tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39905704433814241362024-03-05T14:39:01.405+00:00Μια φορα και εναν καιρο ηταν ενα BlogYou see this light up in the sky?
That's me,
burning for my worst remembered sins;
burning for my best forsakened deeds.
Hold on traveler and gaze,
for my life is an everlasting blazeNicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.comBlogger648125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-13773007228675187702019-03-22T20:20:00.000+00:002019-04-06T15:23:50.876+01:00Cixin Liu, the three body problem trilogy, dense formation...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It has been a while, as usual life got in the way. Anyhow. I am on page 689 of the dark forest by Cixin Liu and cant help but wonder, why do writers make their characters do these awesomely stupid shit. Its the reason I stopped watching the walking dead. Couldn't stand so much stupidity.<br />
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Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-67301602898788212432018-07-16T19:07:00.000+01:002018-07-16T19:14:23.574+01:00Σχετικά με τηλεκατευθυνόμενα παιχνίδια JUMBO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Αγόρασα το παρακάτω τηλεκατευθυνόμενο για δώρο γενεθλίων, χωρίς να δώσω ιδιαίτερη σημασία στο τηλεχειριστήριο. Το οποίο εκ πρώτης όψεως έμοιαζε με τιμόνι. Δυστυχώς το συγκεκριμένο τηλεχειριστήριο δεν διαθέτει κουμπιά ή joystick για να στρίβει το όχημα. Αντιθέτως πρέπει να στρίψει το τιμόνι σε σχέση με τη βάση του γεγονός που το καθιστά εντελώς δύσχρηστο για τα παιδιά στα οποία απευθύνεται.</div>
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Το όχημα αυτό κάθε αυτό είναι σβέλτο, και με τις μεγάλες ρόδες του μπορεί να πηγαίνει πάνω σε χαλιά χωρίς πρόβλημα.<br />
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Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-58203714239125949062018-05-22T15:25:00.000+01:002018-05-22T15:25:28.343+01:00Η ΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΣΕ ΦΩΤΟΓΡΑΦΙΕΣ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-20896154485662285502018-04-09T18:10:00.001+01:002018-04-09T18:45:04.431+01:00Kid's Bicycle Refurbishing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I found on the street a 16'' kid's bicycle in rough shape but the perfect size for my daugter to upgrade to (and in time for her birthday)<br />
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So: new pedals from a local bike shop 4€<br />
New pair of tires from the same shop16€<br />
New disney princesses stickers from your favourite online shop 10€<br />
New pink rubber handlebars 1€<br />
New brake pads 1€<br />
New red chain 5€<br />
New aluminum brake handles 2€<br />
New brake teflon cables 2€<br />
New red brake cable housing 3€<br />
and some sanding, white and silver spray paint later got a practicaly new bike<br />
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From those the hardest to find were appropriate stickers for a kid's tube frame bicycle. Very expesinve too if you ask me, but at least were seemingly good quality. Those I found were for a different kind of frame but some scissors later, fitted pretty good.<br />
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Of course having spend 44€ for parts and not including my labour, one can get a new bike for a few more euros, but where is the fun and the enviromental responsibility in that?<br />
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I remember fondly back in Newcastle Recyke y'bike where old bicycles were given new life and resold to the public.</div>
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Turkey has been undermining Greece since forever. Forest fires has been one of the weapons used against Greece. Typically we had fires during the summer <a href="http://www.kathimerini.gr/954458/article/epikairothta/ellada/ypo-elegxo-h-megalh-fwtia-ston-aylwna---130-dasikes-pyrkagies-to-teleytaio-24wro">. But this</a> year with Greece turkey relations in an all time low, we've had fires during March!March<br />
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Turkey should be held responsible for crimes against humanity. The forests might belong geographically in Greek territory, but the oxygen they produce belongs to everfuckingyone</div>
Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-81660942571768449022018-03-16T15:19:00.003+00:002018-03-16T15:19:54.786+00:00Comparison between genuine Leister Triac welding nozzle and a Chinese noname from Ebay<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-9918794044700916752018-03-12T18:23:00.002+00:002018-03-12T18:23:20.068+00:00Football in Greece, brings to mind the mafia in Italy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The recent photos of Ivan Savvidis open carrying in a football match between PAOK and AEK confirms my thoughts and suspicions about the world of footbal in Greece. There are teams own by multimillionairs, without much popular support and without people <a href="http://www.tovima.gr/sports/article/?aid=135263">buying tickets</a> and attending live football games, where do they find all those millions to buy new players from other teams and bring famous players from abroad? What could possibly those teams provide to their wealthy owners?</div>
