Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

[bd139]

Acolytes doesn't feel dirty enough.

You ought to be careful... Someone Over There has written "I don't understand why bd139 is some kind of cult character to some,..."

Fuckers have found me out. Shit!

Goes to hide the kool-aid bottles

[bd139]

Acolytes doesn't feel dirty enough.

If your acolytes don't feel dirty enough have them run through the orgy room a couple of times before feeling them.

Hey I aim to have better standards than the Mormons and Catholics!

[bd139]

I've only seen overenthusiastic admiration of a celebrity, cf the depth perception problem surrounding Musk and Jobs and certain politicians.

I can see why the likes of Musk and Jobs are admired. They both achieved a considerable amount. Jobs was certainly a very flawed person.

I've never understood why the tabloid newspapers, and even the dearer ones, seem to believe that the small doings of people like the Kardashians are of vital interest. I suppose it must sell papers, but I can't see why anyone would waste their time reading such tosh.

I think the interest in such people is entirely down to the poorly thought out consideration that if you emulate them then perhaps you can stand in their shoes and be successful like they are. Unfortunately the bit where the person is an abhorrent arsehole, which applies to Musk and Jobs better than any, tends to be the only bit that sticks. Reality is that such people tend to have a social advantage that no one else has and can't be easily emulated for they are circumstantial, such as having rich parents with an emerald mine or honking large amounts of LSD at exactly the right moment in history.

As for the Kardashians, there's nothing easier than wasting your miserable life away staring at other people's miserable lives rather than fixing your own.

Edit: worth making sure that due credit is given to Musk and Jobs' subordinates who really do all the work. They did good. They would have done just as good under another figurehead.

[mansaxel]

Reference oscillator is OK. This is one bent out of shape machine.

Also checked the CAL output using my TinySA; it is spot on.

Found this thread that says it could be diodes in an early mixer, if it is, as I suspect, a case of DC injection.

[tggzzz]

Acolytes doesn't feel dirty enough.

If your acolytes don't feel dirty enough have them run through the orgy room a couple of times before feeling them.

Hey I aim to have better standards than the Mormons and Catholics!

I grew up in Epsom, at the time of Joyce McKinney's famous "Mormon sex in chains" case. The journalists adjourned to the local pub, appropriately named The Spread Eagle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manacled_Mormon_case

[Zenith]

Acolytes doesn't feel dirty enough.

You ought to be careful... Someone Over There has written "I don't understand why bd139 is some kind of cult character to some,..."

I do. I've got all his merch including the very collectible bd139 Thug Life tee shirt.

[Zenith]

I grew up in Epsom, at the time of Joyce McKinney's famous "Mormon sex in chains" case. The journalists adjourned to the local pub, appropriately named The Spread Eagle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manacled_Mormon_case

I remember that including the quote,

"I loved him so much that I would ski naked down Mount Everest in the nude with a carnation up my nose if he asked me to."

The papers had a field day with it. There were all sorts of prurient details such as a chastity suit Mormon missionaries were supposed to wear to keep them on the straight and narrow. I vaguely recall they obtained passports using a Day of The Jackal dodge, by obtaining them in the names of people who'd died in childhood.

[vk6zgo]

Acolytes doesn't feel dirty enough.

You ought to be careful... Someone Over There has written "I don't understand why bd139 is some kind of cult character to some,..."

I do. I've got all his merch including the very collectible bd139 Thug Life tee shirt.

All hail the mighty bd139!

[vk6zgo]

There's my thread at The Other Plaice, https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/ ... -teardown/

The other place can fuck right off!

I've made it impossible for me to recover my account again now.

I might have "blotted my copybook" too, by too enthusiastically "thanking" of your posts!
I don't really care if I also become an "enemy of the State", as I've experienced that with a previous employer!

[Robert]

Hands up anyone in the Trumpdom who is waiting for PCB's or parts from the far east......

[bd139]

Hands up anyone in the Trumpdom who is waiting for PCB's or parts from the far east......

Ha yeah that's going to be interesting isn't it

(full stop on USPS handling of stuff from China / Hong Kong for ref)

[bd139]

I might have "blotted my copybook" too, by too enthusiastically "thanking" of your posts!
I don't really care if I also become an "enemy of the State", as I've experienced that with a previous employer!

Urgh. The mentality...

"Look at that guy over there agreeing with the guy who criticised us! Down with that sort of thing, our fragile egos cannot handle such sustained criticism!" .... Turns back to their Deutsches Reichsbräu.

Part of the exponential decay point I made earlier.

[bd139]

If your acolytes don't feel dirty enough have them run through the orgy room a couple of times before feeling them.

Hey I aim to have better standards than the Mormons and Catholics!

I grew up in Epsom, at the time of Joyce McKinney's famous "Mormon sex in chains" case. The journalists adjourned to the local pub, appropriately named The Spread Eagle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manacled_Mormon_case

I had never heard of that, perhaps surprisingly. Surrey is full of all the high dramas!

I'm currently reading Satyricon. It is now framed in Surrey in my mind.

[tggzzz]

Hey I aim to have better standards than the Mormons and Catholics!

