First threat to leave the USA - Ok.......I can't take it anymore... FrenchieCat

[Tess Anderson]

Oh yes, this freak. 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x766582

FrenchieCat  (1000+ posts)        Thu Sep-08-11 01:50 PM
Original message
Really Eerie, but maybe it's just a Coincidence!
 Edited on Thu Sep-08-11 01:52 PM by FrenchieCat
I live in the Bay Area. Today, unlike most days, I have to work about an hour's drive away from my home, and I have to work at least 7 hours, once I get there.

Sooo, before leaving, I decided to DVR the President's speech, since I won't be able to watch it live.

I go to my television, and move forward to 4:00 p.m. (7:00 eastern) so that I can tape it both on C-Span and on MSNBC.

Strangely, at exactly the 4:00 p.m. time slot, my Comcast programming states "To be Announced" on all programs from 4:00 p.m. on. When programming is in that status, one cannot record via a DVR that channel. The option is just not available.

So I called Viacom to explain what was happening, and they said they would try and fix it.

I told them that I just found it odd, that non-program accessibility occurs exactly as the President will be addressing the nation, and that on the West Coast, that is a time when most folks will still be at work. Told them that these days, I'm suspicious of just about everything, and that this just seem oddly coincidental, as I don't know how many people may have tried to do what I did, and ran into the same problem.

Anyways, I just found it weird, although, perhaps it is just coincidental that I would have problems with a corporation like Comcast.

If anyone has Comcast, please let me know if you are having a similar difficulty, or if it is just my house.

As I am working, I'll just check in, to see if there are any responses.

Thanks!

 

Yes, Comcast is in on it too, better move and move fast.

[Chris_]

Strangely, at exactly the 4:00 p.m. time slot, my Comcast programming states "To be Announced" on all programs from 4:00 p.m. on. When programming is in that status, one cannot record via a DVR that channel. The option is just not available.

So I called Viacom to explain what was happening, and they said they would try and fix it.

I think I see your problem.

[franksolich]

I think I see your problem.

Good catch, sir.

Awesome!

[Chris_]

Good catch, sir.

Awesome!

I get paid to notice the details.

[franksolich]

I get paid to notice the details.

I do too, but only in real life.

You know those long rolls of white cash-register tape, the "journal" tapes?

I have a whole box full of them, miles of them, which I'm unrolling, examining what someone back in 2008 did funny with the cash register.

I'm probably the only person in the world who reads such things, but it pays.

[JohnnyReb]

I do too, but only in real life.

You know those long rolls of white cash-register tape, the "journal" tapes?

I have a whole box full of them, miles of them, which I'm unrolling, examining what someone back in 2008 did funny with the cash register.

I'm probably the only person in the world who reads such things, but it pays.

Uh oh....sounds like one of the uneducated DUmmies thought they were smart enough to out smart the system....known as steal money in most circles.

[Chris_]

I do too, but only in real life.

You know those long rolls of white cash-register tape, the "journal" tapes?

I have a whole box full of them, miles of them, which I'm unrolling, examining what someone back in 2008 did funny with the cash register.

I'm probably the only person in the world who reads such things, but it pays.

Oh, lord.  I did that for the lockbox department at a bank while I was in school.  I didn't make it to my second year.

That's hard work.

[franksolich]

Oh, lord.  I did that for the lockbox department at a bank while I was in school.  I didn't make it to my second year.

That's hard work.

But it's easy for me to take breaks from.

That's why I'm around here in gobs of time, not around here in other gobs of time.

Brain restoration and refreshment.

[Chris_]

It's not easy doing it for 40 hours a week day in and day out.  I was going to school at the time.  I was afraid my brain was going to melt.

It actually did, sort of.  I wound up in the hospital because my shunt valve failed and I had to have it replaced.

[franksolich]

It's not easy doing it for 40 hours a week day in and day out.  I was going to school at the time.  I was afraid my brain was going to melt.

It actually did, sort of.  I wound up in the hospital because my shunt valve failed and I had to have it replaced.

