"Johnny B Good" wrote in message
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On Sat, 09 May 2015 21:17:42 +0100, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:

"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 09/05/15 20:12, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
I had a look at the 31 year ape boy and man beast girlfriend who still
live with his parents next door.
She had put a photo of her family there and it was like a photo from
the Munsters. She really should not have done it.

Are the parents normal?

I gave her messages a brief look at, but lost interest after:- dude,
g8,
tonite @ me plce, xxxxxx and loads more crap.

I had a student send me a job request like that once. I sent it back
with a request to speak English.

You must have been desperate for staff if you replied to him.

The other people I have looked at are just about the same.
The old CB Radios had more intelligent people using them.

I was going to say it was because a CB require some effort to put
together - but somehow some people manage to get a PC going long enough
to post broken english. I blame Apple...

Well, I just plugged mine in, used a SWR meter and it worked. I don't
remember what SWR means.

Standing Wave Ratio (Bridge) meter. It showed the ratio of transmitted
current or voltage to reflected current or voltage (actually voltage in
the case of a VSWR meter). Most VSWR meters were, in essence,
"Reflectometers" designed to show reflected voltage versus transmitted
voltage.

Ahhhhhh

When the load (antenna in this case) matched the feeder impedance, the
reflected voltage would be zero, an ideal that would be aimed for when
'tuning' the antenna for maximum performance by 'cutting' the length of
its element(s) or using an ATU interposed between the "Rig" and the
antenna.

BTW, the common CB parlance was to refer to this piece of measuring kit
as a "Swar-meter". :-)

Mr Pounder was bucket mouthing in 1980 and has not stopped since. I
blame Packard Bell ...

I wasn't aware of Packard Bell (End) being involved in the manufacture
of CB radio equipment in any shape or form. Perhaps you're referring to
the practice of being a "Potty Mouth", to use the American expression
(Bucket Mouth in the parlance of the UK CB fraternity) meaning the
tendency to lace one's communications with gratuitous swear words and
pejorative expressions (not unlike certain Australian trolls who frequent
other news groups).

My first Internet computer was a Packard Bell..............................
click?

As far as the pre-existing "Illegal CB Users" were concerned, here in
the UK, 'Bucket Mouthing' didn't become a problem until the very first of
the UK FM CB rigs went on sale just prior to the start of the legalised
FM CB service back in 1981/2 (I can't remember the exact date offhand). I
suppose you could describe the UK's version of CB, in hindsight, as "The
Facebook of CB radio". :-(

It was known as bucket mouthing in Tower Town.



As per usual, the moment such valued facilities are extended to the
"Great Unwashed", it all turns to ****e. In the case of the internet,
most of the ****e was down to crass commercialism. inevitably the fate
for every new innovation in communication technology, the consequences of
which we all have to learn to live with as best we can.

Aye