kimchi

Technology is certainly a 2-edge sword. Great for so many things. But...... for all the good things there are corresponding bad ones. Re mobiles, I am personally sick to death of hearing other people's conversations - no respect for privacy... I don't want or need to hear about the ins and outs of peoples lives, what they did last night, how the house purchase/divorce/holiday plans are going etc. To my way of thinking, a conversation on a mobile is still a private communication between two people and not for the world to hear about. How often do you see people in the supermarket ringing wife/husband/partner..... do we need such and such. Surely they have some idea of what they are going to buy when they leave the house. As for people walking down the street glued to their mobiles... don't get me started! 
Yes, they are wonderful in so many ways but by the looks of the general population who seem to be glued to mobiles, I despair. Totally absorbed without a clue of the real life around them. Fed a lot of ******** by large social media organisations. No wonder the country has gone downhill. Many cannot think for themselves and have to follow the crowd - rather pathetic in my opinion.
However, they do allow us to access some much information that we would previously not had access to. And communicate with people across the globe. I do wonder what will happen if all signals go out for some reason, satellites fail, sun spots. or some other reasons.  How will the mobile phone generation cope? They can't even read a map! Rant over.

I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!


 

It's all bad imvho - analogue all the way - these 'conveniences' have only led to a complete dumbing down of the entire population if you ask me.
When I was at school we used things like rulers (I know, real antique stuff huh?) - ask a kid nowadays and if their phone or tablet doesn't have a signal they will have no idea what one of these things even is.
Very scary.

I agree, I live under a rock tech wise and I like it that way, I even use a basic non smart mobile phone, the battery lasts 2 weeks, I wanted a Nikon microscope, I could of afforded one of the latest all singing and dancing electronic ones, but I didnt like them and had to go hunting the antique path to find what I wanted that was all mechanical and manual, I dont trust this smart tech, its invasive and not secure, and I agree its dumbing down a nation and even a world.

I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!


 

I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!


 

Just got my coins back from heritage nice one ngc you got them the right way round lol

Thank you to @DaveWheat89 for these beauties!

My first attempt to grade some sovereigns turned out quite successful, the little beasts did ok, too. 


(The 2018 is the plain edge SotD, in case you wondered)

I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!


 

I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!


 

I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!


 

I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!


 

I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!


 

I got my first order from Eldorado coins based in Germany (I believe). Postage was pretty good on 20 coins (£8 odd) - ordered at the weekend and arrived (tracked) today. I haven't been over them all with a fine tooth comb yet but absolutely delighted to open this well-packaged parcel (comms have been great too). I am dead chuffed with all these coins - I never thought the Marvel ones would grab me (I only know the Spidey comics and haven't followed the films), but a few videos changed that and I think they are very cool indeed- very different from what I normally stack
They are all an ounce, I just had to take a shot at a weird angle to (try to!) show off some of the lightplay on the Marvels (my phone camera is rubbish), but really stoked with all so far. The Marvel at the top are also part of rolls, so higher up and it distorts perspective. The Niue 'double dragon' was very cheap and is nice I think for what it is, much better than some of their other stuff, so both obverse and reverse for those are shown at the bottom, please ask me if'd like close up just on those
@Bullionbilly and @Oystonout might be interested as we had been chatting about some of these coins and this new dealer:
 

I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!


 

Love this little 10oz tombstone bar, hope to get a few more sizes.

A long awaited goal nothing like a pre 33
 
Added 0 minutes later... A long awaited goal nothing like a pre 33

I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!


 

I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!


 

Received my Glint Pay card, "Glint lets you buy, save & spend physical gold, a fairer and reliable form of money, protecting you from systemic risk and inflation."
https://glintpay.com/
 

I got my first order from Eldorado coins based in Germany (I believe). Postage was pretty good on 20 coins (£8 odd) - ordered at the weekend and arrived (tracked) today. I haven't been over them all with a fine tooth comb yet but absolutely delighted to open this well-packaged parcel (comms have been great too). I am dead chuffed with all these coins - I never thought the Marvel ones would grab me (I only know the Spidey comics and haven't followed the films), but a few videos changed that and I think they are very cool indeed- very different from what I normally stack
They are all an ounce, I just had to take a shot at a weird angle to (try to!) show off some of the lightplay on the Marvels (my phone camera is rubbish), but really stoked with all so far. The Marvel at the top are also part of rolls, so higher up and it distorts perspective. The Niue 'double dragon' was very cheap and is nice I think for what it is, much better than some of their other stuff, so both obverse and reverse for those are shown at the bottom, please ask me if'd like close up just on those
@Bullionbilly and @Oystonout might be interested as we had been chatting about some of these coins and this new dealer:
 

I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!


 

I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!


 

I thought nothing could beat the delivery of a Metalor 1kg bar.
Well today has been 3 times the fun!
Courtesy of @Keenstacker (many thanks) my first ever aged/toned bars, oh if only they could talk and tell me their stories!