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Amorous Badger asks: Tell us tales of people who have a high opinion of themselves. Jumped-up officials, the mad old bloke who runs the Neighbourhood Watch like it's a military operation, Colonel Blimps, pompous bastards and people stuck up their own arse.

(, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 12:22)
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But how did you know
this would bugger up his key and not that of other people?
(, Sat 26 Jan 2013, 21:33, 2 replies)
if no one else tries to use their plips in that time period
no one else notices that it's effectively swamped. Imagine trying to play 'Name that tune' played through an iPhone speaker while in the middle of a drum'n'bass nightclub on 'drop the bass' night. Technical term is 'swamping'. He's making so much radio noise compared to the power of a tiny plip transmitter that the receiver is unable to hear it.
(, Sun 27 Jan 2013, 22:56, closed)
There were only a couple of cars in the car park
Most of them didn't look like they used UHF (different manufacturers use different systems), and if anyone else had been locked out by it I'd have stopped doing it.

The frequency is annoyingly close to one that is used pretty much all over the country for data modes, which causes problems.
(, Mon 28 Jan 2013, 8:46, closed)

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