How Embarrassed Would You Be?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/entire-welsh-villages-mysterious-18-month-broadband-outage-caused-by-an-old-tv-12078561

[andy-hughes]

Not in the slightest - if something electrical of mine interferes with broadband and I am unaware of it, why would I be embarassed?

[Hopkirk]

Nor me. Once pointed out I would stop using it.

[burlyshirley]

What a lovely little village.

Not sure if I'd be embarrassed or not, I would have had no idea I could cause something like that !

[Mamyalynne]

Not embarrassed at all but relieved like everyone else that the mystery was solved.

[chelle7272]

No, the experts didn't know what the cause was for a long time, it's not as though it was obvious.

[SparklyKid]

I hope the broadband provider bought them a new telly.

[bednobs]

well TTT I get you I would be completely mortified (especially if i'd done any moaning about the crap BB service)

[Hopkirk]

It would be a good excuse to splash out on a new massive screen one. Perhaps a bit embarrassed when the neighbours saw the medieval monster box being taken away.

[woofgang]

why would I, or anyone, be embarassed?

[barry1010]

I would be mortified if people thought I watched tv at 7am! :D

[ToraToraTora]

you can tell a lot about people by their answers to this kind of question.

[jno]

not me. If the experts took 18 months to sort it out, why would I have realised it any sooner? I would certainly never have guessed an old TV or microwave could shut down a whole village.

[sanmac]

I would definitely feel embarrassed and sorry that I had caused so much inconvenience to the rest of my fellow villagers for such an extended period of time.

[mushroom25]

there would of course be those out there whose dinosaur attitude is as old as their television - you know the type, "it's my television and i'll turn it on when I like and if you don't like it you can whistle".....

[rowanwitch]

Not half as embarrassed as I was when I found out sex toys caused interference on a neighbour's tv

[douglas9401]

If they'd only checked the voter roll to begin with they may have found Jones The Outage.

[jno]

I don't think you have to be a dinosaur for this to happen, mushroom - maybe you knew an old telly could cut your street off; I certainly didn't. I'd apologise but I wouldn't be embarrassed about it.

[jno]

lol, I hope you weren't inadvertently broadcasting from a rabbitcam, rowan

[Togo]

I would love to know what the old TV set was. I would guess an old hybrid valve monster that had a screening cover missing from the line oscillator or a HT leak up near the crt anode. Will have to look if I can find the make.

[Canary42]

I think that if I still lived in a small village I would feel awkward about unwittingly crashing the entire village's Broadband.