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So whatever hidden reasons they have to own sports teams, whatever filth is hidden under the carpet, they've become so arrogant, that they don't even try to hide anymore. They don't even try to pretend they are law abidding citizens. And now they walk around open carying guns in a country where in order to own a gun you must prove (somehow) that you have a legitimate reason and fear for life to have one. </div>
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As a rich businessman I can understand his need to have a gun and bodyguards. But in the football field, during a game? It is a dangerous place I admit, with hooligans causing hell during many games. But open carrying a gun?</div>
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Those immoral people and his friends and media outlets and the people they can influence or perhaps even blackmail have brought Greece in the verge of economic distaster. In the loving hands of IMF and EU monetary organisations. </div>
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And then we get Turkey as a wolf and FYROM and Albania as hyenas smelling blood and a wounded animal easy pray to their survival of the strongest game. The P.O.S.es.</div>
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I realised recently that I have an fetish liking cars that have double, circular of the same size headlights.<br />
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Lancia 037 Stradale</div>
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Alfa Romeo GTV<br />
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Renault Alpine<br />
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EBay and working for a retail shop has ruined shopping for me. I walk into a shop and realise that the price I am going to pay for an object is a lot higher than what the object coats to make. Includes profit of the manufacturer, transportation, packaging, advertisement, taxes, storage, profit for the reseller and of course each ones expenses. And I just can't put myself in the position to throw the money. And end up getting stuff from ebay, directly from China.<br />
Admitedly projects that would take 1-2 days to finish end up taking months waiting for the right part to arrive. If the Chinese manage to speed up things, then they've completely won the game.</div>
Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-54135527249773545792018-01-09T17:23:00.000+00:002018-01-09T17:25:16.621+00:00Dakar Rally, <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I always thought that the Trucks racing in the Dakar rally, were similar to cargo trucks, with the back filled with supplies: Food, spare parts, diesel. It seems I was wrong.<br />
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On the following clip, at 1:07, the sky is visible through the truck!<br />
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Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-86551297244955082382017-12-30T19:05:00.003+00:002017-12-30T19:05:25.346+00:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I pre-ordered Persepolis Rising from Amazon on the 12th of November and received it on the 28th of December. Just for laughs I checked on the pirate bay to see if it was online, and OMFG it was uploaded 8/12/17, 4 days after the official release on the 5th of December.<br />
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Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-57385223120211940802017-12-25T19:39:00.001+00:002017-12-25T19:39:38.616+00:00Απαράδεκτη ποιότητα παιχνιδιού τραίνου Jumbo / very bad quality train from Jumbo stores, ΥΥ085, <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-77639662954283852622017-12-12T11:22:00.001+00:002017-12-12T11:22:53.843+00:00Autonomous vehicles and insurance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
All this progress in vehicle autonomy, wouldn't eventually lead to the wipe out of the vehicle insurance companies?<br />
Cause if the vehicle crashes and no human is involved, the driver can't be responsible. But the manufacturer is. Perhaps insurance companies, change focus and insure the manufacturers instead.</div>
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I am reading the news, about the extent that the rich evade taxes. Paradise papers, Lagarde list, tax heavens etc.<br />
