Christmas Snake Oil anyone ?. (V expensive mains extension block).

That ended up in the wrong place, didn't it?

No, I think it's the pointless Brexit exchanges that are in the wrong place.

Daniele

I was being told yesterday about this sort of stuff. Someone had read Varoufakis' book, in which he described spending some hours discussing possible options with Christine Lagarde. At the end, just as he thought how positive that had been and there were some things he could put to the EU people, she said "But they'll never agree to any of that anyway".

Varoufakis has shown the futility of trying to change the EU or discuss anything with it. Complete waste of time, as Cameron discovered too. Far better to leave, and to treat it as the unreconstructable entity that it it.

You have a valid point!

The EU will become (according to the etymology of the Peter Principle) a 'freely floating apex'

A fully fledged government structure with no one to govern.

It is a classic response to a whole structure that has risen past its level of incompetence.

I've killfiled them all. uk.d-i-y is a much nicer place.

In message , Huge writes

Must be strangely quiet where you are?

In message , The Natural Philosopher writes

Should that be *competence*?

(just to show I am still paying attention, if only to avoid something more important)

LOL. There's much less traffic, admittedly, but it's a much nicer place for it. Didn't take that many entries;

TNP was already killfiled. I think I just added Streater.

You are correct!

I first heard about the PP in the wonderful book by CN Parkinson himself.

I try to live and let live as they both make useful contributions on other topics.

Anonymity encourages unnecessary insulting behaviour:-(

I do believee you are right.

Its risen past its level of competence to a level of incompetence

Hmm.. happened to me in the late 70's. I was a happy and useful control systems engineer when the site chief electrical engineer took umbrage because the senior management staff canteen was being closed. The company was downsizing and my department was due for closure anyway. The correct decision was to find employment elsewhere but my apprenticeship and electrical engineering qualifications made me acceptable to the works electricians....

Exactly. Someone needs to tell DD and the Crone.

You said you'd killfile me once. I suppose that may have just been petulance.

And that's apart from all the other variables, like the quality of the speakers, the recording, and even the way the room is furnished, and also the ability of the listener to actually hear any difference.

PS I watched the BBC program about Patsy and Edina visiting the champagne region of France and noticed that Patsy doesn't seem to have aged at all unlike Edina (Jennifer). This was followed by the 2001? Christmas edition of AbFab and I noticed the name Jon Plowman on the list of credits. Is he a relative of yours ?.

But he was Belgian, not French, surely ?.

Indeed - if your amp's power supply doesn't filter out spurious harmonics then the connection between it and the noisy mains supply isn't going to make much difference. I looked for "April 1" on that page, but as usual with these audiophool sites I failed to find it.

Decent 2.5mm twin speaker cable is small enough not to be difficult to run and connect. And doesn't look silly where you can see it. And a larger cable won't do any harm.