Little things I miss from Blighty

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Sep 14th 2011, 9:57 pm

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

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I don't suppose anyone has read all 8,000. paulry is a long term respected member who takes part in many aspects.

Maybe you could read them all whilst leaving us alone.

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A lot of them. Paulry is a top BE'er.

You need to chillax.

And despite your many idiosyncrasies you two are both cool geezers!

...In fact change that to BECAUSE of your many idiosyncrasies

PS: Who said I wasn't a troll?

Sep 14th 2011, 10:02 pm

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

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Across the range I think and granted they probably charge more than others, they don't charge double I don't think. Don't shop there.

Will take your advice

A shame because the boys are nagging me for laptops. Hmmm... but the prices do look okay-ish

Sep 14th 2011, 10:13 pm

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

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Will take your advice

A shame because the boys are nagging me for laptops. Hmmm... but the prices do look okay-ish

Whoa!!!!!!!!! I wasn't advising anything. If the shit hits the fan it ain't nuffink to do with me! I'm just telling what I heard.

Sep 15th 2011, 12:01 am

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

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Will take your advice

A shame because the boys are nagging me for laptops. Hmmm... but the prices do look okay-ish

I bought a laptop for $300 last week - a Compaq CQ43. It's not going to win any awards for performance but for what I want it for; watching movies and internet, it's perfect. In fact, it's optimised for video.

A top bargain.

Sep 15th 2011, 12:06 am

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

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Will take your advice

A shame because the boys are nagging me for laptops. Hmmm... but the prices do look okay-ish

Got my last one from HN, great computer for the price.

Mind you, I like them. Never had a problem and always manage to get a bargain

Sep 15th 2011, 9:06 am

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

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Whoa!!!!!!!!! I wasn't advising anything. If the shit hits the fan it ain't nuffink to do with me! I'm just telling what I heard.

I know

...the kids will be gutted

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That's a good price. Where did you buy it?

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Got my last one from HN, great computer for the price.

Mind you, I like them. Never had a problem and always manage to get a bargain

Except for HN fighting tooth and nail against even justified refunds I find them to be mostly okay.

Actually thats something I miss: The "yes of course" attitude towards refunds that we enjoyed in the UK. Here we can still get refunds but sometimes greater powers of pursuasion have to be deployed to secure them.

Sep 15th 2011, 12:33 pm

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

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That's a good price. Where did you buy it?

It was in a clearance sale at JB. They wanted $325 for it but I got them down to $300. It only came with 2Gb of RAM, so I bought an extra 2Gb from PLE for $19.

Sep 15th 2011, 2:40 pm

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

Took the off-school-cos-its-closed kids to HN this morning and including accessories I ended up spending over $1700.

Oops

Sep 16th 2011, 12:03 pm

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

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Don't know if it's country/state wide but Hardly Normal are doing bogof on laptops until Monday. Slightly confused by the radio ad - one per customer - but you said I could have two.........

Anyway a bogof on lappies can't be bad, can it?

They also had a dyson vacuum reduced from $630 to $430(roughly) for all you "I wish I had bought a dyson in the Uk before I left club"

Sep 16th 2011, 5:03 pm

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

Car boot sales and Sunday markets

Sep 16th 2011, 5:14 pm

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

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Car boot sales and Sunday markets

Garage sales... Carboot sales for lazy buggers ... I love em

Sep 16th 2011, 5:18 pm

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

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Garage sales... Carboot sales for lazy buggers ... I love em

One stall car boot sales

Sep 16th 2011, 5:20 pm

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

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One stall car boot sales

Yup, and an excellent time to spend time talking to the other half driving between stalls

Havent done that since February...

No wonder I'm stressed

Sep 16th 2011, 5:23 pm

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

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Yup, and an excellent time to spend time talking to the other half driving between stalls

Havent done that since February...

No wonder I'm stressed

How do you work out the route?

Sep 16th 2011, 5:28 pm

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Re: Little things I miss from Blighty

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How do you work out the route?

We have a route we follow that takes in the meadows, rocko palm beach signs, up through safety bay area passing penguin island views, through warnbro.. beach side, up through portkennedy then back down the main drag to rocko...

We stop for a take away coffee and a sit on the beach too.... If there's a lot to talk about, or the idea seems good.... Or just if we want a bit of extra time to ourselves...

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