You, Good Sir, Need A Frickin' Life

[Hermione]

I cannot believe how worked up grown adults get about their TV, and the huge tantrums they have over it. Damn people...read a frickin' book every once in a while, it'll do you some good!

Amen sister. After 4 years at Dish I never failed to be amazed

I took this exact same call once, as a SUP CALL.

Having Encore and Encore West was just too much for them.

[wolfie]

My mother has an answer to that kind of tantrum. "Sweetie, if you don't run outside and play right NOW, I will by all that is holy, take a hammer to whatever it is you are tantruming about."

I can see a couple holes in that logic:

1) Kid is tantruming about something that belongs to SOMEONE ELSE. Smashing it if the kid doesn't stop their tantrum would punish an innocent person.

2) Brainiac kid throws a tantrum about a bottle of homemade nitroglycerine.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Amen sister. After 4 years at Dish I never failed to be amazed

I took this exact same call once, as a SUP CALL.

Having Encore and Encore West was just too much for them.

I'm on the East Coast and I get a lot of channels with Dish that are also west coast feeds (especially my Encore and other premium channels - we like movies at my house) and they're showing the same programs just 3 hrs apart.

To me it's a double bonus: I can watch the stuff I want to twice. Or if it's something I want to save on my DVR, I can pick which time I want if there's a conflict with another preset recording.

Either way is a win for me.