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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on May 30, 2014, 11:53:55 AM
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Things are tough in the 0conomy when you're unemployed, late-middle-aged, abundantly manboobed, with no marketable skill, and a democrat work ethic:
Thu May 29, 2014, 11:51 PM
Star Member Atman (27,523 posts)
Finally cutting the cord. Cable goes off this weekend.
We called Charter to cancel two months ago. They cut our rate by $50/mo and added five premium channels, so we hung on. But now our rate is back up to $170/mo so we called them again and said we're done. Cable goes off on June 1st. Hulu and Netflix.
Now, the cell phones. Is there a worse carrier than AT&T?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025023160
For fifty bucks a month, the center of Rob's life is being ripped away.
Well, there go both the illusion of his inherited money, and his tales of his wife's lucrative career.
It's clear that during Rob's permanent unemployment, television watching has been the sum total of his life.
For him, giving up full-time TV watching is as severe a lifestyle change as the drunken Pitt leaving his alcoholic drinking buddies in Boston. (As in McGrath's case, a consequence of dwindling resources and unemployability.)
I guess he will follow every minute of PMSNBC on some streaming outlet.
Response to Atman (Original post)
Thu May 29, 2014, 11:57 PM
Star Member one_voice (13,201 posts)
2. Oh man you're a better person than me...
I fully admit I watch too much tv. I enjoy watching television.
I balance it with reading. I also spend time outside and of course online.
I have At&T as my cell carrier. The rest of my family has Verizon. We all hate our carrier.
I guess we shouldn't be surprised at how many DUmmies can't afford cable service..
Response to Atman (Original post)
Fri May 30, 2014, 12:57 AM
Lydia Leftcoast (47,473 posts)
8. Join the club!
I've been cable-free for over a year, and I don't miss it at all. There's plenty to watch on streaming and DVDs, not to mention that I can get PBS in HD over air.
It's not just the 0conomy. DUmmies were having hard times during the Great Bush Prosperity and the Reagan Boom.
Deadbeats will always be deadbeats.
Response to Atman (Original post)
Fri May 30, 2014, 12:35 AM
Star Member Shrike47 (1,667 posts)
7. We've never had cable and struggle along OK. Of course, we do get CBS with our rabbit ears.
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It's clear that during Rob's permanent unemployment, television watching has been the sum total of his life.
For him, giving up full-time TV watching is as severe a lifestyle change as the drunken Pitt leaving his alcoholic drinking buddies in Boston.
It's been the sum total of his life all his life.
That Atman's talked about only what's been said on television, and nothing about what's been written in books and magazines, should be an adequate clue, but there's more.
His childhood idol and wet-dream was some woman who starred in an old black-and-white situation comedy, Joanie Easton or something like that; a "genie."
When growing up in that Levittown down in Florida, his eyes were always glued to the boob-tube.
Which is why the guy's got no social skills. His mother used to get impatient with him, "Why don't you go outside and play with the other kids." But then lilliputian Atman would throw a temper-tantrum, and being his mother's favorite child, she let him stay inside and watch television, instead of going out to interact with other kids.
And he's got a big television in his bedroom, because he'd rather lay there and watch it, than fulfill his wife.
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He won't be watching Morning Joe anymore, so there's goes almost half of PMSNBC's viewing audience.
Poor Pedro.
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"Atman in pursuit of a haberdasher"
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=96083.0
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Well, Rob's a DUmmy, but I'd cut him some slack if he beat hell out of the guy who sold him that absurd baggy suit.
He must have not tried it on until the morning of the wedding.
Otherwise, he could have dashed out to Sears or Penny's and grabbed one off the rack.
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McGrath,who poses nude with small children,just wants the DUmp to know his wife has been able to pay 170.00/month for some time.
Pam will start getting jealous.
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Well, Rob's a DUmmy, but I'd cut him some slack if he beat hell out of the guy who sold him that absurd baggy suit.
He must have not tried it on until the morning of the wedding.
Otherwise, he could have dashed out to Sears or Penny's and grabbed one off the rack.
