No TV for a week? AAARRRRGHHHH!

[chas]

My TV's dead.

Passed on? Pushin' up the daisies? Gone to meet its maker? Demised? Ceased to be? Bereft of life? Is it a LATE television?

[Nanohedron]

Pinin' for the Fjords. And meanwhile I'm pinin' for Amish Mafia.

[benhall.1]

Pinin' for the Fjords. [/i].

Are Norwegians particularly well-known for manufacturing tellies? Was your telly made in Norway?

[Nanohedron]

Pinin' for the Fjords.

Was your telly made in Norway?

Somehow I very much doubt it. The Fjords of Malaysia, more likely.

[Brus]

And meanwhile I'm pinin' for Amish Mafia.

Reminds me of the old joke:

Q: What goes clippety-clop-BANG! Clippety-clop-BANG!!

A: An Amish drive-by shooting.

[fearfaoin]

... lyrically heroic Greek names and places like Stegosaurus, Icicles, Apron, Trachea, Salami, Peon, Hippies, Rebates, Lampoon, Demeanor, Bogus, Broadax, Canapes, and Expander.

I've been to Bogus. It was ... not as advertised.

[mutepointe]

Please Higher Power, please get this poor suffering man a TV. Amen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-GFqhCq2HA
"Mercedes Benz"


Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ?
Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.
I wait for delivery each day until three,
So oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town ?
I'm counting on you, Lord, please don't let me down.
Prove that you love me and buy the next round,
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town ?

Everybody!

[Nanohedron]

Everything but the Benz, thanks. Parts and service costs are - oh, "imaginative", shall we say.

Okay, so update: I was told the Decision from On High was that they would replace the entire unit. Only thing was, they don't have any in stock. Of course. Imagine that. I was, like, "Seriously?" More nothin', and no big surprise there. So they would get back to me with more detail and options - or as reality turned out, I got back to them - and found that no, they would now instead be replacing the main board (implied meaning: to see what that did). At least those seem to be in stock. "And what if that doesn't work?" I asked. "Then we escalate," came the reply. I'm pretty sure I hear him say it in italics. Escalate. The word fails to cheer me or inspire confidence, if it was supposed to do that. I suspect "escalate" means "thrash and flail about, then after wasting even more time capitulate to to good sense and proper service, and replace the whole bloody unit in the end after all". On this Saturday I will be waiting with fingers crossed. I may even sacrifice a kid. Never did like those scabby-kneed runny-nosed little basmatis anyway. Oh, wait. You all thought I meant a baby goat, didn't you.

[Nanohedron]

... lyrically heroic Greek names and places like Stegosaurus, Icicles, Apron, Trachea, Salami, Peon, Hippies, Rebates, Lampoon, Demeanor, Bogus, Broadax, Canapes, and Expander.

I've been to Bogus. It was ... not as advertised.

IOW it was the real deal? I confess you've left me a bit confused, as you might understand.

[fearfaoin]

I've been to Bogus. It was ... not as advertised.

IOW it was the real deal? I confess you've left me a bit confused, as you might understand.

Oh, darn. That was an angle that I had not considered.

[Nanohedron]

I've been to Bogus. It was ... not as advertised.

IOW it was the real deal? I confess you've left me a bit confused, as you might understand.

Oh, darn. That was an angle that I had not considered.

Yeah, it's sort of like telling someone the conundrum, "I'm lying to you," isn't it.

[Tor]

There's a guy over on another forum who is incredibly productive.. his day job has long hours and is quite demanding, even so he churns out designs, research, products in his spare time at an impressive rate. So naturally somebody asked "how do you manage it?". His answer? He decided long ago to stop watching TV.

-Tor

[Nanohedron]

And so you're saying......?

Look. I could say that by now it's the principle of the thing, but it's still under freakin' warranty. You know. That's pretty much water under the bridge, now, innit. That die is cast. The deal is done. Getting rid of it at this point would be a financially absurd stupidity bigger than keeping it would be a moral one, if you want from general principles. If you're meaning to appeal to my guilt and shame for the vulgarity of owning a TV and expecting that it be fixed for free after 5 months of ownership because the contract gives me a year, you've picked the wrong guy. Which leads me to point out what I thought was obvious all along, that this thread is really in the main a journal of my dealing with being at the lumpish mercy of blind and evidently disconcerned bureaucracy, a seldom thing for me. What got me there is ultimately of no importance except as vehicle for the tale. And by the way, I've noticed a curious thing: myself, I'm not really any more productive with the tube out of the picture. Must be all those books that are supposed to be so much better for me. I guess it looks like we've shot that theory all to hell. So...how about all you walking rebukes promise to stop telling me to ditch the tube for my own good, and I'll promise to, oh, let's say, not tell people with MS that they need to exercise more. Deal?

[chas]

Please Higher Power, please get this poor suffering man a TV. Amen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-GFqhCq2HA
"Mercedes Benz"

Damn, I'm so lame for missing that one. I just listened to most of Janis's catalogue last weekend, too. She was one of a kind, but her output was amazingly uneven.

[mutepointe]

Yeah, you're lame. Mercedes Benz is one of the songs that I play on my flute in a very non-Janis Joplin style. When I'm playing this song for other people, I'll preface the song by saying, "This song is a prayer." About halfway through the first verse they smile or chuckle.

If I could play the flute like she sang, I would.