This thread shows the DUmmies in all their glory. We have the dim-bulb that can't control his emotions.
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-02-09 11:58 AM
Response to Reply #11
21. Ummm...
People are perfectly free to turn the TV back on, this device does not permanently damage anything.
It just temporarily silences a source of great aggravation for a lot of us, I personally don't think that businesses should promote a political world view to their customers, it's bad business to do so.
Watching FOX in particular is bad for your health if you are of the opposite political inclination, I walked out of a doctors office a few years back because they had something on that was enraging me and driving my blood pressure, which is already high enough, even further up the scale.
For a doctors office in particular to put on something they should know is going to be detrimental to a subset of their patients is unconsionable, "first, do no harm", eh?
The primitive that has a ninja-like strategy for avoiding the TV. But is willing to throw himself on the bayonet that is Fox News.
RufusTFirefly (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-02-09 12:53 PM
Response to Reply #22
46. Nicho's right.
Edited on Tue Jun-02-09 12:55 PM by RufusTFirefly
I try my hardest to ignore them, but can be extremely difficult. Especially in airports. I sit so the screen is out of my field of view, but the drone of the propaganda is still all-too-audible.
That said, when I'm at a restaurant with a TV, I try to be the one who can see it. That's because I don't care what's on and can almost always resist the temptation to look. Most people are drawn zombie-like to the flickering screen, regardless of what it is showing, and don't even realize it.
Another important myth to shatter about TVs playing Fox et al in public places is that they are the result of popular demand. They aren't. The people didn't ask for them. They are inevitably part of some business deal.
I can respect bottom-up popular culture, even when it's stuff I don't personally like. It's top-down corporate culture masquerading as popular culture that makes steam come out of my ears.
Internet bully...
backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-02-09 02:35 PM
Response to Reply #66
67. Like I said, watch me.
After what happened to Dr. Tiller, it's time to misbehave.
Sometimes, in order to make things happen, you have to be an asshole.
Kiss my ass, if you don't like it, suck it. I damned well am going to unilaterally decide to turn off other people's FAUX Noise. This is an omelet for which I'm willing to break some eggs...
Who runs away scared from another internet bully.
backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-02-09 03:41 PM
Response to Reply #85
94. Where did I say I'd respond with violence?
Edited on Tue Jun-02-09 03:42 PM by backscatter712
You pointed out you were 6'5" and would use your biiig bulk to crush my property.
That's intimidation, and if you actually touched me in your attempt to take my property from me, that's assault and battery. I don't have to respond with violence to see you thrown in jail for making threats of violence. I don't have to exert a microgram of force.
Damaging someone's property is okay. As long as you don't get caught. And it's not your property.
backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-02-09 02:28 PM
Response to Reply #52
63. So we should hold our fire because we might damage a cheap-ass TV? What next?
Gotta keep that powder dry, eh?
Sorry, but I wasn't aware that power-cycling a TV in the same way that the owner does would damage it.
And, of course, the crazy:
Gman2 (292 posts) Tue Jun-02-09 12:45 PM
Response to Reply #3
43. Obviously, you are not aware of the mind control project funded by Fox News!
They fund teles that they give to places like McD's to indoctrinate the poor into being good fascists. They have instructed those recieving the sets to NEVER allow anything Else to be shown. I already will not go there. I am SICK of the hate. NONSTOP HATE. That is unseemly in public. And it is inciteful. If I hear some stupid **** comment on that bitch Michelle or such, I might lay the fool out. That should not be happening in public. Fox should be kept in the bedroom, with all the other nasty business. Bring it in my face, and I object vociferously.
To surmise the DUmmie's post:
* I may, or may not, strike a significant blow against the evil that is the Republican Party
* I will do it in such a manner that most people will, or will not, notice
* I will perform such dramatic action in a manner that will, most likely, not implicate me
* If implicated, I will drop to the floor and cry like a 3-year-old
* Upon success, or failure, of my mission, I will dutifully run to DU to profess that, armed with nothing more than a remote control, I single-handedly stopped a brutal beat-down of my Asian-American neighbor by an entire brigade of Marines who leaped out of my bushes, with SWAT sniper support providing cover fire
* Oops, almost forgot, Twin Towers = Mini-Nukes. Think about it.
F'ng idiots
