You have no idea how loud this is. Loud enough to wake you from a sound sleep. Loud enough that I can be sitting 2-3 feet from my tv and it’s louder than my television. Loud enough that you can’t sit quietly in the apartment that you pay for and read. Loud enough that you have to buy a special fan and ear plugs so that you can get to sleep because bozo likes to start the fan at 11:00PM and run it for hours.
Yeah, it’s fucking loud. And it’s on and on and on for hours at a time.
Although he’s cut down to only one hour at a time since I called the cops. So, no matter how ridiculous you think calling the cops was, it worked. Sorta.
I also called the cops to establish that he is causing a disturbance and is in violation of his lease. Since calling the apartment manager did nothing. I called the cops at 11:00 after the vent fan had been on since 7:00, BTW.
(Oh, and yeah, it does vent into my apartment. He likes to go in his bathroom and smoke - hence running the fan - thereby pushing all his cigarette and ditch weed smoke into my bathroom.)
The bathroom vent fan in one apartment vents into another apartment? Vent fans are supposed to vent to the outside of the building, since their primary purpose (in my understanding) is to provide an outlet for humid air. Blowing it into another apartment has to be a defect of some sort in the building design, which should be taken up not only with the building manager but also possibly the local building code authorities.
Hey Asshole across the hall…can you please park your dented,piece of shit Honda within the parking space instead of halfway across the parking lot? Also,while we are talking,would ya mind not yammering into your cell phone loud enough for people in the next county to hear? I think I speak for everyone in the building when I say that we really don’t care whose ass you are going to kick this week. One last thing…leaving your three year old child alone in a running car while you go do fuckall is NOT acceptable.
On a different note…I do not want to hear Tiger Woods’s name one more time unless it has something to do with golf.
I’m sorry, gallows fodder. I know if that happened to me I’d be pissed for years as well, but just reading about it is cracking me up! I mean, did that waiter not understand how the whole tipping thing worked? Was it his first day on the job and after a few hours of mere 25% tips, did he quit in a huff?
We discovered something the other day – when we moved last month and got our new Comcast DVR box, I neglected to make a very important change to the settings. I didn’t change the default “Delete Recordings After 14 Days” setting to the far more reasonable “Delete Recordings When I Fucking Well Tell You To Delete Them” one.
I might not have the wording exactly right, but that’s how it should read anyway.
Now, the first few weeks we were here, we were unpacking and getting the house set up the way we wanted it. Meanwhile, I was dutifully taping all our regular shows with plans to enjoy our evenings watching TV once the house was in order. Come to find out the DVR box was happily deleting all this content that we didn’t get to watch.
Add to that, I don’t even know exactly what we’re missing, since so much stuff was in winter break and such. About the only thing I know for sure is that we lost the last episode of The Office (which, fortunately, is available on Hulu).
And while I’m doing TV-related mini-rants, an extra “damnit” goes out to this Wednesday’s 9:00-10:00 programming hour. NBC – Law & Order: SVU. CBS – Criminal Minds. FOX: American Idol. Three of our favorites, and they’re all on at the same time. DVR allows you to watch/record two, but not three at once. And of course, none of them are available via On Demand or Hulu.
It’s exceptionally rare that we run into the three-at-once logjam, but when it happens, man it sucks.
My guess was that he got them mentally mixed up with another table, who should have been tipping more. But even if it was a $5 tip on a *$500 *dinner, that would *still *be an incredibly unprofessional thing to do.
This may not help, but I was delighted to find out when I switched from Comcast to AT&T that we had 4-at-a-time recording with their UVerse service. That alone makes me laugh when I get these “Former customer, please come back! We’re better than AT&T!” mailings from Comcast.
Of course, occasionally I do find myself abusing the DVRing capabilities to the point where it gripes at me and essentially says, “listen, delete one of the shows recording, or watch one of them, else I’m going to sit here and do nothing.” But that’s rare that so many stack up in the same timeslot.
Monday nights were why we still record on our vcr in the basement (well, that and LG dvrs are garbage that don’t let you record what you want to record because they’re set far too sensitive for jamming signals originating from a station).
You have the fucking instruction sheet for your phone right fucking there. So why do you have me come all the way down to your office to show you how to do exactly what the sheet tells you to do, in clear and simple English?
A year ago I decided to check on my available TV/ISP options to see if there was any way to reduce my monthly outgo from what I was paying for TWC. I had heard good things about UVerse, but it was not available in my area yet. I ended up switching to DirecTV and AT&T DSL, which were bundled but required a two-year contract for the former. So of course a few months later I got a mailer from AT&T announcing the UVerse was now available in my area.
I fast-forward through the commercials and boring bits; it cuts out a lot of watching time. Most of the time I just record several shows in a week - Dirty Jobs, a couple of cooking shows, Late Night with Craig Ferguson (usually just watch the monologue and initial routine, might watch more if the guests are interesting), What Not to Wear (watch the initial part, skip the You Fail At Shopping day, watch the This Is What We Meant shopping day and the makeover/reveal), maybe a couple others.
Occasionally I get logjams when certain shows stack up, or when one show is still being recorded and nearly finished (the DVR starts and stops a few minutes early to allow for delays), another will start and that counts against the number of simultaneous recordings.
I’m retired so I have time during the day to watch shows that were on the night before. I also multitask sometimes (like now I’m on my laptop watching a PBS show on Bing Crosby that I recorded over the weekend). I also fast-forward through commercials most of the time.
Speaking personally, I don’t have a TV, but I get together with my mom on Sundays to hang out, eat dinner, catch up, and watch videos. As people have mentioned, cutting out commercials helps a lot; about 15-20 minutes of an “hour-long” show is ads, as is about 8-10 minutes of a “half-hour” one.