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well, yah, there is that...

but I'm thinking that anyone who is dumb enough to shut a football-showing television off in a bar is ready for a few knuckle sandwiches anyways....

I rarely watch TV anymore.

People who cause unnecessary disorder for their own amusement are cocks.

I'll try to keep my practical jokes on the necessary and orderly side of things then....

Still think it's a cool little gadget....

15-16 puzzle wrote:I rarely watch TV anymore.

People who cause unnecessary disorder for their own amusement are cocks.

Sounds like George Bush. Who doesn't kick ass by the way. But that gadget rules!!!

I would love to be standing outside a redneck bar somewhere in Texas during the Superbowl or something during the 4th quarter with 20 seconds left, score tied, 3 yards left, 4th down with one of those gadgets. It may actually be the highlight of my life to see grown men having tantrums over missing 5 seconds of that. Guys looking at the bartender with intense desperation in their eyes, turning slowly to red steam whistles like in the cartoons........ oh the joy......... probably would have to have an Apache copter standing by and even then I don't think it would be safe...... *shivers*.......

..... where's the book thread....... wait where's my book......... ?

shuffles feet giggling nervously with beads of sweat running down face further and further away from the computer screen...... "Heh, heh", tic toc tic toc ...... RUNNNNNNNNNN ....... Heeeeeelllllllppppppppp!!!!!!!!

How sad.

j$ wrote:

Peaks In Valleys wrote:But the confusion would be something to see, say, during the Superbowl or something, the tv's in a bar just start going out....

Hypothetically speaking, of course....

What about the hypothetical beating/rioting/looting as a result?

You know what's sad is when we care about some silly little game more than caring for our fellow humans....... click .......... incidentally isn't this the monkey business master thread...... didn't know it was the serious george thread...... shrug...... I give up.......

Love
Reginald

Or when we care about getting people mad and instigating fights more than letting people have interests that don't hurt anyone.

..... should we get all up in arms cuz someone invented the remote control so people could get fat and die? Have you seen Super Size Me? I personally think that that device is the lesser of two evils...... jeeeeeeezzzzzzzz ...... easy Tyrone.... easy..... play those cards when it matters....... monkey business remember?!!

Love,
Gertrude

tonetripper wrote:..... should we get all up in arms cuz someone invented the remote control so people could get fat and die? Have you seen Super Size Me? I personally think that that device is the lesser of two evils...... jeeeeeeezzzzzzzz ...... easy Tyrone.... easy..... play those cards when it matters....... monkey business remember?!!

Love,
Gertrude

I'm not following most of what you're saying. The remote control wasn't invented so that people could get fat and die, and remote controls don't upset me. I have not seen Super Size Me. If the TV-B-Gone is the lesser of two evils, what is the greater of the two?

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15-16 puzzle wrote:I'm not following most of what you're saying. The remote control wasn't invented so that people could get fat and die, and remote controls don't upset me. I have not seen Super Size Me. If the TV-B-Gone is the lesser of two evils, what is the greater of the two?

nor was the TV-B-Gone invented to start riots..... but the cathode ray tube in all it's glory is adding to the common good of the world?!!! Well.... maybe.....except for the radiation I guess..... but PinV's post was meant as fun.... next thing you'll be telling me that the foam brick that was invented in the 70s was a cruel joke cuz it gave aunt Martha a heart-attack when Billy threw it at her TV set while she was watching Bob Barker during the showcase showdown..... oh the chaos of it all..... why can't we live in our perfect little worlds, with all our interests in palm and not have those anarchistic demons trying to take away our livelihood.... think of Africa man.... think of how many countries don't even have TVs..... and you think it's mean to turn one off with a little remote control..... good grief... to me, there are a lot more important things in this world than the television ...... we might as well agree to disagree

