Regarding 'switch off at the socket'

"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:23:23 GMT, "Sheila"
wrote:


Should take you all of 10 seconds. After all, you were the person who
managed to bring up "race riots in the UK" within the original "switch of
at
the socket" thread!

All this within a group dedicated to the technical discussion of digital
TV
in the UK! You may well be on the way to hero status within some quarters.

True hero status requires martyrdom. I very much hope Bill avoids that.

Thank you.

When I was a child I believed that a person 'remanded in custody' was kept
at the police station in a large tank of custard. I also believed that
martydom was something (I couldn't figure out what, but it was obviously
gruesome) to do with tomatoes. There again, I thought the sound at the end
of a piece of music on the radio was the coalman tipping coal into the coal
hole. It was applause of course. I must have been a thick little bugger.

When I was at junior school the Prime Minister was Harold MacMillan. And so
we prayed, in our childish minds, "Our Father, that art in Heaven, Harold be
Thy name."

Earlier, in the infants, the headmistress was MIss Greenhouse (honestly) and
we innocently sung "There is a Greenhouse far away . . ."

I was further confused in Woolworths by the display of greenhouse heaters.
Why did she have special heaters? Greenhouses as we know them now were
unknown to us.

Anyone else with childhood misapprehensions?


Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Modesty forbids me to agree. But of course those of us who stand up for the
rights of the ordinary hard working people of this country and oppose
political correctness are likely to acquire hero status. I'm very lucky
because I can speak the truth as I see it. So many people are unable to do
this because their employment makes it impossible. Such is the grip that PC
has on this country. I was talking earlier to a friend who has appeared for
years on radio giving specialised advice (I can't be more specific). He has
been sacked because his advice 'does not make due reference to the ethnic
communities'. His subject is nothing to do with the ethnic communities,
particularly. What he had been told to do was select more questions from
Asian listeners, despite the fact that these were disappearingly rare. The
only possiblility was to get some Asians to ring up and ask 'pretend'
questions. That didn't happen, so he got the push.

I love these rants. Bill is a short step away from turning into my absolute
favourite kind of long-suffering, working class **** by proclaiming that he’s
“ready to stand up and fight”. The only thing you fat-fingered gits are likely
to end up fighting over is a f*cking parking space.

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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When I was a child I believed that a person 'remanded in custody' was kept
at the police station in a large tank of custard. I also believed that
martydom was something (I couldn't figure out what, but it was obviously
gruesome) to do with tomatoes. There again, I thought the sound at the end
of a piece of music on the radio was the coalman tipping coal into the
coal hole. It was applause of course. I must have been a thick little
bugger.


Snip

Anyone else with childhood misapprehensions?


When I was 10 I designed my first radio* and shortly after my 11th birthday
I went to London with my father to buy all the bits. Later I wanted some
more bits so I went to a local shop on my own to try and buy a ten
microfarad capacitor. I didn't know that the micro symbol was pronounced
"mu" and amused the shopkeeper by trying various pronounciations of phu,
pthu "it's like a little p" etc. before eventually writing the symbol down,
to which the shopkeeper said "oh you mean micro farads" and went and got
one.


Bill




* yes it worked - I even had a crystal set with a galena crystal I had found
myself (worked better with a diode).

"jamie powell" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Modesty forbids me to agree. But of course those of us who stand up for
the rights of the ordinary hard working people of this country and oppose
political correctness are likely to acquire hero status. I'm very lucky
because I can speak the truth as I see it. So many people are unable to
do this because their employment makes it impossible. Such is the grip
that PC has on this country. I was talking earlier to a friend who has
appeared for years on radio giving specialised advice (I can't be more
specific). He has been sacked because his advice 'does not make due
reference to the ethnic communities'. His subject is nothing to do with
the ethnic communities, particularly. What he had been told to do was
select more questions from Asian listeners, despite the fact that these
were disappearingly rare. The only possiblility was to get some Asians to
ring up and ask 'pretend' questions. That didn't happen, so he got the
push.

I love these rants. Bill is a short step away from turning into my
absolute favourite kind of long-suffering, working class **** by
proclaiming that he’s “ready to stand up and fight”. The only thing you
fat-fingered gits are likely to end up fighting over is a f*cking parking
space.


