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  #3328361 6-Jan-2025 18:30
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richms:

 

I was told that for small appliances, if it was delivered and installed then they should arrange for someone to come out, but if you picked it up from a store or it was couriered to you then there was no expectation that the retailer should cover the removal and installation of the item.

 

 

If we give them the benefit of the doubt, they could be confusing this with contracts for work and materials, where this would be the case. They would also have no liability for damage caused by a third-party during or resulting from installation and it's fair for them to investigate this possibility, but who installed the product is immaterial to losses caused by product failure.




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  #3328373 6-Jan-2025 19:16
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Saw an Ozito PXC 184mm skilsaw on Trademe, listing by a cash-converter-style place, at half of retail.  The photos only showed the top so I asked for one of the baseplate, which looked in fairly good nick.  It arrived today and it's brand new as far as I can tell, the blade looks unused and the very slight scuff mark on the baseplate may just be from resting it on something.  Certainly the first time I use it for a cut it'll get more wear than it has now.

 

Pretty pleased with that, an apparently brand new saw at half price.


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  #3328846 7-Jan-2025 19:46
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My cousin and his wife are coming up for a visit this year. It'll be great fun. Probably quite messy but fun.




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  #3329076 8-Jan-2025 13:47
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People sending Excel files with protected sheets, or hidden sheets in a protected workbook. I smile because they don't stay hidden for long! 





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  #3329304 8-Jan-2025 19:01
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‘Living the dream’: snowed in at Britain’s highest pub, strangers became friends | North Yorkshire | The Guardian

 

This is a nice story about a bunch of people stranded in a snowy, isolated pub.





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  #3329306 8-Jan-2025 19:08
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freitasm:

 

‘Living the dream’: snowed in at Britain’s highest pub, strangers became friends | North Yorkshire | The Guardian

 

This is a nice story about a bunch of people stranded in a snowy, isolated pub.

 

 

That's almost an annual tradition, it's happened a number of times over the years so some people go there specifically in the hope of experiencing it.

 

I'm just waiting for the film version to come out: "They were trapped in an isolated pub in North Yorkshire.  One of them had a terrible secret...".


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  #3329313 8-Jan-2025 19:26
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I was once snowed in with a youth group for a week in the Italian Alps - an unplanned extra week's school holiday with pocket money from the tour organization. The tracks were buried by snow avalanches, they had to clear the tracks on the pass with snow blowers for a week and later we travelled by train through the 10m high snow gorge. 😁





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  #3329369 8-Jan-2025 20:24
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This one time, at Bandcamp.... 

 

 


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  #3329391 8-Jan-2025 21:25
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What happens when they run out of alcohol?

 

 





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  #3329392 8-Jan-2025 21:29
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Rikkitic: What happens when they run out of alcohol?

 

Same as the joke about the pantsdrunk Finns contemplating drinking meths: "I think we've seen enough".


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  #3329588 9-Jan-2025 15:01
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Converting excess sunshine into cool air for the house.


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  #3329703 9-Jan-2025 20:46
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Rediscovering 3D movies after once again having a system that can play them (my old player broke around six years ago, and the replacement couldn't do 3D).

 

I only have 11 movies in the format, but that's better than zero. Pity one of them is absolute rubbish!


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  #3329707 9-Jan-2025 20:52
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Behodar: I only have 11 movies in the format, but that's better than zero. Pity one of them is absolute rubbish!

 

Only one?  Didn't they read the requirement "if you can't make it good, make it 3D"?


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  #3329710 9-Jan-2025 20:56
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Usually I don't buy them if I know them to be bad :)

 

I read a review attached to an orchestral version of an album once, something like "I bought this by accident, thinking I was getting the crappy normal version, but this one's actually good!" and I was left thinking "If you thought you were buying one you don't like, why were you buying it?!"


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  #3330002 10-Jan-2025 13:04
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This reincarnation of Krampus.

 





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