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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
Tanzania. Had been playing to go there last year.
A former colleague had told me I had to go out to Coco Beach at night... Don't unless you are looking to have to fight off all the young and aul wans who are determined you aren't going home without themTurning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Micknail View PostWhy, what was their USP?
But actually it seems grand to go:
I used to work here. The place was run into the ground by management. You ask why they had no online store? The owner refused to invest in one. He wouldn’t shell out to implement a proper online store then complained when we couldn’t get one off the ground with zero resources.
The staff were looked on like mindless cattle, paid as little as possible, treated like dirt, screamed at for the smallest infractions. At least one staff member would be brought to tears by management every Christmas. It was shockingly abusive at times, with a totally authoritarian “do as we say you pleb” attitude from upstairs.
It’s a shame that it’s closing but it comes as absolutely no surprise. The owner is the worst kind of penny-pinching small business capitalist you can imagine who ran his business with zero compassion or imagination. He totally roadblocked any suggestions or attempts to move the store with the times.
That combined with the fact that the owner is at retirement age and his kids have no interest in taking on the business, it’s no surprise that it’s going.
It is sad to see the place go, I have a lot of fond memories from there, but the owner has nobody to blame but himself, his penny-pinching and his poor forward-planning.
Lovely bookshop, toxic workplace.
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostIs it difficult/cost prohibitive to create a dynamic user friendly online bookstore?
I use Kenny's, it's awful to navigate but is pobably the most user friendly of all I've tried.
The silence, the smells, the sense of adventure and the little sense of self righteousness.
But those things are hard to define, and impossible to codify.
Add to that that people these days don't really have time to wander into a bookstore for a few hours and soak it up, especially not in the quantities that make it profitable.
Hence:
Amazon.
Which, ironically, in its initial version was just Jeff Bezos running to local book stores, buying books and shipping them to people.
I would imagine the market for an online bookstore stops pretty much at search and purchase.
Maybe Facebooks new Metaverse changes that.
On your nightclub tickets idea, you can guarantee someone is already on it, and that it being as interstitial a policy as it is, it will be massively useful, and a huge waste of time.
This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
All efforts were made to make this thought original but with the abundance of thoughts in the world the originality of this thought cannot be guaranteed.
The author is not liable for any issue arising from the platitudinous nature of this post.
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
Last time I was in it they were on Middle Abbey Street
I rarely used the downstairs, something about browsing the secondhand section upstairs that was akin to discovering buried treasure."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Theresa View Post
I get the nostalgia and fuzzy undefinable feelings that one has visiting a book store.
The silence, the smells, the sense of adventure and the little sense of self righteousness.
But those things are hard to define, and impossible to codify.
Add to that that people these days don't really have time to wander into a bookstore for a few hours and soak it up, especially not in the quantities that make it profitable.
Hence:
Amazon.
Which, ironically, in its initial version was just Jeff Bezos running to local book stores, buying books and shipping them to people.
I would imagine the market for an online bookstore stops pretty much at search and purchase.
Maybe Facebooks new Metaverse changes that.
On your nightclub tickets idea, you can guarantee someone is already on it, and that it being as interstitial a policy as it is, it will be massively useful, and a huge waste of time.
It's tedious though. Every time I go to Kenny's for instance I need to remove an item from my basket that I clicked on 8 or 9 visits ago, and it's always a little bit of a ball ache to do. Search function is ok. Little things like linking the next book in a series seems like it must be rocket science.
On the nightclub thing, I reckon like a lot of Covid introductions this ticketing thing may be something that will stay. I think clubs may see benefits to it. Promo potential, exclusivity stuff, VIP rewards etcI hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostHave two tickets for Once Before I Go for tomorrow (Friday) evening in the Gate. Need to ditch it due to new house stuff. Would anyone be interested in the tickets? (no cost, of course) https://www.gatetheatre.ie/production/once-before-i-go/"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Chapters and Reads were the two big Easons-bashers of the early 2000s. Reads trying to smash the Easons stationary monopoly until it was bought by... errrr... Easons, and Chapters trying to smash the book monopoly until Amazon came and did them all in.
