It never ceases to amaze me...
 

"Tennant Stuart" wrote in message
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In article ,
Roderick Stewart wrote:

In article , Kay Robinson wrote:

Real men don't read instruction manuals.

True, they usually spend hours on the phone to me asking 'how do I do
(whatever)?' One friend make a deliberate point of throwing all
leaflets, booklets etc out with the wrapping.

I *always* read instruction manuals, but generally the standard of
clarity is utterly appalling, so I'm not surprised that many people
give up all hope of finding anything helpful in them. Even after you've
discarded the 90% or so that isn't in English or doesn't apply to the
particular model of whatever it is you've bought, it's very rare that
what remains will explain in simple terms what you actually want to
know, and no absolute guarantee that it's correct either.

At Christmas, one family member was given a shredder. Yes, you've guessed
it, he accidentally shredded the manual whilst having a quick play...

Well, he obviously didn't need it any more than anyway if he'd already
figured out how it worked.
Cheers
Jeff

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On Jan 25, 2:44*pm, Ed wrote:
...how ostensibly clever and successful people can be thick as ****
when it comes to connecting TVs and DVD players together.

I just had a conversation in the kitchen here at work with a very
senior chap, who said he'd only just worked out how to record freeview
onto DVD. I was curious to ask what he meant, and he said he had to
leave the TV on all night!!!!!

A brief chat discovered he had the freeview box and dvd player
connected separately to the TV (or something like that) so the DVD
only got a signal when the TV was on!

I briefly explained how best to connect the three devices, and
resisted asking if he'd opened the manual.

Yes, OTOH, ostensibly clever and intelligent people still
programme Question Time to run opposite Newsnight...

G DAEB
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On Jan 31, 1:17*pm, "michael adams" wrote:
"Kay Robinson" wrote in message

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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:55:54 +0000, Adrian C
sharpened a new quill and scratched:

Which only really became an issue when people started living in targe towns.
There are loads of fatal diseases caused by contact with raw sewage and
effluent, dysentry being one of the better known.

My digibox EPG appears to have contracted terminal effluenza

michael adams

G DAEB
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On Jan 25, 4:43*pm, Tommo wrote:
On Jan 25, 2:44*pm, Ed wrote:

...how ostensibly clever and successful people can be thick as sh.t
when it comes to connecting TVs and DVD players together.

I just had a conversation in the kitchen here at work with a very
senior chap, who said he'd only just worked out how to record freeview
onto DVD. I was curious to ask what he meant, and he said he had to
leave the TV on all night!!!!!

A brief chat discovered he had the freeview box and dvd player
connected separately to the TV (or something like that) so the DVD
only got a signal when the TV was on!
I briefly explained how best to connect the three devices, and
resisted asking if he'd opened the manual.

Real men don't read instruction manuals.

Ah, so real men don't drive trucks then?

G DAEB
COPYRIGHT (C) 2008 SIPSTON
--

It never ceases to amaze me...
 

In article ,
Tennant Stuart wrote:

Lol, our other computer is on 5.11 (it's in the media room).

I take it that you didn't fancy paying for 5.12 either? :)

didn't see the point. Now when it becomes 5.14 ....

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From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

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The message
from Tennant Stuart contains these words:

In article ,
Roderick Stewart wrote:

In article , Kay Robinson wrote:

Real men don't read instruction manuals.

True, they usually spend hours on the phone to me asking 'how do I do
(whatever)?' One friend make a deliberate point of throwing all
leaflets, booklets etc out with the wrapping.

I *always* read instruction manuals, but generally the standard of
clarity is utterly appalling, so I'm not surprised that many people
give up all hope of finding anything helpful in them. Even after you've
discarded the 90% or so that isn't in English or doesn't apply to the
particular model of whatever it is you've bought, it's very rare that
what remains will explain in simple terms what you actually want to
know, and no absolute guarantee that it's correct either.

At Christmas, one family member was given a shredder. Yes, you've guessed
it, he accidentally shredded the manual whilst having a quick play...

Are you sure it was accidental? It could have been a deliberate act of
vandalism due to frustration.

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Regards, John.

Please remove the "ohggcyht" before replying.
The address has been munged to reject Spam-bots.

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In article ,
"Jeff Lawrence" wrote:

"Tennant Stuart" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Roderick Stewart wrote:

In article , Kay Robinson wrote:

Real men don't read instruction manuals.

True, they usually spend hours on the phone to me asking 'how do I do
(whatever)?' One friend make a deliberate point of throwing all
leaflets, booklets etc out with the wrapping.

I *always* read instruction manuals, but generally the standard of
clarity is utterly appalling, so I'm not surprised that many people
give up all hope of finding anything helpful in them. Even after you've
discarded the 90% or so that isn't in English or doesn't apply to the
particular model of whatever it is you've bought, it's very rare that
what remains will explain in simple terms what you actually want to
know, and no absolute guarantee that it's correct either.

At Christmas, one family member was given a shredder. Yes, you've
guessed it, he accidentally shredded the manual whilst having a quick
play...

Well, he obviously didn't need it any more than anyway if he'd already
figured out how it worked.

I guess so, though it might have had some silly warnings.


Tennant

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