I wonder, what is the moral legitimacy to demand simple people to stop piracy of music and digital media in general?<br />
The rich have the means to hide their money and not pay taxes through lobbying and laws made specificaly for them but the poor, must suck it up and pay.<br />
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Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-86126134020292318932017-12-10T20:28:00.001+00:002017-12-10T20:31:54.829+00:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In 2006 when "an inconvenient truth" came to be, I remember it draw a fair amount of criticism about the cgi scene with the Polar bear not being real and hence manipulating the audience. Well, I got news for all of you. A bear is documented starving to death in a baren landscape devoid of snow and food. Perhaps the inconvenient truth took the poetic liberty to show a drowning bear but real life shows that death due to climate change don't come swiftly like drowning for those affected. It will be a slow and agonizing death.<br />
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Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-70106980375298111892017-10-29T06:53:00.000+00:002017-12-11T16:56:11.360+00:00Trip into memory lane<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I was checking out the newer versions of Wolfenstein and somehow this "dog" photo looked familiar...<br />
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The "dog's" teeth and Doom's font is eerily similar<br />
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Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-50553151024735680882017-09-12T17:40:00.000+01:002017-09-12T17:40:24.634+01:00Το κατεστημένο η διαπλοκή και το σύστημα<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Τον κυρ Μπάμπη το μανάβη, θα τον έχετε ακούσει πολλές φορές να εκφέρεται κατά του συστήματος και πως φταίει πχ ο Τσίπρας. Ο Τσίπρας όμως δεν είναι το σύστημα ούτε το κατεστημένο. Αν ο Τσίπρας και ο κάθε Τσίπρας είναι κάτι, είναι το ανδρείκελο, ο αχυράνθρωπος, ο αποδιοπομπαίος τράγος που χρησιμοποιεί το σύστημα. Και που πιθανόν να μην ήξερε και σε τι έμπλεκε όντας μάλλον outsider της πολιτικής.</div>
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I read all that crap about going to mars and colonising and teraforming it. Well, unless we are able to do just that here on earth on Australia and sahara were we have all the resources available I don't see how we will be able to do that on mars. All that is just wishful thinking</div>
Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-2951208953506355532017-04-09T15:24:00.000+01:002017-11-03T16:27:21.779+00:00How to clean old yellow plastics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So I found myself in the position to need to return to former white glory some old plastic bits that had become yellow over time, even though didn't sit in the sun.<br />
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So thanks to the following <a href="http://www.retrofixes.com/2013/10/how-to-clean-whiten-yellowed-plastics.html">write up</a> I managed to do just that.<br />
I bought some Hydrogen peroxide 12%. "Cream Peroxide 40Vol" from a hair saloon supplier for about 12 euros delivered, put the gel on the plastic bit wearing a glove, put it in a sealed transparent plastic bag and let it steam under the heat of an IR lamp.<br />
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Since it is winter and the sun is at a premium this time of year, and not wanting to wait till summer to do it, I used a Blacklight lamp, which for some reason blew up within 30 minutes from the start of the experiment and didn't do much during that time. Afterwards I let the item all night under a fluorescent lamp, which also didn't seem to do much about it. Eventually I tried the heat IR lamp and within 3 hours, the item was becoming visibly white. Since the gel in the bag was visibly evaporating on the surfaces of the bag as droplets, I don't know if the heat is more of a catalyst than UV radiation.<br />
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Although the difference is striking, in close inspection, there was some residual colouring almost as camouflage patterns. Not very obvious, but it was there. In any case the end product was much better.</div>
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Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-83684449703182630562017-04-09T14:52:00.002+01:002017-04-09T14:58:25.085+01:00About fake power tools<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have been looking for some cheap power tools, and was surprised by some Makita prices on ebay. So I was sceptical about the quality of such tools. I was also looking at some Bosch hammers and after seeing some genuine ones<br />
