Oh the Railcard is not the scam, I might still get one direct through network rail, it's the artificial inflating of prices to push a Railcard that they will no doubt get a sales fee for. Just very scummy behaviour.
Mrs A is using Trainpal as well as Trainline to get cheaper tickets. Not a lot in it. but there are savings over going direct, esp if booked well in advance
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2we30p661o My elderly uncle said it was an experience that he would rather forget!
Today I learned started learning how mechanical (not quartz) watches work, with the aid of the fantastic visualisations on this website: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
My grandad used to build and repair mechanical watches from scratch. Also bombs. The other one had Izal toilet paper, so I'm across the board this morning.
Not so much I learned but I informed someone... My friend has "acquired" an apple table. God knows how as when I worked in retail they had serial numbers on and apple would get a team in to hand deliver we couldn't touch anything other than the products and a apple representative had to be around. But they have power to them and he wants to set it up to be a table to use day to day but then in the draws under keep keyboards n mouse and then use a computer inside ect ect. Anyway he wouldn't tell me what he paid for it but considering when we got them delivered delivered to us 10 years ago at my old job the where 70 to 100k each depending on what else was inside them and the length... And they would bill a store the cost of anything happened to them as our store got ram raided and the table was broken...
Alright you got me, what's special about an Apple table? Surely this isn't one of the display tables they have in their stores.
They are made from an American wood, they are solid wood, and all under them are safe style storage, ours all had mini servers in too. But let's face it. if you got asked to make a table for apple wouldn't you milk how much you charge them.... It's like when the BBC logo changed and apparently it cost millions WTF
TIL - When sticking his hands in the wet cement at Hollywood's Chinese Theater back in 2014, Mel Brooks wore a fake extra finger on one hand
TIL - The Gundam Base gains a permanent UK store in Camden Market tomorrow (Friday July 3rd, 2026) https://en.gundam-official.com/news/c3mpeva1293imcbjcqduilzw
I know, I also know its london so it can take its london prices and **** right off, I have better sources.
so bandai pulled the kybosh on some of the bigger exporters to overseas territories which is why you wont see gundam kits on HLJ ever being in stock again, They then got into bed with hobbycraft who they wanted to be the main distro for bandai kits here in the uk but they underestimated how **** hobbycraft is and how few stores they have. the london base is them making inroads themselves and i hear rumour they want stores in Birmingham and Manchester at some point. bandais problem now is they've moved too slow since pulling the brakes on places like HLJ so other smaller more focused distro's have popped up and are taking away business. I myself get a lot of stuff from oeshop (decent stock/prices) & hobbyzoneuk (for the more unique stuff coming from china), Jadlam is another whose making inroads and they've got some of the better kits in as well as being an excellent supplier of paint often getting the newest ranges from JPN in a reasonable time + free delivery for even the smallest of paint orders is awesome, there's also aliexpress and the bigger model shows with ali being good if you know what you're looking for and model show traders giving you hands on with kits as well as haggling power when dealing with cash.
Around 25 years since I last worked in electronics manufacturing, TIL that Rosin Flux is made from pine resin…
