Re: Nigel's gratuitous troll

["paul gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Ahh, I wish!!

No, it's merely that I'm still not very far down the VERY LONG road of
re-furbishing my house, and so have replaced only two of the carpets so
far,
the others being, as far as I am concerned, of utterly no value whatsoever
-
they're HORRIBLE!! - very 1970's (read lots of brown and BRIGHT ORANGE!) -
which is when the house was last decorated by the previous owners...

Trouble is, I keep spending all the cash on the "toys" to put in
the house,
rather than the carpets! - I've got away with it so far, but I'm sure the
wife will get wise to this pretty soon!! - latest
"carpet substitute" was the near £600-odd on the Comfort alarm
system a few
weeks ago (and probably as much again for professional installation)

Oh well, make hay while the sun shines, I say...

Paul G.


>From: "Harrison, Mark (Alliance)"
<Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Nigel's gratuitous troll
>Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 18:43:21 +0100
>
>Bloody hell - what kind of carpets do you have ;-)
>
>(Point taken - I have a Loewe TV, and there probably wouldn't be that
>much between it and the carpets...)
>
>Mark Harrison
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: paul gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 01 September 1999 18:36
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Nigel's gratuitous troll
>
>
>What about if the TV cost more than the carpets?.....
>
>;-)
>
>Paul G.
>
>
> >From: "Harrison, Mark (Alliance)"
<Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Nigel's gratuitous troll
> >Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 18:28:36 +0100
> >
> >I think you put your finger on the gap between us with the
paragraph
> >that started:
> >
> > > I'm not really articulating myself properly, but my basic
point is
> >that
> > > for domestic home automation, you are never going to sell a
system
>to
> > > ordinary people that needs a re-wire of their house and
everything
> > > plugged in twice.
> >
> >Even given your argument that the lack of mass-market acceptance
will
> >keep prices high (with which I totally agree), what _I_ personally
want
> >is the _best_ system I can get, and am prepared to pay a price for
>that.
> >The price is not just money, but also time (research rather than
going
> >to Maplins, let alone actually building stuff!), and
"hassle" (a factor
> >I consider separate from time, and includes things like
"wife's
>reaction
> >to putting temporary holes in the plaster".)
> >
> >Just turning to the money, however, I would be interested to know
how
> >much people have "invested" in home automation, but want
to put a spin
> >on the question:
> >
> >So come on all you hard-core HA-ers, have you spent:
> >
> >- Less than the price of your TV?
> >- More than the price of your TV, but less than the price of your
> >carpets?
> >- More than the price of your carpets, but less than the price of
your
> >car?
> >- More than the price of your car?
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Mark Harrison
> >European IT Manager, BP/Bovis Alliance
> >Tel: +44 20 8869 1439
> >Fax: +44 20 8423 7711
> >
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