TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST

Sara, you need my TV. Wait for Sears to put their flat-panel LCDs on sale again and look at the cheaper line 40" Sony Bravia.

oh god flat panel lust.

Not gonna lie, it's not a cheap TV, BUT if you save and wait for a sale, particularly if you can put aside $50 - $100 a month for it, you can get one within 18 months debt-free given the continuing price drop.

Oh Dan, you are the devil.

(But of course I love that, so I'm not complaining.)

yeah my version of saving right now is to buy a more specialier antenna since mine apparently does not work well for digital channels

Ooooh, I forgot to tell you that we did get a Wii to give the kids for Xmas next year!

(And when I say "the kids," I mean everybody in the house but the cat.)

xpost lol tehresa. My first thought was, "hmmmmm, maybe my student loans can cover that! Oh wait, no, they are getting sucked up in GAS COSTS..."

Is digital cable out of the question? Even basic digital will cover you as far as the DTV issue is concerned.

actually i don't drive! but they did up the monthly metrocard :(

eh we just never really discussed it. none of us watch much tv and i have a feeling having cable would render the 3 of us totally useless.

man if i had dvr, though....

Satellite dish plus TiVo = so, so awesome. I am basically going to lie around all summer watching tv.

Even though our television is from 1996. Hey, it still works!

I've been without cable for five years -- thank god, really -- but I am interested in TV upgrading here within the next year or so now that instant legal movie downloads are pretty much gaining ground. Sorry but fuck a Netflix snail mail model, I'm too impatient for that! On the flipside, I am VERY patient when it comes to technology price collapses and letting humanity work the kinks out of things first before I buy anything, though.

i've never had cable, save 3 months i sublet someone's apartment.

i end up watching most stuff as streams on my laptop bc i miss original air time anyway. but dvr/tivo would be so rockin...

DVR is awesomes

Oooh, I like Netflix, BUT I can see where if you have time to watch more than a movie a week it would seem too slow. I feel like it's been moving too fast for me, but that is SO about to end, at least for the summer! YAY!

Also, if I didn't have cable, I'd be without Jon Stewart, and I'm secretly in love with that guy. Plus, you know, Food Network.

oooh sara you are almost done!!

wait ned is that 'any movie ever on demand' thing i read about when i was like 10 years old for real now??

i heard netflix was allowing users to DL movies but i had to drop them awhile back & anyway waiting like 4 hrs to watch them on a PC isnt exactly the same as the flick coming instantly to yr tv screen

xp Yay!

I'm so just wanting to get it all out of my way right now.

BRING IT ON

Ha, I say that and then I continue to sit here for 20 minutes, not doing anything productive at all, because I don't feel like going upstairs to solidify my knowledge of oral diabetes meds.

JUST ONE WEEK

you are in the HOME STRETCH!!!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!!

i am getting really nervous waiting for grades to get posted eeeeeeee

I don't even want to think about grades... I can't let my brain go there!

You'll be fine, T.

wait ned is that 'any movie ever on demand' thing i read about when i was like 10 years old for real now??

Getting there, there's been a couple of things already and Netflix is starting to roll it out. Give it a little while longer to get full traction, though. I'm not surprised it's taken a while and it'll still take more time to get fully entrenched.

I mean, I'm obviously speaking in terms of strictly legal/authorized access as well. Unofficially, the world is everyone's.

I believe that tehresa will crush the other students. Or at least totally get an A.

i will get at least like, 2 a's i think. not sure about others. i also believe sara will be nurse awesome crusherness.

Ah finally Sara has a good wrestling name.

That will come in handy, as I am beginning to believe that wrestling may be a better career choice for me.

Good night guys - time for me to attempt sleep once again.

<3 to all...

OMG planet full of idiots! Have been getting texts and photos ("Tracey's Team!!!") from someone by mistake for the past two days. It happens sometimes and the etiquette frame is 'oops, sorry!' if you are the sender (duh). Finally sent a second 'sorry to bother you, your messages are going to the wrong number' text to make it stop and got this back:

Sorry! I made a mistake, you never made 1. guess your perfect.

Poor etiquette and bad spelling TOGETHER, oh fabulous. So the texter got:

Absolutely! And as bonus can spell all forms of you're correctly. Thanks for understanding!

Be honest, Suzy, you live for opportunities like that.

Not really - unless you mean opportunity to vent here! I sent a very polite text twice and didn't expect smartarse from a complete stranger who was only using a wrong number. My reply seems to have had desired effect in that I'm no longer getting any messages from Team Tracey.

hey guys just a heads up: apparently we're totally lame and total pussies and not nearly interesting or funny enough on this thread for the likes of chaki so can everyone please start trying a little harder? because, you know, i really give a flying fuck what he thinks.

It is important that simple friendly conversations between people be interesting to uninvolved dudes.

DUH.

It seems that you do a bit Ruby. Honest, fuck it like.

Okay, where do I get started on this thread. It's huge ppl! Edited highlights please?

Way to begin coming off all superior like. Sorry.

i was just about to tell you on that other thread that you should come hang out here.

don't even TRY loading all the messages, or your computer will break.

I should have started reading when this was back in the 8000! What the hell is going on here? I read the beginning posts a few weeks ago where it was something about the title needing to be kept fresh but this is mental!

the title used to break, until tombot discovered the magical string of characters and now it is UNBREAKABLE. we used to have tag teams for posting, since the thread needed to be bumped every 108 mins in order to keep the title in tact.

basically, this is how it works: some of us come here to post about the relatively mundane/sometimes interesting stuff we do day to day, just to vent, and because we are actually interested in each other's lives. some of us are here to post LOLZ. and some of us just want to learn how to be a fake american.

dude, are you undercover? do you normally post under a different user name?

Ha ha well that sounds familiar. Alright. Rawk etc.

xxxposts Yeah, Ruby, I got that memo too! Considering that posting such a hypocritical flameout leaves the poster vulnerable to each and every one of his criticisms of others, and considering the pure class of the butthurt allies left in his wake, I'd say the banhammer was spot on and the resultant flouncing off was just gravy.

Any thread with HSTNGS and those who love them on it is fine by me.

this is AWESOME:

ok well im super drunk right now (even when he gets drunk he spends his time modding ilx. kinda sad) after playing bass in an awesome metal show (ilxors talking about their bullshit lives that no one asked about) and i have a hot chick waiting for me in my bed (its like an episode of sex in the city) so ill say this (obviously loves the "this is the thread where i say")

-- estela

we should c/p this to all the threads he's posted that rant on.

Rant has been sensibly removed from most of them, so no need. FWIW the ban on the other guy is well deserved.

i'm kinda mad that i went off on that thread at him, shouldn't have taken the bait :/

but i try so hard to avoid calling ppl out on their bullshit and just ignore it, and then i get to a point where i can't anymore.

hi ruby, hi suzy