You know, that "search" thing (the one in the blue tab, not the one near the magnifying glass) is really great. I regret I never noticed it until last evening.
In case Atman's feeling "picked on," he hasn't been featured in the DUmpster near as many times as, for example, poor stupid Beth or the sparkling old dude. There's only 29 pages, 30 threads per page, of Atman.
Which puts him in about the middle, I guess.
Atman was first featured here on January 8, 2008, a few days after conservtivecave was formed:
"Atman: so let me get this straight..."
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=387
Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-08-08 08:30 PM
Original message
So let me get this straight...Obama's been winning all day up until the polls close
Then suddenly the race switches and it becomes "too close to call." Just like certain other major elections of recent years.
Hmmm. Call me Mr. Cynical...but something stinks.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2633384
franksolich
Scourge of the Primitives
Pedro Picasso has a problem, a particular problem which Sigmund Freud described in detail, but that was 1,750 or so pages ago, and I forget the name of it.
Anyway, it's where one forms an idea how things "should" be, and then when things turn out differently, one thinks the whole world conspired to screw it up for oneself.
Pedro Picasso has got to learn to stop thinking about the way things "should" be, and instead think about the way things actually are, and accept, adapt, adjust, and move on.
The guy's half a century old; it's long past time for him to grow up.
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"Atman in pursuit of a haberdasher"
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=96083.0
I don't like yellow flowers
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I don't like yellow flowers
Yellow, like pink or purple, is one of those colors that look good, awesome, on only a very few people.
His wife doesn't look bad with yellow, but I'm mystified as to why the father of the groom has a flower (of any color); maybe it's a tradition in Connecticut, I dunno.
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I like yellow flowers alongside purple ones. The colors set each other off.
Carl, you're cracking me up today. :lmao:
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I like yellow flowers alongside purple ones. The colors set each other off.
Well, the light tan suit and the black tie (the white shirt's okay, though) and the black shoes kind of emphasized his receding hairline, which was not good.
I suspect Atman can afford a full-time clothing consultant, but he's too damned cheap to spend the money.
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I don't like yellow flowers
Yellow roses are a traditional gift from a cavalryman to his lady. Therefore, I like giving them.
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Yellow roses are a traditional gift from a cavalryman to his lady. Therefore, I like giving them.
I should edit my post. I don't like their flowers for the wedding. They are a yucky yellow and don't match what they are wearing.
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I know he used the term "we" in his post but, I'm starting to wonder if the well employed wife has moved on. She's not getting any younger and the prospect of sharing her retirement plan with this deadbeat may have caused her to search for greener pastures.
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I know he used the term "we" in his post but, I'm starting to wonder if the well employed wife has moved on. She's not getting any younger and the prospect of sharing her retirement plan with this deadbeat may have caused her to search for greener pastures.
You know, there's something about this whole issue that reminds me of something.
The guy comes from Old Money and Much Money, but he's got no class, no class at all.
Notice, please, he bragged about paying $170 a month for cable television.
For many primitives, $170 a month would buy their groceries or pay their winter heating bills, and some of them have to really struggle, to come up with that money.
Compared with the plight of s-o-o-o-o-o many of his fellow primitives, Atman obviously considers $170 a month chump change, to spend on luxuries. He doesn't care that to many of his fellow primitives, that's an enormous sum of money, sometimes unattainable by them, and when gotten, it has to be spent on necessities, not trivialities.
Talk about insensitivity.
It reminds me of when he whined about health insurance premiums, at a time when many other primitives can't even afford health insurance, period. He and his wife could probably simply write checks from their domestic petty cash to pay medical bills, not using insurance at all, but still he whined, as if his "plight" were just as bad as theirs.
By the way, I'm curious about something else, and yes, I really don't know.
The last time I had television was 1999-2000-2001, when I lived in Omaha, and it was for the convenience of guests, not me. I could've found a lot better uses for the $25 a month I had to pay, but being a nice guy considerate of guests, I paid it.
How is it possible (yes, I'm aware of inflation, especially the past five years) to pay $170 month for cable television, unless one has a dozen television sets hooked up to it, all of them with 67,383 channels from which to select?
