How Do You Find Your Local Halfords

[speccy1]

Plymouth....crap

Staff are helpful enough, just never managed to buy anything decent in there yet, regardless of price which is always at the top end of astronomical

 

[Crankarm]

Anyway Crankie, what's your local HALFORDS like?

There is currently a similar thread running on Halfords where I have described my experience in my local store.

 

[Crankarm]

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." - George Orwell.

You really don't know what you are talking about. Yes you have the right but are you prepared for the consquences Riverman?

 

[garrilla]

I was a bit surprised today when we took off the fork and H/S of a bike that was bought from Halfords this week (and then pranged immediately). All exposed Hex bolts had been smeared and everything was text-book torque. I was so suprised I had to go around the bike just to confirm what I'd found...

 

[Riverman]

You really don't know what you are talking about. Yes you have the right but are you prepared for the consquences Riverman?

Rubbish! You're twisting Orwell's words. The question about whether you have the right is whether you are free from persecution to exercise that right.

For example people may be able to practice homosexuality or indeed say that they are gay but they hardly have the right to if they're persecuted for doing so.

I'm sure Orwell was very aware at the time that people CAN say anything they want. But that's not his point! His statement is a reaction to why people can't say certain things.

 

[Crankarm]

Rubbish! You're twisting Orwell's words. The question about whether you have the right is whether you are free from persecution to exercise that right.

For example people may be able to practice homosexuality but they hardly have the right to practice it if they're persecuted for doing so.

I'm sure Orwell was very aware at the time that people CAN say anything they want. But that's not his point! His statement is a reaction to why people can't say certain things.

You really are out of your depth Riverman. Look this whole issue arose from the title that had been ascribed to the thread before it was changed as I thought it was very possibly defamatory. It has nothing whatsoever to do with George Orwell. I am not twisting Orwell's words as I have not brought Orwell into this thread - you have. From which book or essay is your Orwell quote?

Do you actually know anything about libellous statements or George Orwell's work? Orwell was not writing about persecution, he wrote about control of people, sureveillance, power, fear, the control of thought through control of language, the control of the past and the present to control the future, the idealogy of the absolute power of the state, the crushing of the individual the human spirit of free thought, totalitarianism. I don't remember persecution being a major theme unless persecution of the individual is what you are getting at?

 

[The Jogger]

crankie , you should google the said word you keep referring to and see how many links it has, lots. It's even in the urban dictionary .

 

[Riverman]

unless persecution of the individual is what you are getting at?

I'd have thought that was strickingly obvious to most people.

 

[Downward]

I thought they would be the next big company to go under.

For the things I have bought Bike and Car related they are way more expensive and to be honest I prefer to support my local Car Spares/ Bike shop who employ people that are not students on minimum wage with no interest in the line of business for their career.

 

[Garz]

However downward, like mentioned by other forum members, halfords is open on the days that the LBS or car spares are shut so sometimes convenience outweights service. That and not all but some LBS tend to be run by pompous morons who actually scare customers away, it's not all as black and white as you portray!

 

[Crankarm]

I'd have thought that was strickingly obvious to most people.

No I don't think it would be obvious to anyone as strickingly does not exist as a word. Unless the people were all like you . Anyway Orwell was not advocating persecution of the individual per se but individuals who did not conform but instead questioned, the heretic. Individuals who did confrom were not persecuted but encouraged. Ker'ching .

Not only do you not know what you are talking about, you can't spell. It's strikingly.

 

[yenrod]

Does your local bike shop sell stem bolts ?????

The place aint bad...its the fact that you've anybody as an assistant there...

Like, do you get fashion experts in clothes shops ??????

 

[Downward]

However downward, like mentioned by other forum members, halfords is open on the days that the LBS or car spares are shut so sometimes convenience outweights service. That and not all but some LBS tend to be run by pompous morons who actually scare customers away, it's not all as black and white as you portray!

Indeed like I said I prefer to support my local community - Not to say I prefer some of the LBS or Car Spare companies.