Rigger's Diary: curious misapprehensions

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:13:39 +0100, "jamie powell"
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On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:34:46 +0100, "jamie powell"
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What an amazing co-incidence - I'd just suggested this exact same thing in
this very same thread, a couple of hours before you posted this!
I'd be really interested to view your article online, or hear from someone
who remembers reading it.


Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.

What an odd thing to say. I was surprised, until I saw who the author was...

You really shouldn't have been surprised - the author was referring to
you
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Cheers

Peter

"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
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Bill,

Great use for a laptop! But for future reference, I'd steer well clear of
Compaq laptops. I have one and its the most cheaply put together pile of
expletive deleted I've ever seen. They're pricey but old Toshibas seem
to be rock solid and Toshiba still have all the old drivers etc on their
website.

I see you've already bypassed the Compaq's DC connector - good move as
these break every time you breathe on them. I like the use of a UPS too
instead of a battery - even a good laptop battery will die if you forget
and put in in the cupboard for a few months whereas you'll probably find
other uses for that UPS and it will last for years.

Yes, that's what seems to happen. I got one of those Halfords gadgets that
have a battery, inverter, etc built in, and that does the job when we only
want the thing to run for a day or so (you can't charge the thing and use it
at the same time).


One thing to be aware of, some UPSs have a "test" mode. I've come across
a few where the test mode disconnects the mains completely to see how well
is works on battery - and if the battery's dead, whatever is connected to
the UPS dies immediately. This caused some confusion on a system set up
to perform a weekly test in order to notify us of impending problems (or
so we thought), especially as the attached computer would reboot once the
UPS reset and power came back from the mains.

Ohh err. I've never had that problem. I use fairly cheap (£90) UPSs from
CPC.

Recently we've used another method. I put the presentation on a DVD and put
the player on 'repeat'. I find that a £20 player will run continuously for a
month or three.

At one time we used to use PCs to play out Powerpoint sequences for the
prison and hotel systems, but nowadays, often as not, we'll use a DVD player
and just keep replacing it. The staff can do it.I did hear someone say they
were going to keep the receipt and take the machine back under warranty. I
hope they didn't! We cannot condone dishonesty.

Jamie's rather dishonest isn't he, getting caught out and then trying to use
bluster instead of coming clean. What a child!

Bill

"jamie powell" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"jamie powell" wrote in message
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What an amazing co-incidence - I'd just suggested this exact same thing
in this very same thread, a couple of hours before you posted this!
I'd be really interested to view your article online, or hear from
someone who remembers reading it.

I look forward to your apology for calling me a liar. Here's the text you
requested:

Jamie:
Oh but Bill, I *wasn't* calling you a liar.

Mr Punch:
Yes you were, you little scrote! He was wasn't he, boys and girls? [juvenile
audience roars in chorus 'Yes he ****ing well was!']
Now now, boys and girls, no swearing or Mr Plod the Policeman will put you
in prison!

Jamie, leering:
You convince yourself that people are against you when they're really not,
and then hit out at them, this time by rudely calling me a liar.

[enter stage left Mr Plod, but instead of arresting the audience for
swearing he takes out his large trungeon and procedes to whack Jamie over
the head with great vigour]

Mr Plod: Look you nasty [whack] little piece of ****e [whack] I've had
enough of your coming here telling your lies [whack] and generally annoying
honest citizens! [whack whack whack]

Mr Punch:
That's the way to do it! That's the way to do it!

[Mr Plod pulls the squealing Jamie to his feet and marches him off to
prison]

Jamie:
Ohh please don't hurt me Mr Plod! You're a very handsome policeman!

Mr Plod encourages Jamie on his way with a trungeon thrust to his rear end.]

Jamie:
Ohh I didn't know you cared!

[Curtain]

Bill

In article ,
says...

Mr Plod: Look you nasty [whack] little piece of ****e [whack] I've had
enough of your coming here telling your lies [whack] and generally annoying
honest citizens! [whack whack whack]


Is there a new version with Gene Hunt as the policeman then? Have to
look out for that...

Steve.

