What can you live without? - Page 3

Prognathous · 13 Nov 2005, 02:35 PM

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Originally posted by hadaso
Me too! (actually we have one. It's always off, except when used to watch video/DVD, or when grandpa comes to babysit, and then he has to suffer watching without an antenna, because we have no antanna ever since I burned the antenna amplifier).

Exactly my case. The TV is only connected to a DVD and a VCR. I don't need nor want any broadcast television. Much of it is passive-mode-mind-polluting garbage anyway, and for catching up with the news the web is more than sufficient.

BTW, as soon as I can justify the cost, the TV itself is going to be thrown out and replaced by a projector.

Prog.

Trip · 13 Nov 2005, 10:52 PM

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Originally posted by Prognathous
BTW, as soon as I can justify the cost, the TV itself is going to be thrown out and replaced by a projector.

Hahaha, absolutely spot on!

One of my current favorite slanderings of the American public is what the high-definition tv companies are doing.... you have to pay $99.95 or whatever a month just to get the few channels you may want but can't buy any other way than to get the "total package." It's "total garbage" is what it is.

The TV market finishes only second to the cell phone market. What a bunch of slime. Did you notice how Cingular got kicked off the BBB just recently? Too many complaints again their company....And there all the same!!!

You'd love to think that they would just give you any phone for free when you're all forking out $50+ a month (my dad's cell phone bill for August was $350....!!!!!). But no, those rinky-dinky cheap P.O.S. cost $200. A total f*cking, this time brought to you buy Verizon.

...But I guess the average American consumer doesn't help matters...they're the ones who are too busy worrying about what ringtone or games they'll have on their new phone when I'm standing in line behind them, just trying to get a phone WON'T DROP CALLS! And the average American can't get enough TV, either, with their average 52 GALLONS of soda per year consumed while sitting on the couch watching their "reality tv" crap....we wonder why we're the most health-obsessed, over-perscribed and yet out-of-shape nation....well there's a good portion of the answer right there.

That part of our country digusts me. I could deal without the materialistic obesity we've sold ourselves into, that's for sure.

OK, end rant.

Trip

anj · 15 Nov 2005, 03:34 PM

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Originally posted by hadaso
we spent the next day in one of the most beautiful places on earth...

Yosemite is surely my favorite place to spend a weekend. Only thing I could do without are the mosquitos in the summer.

Adam Lachlan · 16 Nov 2005, 07:04 AM

I could live without Yahoo!, buying out my favourite email service...
I could live without Morrisons, buying out my favourite food shop...

I could also live without Nestlé and Mcdonalds, I don't think I need to say why.
bur bur bur bur bur... i'm hatin' it

moonbubba · 16 Nov 2005, 09:53 AM

Moderator's comment: moonbubba - please read the rules very carefully and follow them to the letter. Politics and rudeness are not permitted here. This is a warning!

moonbubba · 16 Nov 2005, 06:20 PM

I can live, very happily, without thought police, and despotic little minds that oppose freedom of expression.

**ReuvenNY** · 16 Nov 2005, 08:42 PM

moonbubba did not take the warning seriously and continued ignoring the forum rules. He is now banned.

odedp · 16 Nov 2005, 08:45 PM

HOTMAIL

Efram · 16 Nov 2005, 10:57 PM

I am from the former Soviet Union. It's nice to see that the same mentality of my former oppressors exists here amongst the overseers of this forum. Well done, ReuvenNY! You must feel quite proud of yourself.

**ReuvenNY** · 17 Nov 2005, 03:10 AM

Efram was banned because having seen the warning above, he decided to violate the forum rules.

The rules have a purpose - to keep these forum pleasant, non-confrontational and family friendly. Venting of anger, spite and interfering with moderator actions is counter productive and will generally cause the perpetrator to get banned.

Freedom of speech is political term, thus not to be discussed. In addition, it doesn't apply to a privately owned forum.

***Edwin*** · 17 Nov 2005, 05:46 AM

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Originally posted by ReuvenNY
Freedom of speech is political term, thus not to be discussed. In addition, it doesn't apply to a privately owned forum.

That is exactly correct - I own the forums, and I set the rules of behaviour expected for all those taking part in them, and the boundaries of what is or isn't discussable.

And this particular digression ends here.

Chipper · 17 Nov 2005, 11:17 PM

Let me bring us back to the original topic.

