Sirius Satellite Radio Antenna stopped working.....

It's probably catalogued under "S&M". Specialized stuff.

It might conceivably be, if she minded. As she doesn't, it isn't. It's more like the other way round - she knows that if she wants to get me out of the room, all she has to do is turn on the TV.

You completely missed my point. The fact that these things are readily available on the market clearly indicates that other people also want to have the option of watching or listening to exactly what they want, exactly when they want it. You're the maverick here. It must be relaxing for you never to have to make a decision about what you want to hear or see; just turn on the somavision and float off.

What if they employed hawkers who roamed the streets stuffing scratch-n-sniff Big Mac flyers into your open car window and squirting passersby with eau de french fry?

Then - if she wants to - she'll call them and turn it back on. This is not rocket science. But I'm not continuing to pay $60 or something per month when none of the TVs in our house have even been switched on for about three months.

In my (home) office I have two (4-drawer-vertical ) and two (2-drawer-horizontal) file cabinets.

In off-site storage I have four more vertical cabinets.

I save every design I've ever done... since ~1960 ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Not sure what the joke is there... but if I stripped off the graphics and only showed you the text, I suspect you'd have great difficulty telling which site you were looking at. Same news.

CNN tends toward the left, Fox toward the right.

Are you sure you actually read the news ?:-)

...Jim Thompson

You clearly have no interest in what she wants and make that apparent. Though there is no reason two can't play the same game.

No, you're aggravated by trivial things like some far-away disc- jockey for the two seconds it takes for your tuner to lock in. If that two seconds ruins your day, what does the kid in the next car with the 4' bass driver cranked up to 120dB do to you?

Wow, you do get violent!

And if she want's to turn the brain to squash for an hour?

The wife is probably scouting for a new mate ;-)

Most women don't like controlling males. And these males are typically the dangerous types... divorce them and they stalk and kill.

I don't know why it is that some males have no clue that the best female companion is the one who is totally free to do as she pleases.

...Jim Thompson

There's a perceptible difference?

Only the bits that catch my interest - i.e. precious little of it.

pabulum? (Or perhaps Pablum? :-) )

To a blind dog, yes.

No interests either, eh?

Which my wife is. She'd much rather spend that $60 on Broadway tickets for herself and her friends than on a TV service she doesn't have time to watch.

You're a weird one, Thompson.

I don't go quite that far, but will let her do as she pleases. I have the right of refusal. Sometimes I use it. ;-)

I suppose three-toed sloths can tell each other apart. To me they all look the same.

As near as I can estimate, none that would be reported in the Reader's Digest version of the world reported on news sites/TV channels.

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But is there a reciprocal agreement? And if you exercise your right, does it have any effect, or is it like a UN resolution? (;-)

I find "Blue Collar Comedy" on Sirius to be quite informative ;-)

...Jim Thompson

That's fine. I was just wondering. You come off as a domineering husband.

Takes one to know one ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Just about as useless ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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Nah! You got it wrong. It's RFC9642.37.a.1 ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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Misinterpretation. I didn't say to my wife "Listen, bitch - no more TV for you". I pointed out that the TV sets have not been used in months, whereas she goes out to Broadway at least once or twice a week. Since she doesn't pay the bills, the matter of $60 a month being wasted on TV would never come to her attention unless I brought it up. For the first month or so, she said 'well, I might want to turn it on...' then after three months we're in agreement that it just does NOT get used.

Same reason we don't have a landline phone. We had one for the longest time. Then one day we sat down and analyzed the usage - 100% solicitation calls for as long as we could remember. Never used it for anything else. By the time we get home, we're in free-nights-and-weekends zone on our cellphone plans.

I don't deny it.