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Tue Oct-21-03 02:58 PM
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Oh nO our cable TV went out! |
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The cable company disconnected it and said we had to pay to get cable TV. Now I have heard everything.
At first we panikced and got heart papiltations. Then we almost called up the cable company and got it hooked up legal. Then we decided to wait on that and seee how it goes a day at a time.
Oh my God I got so hard up for distraction from this mortal coil that I watched ALIAS! I watched that Hollywood Wives movie! If I ever watch Here Comes Raymond Everybody please unplug my life support system.
... But anyway so what? After three days with no cable TV, I don't get what the big deal is? We'll go to the neighbors to watch the debate Sunday but other than that so what? Guess how much I miss cnnmsnbcfuax? Answer: nil, Bill.
Do you freak your geek thinking of having no cable or are you a tough guy like me that knows what living in the wilderness of regular TV is all about and like it just fine?
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Tue Oct-21-03 03:07 PM
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1. Can't get hockey in the US without cable or dish |
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So yeah, I rank Cable TV up there with food, shelter and running water.
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Tue Oct-21-03 04:08 PM
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4. Do you have a frozen pond or ice rink? |
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Maybe you and your neighbors could turn off your cable TV and go to the pond or rink or build one and get some canes or somethiong and have a real live hockey game knocking the puck around. I've found that when there's nothing on 2457911or13 if I get off my can and go outside and see what kind of trouble I can get in with human people it's a lot better. This morning I arranged a waffle cookout among the wastrels that I call neighbors and it wasn't exactly a carnival but it was interesting in a Waiting for Godot kind of way. Just a suggestion.
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Tue Oct-21-03 04:39 PM
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This is Colorado. You know, that state without any water. Yeah. Best we can do is put on our in-line skates and play in the street. It's fun, but it's just not the real thing.
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Tue Oct-21-03 03:22 PM
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2. Don't worry, nothing on anyway |
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Bored to Tears, Woman Hurls TV Out Window Tue Oct 21, 8:26 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - A 25-year-old German woman enraged over another Saturday night of boring television programs and dull re-runs hurled her TV set out the window of her fifth floor apartment window, police said Monday.
"There was nothing decent on so I just threw the thing out the window," the woman identified as Veronika K., told Bild newspaper.
So they get Fox News in Germany?
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Tue Oct-21-03 04:11 PM
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5. Are you "Veronika K."? |
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If so, always look to see if there's any vagrants or peeping toms out there before you throw major appliances out the window.
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Tue Oct-21-03 04:13 PM
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Only Fox Kids and Fox Kids Türk (and both of them Cable-only) I've posted the TV guide for that particular day in this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=309854&mesg_id=309970. Although it wasn't the worst day in German TV history, there were some excellent reasons to entertain the thought of trashing the TV set (especially the autumn fest of Polka). Why she decided to use her second set later is beyond me :shrug: .
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Tue Oct-21-03 03:35 PM
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3. I can't live without cable. I'm hopeless. I pay to have it legally though. |
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Tue Oct-21-03 04:16 PM
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7. I think you should only have to pay |
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for however much time you watch it. That's how it is for water and gas and eletric. They should have a meter telling them how many hours you watch.... I don't even miss it to tell you the truth. It's like some girl friend you think you can't live without and then she leaves you for some bum and you freak out and beg her to come back and leave suicide notes nailgunned to her door and then the next day you wake up and it's like what's that weird sound that sounds like peace and sanity?
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Tue Oct-21-03 04:41 PM
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9. If I lose my cable, I lose my internet too. |
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Yeah, that's cause for panic... :)
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Tue Oct-21-03 04:46 PM
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10. My company will sell me web access w/o the Drek. |
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I could tell the CSR was a little puzzled as to why somebody would want a cable modem but not their 100 channels of pure purile bullshit, but they did confirm that I could have the web w/o the crap...
If my landline goes up any more (it's now $35 a month) the cable modem will become cost-effective.
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Tue Oct-21-03 04:50 PM
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11. Could you get dish internet? |
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Wed Oct-22-03 05:24 PM
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25. Dish Internet? you mean with V-sat on the roof? |
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Sure, why not? I'd bet it would not be cheap, though... Price of the terminal, hassle with the landlord putting it on the roof, monthly fee would be pretty salty, too, I imagine...
The local REMC offers wireless internet, $200 for the radio and antenna, $80 a month for 10 Mb speed...
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Wed Oct-22-03 05:44 PM
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26. Is the internet in outer space? |
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Tue Oct-21-03 06:29 PM
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12. I had mine taken out Nov. 6, 2002! |
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Right after the elections..I couldn't stomach the cabal news anymore and would not contribute to their well being.
