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    People Will Eat Dog Food Before They'll Cancel HBO
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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    06/03/09

    In reply to People Will Eat Dog Food Before They'll Cancel HBO
    All things considered, I am far more likely to leave the house and spend money I don't have without cable TV. I can only sit at this desk and type bon mots for so long before I need to be entertained. So I am not surprised!
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    06/03/09

    @SeaBassTian: I did not mean to imply that cable TV was a substitute for human beings. But you can certainly minimize the high cost of social activity by becoming a temporary homebody a few nights each week. Of course, coach potatoes never "get lucky"!
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    06/03/09

    In reply to People Will Eat Dog Food Before They'll Cancel HBO
    This doesn't surprise me one bit. I am part owner of some multi-family homes in a rather urban area of CT. When we were looking at purchasing new properties, we would check out some that were doozies. Poor, poor people who did not have a pot to piss in. No couch in the family room... usually a mattress or a even a gym mat. However, they would have the hugest mother fucking plasma tv (I mean ENORMOUS -- bigger than 50") plus every satellite tv station out there.


    I just don't get it. They have to sit on the floor, their kids don't have shoes, but they had that tv and satellite. I couldn't buy those properties. It was just too sad.

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    06/03/09

    @momof3wildkids: It's sad on many levels; you just know that in many of those homes, television is also the babysitter. The cost per hour is probably much cheaper than having a human around, but the aggregate cost is paid in declining literacy, passivity, and consumerism.
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    06/03/09

    In reply to People Will Eat Dog Food Before They'll Cancel HBO
    Is weed a grocery item, or entertainment?
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    06/03/09

    In reply to People Will Eat Dog Food Before They'll Cancel HBO
    I could live with HBO, but the other 200 channels? They're certainly not helping the bills (or the amount of work I have to do) by playing SVU marathons.
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    Image of BookishLatkeish BookishLatkeish
    06/03/09

    In reply to People Will Eat Dog Food Before They'll Cancel HBO
    I still go out drinking, so I am thinking of cutting back on undergarments. Not sure how the two will work together, will keep you posted.
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    Image of blix blix
    06/03/09

    @BookishLookish: I'll spring for lemoncellos and then we'll get all InnaGaddaDeVito with it.
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    Image of PoBoyNation PoBoyNation
    06/03/09

    @BookishLookish: Hmmm. Over/under on number of Maker's on the rocks before Bookish loses the undies over an overabundance of "understanding" look(ishe)s is set at 4. I take the under. And I'll be supplying the looks, honey.
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    06/03/09

    @PoBoyNation: Who told you I drink bourbon, girlchild? Hope you got deep pockets!
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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    06/03/09

    In reply to People Will Eat Dog Food Before They'll Cancel HBO
    It scares me how much I depend on cable and internet access. Damn you Time Warner!
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    Image of Nice Beaver Nice Beaver
    06/03/09

    In reply to People Will Eat Dog Food Before They'll Cancel HBO
    As my dads say, "You can take the remote control during Gossip Girl from my cold, dead hands, bitches!"
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    Image of aedude01 aedude01
    06/03/09

    @Nice Beaver: Really? BOTH of them say that? Usually one's more butch than the other.
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    Image of Nice Beaver Nice Beaver
    06/03/09

    @aedude01: They're both pretty butch.


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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    06/03/09

    In reply to People Will Eat Dog Food Before They'll Cancel HBO
    Ha, the first thing I cut was HBO. Though, to be fair, I did wait until after the season finale of Big Love. Some things are just worth the $12.95.
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    06/03/09

    @DahlELama: A while back when I was having $$ troubles I had to cut my HBO, but I refused to do it until Six Feet Under's last season finished.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    06/03/09

    In reply to People Will Eat Dog Food Before They'll Cancel HBO
    This is NOT the answers I entered in that ridiculously long HBO sponsored quiz you guys put up.


    Now gimme a fuckin kindle.

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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    06/03/09

    In reply to People Will Eat Dog Food Before They'll Cancel HBO
    And by education you mean pornography?
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    Image of TableNine TableNine
    06/03/09

    @son of spam: And by pornography you mean hookers?
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