Friday, July 28, 2006

Disproving Science

Nothing to do with booty updating yet, I’m afraid, but I’m a bit miffed with my car and I hear that a problem shared is a problem halved.

Only one of the speakers works (the one on the passenger side). But it’s not that only one speaker works ALL the time. Sometimes the one on my side does work – but only ever for a few fleeting seconds, then it crackles out again.

The thing that annoys me is not that only one speaker works – it’s that the other speaker actually does work – but only to taunt me. For a few seconds every so often, it shows me what it would be like to have two working speakers – I can hear everything properly – and in surround sound (!), I can sing without any poor soul having to hear me, I don’t have to put the stereo to full volume on the motorway to hear it, I can – oh hang on a second… crackle, bssssshhhh, crackle, crck, ffffsssh, crackle, hmph, it’s gone.

Damn speakers. And I still don't feel like the problem has halved. Is that statement (a problem shared is a problem halved) based on scientific evidence? If so, I'd like to meet the scientist who has made the claim. I'd be interested to know exactly which problem he based his experiment on.

Anyone know how to fix car speakers?

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