tonetripper wrote:nor was the TV-B-Gone invented to start riots..... but the cathode ray tube in all it's glory is adding to the common good of the world?!!! Well.... maybe.....except for the radiation I guess..... but PinV's post was meant as fun.... next thing you'll be telling me that the foam brick that was invented in the 70s was a cruel joke cuz it gave aunt Martha a heart-attack when Billy threw it at her TV set while she was watching Bob Barker during the showcase showdown..... oh the chaos of it all..... why can't we live in our perfect little worlds, with all our interests in palm and not have those anarchistic demons trying to take away our livelihood.... think of Africa man.... think of how many countries don't even have TVs..... and you think it's mean to turn one off with a little remote control..... good grief... to me, there are a lot more important things in this world than the television ...... we might as well agree to disagree

Sorry, I don't agree to disagree.

If there are more important things in this world than television, then why bother turning someone else's off?

To do so IS mean. Just because there are much worse things out there in the universe doesn't make it NOT mean.

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15-16 puzzle wrote:If there are more important things in this world than television, then why bother turning someone else's off?

Why bomb other countries? Why turn kids into slave workers for no money? Why watch (waiting, wondering) the Super Bowl? Someone might say that endorsing the Super Bowl and it's endless ads from big corporations that endorse child labour, so that it can keep that country impoverished and poor to be eventually taken over to solve the middle-east problem is worse. This conversation has prompted me to go out and buy one of those little bad boys. If I can stop a bunch of fat people from caring more about a football game than third world, war torn, starving children then give me one. I'll pay more than the asking price just to condone the making of them. I'll even get it so it turns the TV forever to the Warchild campaign ad. Now that's terrorism.

To do so IS mean. Just because there are much worse things out there in the universe doesn't make it NOT mean.

What's mean? Cuz you can't watch a re-run of the Littlest Hobo?! Cuz you can't watch a re-run of Friends. Cuz you can't watch America's Next Top Model or Survivor? Pathetic. If you think that's mean then watch out when your TV set goes blank from a nine day black-out from using too much electricity due to the complacent nature of the western civilized world. Probably due in part to the TV. That and big corporations.

the fact that a thread about cute puppies has the potential to turn into a big drawn-out debate here at songfight kicks ass. i guess.

tonetripper wrote:Why bomb other countries? Why turn kids into slave workers for no money? Why watch (waiting, wondering) the Super Bowl? Someone might say that endorsing the Super Bowl and it's endless ads from big corporations that endorse child labour, so that it can keep that country impoverished and poor to be eventually taken over to solve the middle-east problem is worse. This conversation has prompted me to go out and buy one of those little bad boys. If I can stop a bunch of fat people from caring more about a football game than third world, war torn, starving children then give me one. I'll pay more than the asking price just to condone the making of them. I'll even get it so it turns the TV forever to the Warchild campaign ad. Now that's terrorism. :evil:
What's mean? Cuz you can't watch a re-run of the Littlest Hobo?! Cuz you can't watch a re-run of Friends. Cuz you can't watch America's Next Top Model or Survivor? Pathetic. If you think that's mean then watch out when your TV set goes blank from a nine day black-out from using too much electricity due to the complacent nature of the western civilized world. Probably due in part to the TV. That and big corporations.

You seem to be very passionately anti-television for someone who thinks that there are more important things to worry about than TV. How do you know that people who watch TV (or televised sports in general or the Superbowl specifically), how can you tell that they don't care about starving children? Why do you think that turning off a TV that someone was watching will make them care more about world poverty than they did before their TV was turned off? If you really want people to care more about world-poverty, this will not accomplish it.

The mean thing about turning off other people's televisions is that you're interrupting their entertainment. Would you like to read a book with 5 pages ripped out? Would you like to watch a VHS tape with the middle 10 minutes spliced out?

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tonetripper wrote:

15-16 Puzzle wrote:To do so IS mean. Just because there are much worse things out there in the universe doesn't make it NOT mean.

