If you're happy with the vendor I can't see a reason not to - they're nice frames, and that's a very good discount as far as I can tell.
I've had the pleasure of working on a couple in my time and they're well thought out.
ALiteralCabbage
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Wait until you hear about the UK! I own the freehold to my land, but technically it's gramted by the crown, so I could in theory at any moment have my home taken from me.
I think people forget that many of the highways in The Westβ’ were created as part of glorified jobs programs too.
These projects run like utter shit now in places where work is tendered out to corporations now of course, because they're being driven by private bodies whose sole motivation is profit, not the creation of useful infrastructure. In my own country HS2 is a beautiful example of this.
I try to be conscious of lifestyle creep as I get older and somewhat more financially stable (lol), but good underpants are a big one.
Good boxer briefs don't ride up, and if you get the ones with a special pouch for your meat and potatoes it's very hard to go back!
Huh, TIL.
Should probably get some therapy soon then - had a bunch of uncles top themselves.
Fixing things is nearly always cheaper than buying new
This really depends on what you're fixing. My laptop has a crap battery. To buy a new one is a few hundred quid. Plus various proprietary/niche screw bits. Plus the time to actually do it.
An equivalent new laptop is fractionally more expensive, and I can have it delivered to my home, freeing up the time element.
Tomfix my bicycle? I might need some internal components for my brifters; cheap AF and I know what I'm doing (and where to buy from). New shifters several orders of magnitude more expensive.
Late replying to this thread but frankly I need a vent!
Returned from a 2 week holiday to a bin fire of work. Nice to know I'm a useful cog in the machine but horrified to realise how key I am in the day to day operation of the firm as well. Trying to parse the inner workings of HMRC's PAYE systems which have decided I owe them Β£700 odd quid (not my first run in with PAYE being fucking weird, but that's a longer more depressing story).
Only been at work for 4 days and it feels like I've been there months again. Can't focus on anything in the office much, stressed out, and too broke to pay for counselling again!
I've basically already forgotten how chilled I felt on my hols. What's the point?!
Still, I'm standing up and not crying, so there's that at least.
It's insane.
What gets my goat the most is that farmers take collectve action over the most insanely selfish shit, but are happy to be absolutely rinsed over things that are actively making their lives worse!
Imagine if they actually pooled their resources to make sure they got fair pay from supermarkets instead of shitting themselves over inheritance tax and hunting bans.
I say this as someone who lives and works alongside farmers. I have a huge degree of respect for the amount of work a lot of them do, but fuck me they're a short slighted bunch.
Absolutely amazing take.
Maybe worry about the state of the NHS rather than your election prospects?
Imagine being such a shitty manager that your workforce walk out on you.
Yeah but remember! No farmers no food! They're the unsung heroes who do no wrong and are the guardians of the countryside! /S
Honestly I don't know enough about the way that it's run to give a correct answer!
I mean even pre-privatisation the rail service was being reduced (Beeching's cuts etc.) so there's clearly a cultural element at a government level, but the actual running of the rail firms is pretty opaque; there's a lot of subcontracting, and the profitability is high, with reinvestment in the railway services not being proportional to that. I suspect that the culture around rinsing public services for private gain isn't quite so dominant in Japan, but again, I couldn't comment on that really.
We also have relatively old infrastructure, comparably narrow gauge railways that we would struggle to update because the country was built up around it, but this might be a bit of an old-fashioned take. I'm sure some transport historians could set me right!