I grew up in Epsom, at the time of Joyce McKinney's famous "Mormon sex in chains" case. The journalists adjourned to the local pub, appropriately named The Spread Eagle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manacled_Mormon_case

I had never heard of that, perhaps surprisingly. Surrey is full of all the high dramas!

But all done discreetly, in the best possible taste, and preferably behind a manicured lawn and net curtains. As per, IIRC, "Tropic of Ruislip"

The TV adaptation was filmed in Carpenders Park, which is effectively a Norf Lndn equivalent to Surry. A friend lived on the estate at the time, and flew his noisy RC model aircraft over the set, in the hope of being bribed to bugger off.

[tggzzz]

I grew up in Epsom, at the time of Joyce McKinney's famous "Mormon sex in chains" case. The journalists adjourned to the local pub, appropriately named The Spread Eagle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manacled_Mormon_case

I remember that including the quote,

"I loved him so much that I would ski naked down Mount Everest in the nude with a carnation up my nose if he asked me to."

The papers had a field day with it. There were all sorts of prurient details such as a chastity suit Mormon missionaries were supposed to wear to keep them on the straight and narrow. I vaguely recall they obtained passports using a Day of The Jackal dodge, by obtaining them in the names of people who'd died in childhood.

A good old "oooh errr" suburban sex scandal involving a foreign cult religion and a beauty queen (Miss Wyoming) was ideal for the tabloids that were pushing the boundaries as hard as they could.

However neither the story nor the quote was as memorable and pointed as the Profumo scandal 14 years earlier. Then, when Lord Astor denied an affair or even having met Mandy Rice-Davis, she dispatched that swiftly with pert humour, "Well he would, wouldn't he?".

Now that's a quote that is useful for all ages

[bd139]

I grew up in Epsom, at the time of Joyce McKinney's famous "Mormon sex in chains" case. The journalists adjourned to the local pub, appropriately named The Spread Eagle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manacled_Mormon_case

I had never heard of that, perhaps surprisingly. Surrey is full of all the high dramas!

But all done discreetly, in the best possible taste, and preferably behind a manicured lawn and net curtains. As per, IIRC, "Tropic of Ruislip"

The TV adaptation was filmed in Carpenders Park, which is effectively a Norf Lndn equivalent to Surry. A friend lived on the estate at the time, and flew his noisy RC model aircraft over the set, in the hope of being bribed to bugger off.

Carpenders Park doesn't really capture the essence of Surrey. After dropping street view a few times, not a single pampas grass plant identified.

That's pretty funny with the RC aircraft

[tggzzz]

I had never heard of that, perhaps surprisingly. Surrey is full of all the high dramas!

But all done discreetly, in the best possible taste, and preferably behind a manicured lawn and net curtains. As per, IIRC, "Tropic of Ruislip"

The TV adaptation was filmed in Carpenders Park, which is effectively a Norf Lndn equivalent to Surry. A friend lived on the estate at the time, and flew his noisy RC model aircraft over the set, in the hope of being bribed to bugger off.

Carpenders Park doesn't really capture the essence of Surrey. After dropping street view a few times, not a single pampas grass plant identified.

Ah, got me there!

There was a pampas grass in my lawn, but nobody - including the Derby Day burglars - realise there was even a house down the 200ft "alleyway". Looks like it has been removed in favour of a shared space carpark.

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[Zenith]

However neither the story nor the quote was as memorable and pointed as the Profumo scandal 14 years earlier. Then, when Lord Astor denied an affair or even having met Mandy Rice-Davis, she dispatched that swiftly with pert humour, "Well he would, wouldn't he?".

Now that's a quote that is useful for all ages

I remember that too. Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, was sharing a call girl with a Russian Naval Attache (spy). He lied to parliament by denying it, and resigned. He left politics and spent many years working for a charity in the East End of London. I recall a filthy joke about it, unsuitable for a public forum, but I'll tell you at the next rally.

Another sensational Westminster scandal that comes to mind is John Stonehouse, who tried to fake his own death. There were minor ones such as Cecil Parkinson, who resigned after it emerged that he made his secretary pregnant. He barely acknowledged the child, who was born with cerebral palsy. Then there was Norman Lamont, who rented a basement flat to a sex therapist. There are lots of others.

Of course this sort of thing has gone on for ever. Maundy Gregory sold honours for Lloyd George in the 1920s and is strongly suspected of being involved in a couple of murders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maundy_Gregory

He spent a couple of months in the slammer and after was whisked off to Paris, where he spent the rest of his life living on a £2,000 pa pension (a lot at the time) paid for by well-heeled folk connected to the Conservative Party.

[tggzzz]

I remember Stonehouse, who didn't choose to directly harm people AFAIK.

I remember Parkinson, who knew how to tickle Thatcher's fancy, and chose to behave disgustingly in the way you mention.

I remember Lamont, who was a bit of a twit and harmed many people inadvertently. I have sympathy over the dungeon thing; the letting agent should have spotted that and it isn't surprising that a minister had more important things to do.

I hadn't heard of Maundy Gregory; some parts of that are adjacent to another unsolved 1970s murder and Lord Lucan's disappearance.