soldering the connections is beyond me, so I’m going to join the two leads together.
10/11/2019 at 4:26 pm in reply to: Reporting my 72 hr Listing ban on ebay for being a violator… #68914It’s all Persian on eBay UK, including new home decor items, except for Iranian Embassy Siege (books and “art prints”). I suppose Persian Embassy Siege just sounds a bit naff.
10/09/2019 at 3:29 pm in reply to: Reporting my 72 hr Listing ban on ebay for being a violator… #68834I used “Qajar” to list a Persian tray after I got the Iran warning; you could try “Ayatollah’s Paradise” 😉
10/08/2019 at 5:26 am in reply to: Is this a Tapestry, Needle Point or Embroidery – Also how would you describe it #68770It’s possible that the person who “needled” it has never been in a house with an open fire!
10/07/2019 at 5:15 pm in reply to: Is this a Tapestry, Needle Point or Embroidery – Also how would you describe it #68751Those flames have nearly reached the coverlet on the mantlepiece.
Article on the 1911 edition. The copy I referred to above could have been the property of the original owner of the hall (an Edwardian mill owner’s house). Probably still there!
Checking eBay UK solds, it seems the 1990s and 2000s sets fetch about 100 dollars upwards. 1970s sets sold for 2 dollars up to about 10 dollars.
A full set of Encyclopedia Britannica was “donated” a couple of weeks back to the thrift shop I volunteer in. “Donated” because they were dumped in a bookbank in a supermarket car park. Manager told me to recycle them, as they’re unsaleable in the UK. That’s the second set I’ve bagged up for pulping (the first was mouldy).
The 1911 set might be worth something. I came across a set in the attic of a student hall of residence back in the 1980s.
I thought you had that 1776 thing to get away from paying taxes! 🙂
Might be out of Kinder Surprise eggs.
10/02/2019 at 5:22 am in reply to: Defects for shipping without tracking for items without tracking #68494Just checked my solds, and the mix of “dispatched” and “delivered” seems random, i.e. some items that I know were delivered aren’t marked as such. My late delivery rate hasn’t changed since a book was delivered to the wrong address by a post person- buyer complained that he hadn’t received the book, but he was eventually able to retrieve it. Made me a bit cynical about these metrics.
09/30/2019 at 5:45 am in reply to: Defects for shipping without tracking for items without tracking #68416UK seller. Of the last 20 items sold, 8 were posted without tracking. No defects. A ninth was posted via GSP; a label was printed but wasn’t used– couldn’t find the item (a small purse) until after the label expired, so I posted it without tracking to the GSP centre. Just checked the tracking, and for some unknown reason it worked (I knew that the item had been delivered, but the label wasn’t attached to the parcel, and thus had not been scanned at posting).
One thing (maybe only applicable to the UK). Post label when issued is valid to the end of the next working day. I just now (Monday 30th) bought a label for an item purchased Sunday evening- the label is valid for use up till midnight Tuesday. If, say, I sold an item Monday afternoon and I bought the label at “zero dark thirty” it would be valid until Thursday midnight, but the eBay metric would show that I dispatched the item within 24 hours. Whether the tracking system feeds back I don’t know- I haven’t pushed it that far but I have made use of the leeway to post later.
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