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How is it possible (yes, I'm aware of inflation, especially the past five years) to pay $170 month for cable television, unless one has a dozen television sets hooked up to it, all of them with 67,383 channels from which to select?
Well, it's easily possible. I pay a little over two hundred, but that's for four TVs, and includes the bill for internet service. Adding HBO, some pay-per-view, premium packages, and in Atman's case some porn channels, and you could easily be well over two hundred.
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I got rid of cable two years ago. I pay $9 a month for Netflix and that's it. Love it :popcorn:
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I picture the Atman as the hook nosed witch from the Wizard of Oz, "I'm melting!"
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I got rid of cable two years ago. I pay $9 a month for Netflix and that's it. Love it
I'd have as much trouble with that as Atman.
Gotta have ESPN, Big Ten Channel, SportsSouth, Fox Sports, NFL Channel, Golf Channel, and Megan Kelly.
I'm sure this catastrophe in Atman's life was a financial imperative and not a choice.
The breadwinner decides, and unemployable Rob sure isn't that.
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Atmans gets more depressing as he always has something to complain about.
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But now our rate is back up to $170/mo
$170/mo? Are you insane?
Wait......
Well, it's easily possible. I pay a little over two hundred, but that's for four TVs, and includes the bill for internet service. Adding HBO, some pay-per-view, premium packages, and in Atman's case some porn channels, and you could easily be well over two hundred.
OK. I am assuming one TV, no internet. If I add up my Satellite (DirecTV) and Internet together, it would be roughly $110.xx. No sports channels, movie channels, or any of that. I do have DVR service for $6.00/mo. Adding a second receiver would boost it another $25.00, I think.
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We could easily be above $170 a month, if we hadn't called TWC and mentioned "Dish" or "DirecTV" to them, and they lopped $30 off the bill. We have the "All-In-One" package, with Internet, digital cable TV, and landline phone all in it. I've been thinking about separating the phone from the other two, and going with another carrier because relying on one company for phone, Internet, and TV seems to be a recipe for trouble in the future.
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Bundled together ,The phone,Internet and DirectTV I spend around 120/month and I have the basic channels, HBO,Showtime,Encoreand the Movie channel networks.
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I'd have as much trouble with that as Atman.
Gotta have ESPN, Big Ten Channel, SportsSouth, Fox Sports, NFL Channel, Golf Channel, and Megan Kelly.
I'm sure this catastrophe in Atman's life was a financial imperative and not a choice.
The breadwinner decides, and unemployable Rob sure isn't that.
I would buy cable/satellite if I could pick the channels I wanted to view. I want History, I want the military channel. Throw in some Womens network for my Bad Girls Club O-) and I'm set :-)
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Bundled together ,The phone,Internet and DirectTV I spend around 120/month and I have the basic channels, HBO,Showtime,Encoreand the Movie channel networks.
Man, there's only 24 hours a day, eight of which one usually spends working, and another eight during which one should be sleeping, leaving eight.....during which time there's other things that need done, such as washing the dishes, vaccuuming the floor, walking the dog, chatting with the neighbors, pleasing the wife, signing the kids' school report cards, and whatever else.
Where does one have time to watch so much television?
Now, I will admit, I'm in unusual circumstances here, so far out of the mainstream of contemporary American culture that I'm walking along the banks, not even the soles of my shoes getting wet.
Being deaf, television has never been any part of this life; at times, I've had television, and there was one brief period, 1991 until I took off for the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants a year and a half later, that I assiduously watched the boob-tube, several hours a day.....C-Span, usually the House of Representatives.
But other than that, television hasn't ever been anything attracting my attention.
I suspect it's because the attraction of television is--get this; all the "diversity" workshops quote this figure--derived 80% from what one hears emanating from the box (the same for movies, shows, plays, whatnot). If one's cut off so much, the rest of it doesn't hold any appeal.
"Closed captioning" is perhaps okay with people who once could hear, but lost all or some of in life; it means nothing at all to a person who's never heard sound.
When in waiting rooms or other places with a large public television, I glance, and wonder.
