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Post by Confessor on Jan 20, 2024 21:37:30 GMT -5
Spinner racks are the spawn of Satan. I would never allow one in my house, let alone anywhere near my comics. Always hated 'em, always will. Cei-U! But that's just me! That surprises me. What is it you hate about them specifically? |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 20, 2024 22:39:40 GMT -5
Spinner racks are the spawn of Satan. I would never allow one in my house, let alone anywhere near my comics. Always hated 'em, always will. Cei-U! But that's just me! That surprises me. What is it you hate about them specifically? They're butt-ugly, too easily knocked over, they damage the books, and they're a wretched way to display anything.
Cei-U! Cranky tonight!
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Post by Confessor on Jan 21, 2024 2:06:19 GMT -5
That surprises me. What is it you hate about them specifically? They're butt-ugly, too easily knocked over, they damage the books, and they're a wretched way to display anything. Cei-U! Cranky tonight!
Oookaaay, then...  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 21, 2024 4:05:37 GMT -5
They're butt-ugly, too easily knocked over, they damage the books, and they're a wretched way to display anything.
(...) I wouldn't agree with that; I think they are, in fact, a pretty effective way to display both comics and, say, paperback books. |
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Post by berkley on Jan 21, 2024 4:09:06 GMT -5
They're something I should probably feel nostalgic over but I don't find myself doing so, for whatever reason.
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Post by impulse on Jan 21, 2024 9:54:24 GMT -5
If you don't overload it, condition really isn't an issue at all. I have unbagged books in there. There's also filthy casuals who bend them forward to flip through them to see what's on there, creasing them all horizontally down the center and usually leaving spine damage. I'm not bitter. It's fine. But seriously, those were reading copies in the store while waiting on my parents, so it didn't matter much ha. I can see the pros and cons of the speculator thing. It sucks for the crash it created and how it jacks up the prices of back issues for people who just want to have them and read the stories. On the other hand, it can't be all bad to keep people interested in comics and keep them seen as valuable to the general public. I don't collect anymore so I don't have a horse in this race either way. |
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Post by driver1980 on Jan 23, 2024 4:57:44 GMT -5
Not being political here, but I so wish that the mainstream media in the UK could learn the difference between Royal Mail and the Post Office.
Royal Mail is primarily responsible for the collecting, sorting, and delivery of mail to households and businesses. It operates delivery offices and sorting offices throughout the UK. The Post Office is a separate entity, whose branches offer a wide range of services such as paying household bills, buying stamps, processing passport applications, etc. You can leave mail at a Post Office branch, which Royal Mail will collect, but in 2024, they are separate entities.
I know people here know that, but I expect the media to get it right.
In the UK, Royal Mail is thinking of abolishing Saturday deliveries. When one news outlet covered this, they kept showing the Post Office logo. On the other side of the coin, the Post Office are under fire over the Horizon scandal, where postmasters were wrongly convicted of fraud, which was caused by a software error (that’s simplifying it a tad). Well, the media are covering it - and conflating Royal Mail with the Post Office.
I turned on the TV over breakfast. One presenter was inaccurate on so many levels. She mentioned how Royal Mail no longer did recorded deliveries (mail which requires a signature at the door). They do. They absolutely do. She mentioned TNT doing it (TNT, who are now called Whistl, do not, as far as I know, deliver recorded mail to private households).
Then she mentioned couriers, speaking about DFS. What?! DFS is a furniture store. It is not a postal courier. If someone is gonna present a show on TV, and this person is highly opinionated, then learn the difference between Royal Mail and the Post Office. How can anyone trust a TV news outlet when a presenter gets basic facts wrong, and mentions a sofa store in relation to parcel delivery firms?
