We All Knew The Cable Company Gave Crappy Service, But This Is Ridiculous October 12, 2008
Posted by Edward Von Bear in Crime, Economics, Entertainment, Man Laws, News, Sex, Technology, Women Ranting.Tags: Is This The Premium Package?, Pirating Cable Is Easier And Safer, Really Bad Pun Usage, You'll Need A Really Big Mop For This
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We have all had problems with various aspects of home repair, cable service and installation, pool boys hanging around after hours, and the like. But none of us, I would wager, have had the problems a lady in Woodstock, GA recently had. It seems she had a cable guy do some work on her house. Unfortunately, the fellow brought in to work on her system made a mistake. How big of a mistake?
Nothing, unless you believe sewage in your house is kosher.
Comcast installed a new line in Tressy Campbell’s kitchen in June. Campbell said she was told an installer with Madison Communications put the cable cord through her drainage pipe.
Campbell said the sewage backed up underneath her kitchen counter and cabinets.
Well, that does it. I’m sticking to pirating DirecTV through the fillings in my molars.
On an equally fragrant note, I’m making polenta from scratch for dinner. And chikkin and dumplings. I’m craving comfort food.
Whoooops! Hehheh.
Back in my installation days, I’ve personally drilled through 120 VAC, thermostat, telephone and cable TV wires. My partner hit a copper water pipe one time installing a keypad in a kitchen. That mistake was immediately apparent when water came shooting out of the hole he drilled in the wall.
Unless there was, uh, “stuff ” flowing down the sewer line, you’d have to rely on smell to know that you nicked it. Residential cable installation is a nightmare.
Pups was a Cable Guy. Hawt.
Chicken and dumplins = crazy delicious.
Pups was a Cable Guy. Hawt.
Huh. Never thought KC would go for that tool belt & butt crack look.
…butt crack look.
It’s where he keeps his pencils.
I fail to see how having my pool boy stay around a little longer to do some extra work for me is a problem.
And chikkin and dumplings
growl growl
Not cable TV…security and camera systems, mostly small residential.
*hikes up tool belt*
Oh, man, this cake is excellent. And the icing (which I also made myself) is equally excellent. Any man who doesn’t want to marry me is a complete and utter moron.
mmm cake!
I had to look it up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polenta
‘Dems hominy grits.
Cards just tried an onside kick? wtf?
Don’t EVEN ruin this nice thread with football drama.
Hey now, I looked up polenta.
Also Marion Barber has been workin his ass off today.
GAWD the Cowgirls didn’t even show up today.
Oh well. The Horns won the big one yesterday, and thanks to some other shakeups are at the top (for now).
Also, Toledo has a football team?
Who knew?
UPDATE: from Slublog, to me via gmail:
GAr..gar
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!!!!!
he seems upset
BARBER TD
OT!11!! ELEVENTY11!1!!
Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark.
Hey Dave,
I think Ace might need some help with moby/troll busting. I think there is a combination of overzealous right minded noob comentors and bad intentioned astroturfers that have pushed him off the freaking ledge tonight.
damn.
yeah, I know Pups. The little shit is changing IPs and spamming like a crack monkey. I deleted em for a while, but he’s quite motivated tonight and I just don’t have the energy for it.
A few of the open bloggers are helping out now
I’m a very important man. I am surrounded by Direct TV dishes. When it rains or snows, all the guys in the neighborhood head over to my house to view, “cable”. Why is that?
I know I have made this clear in the past, but in case any of you have forgotten — I hate Dave in Texas very much.
Yeah…I got rid of my dish for the same reason MCPO, no signal in inclement weather.
KC…is Polenta an old-school name for corn meal mush?
eh heh heh heh
Eeeeeeuuuuwwww! That ugly photo is makin’ me sneeze and hurl.
It’s all basically cornmeal.
Polenta is yellow and usually firmer so you can slice it.
Grits is white and mushier like the consistency of oatmeal.
Both are good stuff hittin’ the culinary world.
Only a fanuc would eat polenta. Real men eat grits. . . with bacon.
I’m sorry, did you say “troll?”
I’ll be taking my leave, then.
Aw phooey, that wasn’t a troll – just a jerk.
