8 Mar
2007
8 Mar
'07
10:32 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
There's a BIG tendency amongst people on this
list to insist, loudly,
that something is "not rare" or "easily obtained" because:
- that person obtained one easily, once
- they saw one on eBay, once
- that person simply owns one
- they are, or once were, common where that person lives
very nicely summarised! :)
I tend to put "in my experience" qualifiers on things for those reasons - in
particular geographical location tends to play a *big* part in the
availability of items.