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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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look it's a new thread!I just got shit for something that wasn't my fault. When did you last get in trouble? Was it your fault or are you an innocent man?
Alt: Who is looking forward to the 6 nations? I certainly am.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:47,
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latest was 12 years ago)
To be fair, you must be getting away with murder most of the time anyway.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:49,
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Nakers would be about as good at getting away with murder as Tony McClusky.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:52,
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Right by my house, the whole story(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:57,
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it was McCluskie Idiot.
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Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:39,
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Listen Nakers we cool yeah? We tight, brah, yeah?Then I hope you won't be too upset when I tell you that this thread is abominable and perhaps you should consider ending your life immediately as some kind of attempt at an apology?
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:50,
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the other one was too longanyway, you don't know what gems this might dig up...
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:50,
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Can you do these things?Knowledge/Qualifications
∙Good knowledge of programming based analytical software
• Numeric degree or equivalent e.g. Stats, Maths, Physics, Economics etc
Desirable
• Master qualification in Statistics, Maths, Physics, Economics or similar
• Knowledge of advanced Excel such as VBA programming
• Interest in marketing
• Interest in human behaviour
Work Experience
Essential
• Experience in data interpretation
• Able to communicate with clients and colleagues about how their insights can be used
Desirable
• Previous experience in building statistical models (logistic regression, clustering etc)
• Experience of presenting analytic findings to a non analytic audience.
• Relevant industry sector knowledge
• Experience of market research design and interpretation of findings
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:51,
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Depends what the industry sector is, but that's the sort of thing I'm looking for.What's the wage?
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Doesn't say, i seriously doubt it would be less than £30k thoughplus, pension, benefits and bonus.
Industry is Grocery retail.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:54,
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A nice way of calling him a Deacon(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:57,
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They're psychic and tailormake the layout of each store to the individual customer.That's what I heard.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:56,
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Well this is the last time I try and stop you falling into a spiral of unemployment after you get made redundant(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:59,
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Go contractingNone of the hassle of a perm job and reasonable money.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:19,
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Try telling people who work in HMV about job securityOr even Chompy, who finds his role redundant.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:49,
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Alt: yes. Most definitely. Hoping to go to Scotland v England. Mother in law has debenture seats(
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:56,
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I ma well jellthe scruts will get a jolly good thrashing
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:57,
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Don't follow rugby what with it being shit and dullbut just out of interest, does the usual "Scotch sportsmen" rule apply, and will England therefore be looking to rack up three figures at the very least?
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Perhaps not quite three figures, but yes the rule applies.(
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:59,
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Are England any good at Rugby at the minute?From my understanding they bridge the gap between the cricket team's all-conquering excellence and the football team's pitiful hooker-roasting.
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But, like cricket, is it not true that being the, let's say 8th, best team in the world basically equates to last?To the best of my understanding it goes NZ, Aus, SA then everyone else. "Everyone else" being France, the home nations, Fiji and Argentina on a good day. So there's about 6 or 7 nations who can be arsed with such a stupid game at anything above Sunday league level.
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The argies can put on a spirited performance and can play some good rugby, but are not consistant enough to challenge for the topItaly, still have some way to go, although their pack is strong.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:15,
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^ this ^I cannot believe I am agreeing with you about something. Christ on a bike.
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:19,
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onceYou need a continued run of good performances to truly say they have step changed their playing level. the six nations will test that better I think.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:21,
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I'm not claiming they're world number onebut they are no longer the sixth best team in the six nations, that cup is now held by Scotland by some margin.
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This is very much trueThe Scottish are embarrassing
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:24,
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the Scotch don't even make the top ten...1(1) NEW ZEALAND 90.08
2(2) SOUTH AFRICA 86.94
3(3) AUSTRALIA 86.87
4(4) FRANCE 85.07
5(5) ENGLAND 83.90
6(6) IRELAND 80.22
7(7) SAMOA 78.71
8(8) ARGENTINA 78.71
9(9) WALES 78.39
10(10) ITALY 76.24
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:25,
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I can't believe Samoa and higher ranked than Wales.I know the Welsh are shit by definition, but that's surprising.
