Post by bryantpark on Jul 30, 2014 21:58:12 GMT -5
Am I making it up that someone would turn off the pilot on their HW heater every day when they left for work. That just seemed nuts to me. Though I can't remember if that was gbcn or tn?
Am I making it up that someone would turn off the pilot on their HW heater every day when they left for work. That just seemed nuts to me. Though I can't remember if that was gbcn or tn?
That sounds familiar! I can't remember who/when/where that was, though.
Wiseowl's post reminded me of the poster who had some kind of business idea that would make a ton of money, and was pissed that her kids(? I think) wouldn't do it. But then she wouldn't tell us what it was. So annoying! LOL
Trying for #3; FET 8/18 -- BFN. Leaving things up to chance for now... After three years, three IVFs, and two FETs, we finally have our miracle babIES!
I gave it consideration once but I just love it too much. I mean, I really love it. I love you, cable. HBO (kiss). Bravo (kiss). HGTV (kiss). ID (kiss). They're like my children, for crying out loud!
This topic actually dominated my family birthday lunch on Sunday. MM would be proud. First of all, my parents are paying $250 a month for cable/internet/phone -- 2 cable boxes (only one of which is a DVR!!!), and I think HBO, but nothing extravagant. Holy fuck
So I did the whole "YOU MUST CALL AS SOON AS YOU GET HOME TO THREATEN TO CANCEL BECAUSE THAT AMOUNT IS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING." My mom didn't seem to get the part where you don't actually cancel but have to actually talk to the people who deal with that stuff to get the good deal. She was like "Well, I really wouldn't cancel, plus I feel that we get a lot of entertainment for that monthly charge, and there's no competition where we live, so they wouldn't give us a better deal anyway and really, we do watch a lot of TV" NO NO NO NO NO.
So we then got into a discussion of when my sister threatened to cancel, actually DID go through with it, and came back a month later with a way lower rate. My mom said she'd never make it. But the rest of us thought that, what with Netflix and all of that, we could entertain ourselves for a few months on series we'd never watched before. But then we all wanted to go back.
But really, I think cable is a dying concept and I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years we have some sort of service for live news and sports (only because my husband would insist -- I don't care about those things) and pretty much any series is delivered for binge watching or once a week on Netflix or Amazon Prime or iTunes or HBO Go or what-have-you. So maybe none of us, including the die-hard TV lovers, will have cable then!
Oh there definitely will be a change in cable as we know it.
I gave it consideration once but I just love it too much. I mean, I really love it. I love you, cable. HBO (kiss). Bravo (kiss). HGTV (kiss). ID (kiss). They're like my children, for crying out loud!
This topic actually dominated my family birthday lunch on Sunday. MM would be proud. First of all, my parents are paying $250 a month for cable/internet/phone -- 2 cable boxes (only one of which is a DVR!!!), and I think HBO, but nothing extravagant. Holy fuck
So I did the whole "YOU MUST CALL AS SOON AS YOU GET HOME TO THREATEN TO CANCEL BECAUSE THAT AMOUNT IS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING." My mom didn't seem to get the part where you don't actually cancel but have to actually talk to the people who deal with that stuff to get the good deal. She was like "Well, I really wouldn't cancel, plus I feel that we get a lot of entertainment for that monthly charge, and there's no competition where we live, so they wouldn't give us a better deal anyway and really, we do watch a lot of TV" NO NO NO NO NO.
So we then got into a discussion of when my sister threatened to cancel, actually DID go through with it, and came back a month later with a way lower rate. My mom said she'd never make it. But the rest of us thought that, what with Netflix and all of that, we could entertain ourselves for a few months on series we'd never watched before. But then we all wanted to go back.
But really, I think cable is a dying concept and I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years we have some sort of service for live news and sports (only because my husband would insist -- I don't care about those things) and pretty much any series is delivered for binge watching or once a week on Netflix or Amazon Prime or iTunes or HBO Go or what-have-you. So maybe none of us, including the die-hard TV lovers, will have cable then!
Oh there definitely will be a change in cable as we know it.