Extending a phone socket & ADSL

[AdamW]

Was I the only little boy who used to convince friends to lick their finger and place it across the rails of a Scalextric? That's only 12V and it gives a rather unpleasant tingle. Try it with your friends next time you decide to get the old Scalextric/Hornby railway out.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

But try grabbing hold when a call comes in........ (DON'T, JOKE!!)

Can't remember if I've posted this here before - apologies if I have...

this

 

[securespark]

ban

haven't laughed so much since my granny caught her left t*t in the mangle!

BT gave up using a functional earth on domestic stuff years ago. I wonder if this was the reason?

Joking aside one of my clients who is now dead told me this story.

He was a communications engineer in WWII. He had a line rigged up across the countryside, and he had a problem.

There was a short somewhere, because every so often there was some godawful crackling on the line (flying pigs?).

He finally discovered that it only happened when the weather was dry, which puzzled him even more, as he was considering dampness as a possible cause.

He finally tracked it down to a farmhouse where when the weather was fine, the farmer's wife would open a (metal framed) window.

Yes, the cables ran directly outside the window and it was shorting when the window was open!!