There's no way I'd do it for 40 hours a week.

I do it as the spirit moves me; the deadline's not until October anyway, when the other guy and I head up to Vermillion to do our Wyatt Earp and Lord Kitchener of Khartoum act.

[Chris_]

Must be nice to have that kind of independence.  I try to stick to that on the weekends... I never make plans between Friday and Monday.  Whatever happens will happen. 

[franksolich]

Must be nice to have that kind of independence.  I try to stick to that on the weekends... I never make plans between Friday and Monday.  Whatever happens will happen. 

By the way, there's a picture of Wyatt Earp in the Sandhills forum, "a couple of photographs."

I thought it needed posted so people can have a better idea what sorts of people franksolich hangs with.....which are definitely not of the primitive persuasion.

[Chris_]

By the way, there's a picture of Wyatt Earp in the Sandhills forum, "a couple of photographs."

I thought it needed posted so people can have a better idea what sorts of people franksolich hangs with.....which are definitely not of the primitive persuasion.

No.  Redstone is no Wyatt Earp, and TomInTib is definitely not Doc Holiday.

[JohnnyReb]

No.  Redstone is no Wyatt Earp, and TomInTib is definitely not Doc Holiday.

...but I bet Doc Holiday was his great granddaddy.

[GOBUCKS]

Redstone is no Wyatt Earp

But he sure has beautiful hands.

TomInTib is definitely not Doc Holiday.

Except for the alcoholism.

[Karin]

JuniperLea  (1000+ posts)        Wed Sep-07-11 10:05 PM
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6. I knew I should have taken those Norwegian language lessons!
 Norway is my first choice... clean, full of great literature and music... and socialist!

I looked briefly at Norway's immigration policy.  They have special favorable rules for asylum and refugees, not much about disgruntled American liberals.  Also, they have special rules for those coming from Bulgaria and Romania.  Special restrictive rules, that is.  They've got to register with the police dept and so forth.  This is presumably to keep a control on the Gypsies.  Racists!!!

[franksolich]

I looked briefly at Norway's immigration policy.  They have special favorable rules for asylum and refugees, not much about disgruntled American liberals.  Also, they have special rules for those coming from Bulgaria and Romania.  Special restrictive rules, that is.  They've got to register with the police dept and so forth.  This is presumably to keep a control on the Gypsies.  Racists!!!

Also, instruction in the state religion (Lutheranism) is mandatory in Norwegian schools.

[franksolich]

This reminds me.

Why do the primitives always want to emigrate to white countries?

Why don't they ever want to go and live in brown or yellow or black dominated countries, so as to get some "high culture"?

[Karin]

Excellent question! 

State Religion???!!!!   

[franksolich]

Excellent question! 

State Religion???!!!!   

Uh huh.

As I explained to GOBUCKS here about six weeks ago, I get all sorts of stuff from the Norwegian embassy, and one of them that particular day was a magazine about the educational system in Norway.

All Norwegian children 4-17 are schooled in the state religion, the Lutheran Church.

In school.  In public school.  It's mandatory.

[GOBUCKS]

Uh huh.

As I explained to GOBUCKS here about six weeks ago, I get all sorts of stuff from the Norwegian embassy, and one of them that particular day was a magazine about the educational system in Norway.

All Norwegian children 4-17 are schooled in the state religion, the Lutheran Church.

In school.  In public school.  It's mandatory.

And DUmmies hate the damn Luthies.
Those Norwegians are violating the U.S Constitution!
Someone send this to Keef, and The Kootch, and The Munch!

[JohnnyReb]

Uh huh.

As I explained to GOBUCKS here about six weeks ago, I get all sorts of stuff from the Norwegian embassy, and one of them that particular day was a magazine about the educational system in Norway.

All Norwegian children 4-17 are schooled in the state religion, the Lutheran Church.

In school.  In public school.  It's mandatory.

Hey, I like that idea. I think we should school all liberals in the "Right Reverend Church of Rattlesnake Handling".