Local teams should always be aired on local television in addition to whatever channel carries their game nationally.
Guess you're going to have a late night at a bar Saturday night.
March 16th, 2018 at 10:43 AM ^
I also live way out in the middle of nowhere.
Let me just say that if you have a good friend or family member within 100 miles that has good internet, you can indeed get internet at your home if you're willing to do some (a lot) of work. This can be done while breaking no laws either in actuality or in spirit.
There is no internet where I live, and with about a month of work on weekends, I have 60 mb/s internet access. And I mean there is nothing but copper wire here (above ground).
If you meet the creteria listed above and want to know more let me know.
Sounds like this problem emanates from your inability to control yo woman, more than the greed of "the man"...
What a cuck.
No politics and keep down the vulgarity do you not understand? This isn't clever; it isn't funny; and we are all aware of what a crude and policitcal put-down it is.
You should probably learn something about the term before declaring it non-political. "Cuck" is as political as, say "neckbeard." Neither term can be used in political innocence.
Matt, why you so mad?
The world is a serious place with lots of problems, but if we stop laughing, then what's the point in trying to make things better???
It's so cool how now online is making lazy, unoriginal jokes everyone has heard a million times before then blaming everyone else for being too serious or PC when no one finds them funny! And acting like being able to say dumb jokes will somehow make the world better!
That's weird, your mom loves my jokes.
(This joke is also incredibly unoriginal, but still super funny).
March 16th, 2018 at 10:26 AM ^
Let's deconstruct the word "cuck."
The Breitbart/Bannon wing of the conservative movement created this term as a short-hand for "cuckcolded conservative." At the minimum, it is another version of RINO (Republican in Name Only), so it is clearly political, which this site frowns on. But, it is so much more.
The term implies that the man so labeled (and it is always a man for reasons which will be obvious), claims to be a conservative, but actually he is fine with his wife/significant other cuckcolding him with an African-American man. That's a whole lot of racism and misogyny concentrated into one syllable.
"Cuck" is a triple threat of offensiveness. It is political. It is as racist as the n-word. And it is as vulgar as calling the guy's wife the other c-word (as in ends in "nt"). If I were the moderator, any use of this word, in jest or not, would be an instant ticket to Bolivia. I'll leave that decision up to the actual moderators.
March 16th, 2018 at 12:25 PM ^
Let me start by saying, we both hate the same things...
Now, that being said, whether the Alt-Right truly knows it or not (and I doubt most take the time to do etymological research), the word "cuckold" goes back much further and means something far less (maybe?) offensive. It didn't really have any kind of racist genesis, it just meant a man whose wife was regularly unfaithful (whether with a white, black or purple man). I believe the Romans even used the insult, and would describe someone as "wearing the horns" as a man being "cuckolded," alluding to a bull/stag that has "dropped his horns" in defeat to another male, who then takes his mating partner.
March 16th, 2018 at 12:46 PM ^
I agree - it has historic roots that are not racially offensive. Any quick lookup in an etymology dictionary can confirm that (for example: link), but it does have a pejorative suffix on it, denoting a negative meaning to it likely at an early stage of development.
Regarding the Romans, it's actually the Greeks, but only possibly going back that far:
horn (n.) Old English horn "horn of an animal; projection, pinnacle," also "wind instrument" (originally one made from animal horns), from Proto-Germanic *hurnaz (source also of German Horn, Dutch horen, Old Frisian horn, Gothic haurn), from PIE root *ker- (1) "horn; head."[...] Symbolic of cuckoldry since mid-15c. (the victim was fancied to grow one on his head). The image is widespread in Europe and perhaps as old as ancient Greece. The German linguist Hermann Dunger ('Hörner Aufsetzen' und 'Hahnrei', "Germania" 29, 1884) ascribes it to a custom surviving into 19c., "the old practice of engrafting the spurs of a castrated cock on the root of the excised comb, which caused them to grow like horns" [James Hastings, "Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics"] but the image could have grown as well from a general gesture of contempt or insult made to wronged husbands, "who have been the subject of popular jest in all ages" [Hastings].
Members of the Alt-Right intend and understand the term "cuck" to include the racist undertone. My knowledge of this subject comes from an NPR interview of a Breitbart sympathetic conservative, and his experience of an Alt-Right conservative calling him a "cuck." He explained quite thoroughly that the term was meant to imply his wife's infidelity with an African-American man, and his bemusement/wonderment that somehow this aspect was more insulting that simply implying his wife was stepping out on him.
Certain members of the Alt-Right created this offensive term, and it means what they say it means. Hence, the need to reject it comprehensively.
Well, that's where you went wrong, listening to National Pussy Radio... :-D
Well, I've learned something new today. I'd never heard this meaning of 'cuck' and I consider myself to be fairly up to speed as what's going on in politics. Hmmm. Maybe not as much as I think, apparently.
Anyway... following basketball last night, I caught an episode of The Detour (a show I saw once a while back, decided I hated, and didn't see again until last night). There's a scene where "cuck" is used extensively, in this case, short for cuckold, and meaning a weak/emasculated man. I managed to find the clip here:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ipeMsfot07Oj/
Kinda crazy that I see this episode, and then there's a discussion of the word on this board today.
March 16th, 2018 at 12:48 PM ^
He obviously didn't read RichRod's Hideaway Books very closely.
March 16th, 2018 at 10:09 AM ^
If you're gonna go with option 1, might as well get the most out of it and make sure to point out that it was her idea to cut the cord in the first place. If you're gonna get exiled to the couch anyway, might as well deserve it.
Miss the part about data limits? There's already a high quality Michigan stream available on this board.
I know this was an issue last year as well, but does TRUTV not have HD? I've only had standard definition with my last 2 providers. I wasn't sure if its the package I have or if its TRUTV.
Their camera angle always looks bad as well.
I have Dish Network and TruTV HD
I have TruTV in HD through PSVue on Apple TV. If you're streaming through something like an Apple TV/Firestick/etc. you can also download the March Madness app and watch all games not on CBS through that, but not sure if the camera angles would be the same.
that you're upset about this? If you're nice to him maybe he will do something about it, throw you a bone
If your wife won’t let you watch basketball solely so she has enough data to watch her horse drama shows, you’ve got bigger problems.
The app freezes up a lot for me, but it's better than nothing. I switched over to the actual TBS channel and had no issues.
The reason they don't put it on local TV is because they don't want you to cut the cord.
No way. This is how you miss Michigan football games when you're living in Raleigh, because some asshole decided a dumb ACC game should be on local ABC and national ESPN, and Michigan nowhere in sight.
Get youtube tv like a normal cord cutter and watch whatever you like.
edit: my anecdote was before youtube tv existed. YMMV
Sorry OP. I'm lucky that my wife cares infinitely more about Michigan Football, basketball and hockey than anything else on TV. Which is also the reason we still have cable. A stream buffering or failing during an important play would be a real issue at home.