I no longer try to understand it, I just accept it for what it is.
And that, my friend, is the secret to living a happy life.
She asked me, "What do you think they're attractive for, they're old!" I pointed out that I'm nearly forty years her senior. She slapped me on the arm.
Damn, mine is only 20 years younger than me and when we go out together, the nuclear-grade hate-stares I get from women in the supermarket are un-fucking-mistakeable. The ones they give you would probably turn a battleship to slag.
But yes, when I tell my wife that "I'm old", she agrees, and then she holds my hand and says, "Yes, you old. All use up. No more good." And then she laughs.
In fact, the country's overall productivity was found to have risen by 8% overall, and most people seemed happier in general.
Some people actually spoke to each other (hard to believe, but it's true!) and no one felt the need to take a photo of their fucking lunch and upload it so everyone else could see it.
Maybe we could do the same thing here, just for a week or two.
... and the interviewer called me a fossil for not being "hip enough to use modern technology" and ended the interview.
Jesus, what a jackass. I would have told that prick in no uncertain terms to FUCK RIGHT OFF, and I might have accidentally spilled my coffee on his desk on the way out (hey, accidents happen, amirite?).
Seriously, if you won't hire me because I don't have a fucking twitter account, then fuck you. You and your company are exactly the kind of assholes I'd never want to work for.
And, just to close the loop, if he wasn't the CEO, I'd write the CEO a brief, polite letter him know what an asswipe his hiring manager was.
Sounds to me like yet ANOTHER reason not to be on social media, like FB or twitter....
Exactly...as if I needed another reason, lol.
I have no facebook, no twitter, no pinterest, instagram, linkedin, etc etc etc, none of that crap. And yet my life seems to be doing just fine, better in fact than most the people I know who are obsessively fiddling with that shit all day long. I have a life, they have text messages.
Agreed. I cut the cable and threw up an antenna a couple of years ago now.
The cable companies are looking in a mirror, slitting their own throats, and wondering, "who is slitting my throat?"
It'll be interesting to see which if any of them are still around in 10 years. Some of they may be able to adapt the way Netflix was able to, but I suspect most of them will wither away and then collapse like Blockbuster.
Then how do you explain the jaw dropping stupidity of these people? Have they all suffered some sort of collective head trauma? Is there some chemical in the water supply? Because, let's face it, these people are simpering morons.
I hear you...and I have no good explanation for the blithering stupidity that seems to be rampant in the South. It's like they're all taking extra strength Stupid Pills twice a day.
I think religion plays a part, however, because it makes people happy believing in utter bullshit and makes them satisfied with not knowing the answers to anything. Curiosity is discouraged in religion and any "explanation", no mater how ridiculous is solemnly accepted as the truth. Wisdom and insight are considered to be overrated.
But then there's also just weapons-grade stupidity, and the Southern states seem to have it in abundance.
Apparently you value quantity of channels over quality of channels and total amount of quality programming.
No, you have misinterpreted what I said, or perhaps your lack of attention caused you to miss this part of what I wrote:
"No way I'd pay $40/month for 14 channels (even if I got to pick them)"
It should be clear from that statement that I do not consider all channels to be equally valuable, and that I want to pick specific channels. And why would I want to pick the channels I got? Obviously because I have some preference as to what I would watch, and I am looking to maximize the content I consider to be of higher quality or worth to me.
In other words, I am indeed more interested in quality over quantity.
Not trying to flame - not being a Jerk, just pointing out a disconnect at Google HQ. What if one of those Female Entrepreneurs sold confederate merchandise in her "Bring Back the Dukes of Hazard" store?
Well then obviously the Patriarchy made her do it.
"I'd bang them both, at the same time, during Christmas dinner, on the kitchen table, on national television."
Lol, it sounds like you've given this more than a little thought.:) I admire your honesty and umm "breadth of range" in terms of acceptable partners.
As for me...Martha Stewart....maybe.
Hillary Clinton 20 years ago, probably. There was a time when she was sorta boinkable, but today, errr, she's way outside my goalposts, even if I wasn't happily married.
But why would they want to make $3 from you when they can make $86?
Because they won't get $86, they'll get $0.
I'm sorry if that complex mathematical equation is too difficult to grasp, but apparently you missed or ignored the part where I wrote, "Charge $1 per channel per month. That's what I'm willing to pay, period".
Uh oh, did someone say "porn"? Because I see limitless possibilities for porn using this technique.
Wanna see Rick Perry bang Rick Santorum? Wanna see Fred Phelps having a BDSM tryst with Divine? Wanna see Donald Trump going at it with Hillary Clinton?
(For me, the answer is a resounding "NO!" to all of those, but you know that someone somewhere would go, "Oh yeah, baby...cue it up...")
