On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 at 15:47:13, Norman Dunbar wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>My dad :
>
>cannot wire a plug (colour blind) - I have been wiring plugs since I was 4
>years old. He is red green colour blind, and in those days, the colours were
>red = live, black = neutral and green = earth. Bad to get red & green mixed
>up :o)
Well earth is sort of brown after all. Green is a pretty live sort of
colour in nature. That at least gets neutral right (8-)#
>
>cannot program his video. I bought him a video for xmas a few years back. To
>record a program at 10:00 for 2 hours, when he was going out at 7:30 meant
>he hit play + record at 7:30. The video had a 3 hour tape in it. So he gets
>the first half hour of his program at the end of the tape :o(
>
>So I bought him a Video+ handset. Showed him how it works. So he now leaves
>the video powered ON when he goes out, so V+ turns it OFF when the film
>starts, and back on when it finishes AAAAAArrrrrrrrGGGGGhhhhhhh !!!!
I sympathise. That is the machine not his fault. I have fallen in the
same trap (8-)# Videplus is a pain though - mine switches off _exactly_
at the scheduled program end, so nearly always misses the last bit.
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