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Sympathy Unlimited

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Fuck - the banks are filled with useless cunts.... We they have this habit of suspending your account, for system errors; and For not being able to answer questions to do with your account THEN AND THERE, with information that is usually stuffed in a filing cabinet, as one is not prone to driving around with the filing cabinet in the front seat, and rifling through it, while one is driving - and wanting to do the budget balance and shopping list - in the 1/2 hour or so before you get to the shops... And I am only after the balance... not all the info to go with my own account... And then they insist on demanding that you drive to the nearest branch - like 200+ K away.... just to identify yourself - And this is just NOT fucking on..... So anyway - after several days of savage infighting - of non compliance with the stupidity of them and their system..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I absolutely intend to send as many of them as I can, into permanent residency in ps

The IBM Model M Keyboard - The best board and the lamest service.

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Yes - I am a die hard fan of the IBM Model M Keyboard. I like BIG keyboards. I like HEAVY keyboards. I like LOUD keyboards. And I like them to sound like a heavy calibre machine gun when I am typing on them. IBM Model M Keyboard is the best keyboard in the world. Guaranteed.  So finally after many years of the old one getting lots of miles and my cheap skatedness begrudging the Fedex fee of ~$100 to send ONE board from the USA to here... at a price of about $80 per board... The price of the freight really grates.... I really wanted to totally clean up and fully service my last IBM board... as it was feeling a little gritty in the slides, not heaps but I like them to run like watches..... But I did a full dismantle and I am getting over the fucking floods that wiped the town out... I have just got so much to do.... and I had bits of board, and componentry, and no space to clean and reassemble them on... and lots of other things to do.... And I thought "This is just going nowhere...