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Not any more - there is one about ten miles away, which is good for kitchen equipment and screws, but I think it pretty much survives because the upper floor is all fishing related stuff.
"Real" hardware stores where you could buy fork 'andles and two pound o' 2 inch nails died out decades ago, destroyed by a combination of supermarkets and B&Q / HomeBase.
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I was curious, as here in 'Merica we've got several chains of large hardware stores: Lowe's, Home Depot, and so on. They stock that sort of thing routinely.
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We do: B&Q, HomeBase, couple of others. But ... they are all about 15 miles away, and it'll cost an hour or two to go there, find what I want, and get back. From experience, They won't be anywhere obvious in a big store, and the staff will have no idea what a fridge is, much less a bulb for one... 
I (and Herself) can live with a dark fridge for a couple of days.
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Sounds like a good excvuse to buy one of thjose super indestructible Navy Seal flashlights. Be sure to tell us about it!
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Comport Computing
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Doesn't look an AI-powered fridge.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I hate it when I don't know why a problem happened
You are obviously not management material.
You should've bought a new refrigerator first. Then just as the delivery person plugs in the new one and you check the light bulb in the new one you would've thought of changing the bulb in the old one and had the delivery person take the new refrigerator back.
If you're ever going to get that big promotion you are going to have to start thinking differently. 
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No a manager would have whinged about his budget, deferred the purchase till the next board meeting, then spent a month finding an oven to replace it and haggling the price down by £5.
True story: In the days when I was an embedded software engineer working on intelligent computer terminals, we got a new machine designed and coded in the US, and it was due to be passed to me. Since I had no idea of the hardware, software, or any documentation, I asked for an in circuit emulator (think debugger for embedded hardware). This was an expensive piece of kit: about 1/4 of my annual salary, and I negotiated with the sales guy - didn't get any money off, but did get several thousand pounds worth of extras thrown in free. Passed all this to my boss for sign off, and he sat on it. For long enough that I applied for, fought for, and got paid redundancy and had eight weeks before I left when he decided to get some money off. He placed the order on the Monday of the week I left: £100 off the price I agreed, but without any of the extras. It arrived three weeks after I left, and sat on a shelf unopened for two years. After that? Dunno - I lost contact with the staff after most of them were downsized as well.
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OriginalGriff wrote: True story:
Great story.
Unfortunately, that true story plays itself out continually to this day.
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OriginalGriff wrote: intelligent computer terminals
OriginalGriff wrote: It arrived three weeks after I left, and sat on a shelf unopened for two years.
Probably for the best. 
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They weren't that intelligent, not by modern standards.
Z80 and Z8000 based, with tiny amounts of RAM and ROM: but we did a lot with them. Compared to the dumb terminals most produced they were a vast improvement as you could do a lot of the user work locally and not use up valuable bandwidth (at up to a giddy 9600 baud) doing user verification and suchlike.
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raddevus wrote: I hate it when I don't know why a problem happened
That's easy. It never happened before you bought the fridge.
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Comport Computing
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why does this remind me of computing?
How many software developers does it take to change a lightbulb? 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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"None - it's a hardware problem"
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None - we just define darkness as the new standard
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Get that in the manual - then it's a feature, not a bug.
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Good job you ordered some new bulbs then. 
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Is anything like this[^] nearby? Looks like you have a thermal short.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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MIND BLEACH!
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Confucius right... ha ha
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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Just been to my local supermarket to get my lunch. As I was in the sandwich aisle, a guy standing a few feet down from me chucked a bag on the floor, shouted "BOMB" and run off. Panic ensued. My quickest way out was past the bag, so I had a quick look down at it as I passed it. I could see inside a sandwich with wires coming out of it. The supermarket was evacuated and outside one of the security guys was going around asking if anyone had seen anything, so I told him about the sandwich device with the wires coming out.
He asked me "Was it ticking?"
"No, I think it was Turkey"
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Turkey is harmless. Bacon is calorie bomb.
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CPallini wrote: Turkey is harmless hamless.
FTFY! 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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You have a rye sense of humour...
Mustard been hard to come up with this one.
Mayo come up with another good one tomorrow.
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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