desperate last resort

On Apr 6, 5:05*pm, fred wrote:
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On Apr 6, 7:51*am, "Peter Crosland" wrote:
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Most useful Bill. Much more comprehendible that all the textbook on the
subject.

Peter Crosland

Thanks for that.

Ironically a young lady who is a large-budget decision maker at a
housing association complained in an email last week that my
explanation of the situation regarding a TV distribution system was
'incomprehensible to a normal person'. I asked an 80 year old female
and a 14 year old male to read it, and both seemed to understand it
perfectly.

Sounds like you need an executive idiot's? summary at the top of your
reports for the benefit of such as her. Keep the idiots happy and follow
up with the technicals in case it gets forwarded to anyone with brain
engaged.

The alarming thing is that it actually was an idiot's summary.
Honestly I couldn't have made it more simple or easy to understand. I
think some people don't even try. If the printed matter mentions
anything other than the sort of thing found on the front page of the
Daily Mirror their minds just freeze over.

Bill

On Apr 6, 5:41*pm, "Brian Gregory [UK]" wrote:
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The debt collectors at the large TV rental firm I used to work for knew
nothing about standing waves and velocity factors.

They were however very skilled with a pin through the coax used as a ploy
to gain access.

Disgraceful.

How much does that knock off the life of the cable (before it fills with
water)?

Less than the alternative, which was to cut through the cable
completely under the ivy.

Bill

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The alarming thing is that it actually was an idiot's summary.
Honestly I couldn't have made it more simple or easy to understand. I
think some people don't even try.

That's exactly right. I'm a technical writer (but for contract work, not
magazines) and I can confirm that very thing. Some people simply will not
try to understand what you've written. It's almost like they try not to.

Frankly, there's not point in worrying about them. No matter what you do,
they won't bother to engage with it. Forget them, move on.

SteveT

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On Apr 6, 5:05*pm, fred wrote:
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Sounds like you need an executive idiot's? summary at the top of your
reports for the benefit of such as her. Keep the idiots happy and follow
up with the technicals in case it gets forwarded to anyone with brain
engaged.

The alarming thing is that it actually was an idiot's summary.
Honestly I couldn't have made it more simple or easy to understand. I
think some people don't even try. If the printed matter mentions
anything other than the sort of thing found on the front page of the
Daily Mirror their minds just freeze over.

Oh, one of those.

Actually, we see it too in pitches for business, too much in text and
they don't take it in and if we do it in pretty pictures they say
there's not enough detail.

I'll let you know if we find the magic balance, actually I'll patent the
magic mix and retire to the sun on the proceeds.
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fred
FIVE TV's superbright logo - not the DOG's, it's ********

On Apr 6, 8:30*pm, "Steve Thackery" wrote:
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The alarming thing is that it actually was an idiot's summary.
Honestly I couldn't have made it more simple or easy to understand. I
think some people don't even try.

That's exactly right. *I'm a technical writer (but for contract work, not
magazines) and I can confirm that very thing. *Some people simply will not
try to understand what you've written. *It's almost like they try not to.

There's a strange thing, a sort of snobbery, amongst some people. They
are actually proud of the fact that they can't understand how to
program a PVR or whatever. It's like the ancient Chinese aristocracy,
who used to grow their nails absurdly long to prove they didn't do
manual work.


Frankly, there's not point in worrying about them. *No matter what you do,
they won't bother to engage with it. *Forget them, move on.

It's hard though, when they make the decisions. I sometimes send the
report, then ring them after a few days. The sensible ones say, "OK,
what shall I do?" and I tell them.

It's terrible though, how some of them are mislead by crooked
contractors, and then waste so much public money.

Bill

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If you are desperately bored, for instance if you’ve been locked
accidentally in a public toilet over the weekend by a deaf council
worker, a

Nahh , Got locked in a Bus depot once. Found a phone in office and
rang the main depot two miles away .Sods didn't believe me, said I was
winding them up and put the phone down accompanied by laughter in the
background.
Third time I managed to state that it was getting bloody cold and I
was going to start a Bus up to keep warm. down went the phone.
So I started a Bus up and then noticed it had two way radio. A call
made to whom it may concern that The Bloke locked in the depot has got
a Bus started and the next stage is to drive it through the closed
doors finally got a serious response and a little chap in a Van was
unlocking the doors within minutes. Same twit who locked me inside in
the first place.
G.Harman

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Cheers, Bill. Good stuff, as always. I've learned a lot from your site.

SteveT

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"Ken Tukyfriedturkey" wrote in message
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ffuuuffffffffffff.

You keep making that noise. What does it mean, exactly?

SteveT

Steve Thackery wrote:
"Ken Tukyfriedturkey" wrote in message
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ffuuuffffffffffff.

You keep making that noise. What does it mean, exactly?

I decided recently that it meant he was kill-file material ...

André Coutanche

Some years ago I put a stub on the downlead of an FM receive aerial at
a very small radio station. The tx aerial was on the same roof and was
preventing reception of the competitors, which was what the customer
wanted. Luckily the Tx frequency was near the end of the band, so the
stub did the trick, allowing the desired signals to pass almost
unhindered. I left it coiled up in the bottom of the rack, with a
label: 'Tuned stub for xxx.xxMHz'. The signal fed into a small VHF/UHF
distribution system. About six months later the manager rung up to say
that TV reception had S shaped lines on it, and someone had noticed
that they wiggled in time with the station's audio. In the racking a
lot of old redundant cables had been stripped out (laudable) and a lot
of very neat interconnects had replaced some very scruffy tangled ones
(laudable again), and the stub had disappeared.


I very much doubt anyone would have a clue as to what it was or did..

Having dun one for local Band One link signals that were overloading a
distribution amplifier ...

Said dist amp was a while ago giving rise to an odd hum/buzz on FM
signals turned out that the power supply was u/s having a very large
amount of 100 Hz ripple in its supply lines, which were AM modulating
the signals passing thru!...
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Tony Sayer