| Author | Message | ||
     Rocket_in_uk |
......and it felt good! Well actually. More a case of throwing the remote at it. Looks better now with a kaleidoscope of colours going up and down left to right. Is there are moral to this story? Yes, don't buy a flucking Philips piece of shit! Rocket in England | ||
| Crusty |
Supposedly, Elvis Presley would shoot his TV when something on it really pissed him off. There are many times that I wish I could afford to do likewise. | ||
| Rick_a |
My wife was less than impressed when I stomped her printer into little bits. | ||
| Rick_a |
...And even less so when the kid head butted her laptop screen into submission. | ||
| Pwnzor |
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| Hughlysses |
At first I thought this was a thread about this:   | ||
| Sifo |
LOL! I have a friend with a guitar shop. He does a lot of repair work. He had some punk kid bring in a guitar that looked a lot like that one in to fix it. Apparently he thought it would make for a good finish to his first show on stage to smash a guitar. Unlike Pete Townshend however, he didn't have enough money to buy a new one. It just sat in a pile in the guitar shop for a long time, more or less as a curio piece. The kid used to come in once in a while to see how the "fix" was going. I thing he eventually got the idea that it wasn't getting fixed. | ||
| 1313 |
Is there are moral to this story? Yes, don't buy a flucking Philips piece of shit! OMG! Something that I can actually agree with Rocket on. Who woulda thunk it? Had a flat screen tube TV made by Philips, in the special black housing that was only available at Best Buy (for a $20 premium), that the sound went South on after the warranty expired. Trying to get service on it was like a 3 ring circus. First TV that I actually spent my money on and it irked me to no end that it gave up the ghost in such a short time. In retrospect I wish I had done more maniacal things to it than just drop it off at the local convenience center, 1313 | ||
| Hughlysses |
Sifo- that's pretty funny. The only group I ever saw smash guitars was Black Oak Arkansas at "August Jam" back in 1974. They had 2 lead guitarists and for the last song the two would swing their guitars at each other's, baseball bat style, smashing both to splinters. If you weren't paying attention, you wouldn't notice they'ed swapped their expensive Gibson ES-335's for a pair of cheap Japanese knock-offs just prior to the last song. | ||
| Andersonhdj |
Philips like so many other brand names is now mostly probably built or manufactured in China, like most of our consumer shit , from shoes to underwear. Our governments and politicians are selling us out , everywhere!! It is recorded also , that Elvis put the gun to his "De Tomaso Pantera" when it would'nt start, seems he may have had anger issues!!! | ||
| Hootowl |
Funny. I had a 27 inch Phillips tube TV. When it was assembled, they pinched the high voltage wire (think spark plug wire) that connects the aquadag (or whatever they were using) coating on the CRT with the high voltage power supply between the top of the tube and a flange (probably for rigidity) cast into the plastic rear housing of the TV. I kept hearing this growling crackling noise coming from the TV, a noise I was sure was electrical arcing. The flange eventually cut through the insulation. Electrons were arcing between the break in the insulation and the back of the CRT. I didn't realize this of course. I put my hand on the back/top of the TV and they decided that they liked this new path to ground very much indeed. Arced through the air vents in the case, right into me. It was not pleasant. I rerouted the wire, and it was fine. My wife thought I was nuts for wanting to open the thing that just knocked me on my ass just by getting too close it. | ||
| Bluzm2 |
Hey Hoot, those old fly back transformers can really bite eh? Only around 25,000 volts or so... | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
Our governments and politicians are selling us out , everywhere!! They are condemning us to a most unpleasant future. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
take it out to a field and fill it full of shotgun led. one of the best things I ever did. | ||
| Rocket_in_uk |
Yeah baby. I would like to take a shotgun to it but we have some strict gun laws in the UK. I got me a baseball bat though! Rocket in England | ||
| Rick_a |
Appliance disposal is one of my primary uses for a 12GA. | ||
| Skntpig |
I wish I had a pic of when I got rid of a prospective unused unnecessary piece of furniture. My ex brought home a partially broken piano and was deciding where to put it in the house. Nobody plays piano and there's no real spot for it. That night my brother in law was over and we decided to make sure it didn't make it inside. It was like the video "we didn't start the fire" by Billy Joel. It made beautiful music as the wires popped. She took the hint. It was quite a mess for her to clean up. JK..of course I cleaned it up. | ||
| Geedee |
 Don't replace it Rocket. Free yourself of the subliminal messaging. | ||
| Rocket_in_uk |
Don't replace it Rocket. Free yourself of the subliminal messaging. Good point Gee. As of yet I haven't! Been too darn busy see  Rocket in England | ||
| Slaughter |
You all need to just kill your televisions. Period. End of statement. | ||
| Swampy |
I did a brand spanking new printer/scanner/copier You know what a bitch it is when you buy a brand new printer/scanner/copier and there is no driver for Windows Vista? | ||
| Aesquire |
Vista?  Windows 8.1 just got orphaned. I had to toss a brand name unused printer because they never made XP drivers. It's cheaper to buy new printers than change the ink cartridges. Rocket I hear arguments there are no alien civilizations since we have not picked up alien "I Love Lucy". We now radiate tv signals we wouldn't interpret as intelligent signals at SETI last decade. Not because of the content ( your reason..... and very valid. No intelligent life on tv ) but the format. Encrypted digital. In the 6000 years  of human history we only sent 70 odd years of decodable tv. What are the odds that 2 nearby civilizations are at the same exact level of comm tech? As to content......... There's a reason the most popular shows on US tv are copies of UK shows. Probably chemtrails...... | ||
| Aesquire |
Phillips pos = true. | ||
| Geedee |
"Probably chemtrails......"  } |
