BUT HOW WILL WE WATCH OUR PROGRAMS?: Oh hooray, the breaking news: “WASHINGTON — The House has defeated a bill to postpone the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting by four months to June 12.” Help out a senior citizen today, because remember, this is an issue of NATIONAL SECURITY. [AP]
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You will also be required to hand back your cable modems in exchange for some wire and a couple of tin cans, branded with labels depicting upcoming major motion picture releases.
another Joe the Plumber fail in the making.
Mostly bad news for the graying segment of the country that still get their news from the local Fox News channel….Maybe not such a bad thing after all.
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What, Joe the plumber is now Joe the teevee repairman? It’s over Joe, now go home…
Damn. I was so looking forward to four more months of those damn announcements about the changeover.
Oh good, now I have time to book Joe the Plumber as my own personal digital teevee connector man! I was having teh sadz, thinking I was too late to fit into his busy schedule.
GOP also has proposed throwing out all spending in teh stimulus plan and replacing it all with tax cuts.
So much for targeted, timely and temporary.
Of course it is Obama’s fault too. Also.
YES!! Suck it, Luddites! Suck. It.
It’s not like we haven’t had years of round-the-clock commercials preparing for this. On February 17, I suspect a lot of people will be getting off the couch for the fist time ever.
This doesn’t bother me. I get teevee over the air via my dental fillings.
I spent thirty minutes watching some PBS special about this fucking thing the other night. That’s how exciting my life is.
haha i’m lonely.
This shit’s not going to go down well at Leisure World, I’ll tell you that. I wouldn’t want to be the cafeteria staff tonight. Think what’s going to happen on Feb. 17 when the olds turn on Matlock and it’s not there. Think people!
[re=230748]masterdebater[/re]: I get my news from Wonkette.
Before I buy a TV they’ll have to pass a bill to enforce the networks to develop good programming.
This is a conspiracy designed to reduce the number of people on Social Security. Do you know how many olds have been electrocuted this week?
Yer gonna miss yer soaps if yew don’t move yer dead PUMA asses!
[re=230758]WIDTAP[/re]: The republicans need to answer me this: how can you give a tax cut to someone who doesn’t have a job?
Can I still watch Veggie Tales on Sunday morning? I now find the peas sexually attractive.
I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna….oh, I don’t need to change, ’cause I already have a satellite…are you sure?…oh, ok, thanks, Joe, you can go back to being a plumber again, just don’t let the door hit you on the ass…and nevermind. Also….
Jeebus, imagine what would happen if we did something sensible like switch to the metric system. Oh, wait, we sort of a dipped a toe in that water a couple decades ago. People freaked.
Now I can finally see Bob Ross’ blood-shot eyes in HD.
[re=230758]Purveyor of Bad News[/re]: Really? I mean REALLY?? WTF.
It’s “watch our STORIES,” dude. I know it’s hard to listen to the olds when they’re whining, but as a journalist you need to get this shit right.
This was FCC chairman and Bush-loyalist Kevin Martin’s baby, and just like the Legacy, it failed. Wah wah wah waaaaaah.
..but WRC will still broadcast their news in lo-def.
[re=230754]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I am so fucking sick of those ads.
Holy crap! Buy a goddamn new TV already!
I’m still waiting for the official transition from hand-cranked horseless carriages.
I’m waiting on the transition to indoor plumbing.
Last time I checked (using ‘real world facts’) the reason Pres. Obama/’da messiah’ held off this whole TV-DTV thing was because… -Most of his “disciples” (inner-city, poor) dont havve the smarts OR chance to upgrade their TEE-VEEs…
Im just saying… How Do Us Says?
Forking hineyhole evil republicrums. The only reason they defeated that harmless little bill is because Obama wanted it to happen.
[re=230813]TommySez[/re]: Win. Because I’m crying laughter at my desk.
[re=230768]shanemacgowan[/re]: I thought I was the only one. For this reason alone, I was mispronouncing Blago’s name for weeks on end. Didn’t hear anyone say it on the televisions.
I don’t watch TV. How does this affect my viewing of teh Youtubes?
Otherwise, how can a nation of unemployed buy so many TVs at once, I ask ya?
[re=230813]TommySez[/re]:
These dumbasses in BestBuy = countless murder charges.
Hobo beans before HBO!
Plus it was something I was good at. I was a cudgel. I pissed off the media.
My MIL’s tv is older than my husband, but she’s not bothering with the converter because she watches 90% of her television online. So now it will just be a sideboard (it’s one of the old “tv console as fine wood furniture” designs).
[re=230762]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: I watched this. It was kind of mesmerizing. Do they really need a whole 30 minute program to tell you what every television station in the known world has been blaring for a solid year? Also, I couldn’t reach the remote and was too lazy to move so I was trapped watching PBS. Plus, I am a loser. Also.
I just wish my parents got all their tee vee from the magickal air-beams. But they have cable, with a big tee vee, and loud speakers, and the local news blares from the goddam thing 24/7 at volumes exceeding 11. Even my kids thought the tee vee was too loud, for crissakes, and a day without loud tee vee is a day without sunshine. And my ‘rents live in a valley so DTV signals may not be so good, also.
I don’t watch tee vee either, but still pay for it to anesthetize the wife and kids while I plot harebrained schemes. So far, so good.
[re=230759]StrangelyBrown[/re]: We do fist time on the couch at my house.
[re=230944]OffTheRecord[/re]: I was really stoned and found the whole thing to be very compelling. I thought I was watching it ironically but actually I was just high.
[re=230853]Colander[/re]: What is this “coal” you speak of?
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