Dave: just returned from my parents’ house for my sister’s 30th birthday, and my mom made homemade chicken & dumplings for her. It was well received, as usual.
Oh, and I just read AoS, and didn’t realize what I missed until a few minutes ago. Crazy shit.
Ace has been wound tight recently, with the looming Obama victory, the media bias, the “stop with calling me defeatist” stuff, and then this.
Yeah…sorry Geoff, “troll” was short hand for “cut and paster defying a direct order from the blog owner” in this case.
Polenta is Italian for cornmeal mush. Quite snooty.
But Cathy’s right. You can slice it, then saute (the snooty word for pan fry) it with garlic and black pepper, top it with tomatoes and parmesan. Yum.
Master Chief, what’s a fanuc?
Fried mush is teh awesome. Never tried it with all that fancy stuff, we eats it like pancakes with butter and syrup.
Nonna made the polenta by stirring yellow cornmeal into boiling homemade chicken broth. She served it right away while still in warm mush form.
She topped it with either minced tomatoes quickly fried with garlic, or real tomato sauce.
Comfort food. Heat you up in Winter.
Never saw that slice n’ fry technique until much later.
I have gots to try me some-a this stuff.
Funny that it got a rep as snooty restaurant fare. This is ultimate peasant food.
rich people really don’t understand peasants.
I really seriously fucking hate making phone calls. Is it that hard to have an intelligible voice recording? Or to hire people who have American accents? (Granted, a thick Brooklyn or Cajun accent might be just as trying as the Indian accents…at least I am fairly familiar with Indian accents.)
My future husband will be in charge of making all phone calls. And I will reward him with homemade cake. Unless he is diabetic or prone to gaining weight, in which case I will reward him with exercise, IYKWIMAITYD.
Memo to Mrs. Peel’s future husband, wherever she may find him:
Get fat.
rich people really don’t understand peasants.
Yah, but it’s kind of amusing how a (literally) 30-cent tasty gruel from childhood turns into a fancypants culinary experience in the hands of a Johnson & Wales graduate.
Still miss Nonna. You just don’t ever forget some people.
Think this means I’m making more old-timey ginny soup this week and bringing it to Mom.
Don’t think she’s had that simple polenta in at least fifteen years. She doesn’t make the old food like I know how to do. She never bothered to study at the feet of the Matriarch. If she gets pulpetta or rabbit stemperata, it’s because I made it for her.
Jeez, if I boiled some broth and made her some polenta in her kitchen I think she’d cry.
Worth a shot, right?
Worth a shot, right?
I can usually manage to make my mother cry without having to go to all the trouble of cooking a meal.
Worth a shot, right?
Hell yeah! Makin’ Mom cry is always good fun. They should make a game show out of this sport.
*thinks about it*
Cathy’s Mom arrives here tomorrow for a week-long visit. She has been a Mom to me also. This could be great.
ah. bad week for me to visit then.
darn.
ah. bad week for me to visit then.
Nope. For three reasons.
1) Persimmon guest room is still available.
2) There will be lots of good food served.
3) My mom will adopt you.
Dude, you should take them up.
You’ve only got one Mom, but at the same time you can never have too many moms, know what I mean?
She might send you pie.
It happens.
I know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZOxqVl5oP4&6
Dave:
You might want to know who else loves pie
I like pie.
pie???
oh man. *snif*
that would be awesome
The real question….
Why is this thread tagged under sex?
Because tagging comments inappropriately is an IB tradition.
Ok, im just making sure… because for all the weird things I’ve tried in my life…
Shh! You don’t want to get the Pinto started on that topic.
Oh, I bet I have him beat. I dated an Injun girl for a few years who was abused by her father the whole time she grew up… you want to talk about some fucked up fetishes… I mean, its fun for a while… but… man. When you feel guilty for doing everything your mate asks of you, theres something really wrong with her.
Whats up with that brazilian shit?
yeah, never done that one, dont get it. But the japanese like it too.
Spectator?
I’ve been nice, and don’t see me getting mean anytime soon.
That is what peel and others are talking about.
in some ways.
Yeah, I know it is… but im closer to it then they’ve been. My heart is in it.