Nope, fighting for the last flight out, over 250,000 brits are leaving every
year
and rising.
Voting with their feet

Steve Terry

"R. Mark Clayton" wrote in message
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When I was 10 I designed my first radio* and shortly after my 11th
birthday I went to London with my father to buy all the bits. Later I
wanted some more bits so I went to a local shop on my own to try and buy a
ten microfarad capacitor. I didn't know that the micro symbol was
pronounced "mu" and amused the shopkeeper by trying various
pronounciations of phu, pthu "it's like a little p" etc. before eventually
writing the symbol down, to which the shopkeeper said "oh you mean micro
farads" and went and got one.

I decided that I wanted to learn the resistor colour code. One of the
teachers at school said I should go to 'Jaques'. As I know now this was a
radio shop in town. But the only 'Jaques' I knew was J. Smithson
Coachbuilders in the village, which was universally known as 'Jake's'. So I
marched into the workshop, and interruped Jake in his building of a
horsebox, and said, "Could you sell me a book with the resistor colour code
in it please?"
"Ay wot?" I repeated my request. Jake looked at me gone out, and muttered
something under his breath, and eventually I went on my way empty handed.

Bill

"jamie powell" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...

Modesty forbids me to agree. But of course those of us who stand up for
the rights of the ordinary hard working people of this country and oppose
political correctness are likely to acquire hero status. I'm very lucky
because I can speak the truth as I see it. So many people are unable to
do this because their employment makes it impossible. Such is the grip
that PC has on this country. I was talking earlier to a friend who has
appeared for years on radio giving specialised advice (I can't be more
specific). He has been sacked because his advice 'does not make due
reference to the ethnic communities'. His subject is nothing to do with
the ethnic communities, particularly. What he had been told to do was
select more questions from Asian listeners, despite the fact that these
were disappearingly rare. The only possiblility was to get some Asians to
ring up and ask 'pretend' questions. That didn't happen, so he got the
push.

I love these rants. Bill is a short step away from turning into my
absolute favourite kind of long-suffering, working class **** by
proclaiming that he’s “ready to stand up and fight”. The only thing you
fat-fingered gits are likely to end up fighting over is a f*cking parking
space.

I wouldn't call that a rant. I thought it was quite reasoned, by the
standards of this forum. It made a point and illustrated it with an
incident. That's not a rant. The odd thing is, the sentiments I express
above are typical of the ones that you hear all the time in private
conversations. We have a double morality now, an official one and a private
one, like the Victorians did about sex. It's terribly hypocritical and leads
to some very odd situations. I sometimes chat in the pub with people who
work for the council or the police, and face to face their attitudes are
completely at odds with the attitudes they have to adopt when they're at
work. Of course they daren't say a thing out of place in a private email or
on the phone, because they'd lose their jobs.

Anyway, I don't think I'd call myself working class. The old class divisions
have become meaningless, but I can't think of any measure by which I could
be regarded as working class. Oh, wait a minute, there's one. I do work for
a living, and have done so consistently all my life, unlike some I could
mention.

Very few people regard themselves as working class these days.

Incidentally, I wonder how many millionaires there are in this group. I know
there's one person who boasts from time to time about being a millionaire,
but actually, it isn't much of a boast these days, with property prices
being what they are down south. Obviously I'm meaning a millionaire in terms
of total assets, not just liquid ones. I bet quite a few of you southerners
are millionaires and haven't even realised it. It might come as a shock,
like when you add up how many radios you have.

Bill

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:39:34 +0100, "jamie powell"
wrote:

I love these rants. Bill is a short step away from turning into my absolute
favourite kind of long-suffering, working class **** by proclaiming that he’s
“ready to stand up and fight”. The only thing you fat-fingered gits are likely
to end up fighting over is a f*cking parking space.

While you have developed into a ****wit and general arsewipe, and many
(all?) people you have met are doubtless willing to queue up in the
car park for the chance to lay waste to you

Peter wrote:
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:39:34 +0100, "jamie powell"
wrote:

I love these rants. Bill is a short step away from turning into my
absolute favourite kind of long-suffering, working class **** by
proclaiming that he's "ready to stand up and fight". The only thing
you fat-fingered gits are likely to end up fighting over is a
f*cking parking space.

While you have developed into a ****wit and general arsewipe, and many
(all?) people you have met are doubtless willing to queue up in the
car park for the chance to lay waste to you

Also many people he hasn't met feel the same way.
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