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I spotted this obviously fake tool<br />
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To the seller's credit, he didn't try to pass it as a BOSCH Hammer tool, however its almost identical !<br />
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Unfortunately on Ebay, most sellers selling cheap makita drillhammers do not have an actual photo of the item, but generic ones not allowing to make a judgement about authenticity before actually buying and receiving said tools.</div>
Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-50764503024045383932017-03-27T19:32:00.000+01:002017-03-27T19:33:41.910+01:00Android TV HDMI Stick Firmware Upgrade RK3066 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I had a relatively old, no name, HDMI Android TV stick, with rockchip 3066. At some point stopped booting. It would remain stuck at R-Box boot logo. Not remembering where I got it from and not being able to find a firmware online I replaced it with another one and it remained on a shelf collecting dust.<br />
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I do not like my stuff to be fautly, and since I had some time to kill, I start searching for a proper firmware.<br />
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first of all, I visited http://www.rockchipfirmware.com/firmware-downloads to download the proper flash tool for dual core chips. (RK3066 (Dual-Core) Firmware Image Flashing: English RKbatch Tool v1.5)<br />
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Of course one needs the proper drivers too, which I had downloaded in the past and dont remember where from.<br />
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Then because my particular Android stick didn't have a reset button i was thinking about using the directions shown bellow:<br />
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and I did! On the pcb there was 2 unpopulated contacts with a rectangle and a circle inside, as shown above which when shorted with a metal pin, immediately the stick went into flash mode and was recognised by the flash tools.<br />
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After a few fruitless attempts to locate a firmware that would work on this one (most returned an error about the Chip) I found one that upgraded flawlessly! I plugged the Stick on the TV and worked!!!! After more than a year collecting dust, it was working again!<br />
The firmware that worked for me was the following: TV-HDMI-200BT(V1.0)_20130312.<br />
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Unfortunately after some testing I realised, that the WIFI wasnt working, but that is a minor problem since it can playback video from USB, which was its primary usage anyway. I found more problems, like the SD card wasn't accessible, the bluetooth didnt seem to turn on. But at the moment I dont care.</div>
Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-88431669377557819532017-01-04T00:13:00.000+00:002017-01-04T00:13:20.119+00:00considering an electric<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So I seriously consider buying an EV vehicle for city usage. After all 95% of my needs would be covered vu the 80miles radiu offered by Nissan leaf. I live on a small island after all. However I don't have the buying capacity to spend 25-30k for a new car not to mention that arednt sold officially here in Greece. By a stretch most I could afford would be a second hand car nor over 10000€. And that with financial help from the family.<br />
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It has a variety of advantages. No yearly tax for the forceable future as long as EV cars remain scarse here and no new legislation decides to milk them for money. Electricity is much cheaper for running the at the moment. <br />
<br />Don't require any specialised mechanic, doesn't have Much mechanical parts to break down. Although it will require an electrician, if something goes wrong.<br />
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<br />The problem I for see in the future more and more will be on the roads, electricity will go up, it is bound to lose its privileged tax free status, oil prices will go up as demand slows and less billions are spend in new oil production capacity. Battery technology is bount to get better, which means that people will get stuck with vehicles losing their value and range faster if current second hand EVs are any indication. <br /> If no after market batteries exist for cars like the leaf and Renault fluence in reasonable cost, then... EVs are kinda here to bring us "doom"<br />
