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Post by Sheep2 on Jun 21, 2021 13:35:31 GMT
Plus Waterstones squeezed out all the independent bookshops that they could. So it is a bit rich for them to squeal when Amazon puts the squeeze on them.
I do like Waterstones though. The rich smell of books. Especially in Brum or Piccadilly.
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Post by sandybahookie on Jun 21, 2021 13:42:19 GMT
It seems pretty 100% unfair, male puberty certainly turned me into a musclebound powerhouse. My leg muscles can lift my entire torso and larger than average head.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jun 21, 2021 13:45:30 GMT
Bookfinder dot com is a good website too, for new and second hand.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jun 21, 2021 13:46:03 GMT
It seems pretty 100% unfair, male puberty certainly turned me into a musclebound powerhouse. My leg muscles can lift my entire torso and larger than average head.
Why do you have an electric bike in that case? |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Jun 21, 2021 13:47:26 GMT
It seems pretty 100% unfair, male puberty certainly turned me into a musclebound powerhouse. My leg muscles can lift my entire torso and larger than average head.
It just seems like a bad follow on from a Andy Kaufman prank. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Jun 21, 2021 13:49:37 GMT
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Post by lazybones on Jun 21, 2021 13:52:55 GMT
I like Waterstones.
I used to like Borders. A treasure-trove of cheap paperbacks not readily available elsewhere.
I think on balance, I like second hand bookshops the most. Nice and musty. I'm not crazy about the smell of books generally though. The anti-Kindle book sniffers are an odd bunch.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jun 21, 2021 13:57:19 GMT
I loved Hudsons on New St/Stephenson St. A proper wabbit rarren of a bookshop over 2-3 buildings and 4 or 5 basements. Nicely ramshackle.
I used to go past t it on the way to and from school every day.
Also Foyles in the 1980s in London was a proper marvel. An amazing purchasing system designed purely to intimidate potential customers.
Waterstones is a bit too orderly.
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Post by whatalark on Jun 21, 2021 13:59:01 GMT
www.abebooks.co.uk/Abe books are good for signed copys and things. Got a digitally ? printed book for under a tenner that was selling for £60-100 due to its rarity.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jun 21, 2021 14:03:40 GMT
Jeff owns Abebooks.
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Post by whatalark on Jun 21, 2021 14:06:04 GMT
Well that's me buggered then |
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Post by lazybones on Jun 21, 2021 14:06:24 GMT
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Post by lazybones on Jun 21, 2021 14:07:10 GMT
I still find it hard to forgive Jeff for what he did to Lovefilm.
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Post by sandybahookie on Jun 21, 2021 14:08:12 GMT
It seems pretty 100% unfair, male puberty certainly turned me into a musclebound powerhouse. My leg muscles can lift my entire torso and larger than average head.
Why do you have an electric bike in that case? Because I like the respect I get from fellow Biker gang people, the little nod of acknowledgment at the traffic lights, its exhilarating. |
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Post by whatalark on Jun 21, 2021 14:16:48 GMT
I was happy in my ignorance, now my hermit like world seems to be coming apart at the seams. |
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Post by lazybones on Jun 21, 2021 14:26:31 GMT
I think I dislike Jeff Stelling more than Jeff Bezos. He seems so polite and well spoken, yet he uses these gifts, and his status a sports presenter, to sell betting products.
It doesn't sit right with me.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Jun 21, 2021 14:38:37 GMT
Was expecting a Graham Linehan comment, but I guess this will do. I wonder if any celebs will dare speak out against this? |
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Post by lazybones on Jun 21, 2021 14:43:54 GMT
You can't say anything these days. The police have stopped policing the streets and now only police what people say on Twitter.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Jun 21, 2021 15:02:11 GMT
This is how we ended up with Heather Swanson.
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Post by whatalark on Jun 21, 2021 15:18:28 GMT
My advice to myself is "think it, don't say it". It's a mine field nowadays as to what you can and can't say.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jun 21, 2021 15:27:03 GMT
I was happy in my ignorance, now my hermit like world seems to be coming apart at the seams. It's Jeff's world. We just pay him to live in it. |
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Post by whatalark on Jun 21, 2021 15:33:56 GMT
I'm now getting paranoid, checked to make sure he doesn't own Etsy.
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Post by lazybones on Jun 21, 2021 15:36:18 GMT
Does he own ProBoards?
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Post by lazybones on Jun 21, 2021 15:40:58 GMT
Ownership of ProBoards is attributed to a mysterious 'person' going only by the name of Patrick Clinger.
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Post by lazybones on Jun 21, 2021 15:42:52 GMT
Is Destry Patrick Clinger?
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