Mundane News

[mybike]

I feel for you. we used to have a retailer called RadioShack. they were everywhere, like Dunkin Donuts. now we have to look for stuff at CVS ... or Amazon. but there is one electronics specialty shop not too far away, if I get desperate for something in particular & that I don't want to wait for

Radio Shack were Tandys in the UK. I used to look at RS adverts, before Tandys opened, and wish they were UK based.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I feel for you. we used to have a retailer called RadioShack. they were everywhere, like Dunkin Donuts. now we have to look for stuff at CVS ... or Amazon. but there is one electronics specialty shop not too far away, if I get desperate for something in particular & that I don't want to wait for

ha, our equivalent was Tandy and yes long gone from shopping centres.

 

[rockyroller]

To get foreign stations you need short wave, but there are vastly fewer stations now than there were.

was using my small Grundig shortwave radio the other night while I was editing video (lots of waiting while files import) & used a handy RadioShack branded a/c adapter ... *sigh*

 

[Reynard]

I use this website rather a lot to stream talksport and talksport 2, as my DAB reception is pretty crap here.

https://www.radio-uk.co.uk/

 

[rockyroller]

I use this website rather a lot to stream talksport and talksport 2, as my DAB reception is pretty crap here.
https://www.radio-uk.co.uk/

hey that's handy! works really well & loads quickly! thanks!

 

[raleighnut]

I feel for you. we used to have a retailer called RadioShack. they were everywhere, like Dunkin Donuts. now we have to look for stuff at CVS ... or Amazon. but there is one electronics specialty shop not too far away, if I get desperate for something in particular & that I don't want to wait for

HiFi stuff is even harder to buy, there used to be 7-8 shops (one had 2 branches) all staffed by mainly knowledgable staff, now there is 'Richer Sounds' as a retailer. Ok 3 or 4 guys operate from their homes on a sort of 'hobby' basis but it's not like you can spend an afternoon happily wandering from shop to shop with a few hundred quid burning a hole in yer wallet.

 

[rockyroller]

wandering from shop to shop with a few hundred quid burning a hole in yer wallet.

ahhh the good ole' days. a week or so ago I had a fun holiday-type shopping experience (lost on my adult kids). wanted to purchase a small pop-up canopy for our modest back patio. went store-to-store & wound up at a sad Sears dept. store w/ mostly empty shelves. chatted with a salesman who shook his head. but I wandered over the the previous area where I've bought camping supplies in the past & what did I find? exactly what I wanted. I almost teared up

 

[Reynard]

Sitting down with a and a mince pie, waiting to hear what the Dear Leader has to say.

 

[Reynard]

great year! the year I moved out of my parents' house!

I was 9! And the lad on the front cover of that magazine was 15 and my hero.

His older brother was also somewhat easy on the eye. And still is.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

The funeral before us must have had over 150 people outside. Delayed my neighbours funeral by 15 minutes. Bloody crazy numbers

What is wrong with people, I know they want to pay their respects, but that is just ridiculous, do they not know there is a pandemic on & there are rules, why weren't the Police called to disperse them?

 

[rockyroller]

What is wrong with people, I know they want to pay their respects, but that is just ridiculous, do they not know there is a pandemic on & there are rules, why weren't the Police called to disperse them?

my elderly parents are hard to keep in the house & I've told them, if they get sick or worse die, I won't be there. they live 3 states away, about 200 miles

 

[classic33]

Batteries. Lots of AAA's

And a solar powered rechargher!

 

[Gravity Aided]

We get "Award" points at work during the year depending on how our supervisors wish to give them to us for doing things and then we can cash them in for "awards" when we like. Most of the prizes are gadgets like fitbits, Ipads, etc but I discovered there is also a tools section so I have just awarded myself a nice 1/2" drive socket set.

It didn't specify the sizes of the size range of the sockets but it looks like a typical socket set. I have just realised it is being shipped from the US however so I wonder will it actually be Imperial sizes.

Likely both, that is how most of them are sold in The States

 

[Gravity Aided]

ahhh the good ole' days. a week or so ago I had a fun holiday-type shopping experience (lost on my adult kids). wanted to purchase a small pop-up canopy for our modest back patio. went store-to-store & wound up at a sad Sears dept. store w/ mostly empty shelves. chatted with a salesman who shook his head. but I wandered over the the previous area where I've bought camping supplies in the past & what did I find? exactly what I wanted. I almost teared up

Sears is just waiting for property values to go up, post pandemic, then I'll bet they shutter the rest of their stores.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Sears should go back to home shopping. They pioneered the catalog shopping, after Montgomery Ward. Even on the frontier, you could order from Sears. As kids, we used to look for the Sears catalog around September, advertising Christmas . My ma would often ask us what we wanted for Christmas, and show us pants and sweaters and the like, but also listen about the toy/game/bike stuff. On Christmas, we got a bit of both, whatever the folks could afford.