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Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-1411600458251948622016-10-16T09:28:00.001+01:002016-10-16T09:28:27.041+01:00Samsung Galaxy Alpha screen replacement<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Among the family phones, we have a Samsung Galaxy Alpha (the non exploding variety) which suffered a curiously broken screen while in its case. Anyhow after checking online on how to replace the glass screen (there is a variety videos on youtube) I decided to get both a replacement screen assembly, and a spare glass alone in the tune of ~5€ and ~100€. <div>
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The idea was to change the screen assembly which was fairly easy and then replace the broken glass on the original screen and keep it as a spare or sell it cheaply online.</div>
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The disassembly is fairly easy using a heat gun. The glue holding the screen softens and can be easily lifted using a thin object. The is only one connector between the screen and the phone. Care must be taken for the button area where two small stickers on the left and right of the button might not be readily off.</div>
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Placing the new screen assembly on was a piece of cake.</div>
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However, when I attempted disassembling the glass from the LCD, disaster. The LCD broke in a variety of places. First it partly detached from the digitizer glass and I didnt realised it at the moment, but kept trying.</div>
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Since I don't have the fancy vacuum table to keep the screen steady that might be a major factor.</div>
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All in all, changing the whole screen assembly is easy. Replacing the glass is not.</div>
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Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-46122665046147837332016-10-13T17:32:00.001+01:002016-10-13T17:32:18.199+01:00Εντυπωσεις JUMBO Ντουλάπα Υφασμάτινη 100x46x174<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Η συμβία αποφάσισε και αγόρασε μια <a href="http://www.e-jumbo.gr/home/ptyssomena-epipla/ntoulapes/ntoulapa-yfasmatini-100x46x174_163922/">υφασμάτινη ντουλάπα</a> από το Jumbo. <div>
Και στη συνέχεια με έχωσε να την συναρμολογίσω. </div>
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Αν με είχε ρωτήσει πρώτα θα της έλεγα να βρίσκαμε κάτι πιο ποιοτικό. </div>
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Με το που την είδα από κοντά όμως απογοητεύτηκα εντελώς.</div>
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Το "υφασμα" ειναι του είδους που μοιάζει και σκίζεται σαν χαρτί. Και μετά από λίγο καιρό, 1-2 χρόνια αποσυντίθεται μόνο του κιόλας όπως είχαμε εμπειρία από σακούλες μαζέματος χειμερινών-καλοκαιρινών ρούχων.</div>
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Οι πλαστικοί σύνδεσμοι που συγκρατούν τους μεταλλικούς σωλήνες ειναι λεπτοί σαν τσιγαρόχαρτο, όπως και οι σωλήνες με αποτέλεσμα να μπορεί να κρατήσει το βάρος της, αλλά ουσιαστικά τίποτα περισσότερο.</div>
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Μέσα σε 2 μήνες είχε λυγίσει υπό το βάρος των παιδικών ρούχων και μεσα σε 3 μήνες είχε σπάσει.</div>
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Θα πρότεινα αν σκέφτεστε να την αγοράσετε, να κρατήσετε τα χρήματα σας. Είναι προτιμότερο να ανέβετε στο Galaxy του Hilton και να πετάξετε τα 19.99 (σε πεντάευρα μην χτυπήσετε και κανέναν) στον δρόμο από κάτω, παρά να αγοράσετε αυτή τη ντουλάπα. Θα χαρείτε περισσότερο.</div>
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Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03246766143024910218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990570443381424136.post-47190535092230153402016-09-22T21:40:00.002+01:002016-09-22T21:40:33.241+01:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Διάβασα με φρίκη την είδηση 15ετους κάθειρξης για μια καθαρίστρια που προσελήφθει στο δημόσιο με πλαστό απολυτήριο δημοτικού. !!!!!<br />
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Το δημόσιο λέει υπέστει σοβαρή βλάβη της τάξης των 120000-150000 ευρώ ποσο που αποτελεί τους μισθούς επι 20 χρόνια της εν λόγω καθαριστριας.<br />
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Ενταξει. Κακή ή πλαστογραφία. Και προσωπικά δεν έχω σε καμια ιδιεταιρη εκτίμηση τις καθαρίστριες του δημοσίου γιατί δεν μου δίνουν την αίσθηση οτι κανουν σωστα τη δουλειά τους όταν μπαίνω πχ σε μια εφορία. Αλλά 15 χρόνια κάθειρξη γιατί εργάστηκε στο δημόσιο ως καθαρίστρια .... Πεφτω απο τα σύννεφα.<br />
Δηλαδή όλοι οι λοποδυτες με κρατικές διαφημίσεις, οι Τσοχατζόπουλος, όλοι αυτοι που ριξαν τη χώρα στα σκατά ρίχνοντας μας στάχτη στα ματια, οι εφοπλιστές ναρκεμποροι κλπ αφρός της κοινωνίας, ποσά χρόνια πρεπει να φαει έκαστος; Ισόβια χωρίς αναστολή; <br />
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