Sure I miss Jon Stewert but I watched him enough to get a good sense from DUers' reports.
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Tue Oct-21-03 06:51 PM
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You'll soon be in Sacramento doin' the people's business, so you will have no need for cable. And Maria is on broadcast TV, so you'll still get to see her from time to time. Now get up there and get busy doing what was purchased for you!
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Wed Oct-22-03 03:48 PM
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16. I am not going to go to Sacramento. |
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I am going to rule from Brentwood by the dish internet. I will be virtual in Sacramento. I will have monster TV screens all over Sacramento where people can watch me ruling from Brentwood at my computer, smiling, eating things, thinking stuff, planning things, making laws, exercizing, grooming, and that sort of things. Every once in a while I will fly over Sacramento in my Leer and drop sample protien drinks and update leaflettes about how am I am doing as the ruler.
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Wed Oct-22-03 04:02 PM
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You cannot govern from Brentwood. The people of Cully-for-nee-ya must see their Supreme Ruler in person, in glorious Sacramento, where the business of state occurs! Move there now or move there later, but move there you must.
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Wed Oct-22-03 04:11 PM
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22. Maybe I hire Lou Ferringyo to go |
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to Sacramento to play me. I don't want to go to Sacramento. I'm afraid I might do something bad that I can't help it and I will get into trouble and nobody will like me any more. I have an old robot that look like me they gave me from some Terminator. I could put it in the Governor chair in Sacramento. Except it is pretty rusty and has no eyeballs or legs. It is smiling anyway. Maybe nobody will notice.
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Wed Oct-22-03 04:28 PM
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The people of Cully-for-nee-yah have seen you. They like you. They voted for you, even though they have seen you do many bad things. They will not take Lou Ferrigno into their hearts, and hold him close to their ample bosoms, like they have done with you. You are allowed to grope their ample bosoms. Lou Ferrigno is not. The old robot is not. Even if he is smiling he may not grope their ample bosoms. Only you Governor Elect, only you may rule over the great bosoms, I mean people, of Cully-for-nee-yah. You must go and do as you have been commanded by our Great Leader George W. Bush. Go to Sacramento at once. Delays will only tarnish the fine image which you have so carefully crafted for these many years.
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Wed Oct-22-03 04:52 PM
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is nicer than "sexual battery." I don't know where they come up with these crazy legal termniology. Keep it simple and amusing, like "grope." The more jokes people make about my wacky "groping," like my funny pal Jay, the better I get away with it and look forward to more.
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Tue Oct-21-03 07:05 PM
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14. Wish mine would go out |
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The only show I care about on cable is Six Feet Under on HBO. Most of the time, TV is boring and the movie channels just show the same things over and over (and most you can rent for free at the library anyway). Our cable bill is $94 a month(!!!) and it's all about sports (which isn't my thing).
I'm sorry though about yours. Network TV is even worse.
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Wed Oct-22-03 03:54 PM
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17. The only cable show I liked was Curb Your Enthusiasm |
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on HBO and 24-hour-a-day Wacky Police Chases on FX. I used to like Street Time on Showtime but it has turned into a mess. Also I like that commercial with the guy at the counter of some airline where he has the computer readout of what he's suppose to say to customers, things like Greetings Miss Colon, backslash 9. But that's on regular TV anyway. Cut your cable wire and see how you like it being free to watch only Gilmore Girls and According to Jim.
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Tue Oct-21-03 07:44 PM
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15. I still have cable and don't watch it/others here got rid of it and are |
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happy.
So, it seems to me...between those who have it and don't watch it and those who got rid of it and are happy...you would be okay to leave it......and join us.
If we who "have it" and "don't watch it get along...and those who "cancelled it and do without" are fine.
What the hell, is the use in having it? :-)'s to you....for whatever you decide?
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Wed Oct-22-03 03:59 PM
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18. Even though I have no cable I put on CNN at 1pm and imagined |
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what Inside Politics was like today. It worked fine. As always, even though I only imagined it, I forgot what was on already.
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Wed Oct-22-03 04:02 PM
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20. The only reason I know ours is working |
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is because otherwise my stepsons would be whining. The only thing I ever turn on is Queer Eye, and I'm pissed at them right now, because it's been reruns for WEEKS!
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Wed Oct-22-03 04:06 PM
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21. Sometimes whenever some show I like has reruns |
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right before a rerun comes on I hit myself in the head with a croquet mallet. Then I turn the show on and it seem like it is brand new.
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Wed Oct-22-03 06:23 PM
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27. In Desperation, Read a Book |
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I don't watch television at all. Never. I kicked the habit and I'm pleased with myself.
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