Comments on: We’ve Got to Move These Colour TVs http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/ A conquest for an expanded World View, and the Ultimate Free Lunch Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:19:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Dave http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-264 Dave Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:01:23 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-264 pete how many times do we have to tell you... NO SITTING ON OTHER PEOPLE'S HEADS that's a bad pete, no roaming the savana for you! pete how many times do we have to tell you…
NO SITTING ON OTHER PEOPLE’S HEADS

that’s a bad pete, no roaming the savana for you!

]]> By: Pete http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-263 Pete Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:57:31 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-263 ok, so i was writing an initial appreciation when i came across this..... http://thatvideosite.com/view/2728.html (yes it is just a little off topic ) :) ok, so i was writing an initial appreciation when i came across this…..

http://thatvideosite.com/view/2728.html

(yes it is just a little off topic ) :)

]]> By: Will http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-261 Will Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:40:36 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-261 Nick: Think maybe you should buy some oven mitts or something! big sis: Yeah, who'd a thought, me with a conscience? I'm still a consumerist I spose, just one who sees the error in his ways...I think. Dave: Do we know <strong>anyone</strong> "flush with dosh"? If so, I want my free lunch! :-D Nick: Think maybe you should buy some oven mitts or something!

big sis: Yeah, who’d a thought, me with a conscience? I’m still a consumerist I spose, just one who sees the error in his ways…I think.

Dave: Do we know anyone “flush with dosh”? If so, I want my free lunch! :-D

]]> By: Dave http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-260 Dave Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:52:41 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-260 i'm still not giving you the ultimate free lunch though... not flush with dosh like some... i’m still not giving you the ultimate free lunch though… not flush with dosh like some…

]]> By: big sis http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-256 big sis Tue, 01 Aug 2006 06:42:51 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-256 since when did YOU get a conscience!!! impressed... but very concerned that something has happened to my consumerist brother?! since when did YOU get a conscience!!! impressed… but very concerned that something has happened to my consumerist brother?!

]]> By: Nick http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-255 Nick Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:56:21 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-255 Wow, that dell laptop was really wasted. Guess I should be more careful with my 3.5 year old dell laptop.. or invest in some fireproof gloves or something.. Wow, that dell laptop was really wasted. Guess I should be more careful with my 3.5 year old dell laptop.. or invest in some fireproof gloves or something..

]]> By: Will http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-254 Will Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:12:30 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-254 Wow, someone who actually noticed... I'm flattered! :-D Wow, someone who actually noticed… I’m flattered! :-D

]]> By: Dave http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-253 Dave Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:45:16 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-253 btw kudos to the change to Will's view... i know it's been almost a week sice you've changed, but i bet you stopped getting those annoying questions asking you exactly what your blog is, and if they should see a doctor just incase it's contageous. btw kudos to the change to Will’s view… i know it’s been almost a week sice you’ve changed, but i bet you stopped getting those annoying questions asking you exactly what your blog is, and if they should see a doctor just incase it’s contageous.

]]> By: Dave http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-252 Dave Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:41:07 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-252 Ok, so maybe my grandparents have moved well past their "good before" date, but i wouldn't trade them in for new ones, i would definietly go shop around and look at newer better models from different brands before searching ebay for the cheapest solution, then finding some cheap Hong Kong internet based steal from the back packers sell to the rich scheme. And too right, don't you just hate these people who get 2 years into a 3 year warrenty and decide, stuff this i want the newer better model, toss their perfectly good laptop and con thir parents into paying for a brand new one for "their birthday." but i think your teacher has avery valid point, my uncle, who earns more money that he really knows what to do with bought a $800 camera for me to use in NZ in feb, he then informs me that he recently bought a $3500 dSLR camera to take (terrible, hope he doesn't read this but he wouldn't really know which end of a SLR to screw onto the camera!) shots of his kids who don't do anything but sleep three times a day and look confused at the camera. (No, he didn't have a baby will) The world is hell bent on a consumer pissing contest, biggger and newer is better. take blu ray dvd for instance... like 95% of the average consumers would know the difference between 100fps and 300fps... my grandparents can't even read damn it, they sure as hell don't know what a remote is and i constantly get calls asking how to rewind the dvd. where does it stop? Ok, so maybe my grandparents have moved well past their “good before” date, but i wouldn’t trade them in for new ones, i would definietly go shop around and look at newer better models from different brands before searching ebay for the cheapest solution, then finding some cheap Hong Kong internet based steal from the back packers sell to the rich scheme.
And too right, don’t you just hate these people who get 2 years into a 3 year warrenty and decide, stuff this i want the newer better model, toss their perfectly good laptop and con thir parents into paying for a brand new one for “their birthday.”
but i think your teacher has avery valid point, my uncle, who earns more money that he really knows what to do with bought a $800 camera for me to use in NZ in feb, he then informs me that he recently bought a $3500 dSLR camera to take (terrible, hope he doesn’t read this but he wouldn’t really know which end of a SLR to screw onto the camera!) shots of his kids who don’t do anything but sleep three times a day and look confused at the camera. (No, he didn’t have a baby will) The world is hell bent on a consumer pissing contest, biggger and newer is better. take blu ray dvd for instance… like 95% of the average consumers would know the difference between 100fps and 300fps… my grandparents can’t even read damn it, they sure as hell don’t know what a remote is and i constantly get calls asking how to rewind the dvd.

where does it stop?

]]> By: GeM http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-250 GeM Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:56:58 +0000 http://www.willmidgley.com/2006/07/31/weve-got-to-move-these-colour-tvs/#comment-250 I want a cool rhyme too JAC... ! I obviously don't purchase anything of quality (being poor and prone to accidents... the universe actually hates me) often but it's an interesting notion. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/02/23/gleaners.html" rel="nofollow">Les glaneurs et la glaneuse</a> (The Gleaners and I) is a doco that takes the idea to the extreme. It follows people that "recycle" in different ways : from collecting other peoples hard rubbish to scavenging for food being thrown away... I'll have to dig you up a copy sometime Will... It'll be good for your french (settle, there are subtitles).... I want a cool rhyme too JAC… !

I obviously don’t purchase anything of quality (being poor and prone to accidents… the universe actually hates me) often but it’s an interesting notion. Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I) is a doco that takes the idea to the extreme. It follows people that “recycle” in different ways : from collecting other peoples hard rubbish to scavenging for food being thrown away… I’ll have to dig you up a copy sometime Will… It’ll be good for your french (settle, there are subtitles)….

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