$#$@#$$%@! the oymplics
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My favourite shows were tooken off just for the olympics. I am so mad. They should have a channel for this and stop changing the schedules of my shows for this crap.
"What's everyone so worked up about? So there's a comet -- big deal. It'll burn up in our atmosphere and what's ever left will be no bigger than a chihuahua's head." - Homer Simpson
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Josh Gray wrote:
You could try turning the tv off.
Great answer! My wife and I went one better than this... we actually got the cable television terminated, because 99% of what was available was junk, and now we have no television programming coming into our house. We check out films from our local library (we've been into the films from the 30's, 40's, and 50's lately) and have been extremely happy with this arrangement. At first I thought I was going to miss some of the things I really enjoyed (tennis, news, DIY shows). In the end I discovered how much time I had available to do other, more relevant, things. I'm not sure we'll ever subscribe to television again. If we do, it'll be when the cable or satellite company provides a'la carte programming.
Depending on where you live they might already be legally required to do so. The few people i know who did go that route had to bludgeon their way through heavy resistance from the customer disservice types to get it done though.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Depending on where you live they might already be legally required to do so. The few people i know who did go that route had to bludgeon their way through heavy resistance from the customer disservice types to get it done though.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Possible, but not something I'm aware of in my area. It's certainly not something that (Comcast) is making publicly known. To be honest, I'm not quite wanting to go to the effort it'll probably take to get them to give me the a'la carte programming.
They wouldn't. It was something they were required to offer due to a legislative gun to the head. To be objective if it did become widespread the cable co's doomsday scenario would probably end up coming true and you'd not actually save a penny: instead of paying $50/mo for the 5 channels you care about and watch regularly and 45 channels you almost never watch ($1/channel), you'd be paying $50/mo for the 5 channels you care about and not getting any of the others at all ($10/channel) because the companies producing the channels would insist on getting the same total amount of revenue (needed to maintain their level of programming).
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Yep, it's hard to find good shows like "Green Acres" and "The Beverly Hillbillies" anymore. (Sarcasm...) :-D
Those two are better shows than a lot of the crap that's being created these days. Especially Green Acres, that's a classic.
BDF A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. -- Moliere
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Perhaps it should be turned into a competition between drug companies. This would save a lot of hassles such as drug testing.
Steve
Kid of like stock car racing? Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.
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Those two are better shows than a lot of the crap that's being created these days. Especially Green Acres, that's a classic.
BDF A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. -- Moliere