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On Jun 30, 10:28 am, "Dave Plowman (News)"
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In article ,
Paul D Smith wrote:
Quite wrong. It's there to keep the staff happy. After all, bar work is
about the most boring job ever. A sort of Music While You Work.

There are far more boring jobs. At least with bar work you can smirk
at the drunken idiots you serve.

I hope you aren't serving "drunken idiots". That's illegal under the
Licensing laws.

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From KT24

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.16

On Jun 30, 12:49*pm, Mark Carver wrote:
On 30/06/2010 10:28, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Quite wrong. It's there to keep the staff happy. After all, bar work is
about the most boring job ever.

It can't be. It involves continuous contact with the public, which can
often be unpleasant, but far from boring.

Sticking on wheel nuts at a car factory, now that must be in the top ten
most boring jobs ?

A few weeks ago I needed a cable clipping along a wall. The sections
added up to 250m. I couldn't con anyone into doing it so I thought,
"Oh, the sun's shining, and the job will make a change. I'll do it
myself."
Armed with Radio 4 via headphones I confidently set off. It was a very
hot day and the surface on which I had to stand was silver coloured,
so it was like being grilled. There wasn't a breath of wind. Radio 4
was a bit boring. I started to sweat horribly. The mortar was hard and
it was taking six bashes to get each clip in. After about 500 bashes,
when I was a tenth of the way through the job, my elbow started to
play up. And I started to get very very bored.

Bill

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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On 30/06/2010 10:28, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Quite wrong. It's there to keep the staff happy. After all, bar work is
about the most boring job ever.

It can't be. It involves continuous contact with the public, which can
often be unpleasant, but far from boring.

Sticking on wheel nuts at a car factory, now that must be in the top ten
most boring jobs ?

Indeed, my neighbour is a design engineer in a UK car factory and tells of
the activities the bored shop floor staff get up to. He's always great
entertainment at get-togethers, especially when he's been trouble shooting
their latest dodge to enliven their lives!

On Jun 30, 8:59*am, Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article DgAWn.74007$NM4.21250@hurricane, Woody

wrote:
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Just sent:
Hello there,
We greatly enjoyed our stay last week. We liked everything about the
place except just one thing, and that was the music system in the pub.
Theres something wrong with it. The bass just thuds relentlessly,

[snip]

The trouble is Bill that in this country 'good' reproduced music equals
bass.

I largely agree with the views expressed in the various posts, but I'm
not quite so cynical about the public's understanding of decent audio.
Another thing, the sound in that pub would drive anyone up the wall.
This wasn't the usual bass-heavy racket, it was far beyond that!

Anyway, I got a reply, to the effect that they thanked me for pointing
it out. It seems that they have a 'boombox' of some description hidden
behind a curtain, and some wag had been fiddling with the controls.
Quite why the racket was allowed to continue for two evenings though,
I don't know.

Bill



Bill

wrote:
I largely agree with the views expressed in the various posts, but I'm
not quite so cynical about the public's understanding of decent audio.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardia...e-trees-greeks

Highlight: "94% of DAB listeners thought DAB sound quality was at least as good as FM;"

BugBear

On Jun 30, 2:34*pm, bugbear wrote:
wrote:
I largely agree with the views expressed in the various posts, but I'm
not quite so cynical about the public's understanding of decent audio.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardia...lcohol-price-t...

Highlight: "94% of DAB listeners thought DAB sound quality was at least as good as FM;"

* * BugBear

That really gives the game away doesn't it? DAB is digital so surely
it is far better... Something must be wrong.

Bill

In message , bugbear
writes
wrote:
I largely agree with the views expressed in the various posts, but I'm
not quite so cynical about the public's understanding of decent audio.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardia...hol-price-tree
s-greeks

Highlight: "94% of DAB listeners thought DAB sound quality was at least
as good as FM;"

BugBear

I wonder if those questioned confused sound quality with signal quality.
--
Ian

On Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 at 14:34:44h +0100, BugBear declared:

Highlight: "94% of DAB listeners thought DAB sound quality was at least
as good as FM;"

If one is listening on a 1 inch loudspeaker on an FM radio made in the PRC,
(with compulsory broken telescopic antenna) then it probably is difficult
to tell the difference.

In article ,
bugbear wrote:

Highlight: "94% of DAB listeners thought DAB sound quality was at least
as good as FM;"

If you listen to it on a portable radio in your kitchen - which quite
likely 94% do - then it's more or less indistinguishable.

-- Richard

Bob Latham wrote:
In article ,
Jim Lesurf wrote:

Alas, even 'hi fi' mags and forums these days largely tend to
concentrate on commercially recorded 'pop and rock' music not
classical/acoustic music. making it difficult to decide in many cases
what on earth an 'original sound' in natural terms might have been.

If someone asked me to decide between two hi-fi items using classical
music (which I have a great deal of) I wouldn't even bother to turn up as
I know I couldn't do it.

Yes, I know, nothing original to compare with etc. but I don't need to
hear the original to decide which of two versions I prefer. I'm not trying
to decide which is closest to the original I'm deciding which I will enjoy
- not necessarily the technical best.

Honestly for me /most/ classical is so 'mid range' and undemanding I
wouldn't bother.

Wether or not the *music* is undemanding (I assume
you mean intellectually) the *instruments*
used are VERY demanding of a sound system.

Pianos are quite notorious in this regard.

Further, classical music tends to have a much
higher dynamic range than many other modern forms,
again testing sound systems.

BugBear