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Round the corner from the house is a strange pound-shop run by a cheerful bearded fellow. I know that I'm supposed to find pound-shops a terrible sign of poverty and wossname and should probably be aspiring to shops selling coffee with complicated names and Mac accessories, but they're usually filled with mad objects. If you've got the right sort of mind, which is probably a whole other ramble.

I don't know about you lot, but it's a sign of something or other when you can buy 99pee USB accessories.

He also had a pile ("Eleven pallets out the back, mate. Bargain!") of mugs with various corporate logos. So I had to get several. Obviously. Pick of the bunch are the black ones that were supposed to have the complete periodic table on them. However, these just have the two rows of interesting elements from along the bottom, like wierdly minimalist green teeth. (Yes, I have people in mind for those)

Then there's the 'Corporate Technical Services' ones. That to me sounds like some shadowy black-clad IT team who carry out wet ops.
(They probably empty the dustbins, but that sort of thinking would indicate the wrong sort of mind, as mentioned above.)

There are many others. I shall go back in search of dead dotcom ephemera.

Date: 2006-02-11 04:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amanda-pink.livejournal.com
I find that you can never have enough mugs. I tend to buy them from everywhere... Fave has to be the 'Moog Music Inc.' mug ;)

I like the sound of the 'Corporate Technical Services' one.

Date: 2006-02-11 04:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] zotz
I used to have (but have now lost) a cheap corporate-logo-clad retractable biro, bearing the logo of this place.

Date: 2006-02-11 04:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com
i have always loved pound/dollar shops. you used to get the most amazingly cheap glassware in them in TO. strange things that looked like they'd been in storage since 1963, complete with dust.

the best shop in the world is Active Surplus, though. old HDs, military lasers, and teddy bear eyes, all in random bins.

Date: 2006-02-11 04:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hirez.livejournal.com
Coo-er.

Um. I'm going to guess that's a different Project Orion to the Dyson/General Atomics one.

Date: 2006-02-11 04:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hirez.livejournal.com
You can have it if you like. I'm not short of useful pots to put coffee in.

Date: 2006-02-11 04:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] redcountess
I once spent AU$75 in a discount shop (not quite a pound/dollar shop, but nearly as cheap) where I bought, among other things, a Dogbert for [livejournal.com profile] reddragdiva :-)

Date: 2006-02-11 04:48 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] zotz
Yup. It's a laser system to simulate some of the dynamics of nuclear weapons without actually doing tests. New scientist said it was a 1000-TW system. I don't know if that's input or output, although it's a fair bet that it's pulsed.

Date: 2006-02-11 04:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girfan.livejournal.com
I used to love going into the pound shop at Oriental City (Colindale, north London) and end up getting all sorts of cool stuff from Sanrio products to chopsticks and sushi making accessories. *sigh*

Date: 2006-02-11 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amanda-pink.livejournal.com
Neither am I... I'm sure my coffee mugs are multiplying when I'm not looking.

Date: 2006-02-11 05:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amanda-pink.livejournal.com
I remember when that place was the Yaohan Plaza. I've not been there in years.

Date: 2006-02-11 05:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girfan.livejournal.com
I think the last time I was there was 5 years ago (sadly)

Date: 2006-02-11 06:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amanda-pink.livejournal.com
I must go there again and see if the Asahi Bookshop is still there...

Date: 2006-02-11 06:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metallikat.livejournal.com
Pound shops are marvellous places. They are particularly good at halloween, especially for musical ties.

Curious about exactly -what- USB accessories were available for 99p.

Date: 2006-02-11 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hirez.livejournal.com
The one I came away with is a white LED on a bendy stick.

The last time I was in there, they had pairs of bears that would play Duelling Banjos. Pretty much appropriate for this end of Bristol.

Date: 2006-02-11 08:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metallikat.livejournal.com
Bwahaha!!
For just 99p? Bargain.

Date: 2006-02-11 10:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hirez.livejournal.com
http://www.libeljournal.com/album/phonepix/random/tn/BanjoBears.jpg.html

Date: 2006-02-11 11:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amanda-pink.livejournal.com
I have one of those bendy USB lights and another clip on one. They're brilliant for DJing with in a dark club.

I am SO going to have to get a pair of those bears...

Date: 2006-02-13 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] inulro.livejournal.com
Not that we need any more mugs, but I might have to go have a look. Just in case.

Date: 2006-02-13 11:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hirez.livejournal.com
Can you circuit-bend soft toys? I think we should be told.

Date: 2006-02-13 11:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hirez.livejournal.com
Absolutely. It would be a terrible shame not to.

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