That and Chinese food were the main reasons for crossing the liffey in town, so the Chinese sector need to up their game appropriately."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Thank fuck this didn't strike any interest as I just remembered *now* about it. It seems people dying slowly on stage is not quite the Friday evening crowd pleaser.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Lazare View Post
CC expressed an interest, you must have missed.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostChapters was mayhem this evening, I'd reckon there was an unprecedented 300 people in the store about 6pm and they had decided to stop anyone else coming in before 6.30 closing.
Every till had about 20 people queueing.
looks like a good location for a hotelWill you ever fuck off with that shite... you are easily one of the worst posters on here for this-Pokerhand
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Bottle of wine and new war on drugs album for the night - holiday from the grimness
obly thing that could ruin this ban is finding out they are doing a concert in the metaverseWill you ever fuck off with that shite... you are easily one of the worst posters on here for this-Pokerhand
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
I deleted the request, mostly as it wasn't replied to in a timely fashion. Mrs. x had expounded on her non interest in going to 'more boring queer crap from the 80's' weeks ago. So I would have been going on my own anyway"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Time to book your yearly flu shot everyone. There's nothing worse than an actual flu and the shot massively reduces either the chances of getting the flu, or the severity if it does happen. Got mine through work, but booked the kids into the local pharmacy for today and there seems like loads of availability. Boots have a nice online system too."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostTime to book your yearly flu shot everyone. There's nothing worse than an actual flu and the shot massively reduces either the chances of getting the flu, or the severity if it does happen. Got mine through work, but booked the kids into the local pharmacy for today and there seems like loads of availability. Boots have a nice online system too.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
I deleted the request, mostly as it wasn't replied to in a timely fashion. Mrs. x had expounded on her non interest in going to 'more boring queer crap from the 80's' weeks ago. So I would have been going on my own anyway
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
I deleted the request, mostly as it wasn't replied to in a timely fashion. Mrs. x had expounded on her non interest in going to 'more boring queer crap from the 80's' weeks ago. So I would have been going on my own anyway
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostWhat are the chances of Newcastle being relegated, o football fans? Would obv be deeply funny.
But the likelihood is they will try and strengthen considerably in January so they should have enough to get themselves midtable-ish.
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Originally posted by Dice75 View Post
Id love to see their price to come back up if it happens"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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So it turned out the British government issued a report that calculated exactly how many deaths were caused by running Cheltenham during the pandemic - and it turns out it killed 41 people.
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View PostSo it turned out the British government issued a report that calculated exactly how many deaths were caused by running Cheltenham during the pandemic - and it turns out it killed 41 people.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...-grim-memories"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View PostSo it turned out the British government issued a report that calculated exactly how many deaths were caused by running Cheltenham during the pandemic - and it turns out it killed 41 people.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...-grim-memoriesHappiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Current house status - going to ring the apartment agents tomorrow and request to please, pretty please, be allowed to stay put for an extra three weeks.
Its the end of the first week (well, since Wednesday evening) and we've only now got the walls stripped of wallpaper in the living room.
I can't quite grasp all the tasks that are currently ongoing, but wowsers its fierce fun. Like, such glorious fun. We had the day to wander around places today as a saviour called Nicu is now helping out and we went into Woodies and felt the doors. Then we said to ourselves - those are some fine doors. Great door grooves. Then we popped over to EZ Living and sat on couches and went oh what a lovely bounce. Great bouncy couch. The tables next. What curves. Great curves to this table. We bought a hedge cutter - a name I found out after asking the guy in Woodies - what do you call a hedge cutter? A hedge cutter he said. Its charging now and tomorrow I get to go all Freddie Kruger on a hedge that is so overgrown that we can't open the back gate. Something we found out last night when we turned up with the maximum permitted car weight load of laminate flooring and couldn't back the freaking car in the back into the storage space. There's just so many things going on, layers within layers. Its beautiful. Although I did have a moment in B&Q earlier where I was looking at door handles (although oddly no doors in B&Q) and kinda thought - could I not have just bought a house more ready to be lived in?"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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We were out trick-or-treating tonight. Something I find incredibly odd - to be knocking on random people's doors, and I mainly just hid around the corner while my wife stood there waving at people. But noticed this also - https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/com...eater_tonight/ - you tell the kids fairly quickly to only knock on doors that are fully festooned with 'keep out', 'danger', skeletons peaking out the upstairs window, animated demon dog on the lawn."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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