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( , Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:03, archived)

but use the edit option?
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:04,
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If I was getting someone to plug their headphones into their iPod I wouldn't ask then to insert the male 1/8th inch TRS in to the female would I?
EDIT: Well not on a first date anyway.
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:12,
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EDIT: Well not on a first date anyway.

having never touched an ipod, i dont know, i just had a look at the phones on a gis.
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:48,
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TRS is tip, ring, sleeve which refers to the contacts on the pin part of the jack lead on a stereo jack plug. Basically two positive sends (CC) and one negative.
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:53,
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you used to be able to go to a big bucket in the corner where they had a massive assortment of males and females of various sizes.
You could in theory daisy chain these in the correct sequence so as to connect your rev meter in your Mazda to the hamster wheel, via the Kenwood blender making you pea soup, the changing hues of colour of which would affect a light-responsive diode powering a gramophone dependent also on back-up hamster power, to play Taylor Dane's "Tell it to my heart" at probably too slow a speed.
You just don't get those parts buckets any more. Not even in Maplin, which is a bit of a HND in electric bits compared to Radio Shack's PhD. Anyone think there's something suspicious going on?
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:04,
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You could in theory daisy chain these in the correct sequence so as to connect your rev meter in your Mazda to the hamster wheel, via the Kenwood blender making you pea soup, the changing hues of colour of which would affect a light-responsive diode powering a gramophone dependent also on back-up hamster power, to play Taylor Dane's "Tell it to my heart" at probably too slow a speed.
You just don't get those parts buckets any more. Not even in Maplin, which is a bit of a HND in electric bits compared to Radio Shack's PhD. Anyone think there's something suspicious going on?

in the early 80's you'd get a little catalogue through the post with *all kinds* of crap in it
you could get anything from there
then they decided to turn into a low budget version of dixons
shit tho they were, dixons were a far far better version of dixons
the inevitable consequence of all this is that the hardcore folks who wanted bits were gone and any customer who wanted consumer electronic junk already got it from dixons
and so, doomed they were.
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:11,
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you could get anything from there
then they decided to turn into a low budget version of dixons
shit tho they were, dixons were a far far better version of dixons
the inevitable consequence of all this is that the hardcore folks who wanted bits were gone and any customer who wanted consumer electronic junk already got it from dixons
and so, doomed they were.

*bathes in the divine glow of the beacon of Maplin*
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:12,
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I have finished with the one I was using for the alien girl.
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:16,
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"WE DO NOT STOCK THIS, SO IT DOES NOT EXIST, YOU ARE STUPID FOR ASKING US TO ORDER THIS ITEM, YES, YOU"
:D
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:28,
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:D

The techs are great at my one, and if I ask something that they don't know about they'll call someone who does.
I did have one little shite at an Eastend store that was full of piss and wind though, I was asking about digital TV recievers.
I'm not the best person to try and play the smart ares with. I think he started to regret his appreach when I started going into logorythym.:P
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:34,
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I did have one little shite at an Eastend store that was full of piss and wind though, I was asking about digital TV recievers.
I'm not the best person to try and play the smart ares with. I think he started to regret his appreach when I started going into logorythym.:P

really maplins in the main is trying to be some kind of dixons for people who think they know stuff
like selling the nutters 1 farad capacitors for their mentil sound system, innit
edit: and yay for technical knowledge in the face of "upsell to idiot" :D
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:36,
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like selling the nutters 1 farad capacitors for their mentil sound system, innit
edit: and yay for technical knowledge in the face of "upsell to idiot" :D

'Nigel stop being an arse'. He had no technical knowledge on the subject but had tried a number of recievers and antellas as he was in a bad reception area and gave me some very useful info.
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:41,
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I looked at a book on transmission/propagation theory
I ran away SCARED!
yer average goon in a shop ain't going to know shit about that subject :D
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:26,
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I ran away SCARED!
yer average goon in a shop ain't going to know shit about that subject :D

but that's like a finely choreographed dance for me.
I love reading about that sorta stuff. It's a very bizarre cause and effect thing, which is probably why I have no life:P
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:33,
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I love reading about that sorta stuff. It's a very bizarre cause and effect thing, which is probably why I have no life:P

But the signal degradation would be terrible:P
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:11,
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This device would not be in a forest where there are those legendary silent falling trees due to no audience.
Let's not raise that controversy again.
This is Taylor Dane. She cannot be silenced. Abd she always has an audience. Even in prison (probably where she performs, like a kind of Johnny Cash, but the inmates really just want to see her wrinkled, but forensically uncommon, tits).
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:56,
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Let's not raise that controversy again.
This is Taylor Dane. She cannot be silenced. Abd she always has an audience. Even in prison (probably where she performs, like a kind of Johnny Cash, but the inmates really just want to see her wrinkled, but forensically uncommon, tits).

How the hell was I meant to know? I was too busy tugging over this alien chick I made.
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:19,
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'ning b3ta! what's happening on this mighty saturday?
I have a decision to make
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:05,
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I have a decision to make

or get my arse outside and mooch about
it's a tough choice
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:08,
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it's a tough choice

me
and the cooker, it does most of the hard work what with emiting finest russian gas
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:10,
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and the cooker, it does most of the hard work what with emiting finest russian gas


Have a sausage and egg sandwich, they're delicious.
Ed: Hot dogs, also good :D
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:31,
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Ed: Hot dogs, also good :D

I'll have to have egg, bacon, tinned tomtamo and toats
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:04,
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Yay! We can all add to our combined issues pool.
I have open sarah-palin-up-and-insert-wasps-in-her-foo-foo issues. What else you got? :)
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:11,
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I have open sarah-palin-up-and-insert-wasps-in-her-foo-foo issues. What else you got? :)

..now it does. a few days old is better as it is holds better for when one is 'doing a romance' upon a lady.
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:15,
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we haven't had the aliens arrive for your sexing pleasure yet
my mistake :D
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:11,
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my mistake :D

NO ALL AMERICAN AMERICAN BALLPARK FOOD FOR ME!
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:17,
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AND THERE ARE SOME POLISH VERSIONS THAT
EVEN HITLER'S DOG WOULDN'T GO NEAR.
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:19,
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EVEN HITLER'S DOG WOULDN'T GO NEAR.

It strikes me as very useful to know.
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:30,
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... to provide pictorial evidence, or at least an intimate scar, to corroborate his assertion, if I were you.
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:41,
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Research to foil the myriad plots
of those pesky Nazis goes ever on.
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:46,
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of those pesky Nazis goes ever on.

Although I would prefer a different coloured tunic as I don't like the red.
The boots would be better in black rather than white and the gloves should be fingerless.
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Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:08,
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The boots would be better in black rather than white and the gloves should be fingerless.