Videodrome Loves You

[substitute]

I remember when these dumb TV screens showed up at Diedrich Coffee and a couple of other places, and they had a crawl with news and some ads on them and not too much else, and clearly it was held together with house ads and fear, and soon, we knew, it would be gone. Because who would put something like that in a coffeehouse?

Or... a bookstore...

Comments

[ashleyisdumb]

Damn it.

[tinymammoth]

http://www.tvbgone.com/

blinkenlights

[autodidactic]

They got those down at the DMV to calm the savage beasts. Weirdly enough, it seems to work.

There's something about playing movie trivia while waiting for your tabs.

[yoscott]

We have 42" plasmas ALL OVER our campus at school now. The Administration use it as a adspace, infoplaza, also tuned to Fox News so we are fed our dose of right-wing insanity. Unfortunately, they spent millions of dollars put in these plasmas and leather couches everywhere, but forgot to spend any money on a security or CCTV system. So guess what's been going missing over the past few weeks? Leather Couches and Plsama TVs.

Our Administration is packed full of dumbasses.

Cables

[torgo_x]

Unplug the thing, then cut off the cable right
where it's coming out of the TV.
Not quite irreparable, but close.

Claque

[torgo_x]

I just turn the motherfuckers off. Those and the Santa-bots
in supermarkets that go "HRRR HRRRRRR HRRRR MRRF FSSMSS!".
Off. I've never ever had any of the staff say "hey, you!
stop... stop stopping that thing that's been driving
us all crazy for every second of the day so far!"

And I can always say: "Oops, did I turn that off? I was just trying to adjust the
volume, and/or change it to the Sirius Country or something, and sometimes that's a blank screen for
a second or two, as it's buffering the Internets Bluetubes.
You like country, don't you? Hooboy!"
(Alternate response.)

Altho I once got to start shit because I didn't
turn the TV off.

That reminds me to get replacement
batteries for my
TV-B-Gone. But first figure out where I put it.

ALSO.

Re: Claque

[perich]

"HRRR HRRRRRR HRRRR MRRF FSSMSS!".

This is the most hilariously accurate representation of an electric Santa's noise I've ever read. I just snorfed some yogurt.

Re: Claque

[springheel_jack]

I have the same problem with my tv b gone.