How much difference does cable make?

I'd say it's ****-poor then :-) ----------------^
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

Just call me Mrs Malaprop.

Ian wrote:

...
You still haven't named any of the companies you claim did rubbish
work that you later had to correct and make a charge for. I'm still
waiting for ALL the companies to be named. If you can't then I
suspect you were probably undertaking work not required. You
were clever enough on your site not to show company names or
contact details! Was it a fear of being exposed or sued, maybe
investigated by Trading Standards?

Ian, have you really no idea how weird this stuff makes you look?

"Ian" wrote in message
...
And I had a customer years ago whose house was so badly affected by
mining subsidence that the roof leaked. She told me that she had applied
for condensation.

Bill

Another work of fiction? A friend told me you should write a book
with all these tall stories you come out with. I read the one
about condensation so you are merely repeating the content and
trying to pass it off as your own.

I've told that story many times on the newsgroups. That's probably why it
seems familiar to you.

You still haven't named any of the companies you claim did rubbish
work that you later had to correct and make a charge for. I'm still
waiting for ALL the companies to be named. If you can't then I
suspect you were probably undertaking work not required. You
were clever enough on your site not to show company names or
contact details! Was it a fear of being exposed or sued, maybe
investigated by Trading Standards?

You are so bitter about this it almost makes me wonder if you've been on the
receiving end of one of the many reports I've been commissioned to write
about shambolic TV distribution systems.

Anyway, below is a paragraph from a letter I wrote to a contractor a few
weeks ago. He had found himself receiving a succession of invoices from us
for putting right the work of an installation company that he continued to
employ because they were cheap, long after it became obvious that they were
charlatans of the first order. He wanted us to charge less because 'it was
costing too much'.

quote
I can only reiterate that although you have my sympathy in this matter I
feel that if you have any grievance it should be against the original
installers, who did such a lousy job. Perhaps you should take it up with
them, and ask for some reimbursement. No doubt you will apply stricter
quality controls to TV system installers in future, so at least a lesson has
been learnt.
end quote

Note my rather smug tone.

Bill

On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:05:34 +0100, Java Jive wrote:

In her letters to me, my mother used to abbreviate birthday as b'day,
much to the amusement of my girlfriend ...

Was your girlfriend French ? :-)

--
Cheers

Peter

On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:27:01 +0100, Sandman wrote:
Ian, have you really no idea how weird this stuff makes you look?

The question that should be posed is this --

Is Ian Beale a real person or just a character on BBC-tv's Eastenders?

"Petert" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:05:34 +0100, Java Jive wrote:

In her letters to me, my mother used to abbreviate birthday as b'day,
much to the amusement of my girlfriend ...

Was your girlfriend French ? :-)

As a chiild my sister had a box in her room labelled French Letters.

Bill

On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:56:38 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:
As a chiild my sister had a box in her room labelled French Letters.

You can now buy the book for only GBP 12.95

http://www.frenchletters.COM/

It is writing the "closing" which is always the most perplexing.

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, l’expression de mes sentiments distingués.