This. They already know this is what people want. Trouble is, they will NEVER do it. not for anything that makes economic sense to the consumer anyway.
Well then, as I said, they better not let the door hit them on the way out. Because I won't play their game, period.
They have two choices: they can either meet their customer's needs (or wants, or whatever), or they can go out of business.
You mean consumers aren't willing to keep paying more for an increasingly ad-laden pool of mostly forgettable reality programming? Wake me up when it's over.
The only reason I have any relationship at all with the cable company is that they're the only supplier of broadband Internet in my area. If that wasn't the case, I'd drop them tomorrow. Until then, I'll "subscribe" to their lowest tier programming because it would otherwise cost MORE to buy internet service from them.
You summed it up perfectly.
I have internet (FIOS) but no TV. The crap-laden packages full of worthless channels that I have ZERO interest in watching simply cost more than I can justify.
1) Charge $1 per channel per month. That's what I'm willing to pay, period. 2) Let us pick what channel(s) we want. Don't force any "bundling" or packages of shit-channels I'll never watch. 3) No minimum number of channels. If I want 3 channels, let me have 3. If I want 50, let me have 50.
Really...is this so hard to grasp? If you can't make money with this model, say "goodbye" and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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I no longer try to understand it, I just accept it for what it is.
And that, my friend, is the secret to living a happy life.
She asked me, "What do you think they're attractive for, they're old!" I pointed out that I'm nearly forty years her senior. She slapped me on the arm.
Damn, mine is only 20 years younger than me and when we go out together, the nuclear-grade hate-stares I get from women in the supermarket are un-fucking-mistakeable. The ones they give you would probably turn a battleship to slag.
But yes, when I tell my wife that "I'm old", she agrees, and then she holds my hand and says, "Yes, you old. All use up. No more good." And then she laughs.
I wish there was a test before you were allowed to let your kids or yourself get exposed to that part of the internet.
I wish there was a test for being a humorless prick with no sense of satire, because you'd pass that with a score of 100.
Now run along and go post your outrage at my comment to facebook, twitter, pinterest, snapchat, and grindr.
Except, you know, freedom to do as you choose.
Pick up that can, citizen.
Lol, "humor" and "satire" are foreign terms to you, aren't they? :)
And nothing, repeat NOTHING of value was lost.
In fact, the country's overall productivity was found to have risen by 8% overall, and most people seemed happier in general.
Some people actually spoke to each other (hard to believe, but it's true!) and no one felt the need to take a photo of their fucking lunch and upload it so everyone else could see it.
Maybe we could do the same thing here, just for a week or two.
The extra strength stupid pill you are referring to is also known as Fox "News".
You're right, FAUX News is indeed a major factor the the spread of "Stupid Syndrome".
Really, it's astounding that after all this time, major software apps still don't sanitize their input.
It'd be hilarious if it wasn't so sad.
There are dozens of decent sanitizer scripts and utilities out there, FFS, pick one and use it.
... and the interviewer called me a fossil for not being "hip enough to use modern technology" and ended the interview.
Jesus, what a jackass. I would have told that prick in no uncertain terms to FUCK RIGHT OFF, and I might have accidentally spilled my coffee on his desk on the way out (hey, accidents happen, amirite?).
Seriously, if you won't hire me because I don't have a fucking twitter account, then fuck you. You and your company are exactly the kind of assholes I'd never want to work for.
And, just to close the loop, if he wasn't the CEO, I'd write the CEO a brief, polite letter him know what an asswipe his hiring manager was.
I don't even know what Twitter is. What is it?
Twitter is the confetti of the internet.
Sounds to me like yet ANOTHER reason not to be on social media, like FB or twitter....
Exactly...as if I needed another reason, lol.
I have no facebook, no twitter, no pinterest, instagram, linkedin, etc etc etc, none of that crap. And yet my life seems to be doing just fine, better in fact than most the people I know who are obsessively fiddling with that shit all day long. I have a life, they have text messages.
Damn, if only I had a Twitter account then I could lay awake at night worrying about this...
Agreed. I cut the cable and threw up an antenna a couple of years ago now.
The cable companies are looking in a mirror, slitting their own throats, and wondering, "who is slitting my throat?"
It'll be interesting to see which if any of them are still around in 10 years. Some of they may be able to adapt the way Netflix was able to, but I suspect most of them will wither away and then collapse like Blockbuster.
Then how do you explain the jaw dropping stupidity of these people? Have they all suffered some sort of collective head trauma? Is there some chemical in the water supply? Because, let's face it, these people are simpering morons.
I hear you...and I have no good explanation for the blithering stupidity that seems to be rampant in the South. It's like they're all taking extra strength Stupid Pills twice a day.
