20-05-2012, 07:39 AM
Yes, agree completely with you but I do wonder sometimes .....
We do indeed have something called 100 Yen shops and have had them for a fair bit longer than the pound shops have been in existence. When I first came here, 100 Yen was about 40p so they really did look absurdly cheap. We also have 100 yen a plate sushi restaurants but that is another tale.
I haven't seen mics and headsets here in the 100 Yen shops actually. Perhaps because Skype, along with most internet innovations, isn't as big as it is elsewhere. Plenty of earphones though and as you say I could have probably pinched a lead one from those. In this particular case the thing was a tricky and rather tight fit - perhaps that is what spurred me to go for fixing it.
The good thing about the 100 Yen shops is that there are masses and masses of hand tools which surprisingly are often perfectly acceptable quality for hobby use.
We do indeed have something called 100 Yen shops and have had them for a fair bit longer than the pound shops have been in existence. When I first came here, 100 Yen was about 40p so they really did look absurdly cheap. We also have 100 yen a plate sushi restaurants but that is another tale.
I haven't seen mics and headsets here in the 100 Yen shops actually. Perhaps because Skype, along with most internet innovations, isn't as big as it is elsewhere. Plenty of earphones though and as you say I could have probably pinched a lead one from those. In this particular case the thing was a tricky and rather tight fit - perhaps that is what spurred me to go for fixing it.
The good thing about the 100 Yen shops is that there are masses and masses of hand tools which surprisingly are often perfectly acceptable quality for hobby use.