End of rant. Thanks for reading.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 23, 2024 6:12:43 GMT -5
I gave up on the media years ago.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 23, 2024 7:20:48 GMT -5
Not being political here, but I so wish that the mainstream media in the UK could learn the difference between Royal Mail and the Post Office. Royal Mail is primarily responsible for the collecting, sorting, and delivery of mail to households and businesses. It operates delivery offices and sorting offices throughout the UK. The Post Office is a separate entity, whose branches offer a wide range of services such as paying household bills, buying stamps, processing passport applications, etc. You can leave mail at a Post Office branch, which Royal Mail will collect, but in 2024, they are separate entities. I know people here know that, but I expect the media to get it right. In the UK, Royal Mail is thinking of abolishing Saturday deliveries. When one news outlet covered this, they kept showing the Post Office logo. On the other side of the coin, the Post Office are under fire over the Horizon scandal, where postmasters were wrongly convicted of fraud, which was caused by a software error (that’s simplifying it a tad). Well, the media are covering it - and conflating Royal Mail with the Post Office. I turned on the TV over breakfast. One presenter was inaccurate on so many levels. She mentioned how Royal Mail no longer did recorded deliveries (mail which requires a signature at the door). They do. They absolutely do. She mentioned TNT doing it (TNT, who are now called Whistl, do not, as far as I know, deliver recorded mail to private households). Then she mentioned couriers, speaking about DFS. What?! DFS is a furniture store. It is not a postal courier. If someone is gonna present a show on TV, and this person is highly opinionated, then learn the difference between Royal Mail and the Post Office. How can anyone trust a TV news outlet when a presenter gets basic facts wrong, and mentions a sofa store in relation to parcel delivery firms? End of rant. Thanks for reading. Royal Mail and the Post Office were the same thing for the majority of the period when the Horizon/Fujistu sub-postmaster scandal was happening though. The Horizon system was implemented in 1999, the first wrongful convictions of sub-postmasters occurred in 2000, and the scandal/cover up continued until 2015. The Royal Mail didn't become independent of the Post Office until 2011. Furthermore, Adam Crozier, who was the Chief Executive of Royal Mail from 2003-2010, was absolutely aware of the problems with the Horizon software and actively hushed it up. He also awarded himself huge bonuses during that period for a job well done, which would been paid for in part by the money that was being wrongly extracted from innocent sub-postmasters' pockets following wrongful convictions for fraud. So yeah, it is absolutely appropriate for the media to conflate the Royal Mail and the Post Office in their coverage of the Horizon scandal because the Post Office was owned by Royal Mail during the period in question. |
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Post by driver1980 on Jan 23, 2024 7:25:04 GMT -5
Perhaps a better way of putting it (which I should have done) is to state that the media should be clear about the separation now, and explain the history of Royal Mail and Post Office being combined better. I just feel that the media are all over the place, historically and currently. I say this because of some of the toxicity I am seeing on social media, e.g. one guy was trolling Royal Mail’s Twitter account over this Horizon scandal.
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Post by driver1980 on Jan 23, 2024 7:33:16 GMT -5
It’s also not just about Horizon. With the Saturday post delivery possibly being abolished, one news channel just keeps showing the Post Office logo. When Royal Mail postmen are on strike, they’re showing the Post Office logo. And on one occasion, when the Post Office lost one contract (pertaining to a government contract), one news outlet was showing Royal Mail vans.
I just feel they could do better.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 23, 2024 7:33:20 GMT -5
I gave up on the media years ago. I tried that. Then I realized how much social media was trying to force its own reality on me, so I've started to treat intelligently consuming the news as my responsibility. |
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Post by driver1980 on Jan 23, 2024 7:48:32 GMT -5
I gave up on the media years ago. I tried that. Then I realized how much social media was trying to force its own reality on me, so I've started to treat intelligently consuming the news as my responsibility. I am trying that. I find Reuters to be non-sensationalist, so I do check out their site for news. Hopefully, I’m doing the right thing. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 23, 2024 7:48:38 GMT -5
I gave up on the media years ago. I tried that. Then I realized how much social media was trying to force its own reality on me, so I've started to treat intelligently consuming the news as my responsibility. I take it all with a grain of salt. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 23, 2024 7:51:24 GMT -5
I tried that. Then I realized how much social media was trying to force its own reality on me, so I've started to treat intelligently consuming the news as my responsibility. I take it all with a grain of salt. Salt? As if headlines weren't bad enough for my blood pressure!!!  |
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