Catman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> We have a traditional sweet shop round here. Personally I'll give it 6
> months, tops

One such opened in Tunbridge Wells a few years ago. Well, actually it
opened as Bean, a specialist chocolate shop in Calverley Road, and then
the owners had the bright idea of adding good old jumbo glass jars of
sweeties, weighed out the traditional way, and damn me, the place is
doing a roaring trade, eight years later.

What's nice is that they also recognise the existence of old gimmers
like me, and understand when you ask for "a quarter of bulls' eyes".

It also sells things like sherbet fountains, licorice bootlaces, flying
saucers, four-a-penny (or whatever the going rate is these days) chews
and milk gums.

Mid-afternoon, after school chucking-out time, the local kids are
queueing out the door, and the shop doesn't bat an eyelid when some
urchin counts out his coppers and asks for forty-three pence worth of
whatever. They just do the maths, and weigh out the goods. Superb, it
is.



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darsy wrote:

> [2] I was looking for a particular type of "pick'n'mix" sweets that
> haven't been available since about 2002, but which she keeps sending
> me out on missions to try and locate.

I know a chap that owns a small chain of sweet shops in Cornwall. I
could always ask him if they are still available if you wish

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On Mar 14, 10:01*am, petrolcan <petrolcanS...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <171cba32-496c-40c4-a735-
> 5949df825...@o3g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, darsy says...
>
>
>
> > On Mar 14, 9:46*am, petrolcan <petrolcanS...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > In article <5d324ea0-ea92-4a48-84ff-
> > > 5dd25254b...@m37g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>, darsy says...
>
> > > > [1] the things she's after are the "orange and lemon" slice things
> > > > that look like thin slices of oranges or lemons but are really just
> > > > gelatine and sugar and food colouring textured.
>
> > >http://www.silverspoon.co.uk/home/pr...kles/orange---
> > > lemon-slices
>
> > good try, but not quite right - these are about 3 times the size of
> > those, and come in individually wrapped single sweet portions.
>
> http://burnssweets.co.uk/acatalog/sour.html

you beauty! - the "orange and lemon slices" look about right.

no doubt she'll complain they're 0.0003 pence too expensive or
something.

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On Mar 14, 10:10*am, Gyp <G...@gyponline.co.uk> wrote:
> darsy wrote:
> > [2] I was looking for a particular type of "pick'n'mix" sweets that
> > haven't been available since about 2002, but which she keeps sending
> > me out on missions to try and locate.
>
> I know a chap that owns a small chain of sweet shops in Cornwall. I
> could always ask him if they are still available if you wish

cheers - I'll bear it in mind.

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Catman wrote:

> > Halfords manager: "You can't have a Sat Nav on a car with a dynamo".
> >
>
> Did he give a 'reason' at all?

I did ask him why - he just said they weren't compatible.

I just said he was a retard.

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sweller wrote:
> Catman wrote:
>
>>> Halfords manager: "You can't have a Sat Nav on a car with a dynamo".
>>>
>> Did he give a 'reason' at all?
>
> I did ask him why - he just said they weren't compatible.
>
> I just said he was a retard.
>

Clearly

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Catman wrote:

> > > > Halfords manager: "You can't have a Sat Nav on a car with a
> > > > dynamo".
> > >
> > > Did he give a 'reason' at all?
> >
> > I did ask him why - he just said they weren't compatible.
> >
> > I just said he was a retard.
>
> Clearly

I suspect he was muddled about negative and positive earth cars. Still
doesn't make him any less of a retard.

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"darsy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> oh, the amount of stuff I now do around the house is unreal, but
> unacknowledged. It'll be interesting to see what happens if I get
> another job.

I used to refer to that sort of stuff as "The Chore Invisible".

sweller wrote:
> Catman wrote:
>
>>>>> Halfords manager: "You can't have a Sat Nav on a car with a
>>>>> dynamo".
>>>> Did he give a 'reason' at all?
>>> I did ask him why - he just said they weren't compatible.
>>>
>>> I just said he was a retard.
>> Clearly
>
> I suspect he was muddled about negative and positive earth cars. Still
> doesn't make him any less of a retard.
>

And it would have done him good to be so told.

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Catman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> sweller wrote:

> > I suspect he was muddled about negative and positive earth cars. Still
> > doesn't make him any less of a retard.
> >
>
> And it would have done him good to be so told.

Why? He wouldn't have listened it would just have been a waste of breath
and to be honest rather insulting (I think working in Halfords is
punishment enough).