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Old 26th Apr 2017, 3:50 pm   #30
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Default Re: New 'Telephone' TV Programme On BBC 4

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Brilliant that episode of 'Trumpton' so typical of the GPO era, three digit numbers and no 'elf and safety. Strange that the mayor couldn't hear anyone because of the crackle on the line and yet heard the engineer heard him OK.
Perhaps the crackle was on the E side and the egnineer was speaking on the D side.
I prefer my BT engineers to have gotten the name "Engineer " by training ,rather than as a name
Some of those appearing at my house need (IMHO) A lot of training. I say that as a GPO trained 50 years old trained bloke.
It shocks a lot of blokes turning up to a fault in my house that I'm possibly technically their superior.
Just HOW can an old 70year old CODGER know so much about telecomms, or even electronics s or even computing, unless the bloke had studied the subject.

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