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My wife would just want to buy a new TV :laugh:

go hit up best buy on a sat afternoon

It reminds me of that scene in Grumpy Old Men when the one guy sat down to catch the lottery results and the other guy kept switching the channel from across the yard.  :laugh:

I don't think I'd want to walk through my neighborhood and turn off TVs (that's just rude), but it would be great at some of the places mentioned like the gym, laundromat, pizza parlor, etc.

Actually you know I always want to turn off the TV at the VW dealer when I'm waiting on my car because I always bring a magazine or something to read and the TV is distracting.  The problem is that other people are watching the TV and I don't want to blatantly walk across the room and flick it off.  However, if I could do it without anyone noticing.... :twisted:

Mike Panic wrote:

go hit up best buy on a sat afternoon

Fucking with Best Buy is a good enough reason to buy one.

Seabird wrote:

I wouldn't mind kicking the inventor of this thing in the nutz. Not for the device itself, but because of why he created. If it were just something to be kind of mischevious about, then I wouldn't mind.

But I can't fucking stand other people who want to save us from ourselves. Butt the fuck out and leave me alone you goddamn busybody. I neither want nor respect your opinion. Now shut up, my program is about to start.

*hits record button on the DVR*

+1

It's funny, we have a society where confrontation is basically outlawed,
because physical "violence" is considered way out of bounds - even to
the point when shoving a news photographer when he/she is being extremely
rude leads to lawsuits and jail!

So, all around us is the growing feeling of complete helplessness,
and someone comes along and gives us a device that if, just for a moment,
makes us feel like we could actually be in control again, and cause a little
bit of of civil disobedience, and you around here actually complain about it!

This device is simply the result (effect, not cause), of a huge amount of
intrusion of NOISE that we have no power to turn off.  Yeah, it overdoes
it.  But I also noticed that every single one of you complainers around here
missed the fact that the device also turns ON any TV too.

Lighten up!

Hostile wrote:

adoniram7 wrote:

But I also noticed that every single one of you complainers around here
missed the fact that the device also turns ON any TV too.

If you actually knew how remote controls worked then you would know that the inventor could not have designed a device that only turns TVs off.

The fact that the remote can turn on TVs is a side effect of the technology, not a feature the inventor put in.

And the fact that the subject of my sentence was "complainers missed",
not "remote was designed with" led you to reply this way....why?

Hostile, you have the tendency to followup and reply something counter,
or superior in posts talking about technology.  Were you aware of this?

adoniram7 wrote:

But I also noticed that every single one of you complainers around here
missed the fact that the device also turns ON any TV too.

Lighten up!

I did not miss that fact.  That fact was simply irrelevant given that it was a side effect, the same button turns the TV of and on. 

Much like Chris, the device itself while somewhat rude and annyoing was not so much the subject of my irritation as the attitude behind the invention. 

I dislike the idea this guy seems to have that his opinion is not only right, but so much so that he should make the choice for others. 

I suppose I just do not find anything particularly clever or revolutionary about turning off the TV while somebody is watching and saying you just "saved them several minutes of [their] life".  (talk about smug elitist bullshit)  While it was a different incident, what was harming the person in the video store about watching the baseball playoffs?

Well, he is most likely smarter than the TV watchers; after all, he doesn't even own one.