I can live without automated phone systems that say, "Please listen carefully as our menu options have recently changed."

Although I think it would be a better system, it looks like I can live without the metric system. According to my 7th grade science teacher, the United States would be fully converted to the metric system by 1980. It looks like that might not happen and so far, I've been able to live with the other method.

euroman · 18 Nov 2005, 04:26 AM

Whilst on topic of telephones:

'
call centre' telephone salespeople.

Chipper · 19 Nov 2005, 04:36 AM

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Originally posted by euroman
Whilst on topic of telephones:

'
call centre' telephone salespeople.

Speaking of telephones, here's a list of things to do when a telemarketer calls.

robert@fm · 22 Nov 2005, 02:41 AM

I could do without the UK TV Licensing Authority, who work on the assumption that anyone without a TV licence "must be" watching illegally, and thus harass them endlessly.

(They don't seem to realise that some people aren't so dumb as to be interested in the mindless pabulum poured out by all five UK terrestrial channels, and prefer to entertain themselves.)  This is especially bad when their victim is already suffering clinical depression, as I did all this summer.

I could also do without twits who think (sic) that their opinions are more important than the Forum Rules.

16 Nov 2005, 07:04 AM	#34
Adam Lachlan Master of the @ Join Date: May 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,004	I could live without Yahoo!, buying out my favourite email service... I could live without Morrisons, buying out my favourite food shop... I could also live without Nestlé and Mcdonalds, I don't think I need to say why. bur bur bur bur bur... i'm hatin' it Last edited by Adam Lachlan : 16 Nov 2005 at 07:10 AM.

16 Nov 2005, 09:53 AM	#35
moonbubba = Permanently banned = Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2	Moderator's comment: moonbubba - please read the rules very carefully and follow them to the letter. Politics and rudeness are not permitted here. This is a warning! Last edited by ReuvenNY : 16 Nov 2005 at 01:13 PM.

16 Nov 2005, 08:42 PM	#37
ReuvenNY Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: New York Posts: 4,278	Moderator's comment! moonbubba did not take the warning seriously and continued ignoring the forum rules. He is now banned.

16 Nov 2005, 10:57 PM	#39
Efram = Permanently banned = Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 0	I am from the former Soviet Union. It's nice to see that the same mentality of my former oppressors exists here amongst the overseers of this forum. Well done, ReuvenNY! You must feel quite proud of yourself. Last edited by Efram : 17 Nov 2005 at 12:15 AM.

17 Nov 2005, 03:10 AM	#40
ReuvenNY Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: New York Posts: 4,278	Moderator's comment Efram was banned because having seen the warning above, he decided to violate the forum rules. The rules have a purpose - to keep these forum pleasant, non-confrontational and family friendly. Venting of anger, spite and interfering with moderator actions is counter productive and will generally cause the perpetrator to get banned. Freedom of speech is political term, thus not to be discussed. In addition, it doesn't apply to a privately owned forum.

16 Nov 2005, 06:20 PM	#36
moonbubba = Permanently banned = Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2	I can live, very happily, without thought police, and despotic little minds that oppose freedom of expression.

16 Nov 2005, 08:45 PM	#38
odedp Master of the @ Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Tel-Aviv, ISRAEL Posts: 1,702	HOTMAIL

17 Nov 2005, 11:17 PM	#42
Chipper Master of the @ Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Greenbelt, MD (USA) Posts: 1,279	Let me bring us back to the original topic. I can live without automated phone systems that say, "Please listen carefully as our menu options have recently changed." Although I think it would be a better system, it looks like I can live without the metric system. According to my 7th grade science teacher, the United States would be fully converted to the metric system by 1980. It looks like that might not happen and so far, I've been able to live with the other method.

18 Nov 2005, 04:26 AM	#43
euroman Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 136	Whilst on topic of telephones: ' call centre' telephone salespeople.

22 Nov 2005, 02:41 AM	#45
robert@fm The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 4,681	I could do without the UK TV Licensing Authority, who work on the assumption that anyone without a TV licence "must be" watching illegally, and thus harass them endlessly. (They don't seem to realise that some people aren't so dumb as to be interested in the mindless pabulum poured out by all five UK terrestrial channels, and prefer to entertain themselves.)  This is especially bad when their victim is already suffering clinical depression, as I did all this summer. I could also do without twits who think (sic) that their opinions are more important than the Forum Rules.