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Points systems are flawed though as you don't get more points for beating better teams, look at the football top ten for exampleColombia are 5th, but that's because they play lots of easy friendlies I believe
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:28,
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England won't be a pool 1 pick for the next RWC which is in England. Coz we are 5th and there are 4 groups.
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Thanks mateCould have been worse, they only took the laptop and there was very little damage
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Amateurs, laptops are worth piss all reallyWere you in at the time?
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:00,
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They could have a decent stab at identity fraudas we'd both got CVs saved on there. All passwords for anything the laptop auto-logged into have obviously been changed.
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Nah, and there was a window of about 6 hours in which it could have happenedLike I say we were about as lucky as you could get whilst being robbed. TV, DVD player, jewellery, Xbox all untouched.
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Poor choice mate, it's a bag of shitbut there's some decent porn on there if you look hard enough
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You can have it back. It's full of pictures of underage boys.(
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 11:59,
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did you then promptly escape from aa maximum security compound to the Los Angeles undergroud, where you are surviving as a soldier of fortune?
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I didn't know that they had branched out from roadside assistance into running correctional facilities(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:02,
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Are you going to use it as a\ deep fat fryer?or was that someone else?
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:16,
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This thread is frightful.I'll try again later, see if you cunts have sorted yourselves out and stopped these shit posts.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:18,
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Today.I tripped in the lab and knocked the door of the freezer, and my supervisor's cDNA samples fell out of their tray all over the floor. they weren't contaminated or anything, but they went everywhere, were really valuable, and he had to put them back into order. He got really angry and just said "Maybe you should just come back tomorrow." So I pretty much got kicked out of the lab today.
It was completely my fault, and I was mortified and trying not to cry while apologising and trying to fix it by collecting them all off the floor and putting them back in their tray.
I didn't have a good day today.
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No, I think he was stressed about something else.It was just a bad day in the lab for me as well unfortunately. My own cDNA samples failed again, so I have to redo them as well. I was already upset about that so I took a break to calm down before starting over, and that's when I tripped.
hopefully tomorrow will be better.
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If it's any consolation, my sister was alone in her office once when everyone had gone for lunchwalking along she caught sight of her reflection in a window, this startled her and she tripped, knocked over a coat rack which fell and smashed a plate glass door worth many pounds.
when everyone came back she said the coat rack had been overloaded and fell by itself. She got away with it.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:23,
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Until they reviewed the security tapesand caught her masturbating on her desk.
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I don't see how that would smash a plate glass door...feel free not to speculate
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:26,
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shut it "fingers and lube", i was trying to cheer you up!(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:28,
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Is everyone in your family a bit of a spaz?(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:28,
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he does have a fairly "weather beaten" look going on(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:31,
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My upstairs neighbours shattered their plate glass door on NYE by skateboarding down their stairs.
Pricks.
Still not fixed and they've not told their landlord. Would be cheaper to just get a new non glass door.
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GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:59,
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Well he might apply for a job to work with me, so there is hope yet(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:28,
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Would he have to answer to you if he got the job?(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:35,
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You should apply, but make it a condition of the contract that if nakers asks you to do anything you are entitledto reveal his internet browsing history to the whole company
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I am looking forward to the 6 nations very much. What happened, and are you sure it definitely wasn't your fault?
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Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:35,
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I've just realised, the weekend of the 2nd Feb is going to be a truly awesome weekend of sportsNot only do you have the opening six nations matches, but you've got the Superbowl too, and I'll be at my parents with their sky box.
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are you watching the aussie open that's on at the moment? My mum keeps trying to get me to watch it, I have no idea how to follow it.
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I don't understand it. mum's been trying to get me to watch it since I was little. no interest though.
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what don't you understand? I like a bit of tennis now and then, although admit I haven't watched any of the aussie open.
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Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:52,
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the scoring system confuses me. as do the "faults"It's just from a lack of interest. I"m not interested, so I don't bother trying to learn as much.
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fair enough, I won't bore you with it if you're not interested. The scoring system is unnecessarily stupid though I agree. It could just as easily go 1, 2, 3,
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Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:58,
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Basically it's the first person to 4 points in each game, but you have to win by a clear point, which is where the advantage comes in.Then it's the first to 6 games in a set, but again, you need to win by a clear game.
