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Lynx

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More expensive, actually. Real cable brings the show TO you. Streaming services make the show available to you, but you still have to use some kind of internet service to bring the show to your device.

Nobody ever mentions that though. Nobody ever talks about how YOU have to pay for data to get the show after you rented access to it.
 

cinder

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More expensive, actually. Real cable brings the show TO you. Streaming services make the show available to you, but you still have to use some kind of internet service to bring the show to your device.

Nobody ever mentions that though. Nobody ever talks about how YOU have to pay for data to get the show after you rented access to it.
A long time ago they just beamed TV shows through the air, and if you had this fancy apparatus called an antenna ( which you could make in the basement from some scrap wood and bits of wire) you could watch it all for free. Then someone came up with the bright idea of letting people pay for a special wired service instead of wasting their time watching all the ads that paid for the free stuff. Then I guess they needed more money so they brought back the ads even though people were still paying for the content. Then they designed special equipment that they could charge you an arm and a leg to rent so you could get the service you were paying for. And now it seems like we're headed to you have to pay for every channel you want individually.

I guess in television progress means finding ways to get more money out of people for the same amount of service.
 

Kojikun

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A long time ago they just beamed TV shows through the air, and if you had this fancy apparatus called an antenna ( which you could make in the basement from some scrap wood and bits of wire) you could watch it all for free. Then someone came up with the bright idea of letting people pay for a special wired service instead of wasting their time watching all the ads that paid for the free stuff. Then I guess they needed more money so they brought back the ads even though people were still paying for the content. Then they designed special equipment that they could charge you an arm and a leg to rent so you could get the service you were paying for. And now it seems like we're headed to you have to pay for every channel you want individually.

I guess in television progress means finding ways to get more money out of people for the same amount of service.
Yeah I remember when getting cable and satellite was a big thing. Satellite was amazing with all the choices at the time.
 

Gardenias

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Ooooooops eternal fire STRONGLY objecyed to my pos 6177.
I'm sorry!
 

Lynx

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Ooooooops eternal fire STRONGLY objecyed to my pos 6177.
I'm sorry!
Ignore it. That's a good joke. I've heard a version of it before.

Also, eternal fire finds many things objectionable.
 

EternalFire

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Ooooooops eternal fire STRONGLY objecyed to my pos 6177.
I'm sorry!
The joke you posted is about a woman who kills a horse and then, by implication, threatens her husband with the same treatment.
 

Lynx

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:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Thank you EF for making sure we don't forget which joke we are discussing.
 

Gardenias

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The joke you posted is about a woman who kills a horse and then, by implication, threatens her husband with the same treatment.


Sorry to offend your sensitive soul.
I'll post no more jokes,just stick to threads that require something more than others have.

Put me on your ignore list, for the next time, snowflakes get offended,I won't be so sorry.