What's mean? Cuz you can't watch a re-run of the Littlest Hobo?! Cuz you can't watch a re-run of Friends. Cuz you can't watch America's Next Top Model or Survivor? Pathetic. If you think that's mean then watch out when your TV set goes blank from a nine day black-out from using too much electricity due to the complacent nature of the western civilized world. Probably due in part to the TV. That and big corporations.

If someone chooses to watch a program on television, it's not someone else's right to stop them. It's pretty fucking rude for some asshole with a dipshit remote to shut someone's TV off while they're watching it. What if you were eating a meal and I came over and slapped the food out of your mouth. It's basically the same deal. It's a "You're not the boss of me," situation. Pissing people off isn't the best way to promote some greater cause to open up peoples' eyes up to bigger issues. Television is entertainment/information that people are fully entitled to enjoying, regardless of someone else's personal opinion of it. Don't bring everybody else down just because you're a bitch. Sooner or later, the person holding that fancy remote will find out what happens when you FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS.

Let's just stick to the things that kick ass, like the damn internet. There's a whole lotta bad on the world wide web, but overall, it's pretty fucking great.

15-16 puzzle wrote:Here is something that kicks ass: this t-shirt at threadless.com

http://www.threadless.com/product/119.html

That site has some neat designs. I might have to get a shirt or two. Thanks for posting, sir.

How do you know that people who watch TV (or televised sports in general or the Superbowl specifically), how can you tell that they don't care about starving children? Why do you think that turning off a TV that someone was watching will make them care more about world poverty than they did before their TV was turned off?

By turning their TVs to a perpetual Warchild campagn. That's how.

If you really want people to care more about world-poverty, this will not accomplish it.

How do you know? Have you done it? Do you secretly have a TV-B Gone on your keychain? You've tested the gadget at the local Texas bar during the Super Bowl?

The mean thing about turning off other people's televisions is that you're interrupting their entertainment. Would you like to read a book with 5 pages ripped out? Would you like to watch a VHS tape with the middle 10 minutes spliced out?

Cuz entertainment is sooooooooo important isn't it. Funny how entertainment is like heroin. Can't live without Monday Night Football. Can't live without my Buffy the Vampire Slayer VHS movie. Can't live without....... ok the book was crossing the line, but the book can be replaced. There is such a thing as pre-taping. Hell even the TV stations are creating delays in sattelite transmission so that if such a thing occurs then they will always have a back-up. You can re-run anything that has been played in a day on most sattelite systems. You place too much emphasis on TV as being some amazing source of entertainment and I will always place much less than you on the importance of such a trivial device as the TV-B Gone.

Don't get me wrong. I indulge in the TV set now and again, but I can live without it. I haven't had cable for 15 years. Only have 5 stations. And if I need to watch something I missed it ain't too hard to retrieve it. Heaven forbid if TV went out for 5 seconds. Cuz that's what were talking about here. The importance of 5 to 10 seconds of missed TV or entertainment as you'd like to call it. C'mon 1516, you know as well as I that TV's not that important (or maybe it is). Do you honestly think that if TV stopped for a day that good things would not possibly happen in the world? But I do respect your need to stubbornly go on with this debate. Especially with someone who doesn't care that much about it and will never change their perspective.

Nothing you will ever say will convince me that such a trivial little gadget is going to harm the greater good of the world. Nothing. In fact I endorse such a thing whole-heartedly. Just like I supported the foam brick. I loved that thing. That thing ruled!!!!!!! I scared many a friend tossing one at them..... hahahaha

The absence of television is not a big deal. TV for the most part is unimportant and uninteresting.

The absence of television because someone else decided that others shouldn't be watching it, that is the issue. Someone taking stuff away from people (whether it be a physical tangible thing or an experience) just because that someone has decided that the thing was of little value, that's a big deal. People shouldn't have to justify their reasons for enjoying something, or feel bad for enjoying something that is unessential to survival. Most things are unessential, but that doesn't mean anyone should feel justified in removing them from others.

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