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Something I forgot to share from this weekend...

I went to Dixons (high street electrical retailer, for those residing in sunnier climes) to try and buy a cable.

Should have been simple - I found a manager-looking person and asked "Do you have a cable with one of these on one end [holding up a 3.5mm stereo plug - like the one everyone has on the end of their headphones] and a couple of these on the other [showed him the female end of a pair of phono extension cables]"

Not only did he tell me that he didn't have such a cable (unsurprising, but it was worth a shot), but that it wouldn't work anyway, because the phono leads only worked one way - that the signal only travelled out of such a cable through the pointy male end.

To quote Ripley, "Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?"

I tried to explain that it was just a bit of wire, and unless there was a diode involved somewhere, signals could travel anyway they wanted along one, he was adamant that it was a physical impossibility.

I just said "You don't know much about physics, do you?" and wandered off...