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Does anyone know of a decent neon sign craftsman who is willing (and skillful enough) to repair old science demonstration tubes? I've been looking for one for a while. Not some big company out of the yellow pages, but someone with real skill. Reply or pm if anyone can do this, obscure I know, but worth a try!

I usually find a couple of valiums and 1/2 pint of whisky work wonders..

What happens when we get an even more totallitarian government that has our DNA records? What happens when we get a regime that exterminates on the grounds of race such as Germany once had. It would make things very easy for them...

Can anyone suggest a handy source for carboard boxes in a variety of sizes, madium to large? Preferably for free! I do a fair bit of selling on eBay and I'm always stuck to find the right size of carton. Once they were available from supermarkets, but now they crush and recycle them to make some money and meet their legal targets, PottS

Didn't the mummified Egyptian used to be on display rather than just the sarcophagus?

There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Pretty well, yes. There's a few of the old paintings left here and there. One in particular is bizarrely displayed with three panes of glass side to side over it. Protecting the paintings with glass makes sense, but why not with just one sheet instead of having the joins marring the view of the painting? Other paintings around the museum are displayed so high up with lights illuminating them that all you can see is the reflection on those lights.

I was going to mention the Science Museum medical collection too, great stuff! I've wanted to visit the wax anatomical museums of Italy ever since finding this site - http://www.armamentarium.net/SitoNuovo/Anatomical%20museum%20in%20Italy.htm

Are you sure about this? It sounds a very unlikely story.

Absolutely! The cast gallerries are a little known wonder of Victorian museum taste, well worth a visit when in London - http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/sculpture/galleries/46a/index.html Other recommended museums are- Ashmolean, Oxford Pitt Rivers, Oxford History of Science, Oxford Whitby Museum ......And my own personal museum of weird science and electrotherapeutic antiques

I went to the revamped museum last week, it was awful. I don't know where all the old stuff went as there only seems to be about half as much of it on display. Where did all the old gallery space go? I know the big ceramics gallery is now a cafe, a total waste of space as there's a perfectly good Starbucks across the road and I believe they know a little bit more about running a cafe than the council museum department! The displays are targetted firmly at young children and this means the they are dumbed down so there is little for adults. Many of the displays are at the height comfortable for a 4 year old to see so adults have to stoop to see them. I wonder when this change of purpose in museums took place, from being an educational experience for adults to an entertainment venue for kids? Certainly the old museums that I enjoyed so much in my childhood were places adults could go and study and learn. The new museum is also such a noisy and distracting place with all the loudspeakers and video displays that it's impossible to study anything in detail. I could rant at some length about this!

I agree there's no proof the beggar stole the phone, it's just a strong possibility given the circumstances. The police have said they will visit the restaurant to view any CCTV footage. I don't hold the restauraunt to blame, it was very busy with the door open and people queuing to get in. London Road is not the most salubrious area of town with the cider/methadone crowd that hang around the pharmacy. We were sat just inside by the window and the beggar was in and out in the space of 30 seconds. My first thought was to call one of the staff, but none were in sight at that moment. So I accepted his request to have the leftovers and be gone. What would anyone else have done?

It was the Noodle Inn, we were sat in the window and the wino scum was in and out before we knew what was really going on. Still not sure if it was an elaborate pickpocketting ploy and the thief was acting or an opportunistic dip and the guy was really a wino.

You can do what you want with the money, so long as it's legitimate you have absolutely nothing to worry about.

I dislike interactive displays, they are generally aimed at a mental age of seven and lead to a lot of kids running round pressing buttons and not really taking in the results of what happens after. Then six months later all the displays are broken like last years christmas presents. I wonder what happened to museums for the entertainment and education of adults? I loved that kind of museum when I was a kid.... Of course I'll be going to take a look at the new museum, probably on a weekday around school closing time would be safest to avoid the kiddie-fest.

OK, it's open now. who has been and what's it like? PottS

This scam is EVERWHERE on eBay at the moment and they need to do something about it before the whole system falls into disrepute. Just as an example look at these prices for completed sales on laptops - £15,000 - i think not! http://search-completed.ebay.co.uk/laptop_Laptops_W0QQcatrefZC6QQcoactionZcompareQQcoentrypageZsearchQQcopagenumZ1QQfisZ2QQfromZR10QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ3QQga10244Z10425QQsacatZ177QQsbrsrtZl Remember that you can't rely on the feedback system anymore as these scammers will steal or buy an account with positive feedback then milk it for all it's worth. Yes, buy accounts - people sell them (on eBay!) The scam works like this (from Wikipedia) - Auction overpayment, fake check In another updated scam, the scammer offers to buy some expensive item (e.g., jewelry or a car, that the prospective victim advertised on eBay, for example, or a legitimate classified-ads website such as craigslist) by official, certified, bank or cashier's check. The check will have an "accidentally" or mutually agreed higher value than the price of the item, so the scammer asks the victim to wire the extra money to some third party as soon as the check clears. Because banks in the USA are required by law to honor a check within 1-5 working days (even before a check has cleared)[4], they will report the proceeds as available for withdrawal before the check is presented to the issuing bank for clearance and the fraud is discovered. Most banks will hold the victim accountable for the value of the counterfeit check. A variation on the eBay scam involves sending a request for payment for an item that the alleged seller does not own but claims to have sent. Since actual eBay item numbers are used this has been a nuisance for legitimate sellers

When you look at a cross section of polished ivory, there's a distinctive criss cross patern that you don't see on bone.

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Usual Sheffield Foreskin negativity.... London is great, it has everything except countryside

Are you sure, I thought they hadn't been installed in Sheffield yet?

Mmmmm, trade discount..... Maybe I need to buy a gallon!

Yo, thanks for the tip Where's Makro? Potts

Of course the Science Museum in London is not bad too, but better still and closer to home is the Museum of Victorian Science in Glaisdale near Whitby. http://www.museumofvictorianscience.co.uk/

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