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This forum is hazardous to your health!
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:36 am
by GLT
OK, I'm ticked. Really ticked.
I come here expecting education and entertainment. There is plenty of education here, but there is absolutely no entertainment.
I am used to going to forums and having a little fun., Funny people fighting with keystrokes againt each other. It's entertaining.
But not here, no way. All this forum does is solve peoples problems. It's the same old thread
time after time. In short: "Here is my problem..." then: "Thank you so much for the solution...".
It's predictable. It's boring.
(Jon would be proud.)
Now here is the bad part: it's also addictive. I used to enjoy going to forums and watching the fights. But
now that just isn't any fun for me anymore.
Now I come HERE to look for the last (and usual) post that includes profuse thanks and then states that everything works now. Apparently I prefer that over the cheap amusement of conflicts, maybe just because it makes me feel good.
What is the matter with me?
Ya'll owe me. Big time.
(Or, just maybe, it could be the other way around.)
GLT
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:14 am
by The Robman
Yeah, these forums do lack a certain excitement don't they, it's sure boring being a moderator here! But if it's real excitement that you're looking for, look no further than the home installer forums over at AVS, things can get real heated over there!!!
ps. Thanks for the lil sum'n extra that you sent!
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:04 pm
by MaskedMan
Perhaps you should let Jamesgammel back.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:36 pm
by Mark Pierson
MaskedMan wrote:let Jamesgammel back
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:06 pm
by vickyg2003
Jamesgammel, convinced me to join the old yahoo group and taught me how to solder! So you can add my membership here, to your list of grievances against him too!
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:35 pm
by The Robman
MaskedMan wrote:Perhaps you should let Jamesgammel back.
That certainly would liven things up! I kept him around longer than I probably should have because he did have some useful info to contribute, even though I was getting loads many emails complaining about him, but eventually he directed one of his rants at me, so I knew his time was up.
Even after that I would still help him via email until he directed an email rant at me, at which point I cut him loose completely.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:07 pm
by jimdunn
Well...
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm off to plug "jamesgammel" into the search box to see if my humdrum existence can be uplifted,
Scandal on the JP1 forums, here I come...
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:15 pm
by Capn Trips
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:26 pm
by jimdunn
Thanks Cap'n
It's been a long day here, and that link has certainly saved me a bit of trawling...
Initially, I'm particularly impressed with:
Yeah Rob, you created an upgrade in spite of the warnings I tried to convey.
as an example of gratitude for free help, but I probably won't get my complete fill of amusement until tomorrow when I have half an hour or so to read it all properly
But really, thanks for the clue...
Jim
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:41 pm
by jimdunn
Ok
I read it all now
(us Aussies don't need sleep - it's for wimps)
It needs to be stickied as an example of the right way to thank people for giving up their free time to help people they've never even met
Otherwise who knows where this pathetic little venture could end...
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:53 pm
by jimdunn
@Robman
Having read that thread, I need time with your therapist.
You kept your cool all the way to the end
I can never do that
(Don't link the other 30000 times you did that) - I feel inadequate enough, already
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:56 pm
by jimdunn
But, all that being said,
have you lazy bast---- written an extender for the 7562-B01 yet ?
I thought not...
Too busy arguing, I expect
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:48 pm
by The Robman
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:06 am
by jimdunn
I am not an idiot.
There is no button on the OEM remote that I can find which controls the
"output mode". I am asking if anyone else has been able to find a code
which does (discrete or otherwise).
See, those discrete codes...
That was the problem
If only those codes could be a little less discrete, then they'd be so much easier to find...
and nobody would have to jump in without any knowledge of the subject and be a
smarta$$
You have to see his point
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:52 am
by Capn Trips