I think religion plays a part, however, because it makes people happy believing in utter bullshit and makes them satisfied with not knowing the answers to anything. Curiosity is discouraged in religion and any "explanation", no mater how ridiculous is solemnly accepted as the truth. Wisdom and insight are considered to be overrated.
But then there's also just weapons-grade stupidity, and the Southern states seem to have it in abundance.
the best public education system in the South.
Setting the bar real high there, ain'tcha?
Yeah, but yoo fegit, they gots BOTH kahnds o' music in North Carolina- country AND western!
Apparently you value quantity of channels over quality of channels and total amount of quality programming.
No, you have misinterpreted what I said, or perhaps your lack of attention caused you to miss this part of what I wrote:
"No way I'd pay $40/month for 14 channels (even if I got to pick them)"
It should be clear from that statement that I do not consider all channels to be equally valuable, and that I want to pick specific channels. And why would I want to pick the channels I got? Obviously because I have some preference as to what I would watch, and I am looking to maximize the content I consider to be of higher quality or worth to me.
In other words, I am indeed more interested in quality over quantity.
Please try to pay closer attention next time.
Not trying to flame - not being a Jerk, just pointing out a disconnect at Google HQ.
What if one of those Female Entrepreneurs sold confederate merchandise in her "Bring Back the Dukes of Hazard" store?
Well then obviously the Patriarchy made her do it.
lol i remember this ... you're sick ..
Compared to what priests do to children on a daily basis, KGIII's tastes are the practically the definition of "reasonable and healthy".
He wants to have consensual sex with two women who are media personalities, in a wholesome if somewhat unusual setting. I see nothing wrong with that.
"I'd bang them both, at the same time, during Christmas dinner, on the kitchen table, on national television."
Lol, it sounds like you've given this more than a little thought. :) I admire your honesty and umm "breadth of range" in terms of acceptable partners.
As for me...Martha Stewart....maybe.
Hillary Clinton 20 years ago, probably. There was a time when she was sorta boinkable, but today, errr, she's way outside my goalposts, even if I wasn't happily married.
But why would they want to make $3 from you when they can make $86?
Because they won't get $86, they'll get $0.
I'm sorry if that complex mathematical equation is too difficult to grasp, but apparently you missed or ignored the part where I wrote, "Charge $1 per channel per month. That's what I'm willing to pay, period".
Uh oh, did someone say "porn"? Because I see limitless possibilities for porn using this technique.
Wanna see Rick Perry bang Rick Santorum?
Wanna see Fred Phelps having a BDSM tryst with Divine?
Wanna see Donald Trump going at it with Hillary Clinton?
(For me, the answer is a resounding "NO!" to all of those, but you know that someone somewhere would go, "Oh yeah, baby...cue it up...")
This.
They already know this is what people want. Trouble is, they will NEVER do it. not for anything that makes economic sense to the consumer anyway.
Well then, as I said, they better not let the door hit them on the way out. Because I won't play their game, period.
They have two choices: they can either meet their customer's needs (or wants, or whatever), or they can go out of business.
I don't really care which it is at this point.
Don't call our "back doors" by the evil name of "back doors"!!
Call them "Butthole Access Portals" or "Freedom Shafts", but not "back doors"!
Back in the 60's and 70's people BLED for what they believed in, and were willing to go against the government, and the status quo populous.
Oh FFS, get a grip. No one is willing to BLEED for fucking cable television.
Bleed for civil rights is totally understandable, and commendable. Bleeding for ESPN or the Disney channel is just fucking idiotic.
You might want to step back and take a long, hard look at your priorities.
You mean consumers aren't willing to keep paying more for an increasingly ad-laden pool of mostly forgettable reality programming? Wake me up when it's over.
The only reason I have any relationship at all with the cable company is that they're the only supplier of broadband Internet in my area. If that wasn't the case, I'd drop them tomorrow. Until then, I'll "subscribe" to their lowest tier programming because it would otherwise cost MORE to buy internet service from them.
You summed it up perfectly.
I have internet (FIOS) but no TV. The crap-laden packages full of worthless channels that I have ZERO interest in watching simply cost more than I can justify.
Cable companies, here's your answer:
1) Charge $1 per channel per month. That's what I'm willing to pay, period.
2) Let us pick what channel(s) we want. Don't force any "bundling" or packages of shit-channels I'll never watch.
3) No minimum number of channels. If I want 3 channels, let me have 3. If I want 50, let me have 50.
Really...is this so hard to grasp? If you can't make money with this model, say "goodbye" and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
And what ever you do make sure you're not using bakers chocolate as the theobromide content is close to 10x more than Snickers.
Did you hear that, people? Don't, I repeat DON'T use bakers chocolate because the theobromide content is close to 10x more than Snickers.
Thank you, kind citizen!