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No luck so far in tracking down the attenuators, I'm afraid. i'll keep looking, but am running out of 'places where they might be'. Sorry to have raised false hopes:scratch:

Update: I can't find the buggers (box is there, but no attenuators). I'll keep looking, but I do also have a Kimber attenuated cable (RCA-RCA; -16dB) which is also surplus to requirements and which...

I'm fairly sure I've got a set of these that I don't need, which you're welcome to have. I'll have a dig around.

I have neither!

The aim was always to have more rooms than contributors.

To quote from Peter Cook & Dudley Moore:

'Have you learned anything from your mistakes?'

'Yes, I'm sure I could repeat them exactly'

I've heard bloated and swimmy record decks too; mostly of the belt-driven type, but the Roksan is neither bloated nor swimmy.

http://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/

Those aren't badges; those are mushrooms.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1069339_toilet_signs_too_pc

STUDENTS say new signs on toilets at their union building might be making their WC just a 'bit too PC'.

The traditional...

Of course the working class always did have more children than the middle class, but I don't think it's just the financial stress of needing two salaries that's keeping the middle class childless. ...

Oh sure. I just don't think policing parenting decisions is either a good idea in principle or workable in practice.

One scary fact I picked up on the evening news tonight is that there are now...

I have this picture of a young couple turning up for their 'parenting' interview:

Interviewer to young woman:

'You look as if you're already pregnant, without permission'

YW 'Yes, that's...

Such a scheme would be incredibly expensive to run (interviewing all prospective parents in depth would mean employing thousands of people all of whom would need training/vetting) difficult to...

Though of course Christ encouraged fecklessness: 'Consider the liles of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin'. He was also keen on not judging others: 'Judge not, lest ye be judged and...

Indeed, and in more ways than one. 'Brave New World' was Huxley's reaction to the materialistic basis of US society.

As G K Chesteron wrote:
'After the Age of Utopias came what we may call the...

Leaving aside the moral issues, there's no way of knowing how an individual child will grow up. As you point out, some very successful people have come from very 'difficult' backgrounds, and there...

In my school, they were very much in the majority.

'A huge, living, daily increasing grievance that does no palpable
harm, is the happiest possession that a man can have.'
Anthony Trollope, 1878

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article1659924.ece

I think that settles the matter.

One word according to my Chambers' Dictionary. The 20-volume OED's upstairs but I'm too workshy/work shy to see if it's one or two words in that.

The trouble is that this thread is mis-titled as the credit crunch has not been caused by dole-ites, who cannot get credit unless it's from the local loan shark at 1000% interest.

So, half the...

Current production, I think. Is there a difference?

A pair of Western Electric 300B valves (plus some internal fettling) to enhance my Border Patrol. It's now stupidly good.

I think the Mana hit squad got Steve before he could finish!

Well said (and the irony you point out hadn't escaped me).