#44
  • I am aware of the DIY chain that folded in 2011, called Great Mills
  • Oooh, I wondered where people were buying their best mills, way back when.

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#45

Not as good as Texas

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Mmmm memories

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#46

Just thinking about the suspension on that BX is making me feel very aged.

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#47

I believe where I grew up we had at various points Great Mills, Texas, Focus, aaaand Wickes. Also B&Q where I worked for a bit and is still there

#48

A really young me thought they were also the calculator people

#49

‘But wait, so you’re called Texas, but you don’t sell the calculators, and you’re Texas Instruments, but you don’t sell pianos? Someone link this up for me, seriously!’

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#50

I remember that Alvin Holder had a metre long ruler from Texas. Much coveted by absolutely everybody.

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#51

I find it’s something you do grow out of though. Try to hang on and it’ll get better

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#52

I dunno, a meter ruler, that’s pretty darn good

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#53
  • I remember Do-It-All

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#54

Do-It-All was the subject of a weird joke among my friends around the time we were first learning that sex was A Thing, but before anyone was actually having sex, wherein the phrase ‘Do It’ had an obvious meaning, and therefore Do-It-All was inherently very funny. Kids r dumb

#55

Totally forgot that it turned into this

I preferred the original rainbow incarnation

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#56

I have no idea why I remember so many DIY stores. Anyone remember MFI? MFI was shit, I remember sitting in the car outside the one at Whitely (or just in Segensworth, can’t remember) while my parents had a tiff about something.

Also yeah, the rainbow was the best. I remember my dad buying paint from Great Mills. I am oooolld

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#57

MFI was furniture wasn’t it?

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#58

Yeah and it was shit

#59

Yeah I seem to remember it being a byword for shit. Used to get it mixed up with MDF.

#60

Yeah Wigan had an MFI as well, remember it being sat there derelict for years or it seemed like it

Should’ve just called it MDF

#61

@anon29812515 I think MDF and MFI are inextricably linked, as the product of the latter was made almost entirely out of the former. So boring, sat in a retail park in Segensworth arguing about medium density fibreboard in the rain.

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#62

download

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#63

How did do it all do it?