It used to be that there was just one screen on television, focusing on one thing.
Now there's one big screen occupying the left side, two small screens, one on top of the other, occupying the right side, and a running stream of words on the bottom. And sometimes there's a second running stream of words on the bottom.
Fox does this; I dunno about other channels, but I suspect they do the same thing.
How is it possible to grasp all of this, without getting a headache, and without, inevitably, failing?
It's too much.
I grew up in a house without television. As far as I know, it wasn't that the parents had anything against teleivison, it seemed more so that, well, it was just something they forgot to buy when at the furniture store, much as sometimes one forgets to pick up a jar of peanut-butter at the grocery store.
And they didn't object to any of their children watching television; the brothers and sisters watched plenty of it--but still much much less than their peers--in other homes.
So I didn't grow up with television; I'm not sure why, only that it was probably a good thing.
The night man first landed on the moon in July 1969, my father wanted to watch it, and decided to go and watch it on the television in the employees' dining room of the hospital (where he was the administrator). I was a kid, and for some reason he thought it'd be good for me to see it too.
I wasn't that thrilled about it; I was of course interested in man landing on the moon and all that, but really, it was something that could wait until morning, when one could read all about it in the newspapers.
At the hospital, on our way to the dining room, one of the employees, who knew I appreciated such things, gave me a handful of old magazines her husband had found when cleaning out a deceased relative's house.
So the night of July 20, 1969, while my father and probably tens of millions of others were glued to the television screen, I was sitting next to him engrossed in reading a 1923 copy of The Saturday Evening Post.
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We wondered what DUmmy Atman would post about after his wife had his cable TV unplugged.
Since his permanent unemployment, and even before, his online conversation was solely about television.
Without Morning Joe and the other PMS moonbats, what could he talk about?
Television, television, television, DUmmy Atman's life was television.
So what's left for him to talk about?
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 10:23 PM
Star Member Atman (27,536 posts)
It's official. Cable is gone.
Yep, he'll talk about not having television.
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I would buy cable/satellite if I could pick the channels I wanted to view. I want History, I want the military channel. Throw in some Womens network for my Bad Girls Club O-) and I'm set :-)
I can only get satellite out here. I'm not fond of DISH or DirecTV but we have DISH now simply because it's the only provider where I can get EPIX Drive-In.
Cindie
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Gina,
My list of channels I don't want would figure in decisively.
Number one on the hit parade...BET !
All the spanish channels Telemundo etc...gone.
All the lib news channels...gone.
All the shopping network channels...gone.
Almost all the megachurch channels...gone.
I might not have much left to channel surf through !
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Gina,
My list of channels I don't want would figure in decisively.
Number one on the hit parade...BET !
All the spanish channels Telemundo etc...gone.
All the lib news channels...gone.
All the shopping network channels...gone.
Almost all the megachurch channels...gone.
I might not have much left to channel surf through !
I'm surprised that no cable company has offered a Conservative package and Democrat package. You know, you get your Fox News, Military channels, History channels and all things Conservatives lean to. Same thing for the Democrats.
but you know what? If they split that stuff up they would see that the Conservative package/channels would rule and the democrat/lib shows would sink like rocks because no one with money would be buying them like the Conservatives.
That's why I think they force you to take channels you would never want because without making you buy them with the rest of your channels they would fail. Like BET, it would fail.
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I watch three or four channels regularly. The rest are filler.
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Gina...Hi5
You are so right.
We should put together a cable network that does just that !
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Gina...Hi5
You are so right.
We should put together a cable network that does just that !
Good way to re-energize the "fairness doctrine" movement.
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Good way to re-energize the "fairness doctrine" movement.
It would be fair objectively.
Both lib and conservative programming would be offered to all.
Under the definition of the fairness doctrine maybe not so much.
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It would be fair objectively.
Both lib and conservative programming would be offered to all.
Under the definition of the fairness doctrine maybe not so much.
The way it worked before Ray Gun got rid of it was they forced talk radio stations to carry liberal hosts. Which caused them to lose money & they switched to sports talk or music. That's why the are so desperate to bring it back.