Hows this for an idea so old people ok with Digital TV.

In message , Kay Robinson
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On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:43:18 GMT, Paul Ratcliffe
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On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:27:34 +0000, Kay Robinson
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My 89 yr old neighbour only watches ITV1+2

There aren't any +2 channels (yet). I wonder why not? Surely the counters
of beans think this must be a good idea?

Sorry that should read as ITV1 & ITV2

and Channel 4.

Maybe you'd better rewrite the above as ITV1,ITV2 and Channel 4 just to
save confusion if you were to refer to say ITV2+1.

Good God, are you sure she's not dead already? If not, she's obviously
being well prepared by watching that.

She watches Granada News, Coronation St, Emmerdale, X-Factor,
celebrity stuff and that obnoxious twerp who shouts at his purile
guests with problems (won't contaminate my computer by typing his
name).

Guess it's her slot in life, never been further than Blackpool, never
eaten anything but traditional English fare, never watched a video or
listened to a recording, but knows the personal business of evryone in
the neighbourhood LOL.

Kay


Average Granny then.
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Ian

In message , Kay Robinson
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On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 01:20:13 +0000, Ian
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In message , Kay Robinson
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On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:43:18 GMT, Paul Ratcliffe
sharpened a new quill and scratched:

On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:27:34 +0000, Kay Robinson
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My 89 yr old neighbour only watches ITV1+2

There aren't any +2 channels (yet). I wonder why not? Surely the counters
of beans think this must be a good idea?

Sorry that should read as ITV1 & ITV2

and Channel 4.

Maybe you'd better rewrite the above as ITV1,ITV2 and Channel 4 just to
save confusion if you were to refer to say ITV2+1.

Good God, are you sure she's not dead already? If not, she's obviously
being well prepared by watching that.

She watches Granada News, Coronation St, Emmerdale, X-Factor,
celebrity stuff and that obnoxious twerp who shouts at his purile
guests with problems (won't contaminate my computer by typing his
name).

Guess it's her slot in life, never been further than Blackpool, never
eaten anything but traditional English fare, never watched a video or
listened to a recording, but knows the personal business of evryone in
the neighbourhood LOL.

Kay


Average Granny then.

Actually she isn't, dosen't have any grandkids, and your statement
annoys those grannys and indeed Gr-grannys (like me) who have numerous
interests in life, keep up with technology and have far better taste
than many who post here seem to have. My last job before retiring was
teaching IT at a college and prior to that set up systems for several
firms in the finance sector and a HM government dep. I admit that age
and infirmity have taken over somewhat but until illness took over I
was setting up and running web servers for several charities in a
purely voluntary position. During all these years I've had friends and
colleagues of a similar age to myself doing many such things, some
with more outside interests than I ever had. The running of the estate
I live on is managed by pensioners, four of which are gr-grandparents.
The neighbour I mentioned is totally different than any others I know.

If the grannies and grandads of today were still running this country,
and our communication systems you'ld all have so little to complain
about. Today they're all run by youngsters who have little concept of
reality and staffed by workers who, in my younger day, would have been
considered of a lower educational standard, only fit for stacking
shelves in supermarkets.

Kay

Being a Grandfather my self, I know the truth of what you say.

I think it's likely that my view of a grandparent is stuck in my/our
parents generation.

Apologies to anyone un-intentionally offended, including myself. :¬)
--
Ian

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:37:36 -0000, "David"
wrote:

Put BBC1, BBC2, ITV1 CH4 and Five onto one channel/Mux then we can tune only
this one in for them and they will be happy with digital only giving the 5
stations they are used to.
They are completely at sea with the many new stations and want only the
above choice of 5 programmers.
They lost with this repeated re-scanning the Freeview boxes keep asking to
be done.
Regards
David

At what age is a person "old" ?

On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:15:42 +0000, Joseph wrote:

At what age is a person "old" ?

Older than seventy-two and six twelfths ;-)
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On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:15:42 +0000, Joseph wrote:

At what age is a person "old" ?

Older than seventy-two and six twelfths ;-)

Old Person Alert - Dead giveaway talking in twelfths - must have been
brought up with LSD money and feet and inches :-)

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Paul S

Paul S wrote:

"Alan White" wrote in message
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On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:15:42 +0000, Joseph wrote:

At what age is a person "old" ?

Older than seventy-two and six twelfths ;-)

Old Person Alert - Dead giveaway talking in twelfths - must have been
brought up with LSD money and feet and inches :-)


OTOH, I was brought up with LSD and had colour TV waaaaaaay before
anybody else. =/

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Adrian C

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:14:26 -0000, "Paul S" PAULatSONIFEXdotCOdotUK
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"Alan White" wrote in message
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On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:15:42 +0000, Joseph wrote:

At what age is a person "old" ?

Older than seventy-two and six twelfths ;-)

Old Person Alert - Dead giveaway talking in twelfths - must have been
brought up with LSD money and feet and inches :-)

Yep. Young Persons have only ten months each year.

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(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

"Kay Robinson" wrote in message
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"Alan White" wrote in message
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On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:15:42 +0000, Joseph wrote:

At what age is a person "old" ?

Older than seventy-two and six twelfths ;-)

Old Person Alert - Dead giveaway talking in twelfths - must have been
brought up with LSD money and feet and inches :-)

Nope, six twelths of a year is six months. As yet they haven't
decimalised the calender :-)

Kay

Sort of whoosh - exactly my point twelfths isn't a fraction taught in school
these days so to be using it you have to be old enough to remember old money
and/or feet and inches (lik wot i woz)

--
Paul S

Peter Duncanson writes:

Yep. Young Persons have only ten months each year.

No, it is *very very* old people who have ten months in the year. Just
look at the names of the last four months of the year - they start with
the prefixes for seven through ten.

[1] Yes, I know that actually this is because the start of the year
moved from March to January.

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In message , Kay Robinson
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On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:43:18 GMT, Paul Ratcliffe
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On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:27:34 +0000, Kay Robinson

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If the grannies and grandads of today were still running this country,
and our communication systems you'ld all have so little to complain
about. Today they're all run by youngsters who have little concept of
reality and staffed by workers who, in my younger day, would have been
considered of a lower educational standard, only fit for stacking
shelves in supermarkets.
Kay


I was thinking that myself watching the sergeant at arms on the
parliamentary
channel, trying to explain to a committee that it wasn't her fault that
being a failed
shelf stacker she let a plod run rings around her.

Steve Terry
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