Then it's the first to either 2 or 3 sets depending on th tournament and if you're a bloke or a bird.
Simple really.
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Ball has to stay inside the lines and not hit the net.Points go 0-15-30-40-game. You have to win a game by two points, so if both are on 40, you go to duece-advantage(player)-game. It's not hard.
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someone once told me that it was 0-15-30-45-game.And that 40 is only used if it's closer than a point, but so that 45 indicates advantage in a close game. Something about old indoor tennis using clocks to Mark scores. Although this is almost definitely bullshit.
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Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:05,
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There seems to be some evidence for iten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_score#History
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THe evidence being a wikipedia page covered in "Citation needed"?Come on Chompy, you're better than this.
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sometimes, he really isn't(
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:13,
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With this sort of slap dash research I don't think i want him to work for me any more(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:16,
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Well HMV can fuck off then.None of their vinyl is in the sale.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:51,
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They dont have "Brave" on DVD eitherThe bankrupt cocksuckers
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:55,
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My kid fucking LOVED that film.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:59,
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It is my daughter's 6th birthday tomorrow and I wanted that as a present for herSnowy trip to Asda tonight then....
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:00,
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Smart price is the way forward(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:03,
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Fucks sake man, do you not keep a wife to take care of this sort of thing?(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:04,
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I do but this turned up as a last minute thing(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:06,
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She didn't tell you tomorrow was her birthday?(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:10,
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as a ginger I was deeply offended by it. (
Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:01,
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none? Seems a bit daft.
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Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:54,
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I would have helped them out.But they've burnt their bridges with me now.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:56,
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I don't think you buying the one copy of "vegan meditation and whale song" in that has been on the shelf since 74 would have done much. (
Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 15 Jan 2013, 12:59,
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I refused to deal with themas they wouldn't let me download all their music for nothing, so instead I only buy music off the internet form sites that don't want me to pay.
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without drawing out another argument, They decided to focus on hardware and game sales, instead of the online market. Bad choice, that was all.
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Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:02,
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That and their prices were fucking awful if you wanted something outside the top 20(, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:05, Reply)
I tried to buy series one of archer on DVD there a while back, it was £28, play had it for £9.50(, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:08, Reply)
I don't disagreeThey didn't fail because of downloading, they failed because Amazon offered a much better service and lower prices. But, that was partly down to the fact that Amazon aren't paying the taxes that HMV had to, so it wasn't a level playing field.
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HMV did relocate to Jersey a few years back though.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:12,
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What, even the oxford street branch?No wonder nobody bought anything.
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That was the first bit they moved.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:21,
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oh yeah, they failed to provide the service people wanted at the prices they wanted. I can see what they were going for, but when you have places like play and game doing the one thing you're trying to do better, better than you, and probably sunk a ton of cash in to if the re-fit near me was anything to go by then there is no chance. They didn't want to or could not compete with iTunes and amazon etc, and failed to compete where they chose to go with the business.
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Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:18,
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Trying to compete on the high street with Game was a daft idea.Especially since, I would think, most people buy computer games from Steam or similar now.
Also, who even buy films anymore, let alone from an actual shop. Still, they had One Direction tshirts.
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Kroney, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:39,
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They probably won't totally fail thoughThe record/music/whatever industry needs a high street chain or else they are tied to the amazon/online model entirely.
So HMV will survive but will be slimmed down, I reckon.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:23,
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The industry have been supporting them for over a year alreadyand it didn't work.
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that's mostly because, as you and others have pointed outtheir current model is fucking woeful. My money is maybe half the shops shutting, but a buyer taking on the business as a whole with an improved model and keeping the name. The record labels will want that, so will still offer favourable terms
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:32,
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There will be a few independent shops around, other than that you'll be buying cd's from the supermarket unless you purchase online.(
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:27,
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I don't think that's going to be the casebut you could of course be right, time will tell. But there's still a strong market for actual shops selling music, DVDs etc, they just need a better model than they had
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:33,
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Does it not depend on if the stock is owned by the groupOr on 'tick' from the supplier?
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:00,
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Yeah, that's probably it actually.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:05,
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