Wall Mounted Television c/d?

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monster cables are the biggest rip off. i paid $50 for a cable that was probably as good as an $8 generic brand cable. fuck those guys.

― sunny successor (katarina), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

It seems like most cables are hugley marked up at retail stores, but Monster's prices are nearly criminal.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/11/25

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

radio shack provides excellent component cables. red = red. blue = black. green = red with sharpie marker ring drawn on it at each end.

I cannot believe people buy monster cables, for anything.

― TOMB07 (trm), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

mine came as part of a package, so i didn't have a hard-on for Monster cables per se, they just saved me on all the other stuff. luckily, i can still return the cables ;)

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

for those in the uk who are tight like me i'd def look getting a crt especially if you don 't want to sign up for hd for 10 years with sky.

I picked up a 28 inch cheap crt for peanuts, only problem was getting it down my narrow basement stairs, but i shold have realised that before.

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

What was peanuts, exactly?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

good grief

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

stop posting one-liners on threads you have no true interest in and get a life yourself, dickweed.

fair point, i apologise. big tvs make me feel kind of irrationally annoyed

― ^ (cb303), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

big tellys, I agree

especially big "HD" tellys and big "LCD" tellys and all that so on and on

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

sometimes i dont mind little televisions, where you can't see that well. I wouldn't go as far as saying it was endearing or comforting, but it seems right for televisions to know their place and not try to be cinemas of the house. they look like teenagers that should have left home, those big ones

― ^ (cb303), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

we got one of those freeview things where you get extra hollyoaks and gillian mckeith and channel 5, and you can see a bit clearer, but luckily it didnt work. i dont know why they have to have the tv on the whole time, especially when they leave the room. ive never seen people turn the tv on and then immediately leave the room so much. and then look bemused to come back in one hour later and it not be on anymore

― ^ (cb303), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Ahaha. One of my roommates leaves the TV on and the other and I take turns shutting it off as soon as he leaves the room. So far, no tempers have flared but it might be a countdown.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

actually they were watching tv last night and i came in and was making some food, and there was this show where some poor people had to come on and justify why they should get given some money by these rich people. and they had to kind of prostate themselves in front of the rich people who then passed judgement on their lives before deciding who they would give their cash to. and i wondered how long it is before there is a show where 2 members of the public go on and one wins a bunch of money and the other has to have a family pet put down

and then there was csi miami where apparently ordinary cops fly to brazil on a whim carrying out personal vendettas to catch drug dealing terrorists.

i cant imagine what this stuff is actually like if you can see it properly.

one of them has now taken to going downstairs on a saturday afternoon, turning the tv on, and immediately going to sleep on the sofa. she even says, do you mind if i put the tv on to sleep

― ^ (cb303), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i think i managed to spray moth repellent in my eyes. this is worse than looking at Ulster Unionist profiles on myspace

― ^ (cb303), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno, there IS something about lying on the sofa after a late night, drifting off to a cooking show or decorating schtick or something that is equally silly but that doesn't necessarily make you doubt the future of the human race.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

My father used to walk into the living room where I was reading, see how quiet it was, turn on the television, and then walk back out of the room.

He wasn't naturally sadistic. He honestly thought(thinks) that a room without some background noise is too weird.

― PPlains (PPlains), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

and they had to kind of prostate themselves in front of the rich people

I shudder to think what the verb usage might involve.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I have friends with really bad tinnitus who must have a tv or radio on to sleep.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I would never buy DLP because that girl and her goddamn baby elephant drive us nuts. IT'S THE MEERS!!!! SHUT UP

-- TOMB07 (tombo...) (webmail), January 3rd, 2007 5:29 PM. (trm)

lolol YES

― aidsy (aidsy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link

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