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Skriven 2016-09-09 19:10:00 av Tim Richardson (5141.fidonet_fidonews)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
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On 09-09-16, Michiel van der Vlist said to Tim Richardson:

Mv>@MSGID: <57D27A43.5129.fidonet_fidonews@1stchoicecore.co.nz>
Mv>@TZ: 0078
Mv>Hello Tim,

Mv>On Thursday September 08 2016 20:11, you wrote to me:

TR>> When I was in Germany you couldn't plug a radio into the wall
TR>> you'd brought from the States, it either wouldn't work or it'd
TR>> burn out the wiring.
Mv>[..]
Mv>> And they were not smart enough to figure it out for themselves. For
Mv>> starters the plug does not fit. There is no way you can ram a Nema
Mv>> plug into a Schuko socket. That should have been a clue shouldn't
Mv>> it?

TR> Wouldn't know. I didn't take anything there that was electric, and
TR> didn't buy anything electronic there either, so it didn't affect me.

Mv>So your rant was all hearsay. Figures...


No, it wasn't "...all hearsay." It was from watching guys plug in that
nice electric razor they'd brought along from the states, turn it on
for a shave, and all the smoke it made burning out! Or plugging in that
nice AM\FM radio to try getting Armed Forces Radio, only to get a weird
humming noise and a cloud of electrical smoke from it as it fried!

Not "...hearsay." at all. Sometimes the German national workers at the
PX's would tell you about what it needed to make a nice new RCA radio
or Remington shaver work properly, and sometimes they didn't. Most of
the German nationals utterly hated Americans back then because we had
just got done kicking the shit out of their Army less than twenty or so
years earlier. Germans hold grudges a long time.

They got a charge (no pun intended) out of watching some unsuspecting GI spend
a hundred or more dollars on a stereo at the PX, only to plug it in and burn
it up the minute they turned it on.


I had a straight razor kit, didn't bring or buy any radios or electronics,
and just didn't have that problem. But watched as the magic smoke got
out of more than a few electronic pieces of equipment other guys in
the barracks plugged in and turned on, but were not smart enough to
find out about the electricity first.




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