Anyway..poor old Sligo. It waited all that time for a nice retail park and the beloved Brit high street stores to come and once they get here the criminal Yanks go and mess up the world economy and the shops shut as quickly as they opened. Not that I’ll be shedding a tear. The illusion they sold was that they were cheaper as they were big. Not so. CarpetRight attempted to rip me off for stair carpet ..I got a local firm to do it for a third of the price..better carpet and better fitting…so they can rot in hell. As for Land of Leather….same there. I’ll miss the cheapy place that sold strange garden stuff and candles though. Oh..and if you’re wondering why Currys is at the opposite end to PC World that’s purely to keep you fit running back and forward checking the difference in prices between two stores owned by the same people. They obviously use the same staff training company too. On the first day of the course they get a full frontal lobotomy and are programmed to run away from customers and pretend to be doing something to shelves or writing on bits of paper. If they do talk to you it becomes clear very quickly that they have no idea about the products they’re selling either. It makes me wonder if the training doesn’t actually include the ability to utter the phrase “I don’t know” so instead they make stuff up. That might be OK for Joe Public but not for us Geeks. And..the number of times I’ve listened to PC World salesmen saying “It comes with Vista…which is much faster than XP and better all-round.” No it is feckin not! Take the same machine and run it on XP and it will go twice as fast. This in itself is a subject for another rant…to follow. ggrr…off for Rennies.
And…there’s a reality that not too many Irish Nationalists seem to be making a song and dance about. That is..that the British economy now has more control over..and probably taking more money out of…the Irish economy than at any point in pre-Independence and colonial days. I wonder if Michael Collins and Dev would be down at Tesco buying cheap Chianti, olives, olive oil, Humous, vine leaves, pork pies and Newcastle Brown Ale. Then going onto PC World for a laptop to organise the revolution on…and buying bits for the old Roller in Halfords and so on and so on. One things for certain..if he’d gone into the store that says “The difference is we’re Irish” and found he had pay 25% more than he would in across the border he probably wouldn’t have signed the feckin Treaty. There again..he probably wouldn’t have started the war in the first place if knew the way that the politicians nowadays run the country and would been a Senior manager in Lidl or sommit.