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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At one time we used to use PCs to play out Powerpoint sequences for the
prison and hotel systems, but nowadays, often as not, we'll use a DVD
player and just keep replacing it. The staff can do it.I did hear someone
say they were going to keep the receipt and take the machine back under
warranty. I hope they didn't! We cannot condone dishonesty.

Jamie's rather dishonest isn't he, getting caught out and then trying to
use bluster instead of coming clean. What a child!


You're still convinced that I'm against you? How sad.

It's been clear to me from the outset that all the problems the residents
experienced, as desribed when you first started this thread, weren't created
because you didn't know how to generate info captions and had never even
thought of doing so, but because you simply chose not to.
In addition, the paper-based retuning leaflets you described will, I'm 100%
sure, have been created en masse because you wanted to 'go with the
classic', even though it's more cumbersome for all concerned than a modern
fangled TV-based message.
I'm 100% certain that you've secretly been the master of TV info-caption
generation all along, yet only chose to reveal this fact when I suggested
the very same thing - purely by co-incidence of course.
Also, your latest additional mention of DVD-based rolling presentations, far
from being something which you just thought of a few minutes ago, were again
something which you'd kept secret in your previous posts on this subject.
You're just a dark horse, that's all!

I do hope this clarifies the situation and makes you feel better, Bill.

Course, if you'd just said "Hey, captions are a good idea Jamie! Any
suggestions on the best way to do it?", instead of just being rude with me
(which, due to basic monkey instincts, automatically causes various random
usenet meatheads to join in with the rudeness), I might even have made a
rolling DVD presentation for you, with whatever text and design you
required, and sent you the ISO image plus a quick-and-easy DVD burning
program, allowing you to create multiple ready-made copies within minutes.
But that's just because I'm a silly inferior child, right?

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Jamie:
Ohh please don't hurt me Mr Plod! You're a very handsome policeman!
Mr Plod encourages Jamie on his way with a trungeon thrust to his rear
end.]
Jamie:
Ohh I didn't know you cared!
[Curtain
Bill

Don't forget the bit where Mr Plod then arrests Jamie under section 44
of the anti-terrorism act, and he gets free waterboarding and lodging
in Guantanamo bay for 5 years without charge, before being released

Steve Terry

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"Geoff Pearson" wrote in message
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I enjoy your stuff.

Geoff
Cheers!

Bill

I am anouther who always looks out for your Rigger's Diary.
Thanks Bill,
Mick.
Maybe Jamie is outnumbered!

Bill

"Terry Casey" wrote in message
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Mick Cant wrote:
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"Geoff Pearson" wrote in message
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I enjoy your stuff.

Geoff
Cheers!

Bill

I am anouther who always looks out for your Rigger's Diary.
Thanks Bill,
Mick.

I'll add my support for the Rigger's Diary. As I read most of them out to
my wife, her appreciation for them adds further support!

Ohh, I hope you exercise husbandly discretion!

Keep 'em coming, Bill!

Cheers.

Bill

"Terry Casey" wrote in message
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Mike Thomas wrote:
Mizter T wrote:


"Just another thicko" was Jamie too. In addition to being a nasty piece
of
work with no sense of honour whatsoever, he's also becoming a
name-shifting
troll. He was caught out when he first tried pretending to be somebody
else. It's strange. He abuses people and lies, and then accuses other
people of doing that to him. It's becoming obvious to many people here
that he's got serious mental problems. I've tweaked the killfilter
expression to keep blocking him.

Same here! I decided long ago that anything useful he might have to
contribute is so overwhelmed by his torrents of abuse that I'm quite happy
to do without it.

Yes, it's a pity that he has his personality disorder, because sometimes he
contributes something vaguely useful.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Yes, it's a pity that he has his personality disorder, because sometimes
he contributes something vaguely useful.


Would this be the alleged "disorder" which was "expertly" "diagnosed" by
Nemo the escaped mental patient? Scraping the barrel there, aren't you.

I do feel sorry for you, Bill. I've shown you nothing but politeness and
sympathy in this thread, yet you continue to accuse me of malice and
dispense unmerited personal attacks.