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| wilma6116@gmail.com: Aug 25 11:03PM -0700 On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 6:36:17 PM UTC-7, Gary Heston wrote: > The local surplus place has some ex-mil items from European sources; > I've seen Swiss and Italian items there. > Gary News to me. I recently bought a military jacket insert. You want something warm? This is it. https://www.amazon.com/Field-Jacket-Liner-Drab-Genuine-Military/dp/B006RKPAFM/ref=pd_sim_sbs_193_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0JRW2YEPNJKHWB13CASQ |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Aug 26 11:54AM -0700 On 08/25/2016 10:39 AM, Michael Black wrote: > I don't think surplus is what it once was. It's either less available > (the "surplus" stores now selling all kinds of things but not actual > military surplus), but also expensive. We used to shop regularly at a real surplus store. It was fun looking through stuff. If they trusted you you could go in the back and see REAL cool stuff! They closed down several years ago, but there's still a big neon (not turned on, o course) SURPLUS sign out in front. It took maybe a decade more before the REAL hardware store closed. > people wearing it these days so I can't imagine the latter. > And yes, I'm aware you are talking about a new store selling new goods, > but the name sounds like it should be a surplus store. Chain. Cheap clothing with some semblance of fashion. Some of their jeans are OK. Cheaper version of The Gap, a sister organization. -- Cheers, Bev "If your mechanic claims that he stands behind his brake jobs, keep looking. You want to find one willing to stand in front of them." -- B. Ward |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Aug 26 11:56AM -0700 On 08/25/2016 10:40 AM, Michael Black wrote: > there, though the topic different. Even got accused of using more than one > name. And come to think of it, he disappeared at some point, and I've yet > to see him posting in any of the newsgroups I read. He's still in several that I read, under various names. The annoying thing is that perhaps 15% of his posts aren't stupid or rude. -- Cheers, Bev "If your mechanic claims that he stands behind his brake jobs, keep looking. You want to find one willing to stand in front of them." -- B. Ward |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Aug 26 12:04PM -0700 On 08/25/2016 01:38 PM, Dennis wrote: > not returned since. Not much fun for a few days after, but it was > pretty much healed in about two weeks. Performed out-patient by an ENT > Dr. at a local surgery center, under general anesthesia. Nice when a medical procedure makes you better off. Anaesthesia: I used to throw up all the time (once for two days, ended up needing an electrolyte top-up in the ER), but they have GOOD stuff now so that doesn't happen. > charges for a 30-minute outpatient procedure - the bills (insurance > copays and deductibles) are still trickling in 5 months later - close > to $2K out-of-pocket so far. But worth it, I suppose. I see most of the Medicare+Blue Shield billings and am horrified. Granted, you get whatever discount you can haggle if you pay cash, but even then they're awful. Just having Medicare cut the bill from $350 to $85 would be good enough, and then they pay 80% of that. I haven't met a drug deductible yet, but the [Blue Cross Plan D] negotiated prices are good enough all by themselves. Docs/Hospitals/Pharmacies are apparently OK with that, which means that SOMEBODY is really getting soaked. -- Cheers, Bev "If your mechanic claims that he stands behind his brake jobs, keep looking. You want to find one willing to stand in front of them." -- B. Ward |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Aug 26 12:05PM -0700 On 08/25/2016 06:22 PM, Gary Heston wrote: >>A toast to absent friends. > Far too many. Cheers! > ObFrugal: I paid off my second house last month and am now debt free. Yay. OTOH, you're now ripe for a catastrophe. Keep your eyes open! -- Cheers, Bev "If your mechanic claims that he stands behind his brake jobs, keep looking. You want to find one willing to stand in front of them." -- B. Ward |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Aug 26 12:07PM -0700 On 08/25/2016 06:36 PM, Gary Heston wrote: > The supply was cut off. Those helpful congress critters passed a law > prohibiting the sale of used military clothing. I have no idea what is > done with it. They probably sell it to third-world armies at a profit. Haven't you noticed how spiffy many of them look? OTOH, maybe it's included along with the pallets of cash... > The local surplus place has some ex-mil items from European sources; > I've seen Swiss and Italian items there. I'm reminded of seeing two full gravel trucks passing in opposite directions... -- Cheers, Bev "If your mechanic claims that he stands behind his brake jobs, keep looking. You want to find one willing to stand in front of them." -- B. Ward |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Aug 26 12:09PM -0700 > News to me. I recently bought a military jacket insert. You want > something warm? This is it. > https://www.amazon.com/Field-Jacket-Liner-Drab-Genuine-Military/dp/B006RKPAFM/ref=pd_sim_sbs_193_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0JRW2YEPNJKHWB13CASQ I have a hat with a MIL-spec label :-) -- Cheers, Bev "If your mechanic claims that he stands behind his brake jobs, keep looking. You want to find one willing to stand in front of them." -- B. Ward |
| barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com>: Aug 26 06:49PM -0500 |
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Aug 26 01:22PM -0400 >> A toast to absent friends. >Too many. Perhaps they're still subscribed, but don't bother looking >unless there are posts. A possible solution suggests itself... I would be among those. After one twits the trolls, bottomfeeders and slogan-bleating dumbasses, followed by the dickheads who post followups to those same, only about five users remain. Frankly, I no longer frequent this NG because, like so many others, it has beome just another field of fire for zealously religious Statist serf wannabees, and for self-appointed, self-righteous, humorless, PC "word police". Witness: Turn off your filters, retrieve, and then try to read the preceding thread "Leaving gainful employment, etc...". Nothing new to see here, folks. -- Derald "...the only traits that are passed down in your family are perversity, ego-centrism, laziness and sociopathic tendencies." --Lynn Barton, Filedheacht Music School, East Bridgewater, MA 2016 |
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