Ever since I moved into my house in November of 2003, I have been blessed with the magic of basic cable - without bills! We moved in, there was cable. I said to myself "well, when Comcast figures it out, then I won't have cable, it's their move". Two and a half years later, I'm looking to sell my house. So I'm looking at, ideally, maybe a month or two left in this house. BAM. There's a Comcast flyer on the door telling me to 'take advantage of the limited time offer'. The offer that isn't listed on the door hanger? Turn on the TV: BAM no cable! So close. I was almost out of the house and home free, so to speak. But now Comcast has roped me in. I am missing my favorite shows. I missed the episode of House that Kevin said promised a House vs. God showdown. So I guess I'll have to break down and buy cable, I say.
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$60/mo for STANDARD CABLE?!?!!?
I am now a loyal Dish Network customer. ;) F U Comcast. (Oh, but thanks for the 2 years of free cable) :D
Uhhhh.....House is on Free TV, Duder. I saw it last night. The kid that was supposedly so religious had sex with a diseased stripper and got herpes. Then he scratched his balls and touched a lady with cancer, thus transferring the virus, which caused her cancer to go into remission. This lady was being boned by the other Doctor, which House figured out a poker game.
ReplyDeleteThen they showed some hot girls doing semi naked yoga.
That last part was in your mind Josh. But it's a nice thought.
ReplyDeleteOr it happened and I missed it. That's a damn shame.
And Ken, how did you not know cable was $60? I've been paying $130 a month for almost 2 years for my digital cable (plus multiple channel packs), DVR and cable modem.
Perhaps the only industry more slimy and screwed up than the cable industry is the oil industry.
'Cause really, if the price of a barrel of oil doubles, why wouldn't the price of a gallon at the pump only increase proportionally ... by my math, I should only be paying $2.40 a gallon. Where's that other $0.70 going to? Damn oil execs and their multi-million dollar perks.
Wow. A soapbox. That's not what I intended at all. My bad.
Semi-naked yoga good.
The cost of cable is recockulous these days - especially when you take into account the small number of shows at the limited number of times you actually watch TV. An a la carte, pay per program, DVR service would be huge.
ReplyDeletere: free tv. Yeah, I live out in the sticks, the rabbit ears don't work out here. :)
ReplyDeleteWell--move to the city. We can hang out more and when we aren't hanging out you can pay higher taxes and watch Free TV.
ReplyDeleteAnd Hank makes a good point. I don't know how much a barrel of oil was when I was paying $1.50 or so for a gallon of gas, but I know it has not been less than $50 per barrel for quite some time. Now it is over $75 per barrel.
The remaining money is going to taxes and what the gas companies like to call expenses due to 'enviromental regulations', which is BS. Gas and Oil companies are making a killing.
ReplyDeleteI have Dish too...does that make us brokeback?
ReplyDeleteI think so. Perhaps we can dish chat. Don't tell our wives though.
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