The Great British Public

Tomorrow I will visit a house where I installed a TV system earlier
this year. The system has ten in-house channels (CCTV etc). A new TV
set was bought the other day, and installed by someone from the retail
chain. It seems that the TV system is 'overloading' the TV set 'with
channels', and this is why the picture is 'dark'.

The signal at the outlet was absolutely fine. Not strong, but
perfectly adequate. The TV set found two muxes only and reception was
unwatchable due to very bad pixelation. The customer went back to the
shop with the TV set. The man in the shop connected to set to his own
aerial and it worked perfectly. I had warned the customer that this
might happen, so he rung me from the shop. I told the shop bloke that
I had checked the signals at the house blah blah blah. I told him that
although the set might work on a strong signal it needed to work on a
normal strength one as well. The shop wouldn't give the customer a
different telly or a refund, so he left the set in the shop. At home
he rung me again and I suggested he try another set in the room where
the faulty one had been installed. This he did and of course it
worked, so he rung the shop and told them. At close of play they were
still refusing a swap or a refund.

I went to a block of flats today where reception was affected by
obvious hum bars. It's a very comman distribution amplifier fault, but
I couldn't find the amp! There were five stairways with steel covers
over the voids beneath. I spend 90 mins getting these off but there
was no amp in any of the voids. The block has a strange design with
bedrooms in the roof. There's obviously a small roofspace but no-one
had an access hatch! There are no communal areas, and there is no
communal mains meter. Maybe the TV signals come from another block. I
asked a few homecoming residents and no-one in the other blocks had
reception problems. This one will run and run. I'll write to all the
residents and find out if any of the oldies know anything.

Bill

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:18:35 -0800, wrote:

I was talking about human interactions, not about large corporations.

To which my comment about the employees being "caught in the middle"
was made.

I'm advocating decent good manners and respect for people as human
beings.

No disagreement there, and your advocacy is to be commended.

On Dec 23, 8:29*am, Clint Sharp wrote:
I
seriously think he might ruin the family Christmas on principle. The
kids were wailing when I left. Mum was tight lipped.

He's a prat, I have friends who do property management and they get
idiots like that all the time. At least you explained the options to him
and IMHO he's probably better off with Freesat anyway, especially if
he's got an HD telly and gets the correct box.
I told he he should get an HD box but I don't know if he took any
notice.


The 'living in the community' place was quick and easy. It's a place
where you can spit on the main TX, so I just fitted a loft aerial.
Then replaced the flylead and the VCR-TV flylead (both faulty), re-
tuned, and drank the tea. Much happiness amongst the residents and I
got a kiss! Back in the New Year to fit outlets in the bedrooms.
Yes, it makes all the difference.


I love jobs like that, it's really nice when people let you know you're
appreciated. Like you I tend to dig my heels in when people get arsey
(What, you didn't back it up anywhere and you've lost six months work?
Shame that, shouldn't have acted the big man taking the **** in front of
your colleagues then should you...)
I like it!

Bill

Alan White wrote:

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:50:06 -0000, "jamie powell"
snip

Do you have to poison every thread in which you appear?

That the way "Jamie" is. Not his real name, of course. You could delete
his comment before replying as a courtesy to those of us with killfiles.

Although admittedly, it was interesting when somebody recently quoted his
comment about the grief he'd got at school when he came out - and how he
feels bad about the resultant ruining of people's lives. It's the usual
case of the abused becoming the abuser. The bigots that hurt him in school
did quite some job on him, ensuring that people would be repelled by him for
ever after. It's sad, but that's the way that assholes often win bigtime -
they made him their sick reflection.

In message
,
" writes
I told he he should get an HD box but I don't know if he took any
notice.
Like hell he will have and it will still be rumbling on in the new
year..


(What, you didn't back it up anywhere and you've lost six months work?
Shame that, shouldn't have acted the big man taking the **** in front of
your colleagues then should you...)
I like it!
Sad thing is, this guy had been an arse before.

What made it all worthwhile though was when I got his laptop back to the
workshop I ejected the DVD drive (my bad, we are meant to check the
drives before we uplift the machine for 'security and confidentiality
reasons', I was so annoyed I forgot) only to find an original copy of a
film, entertainingly titled 'Swallow my squirt 2'.

Of course, being an honest kind of person, I had to return it to him.

So I dropped it off at his office reception, in a clear A4 document
wallet with his name clearly marked on it. So it didn't get lost
anywhere.

Oddly, last time I visited, he wasn't working there anymore..

Bill

--
Clint Sharp

Alan White wrote:
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:50:06 -0000, "jamie powell"
wrote:


Do you have to poison every thread in which you appear?

Why don't you killfile the little toe rag as others have done? At least
don't quote its posts.
--
"All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the
intellectual immaturity of the human race, before it had learned the
obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its God
to be truthful and understandable in his communications"
Friedrich Nietzsche

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%
"Mike Thomas" wrote in message ...
Alan White wrote:

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:50:06 -0000, "jamie powell"
snip

Do you have to poison every thread in which you appear?

That the way "Jamie" is. Not his real name, of course. You could delete
his comment before replying as a courtesy to those of us with killfiles.

Although admittedly, it was interesting when somebody recently quoted his
comment about the grief he'd got at school when he came out - and how he
feels bad about the resultant ruining of people's lives. It's the usual
case of the abused becoming the abuser. The bigots that hurt him in school
did quite some job on him, ensuring that people would be repelled by him for
ever after. It's sad, but that's the way that assholes often win bigtime -
they made him their sick reflection.

In message , Alan White
writes
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:50:06 -0000, "jamie powell"
wrote:

Bill Pikey Gob****e Wright altruistically and heroically 'saves Christmas' at
the last minute for a multitude of people who are nowhere near as good
as he is!
You heard it here first!

Do you have to poison every thread in which you appear?

He only appears to me when someone I haven't killfiled quotes him.
--
Ian

"Mike Thomas" wrote in message ...
Alan White wrote:

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:50:06 -0000, "jamie powell"
snip

Do you have to poison every thread in which you appear?

That the way "Jamie" is. Not his real name, of course. You could delete
his comment before replying as a courtesy to those of us with killfiles.


It's unimportant, but I am convinced Jamie Powell is his real identity.
He used to post anonymously; the circumstances of the change made it appear to me as
some kind of cathartic release.

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

Graham. wrote:

"Mike Thomas" wrote
That the way "Jamie" is. Not his real name, of course. You could delete
his comment before replying as a courtesy to those of us with killfiles.

It's unimportant, but I am convinced Jamie Powell is his real identity.
He used to post anonymously; the circumstances of the change made it
appear to me as some kind of cathartic release.

Possibly, but during the abuse that I saw him spewing, before I added him to
the killfile, he made mention of "anonymous cowards" on this group, *then*
he added the "Powell", and *then* he was caught out using the new anonymous
identity "Just another thicko". He even altered the newreader app to try to
hide it but missed a problem with the anonymizing feature of the news-
server. It seems that he's a dedicated nasty piece of work now, and is
perfectly happy to use lies and deceit to further his main purpose in Usenet
which is being abusive.