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Good moaning
Feb. 24th, 2004 09:45 amTuesday already? I really must have overdone it at the weekend, yes twas a weekend of me being painted gray and wearing silly pointy ears, unfortunately no really decent pictures this time, but I did get to hit things.
So what else have I been up to? Apart from precious little, I did spend most of last week rushing to get a few weapons finished which i managed to do, and they did get used to great effect, although the light in the cellar (I swear it was that, not me being hassled and forgetting) let to me missing a coat of a sword and it ending up kind of pink.
Look, I really wouldn't deliberately turn the Fire Elf artifact sword pink on purpose would I? In case you're wondering the answer really is no.
So I've got that back to make it look much more special-er.
After yet another virgin dvd splurge the other week, I finally got round to taking back the copy of 12 monkeys that kept going out of synch.
I got to the counter and told them of my woah, no more copy's left in the shop so did I want voucher, nope said I.
So I was pointed to the offer rack to pick another one.
Now the offer they'd ran for what seemed like an age (3 for £20) had finally finished to be replaced by the buy 2 get one free offer that has dvds of various prices, I decided to be cheeky and risk if I could get away with the double disk fight club that was out at £12.99 (slim chance but I thought I'd give it a go, after choosing a £9.99 as a fallback, that I knew was in the offer when I'd last bought there)
Getting back to the counter the assistant asks me what a 3rd of 20 is, noticing what he meant to do I objected.
Now I understand that in the way of things I actually paid 20 for 3, sop realistically I did pay 6.66 for each one. but I think it unfair that when I buy a dvd in an offer, I pay for a working dvd, so to be penalised another few quid to get another. So I objected. He said there was nothing he could do and so the manager was called.
Again I went through the argument, yes I know I only really paid 6 for it but on the receipt it states that the dvds separately were priced at 9.99, so it's highly unfair that I'd have to pay another 3.33 to get a replacement.
I knew I'd get my way (probably) and that twas just the usual public hassle to try and get away with it. But I continued stating that it was highly unfair that I was being penalised.
It wasn't my fault that it didn't work, it wasn't my fault that the offer had changed, it wasn't my fault that they didn't have any direct replacements.
To cut a long story short (too late) I got my way and went and picked up my 9.99 replacement, the wonderful 8 oscar winning Amadeus, 2 disk thingy directors cut with a making of jobby.
So now I'm happy and shall be making calm time to watch it in it's entirety without interruption, but seeing the making of made me think, hmm Prague looks like a nice place.
Also remembering the rental video of the film that I saw it on the first time, and again last year when someone tracked it down was the trailers. Especially Restless Natives, with soundtrack by Big Country, now that's a film I need to find again, modern scottish highway on a motorbike, one with a clown mask and one with a werewolf mask. Class.
( Thingies )
So what else have I been up to? Apart from precious little, I did spend most of last week rushing to get a few weapons finished which i managed to do, and they did get used to great effect, although the light in the cellar (I swear it was that, not me being hassled and forgetting) let to me missing a coat of a sword and it ending up kind of pink.
Look, I really wouldn't deliberately turn the Fire Elf artifact sword pink on purpose would I? In case you're wondering the answer really is no.
So I've got that back to make it look much more special-er.
After yet another virgin dvd splurge the other week, I finally got round to taking back the copy of 12 monkeys that kept going out of synch.
I got to the counter and told them of my woah, no more copy's left in the shop so did I want voucher, nope said I.
So I was pointed to the offer rack to pick another one.
Now the offer they'd ran for what seemed like an age (3 for £20) had finally finished to be replaced by the buy 2 get one free offer that has dvds of various prices, I decided to be cheeky and risk if I could get away with the double disk fight club that was out at £12.99 (slim chance but I thought I'd give it a go, after choosing a £9.99 as a fallback, that I knew was in the offer when I'd last bought there)
Getting back to the counter the assistant asks me what a 3rd of 20 is, noticing what he meant to do I objected.
Now I understand that in the way of things I actually paid 20 for 3, sop realistically I did pay 6.66 for each one. but I think it unfair that when I buy a dvd in an offer, I pay for a working dvd, so to be penalised another few quid to get another. So I objected. He said there was nothing he could do and so the manager was called.
Again I went through the argument, yes I know I only really paid 6 for it but on the receipt it states that the dvds separately were priced at 9.99, so it's highly unfair that I'd have to pay another 3.33 to get a replacement.
I knew I'd get my way (probably) and that twas just the usual public hassle to try and get away with it. But I continued stating that it was highly unfair that I was being penalised.
It wasn't my fault that it didn't work, it wasn't my fault that the offer had changed, it wasn't my fault that they didn't have any direct replacements.
To cut a long story short (too late) I got my way and went and picked up my 9.99 replacement, the wonderful 8 oscar winning Amadeus, 2 disk thingy directors cut with a making of jobby.
So now I'm happy and shall be making calm time to watch it in it's entirety without interruption, but seeing the making of made me think, hmm Prague looks like a nice place.
Also remembering the rental video of the film that I saw it on the first time, and again last year when someone tracked it down was the trailers. Especially Restless Natives, with soundtrack by Big Country, now that's a film I need to find again, modern scottish highway on a motorbike, one with a clown mask and one with a werewolf mask. Class.
( Thingies )
