03-09-2005 07:34									#1
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We got cable TV in our new house in Korea. It took us a week to work out how to operate it. Last night we got it going for the first time. It was great after a week without TV. I stayed up till 2am watching it.

This morning Mrs Horse decides to move the TV cabinet. Its rickety and heavy. The sliding platform the TV sits on is not stable. The wooden shelving hood above is not attached to the base cabinet below the TV as it should be. The wooden hood is heavy and slides around knocking the TV while 3 of us are trying to shift the TV to where she wants it, which is like a foot or two to the left.... or the right...or in the corner....

Sure enough, the TV platform suddenly shifts forward knocked by the hood and the TV falls out, taking a big chunk out of the wood floor. The cable to DVD cable is shredded. Fortunately the TV tube didn't blow but the top right corner of the casing is smashed. We can't get the cable TV to work anymore, or the DVD player. Miraculously the TV still works. Its borrowed btw, over 100cm. We have to give it back when our own stuff arrives. She's says, no problem, "we'll just have to replace it"

An hour later and I'm still getting over the shock

I've never had a TV crash to the floor like that before, face first.

The only saving grace is I didn't get into an argument with her about it and basically avoided saying dumb "I told you so" things

But God it was hard to keep my mouth shut

Last edited by Alexander's Horse on 03-09-2005 at 08:01

	03-09-2005 07:42									#2
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HAW HAW

	03-09-2005 07:58									#3
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yeah - and the cable guy only spoke Korean

Last edited by Alexander's Horse on 03-09-2005 at 09:15

	03-09-2005 07:59									#4
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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse yeah - and the cable guy only spoke Korea

now that's just adding insult to injury!

	03-09-2005 08:06									#5
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Now might be the time to trundle out your new laptop.
Any raised eyebrows and you can just stare meaninfully at the TV.

	03-09-2005 08:16									#6
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it was one of those jobs for your SO where you're thinking "I don't think this is a good idea" but you know resistance is futile.

	03-09-2005 08:25									#7
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This is good. TV is a bad influence.

	03-09-2005 08:28									#8
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yeah and my comp is still working Muwahahahaha!!!

	03-09-2005 08:31									#9
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Where's Hidey?

	03-09-2005 08:31									#10
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TV, in all its incarnations and forms

	03-09-2005 08:59									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse yeah - and the cable guy only spoke Korea

It's Korean, Horsie.

	03-09-2005 09:02									#12
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be gentle Horse..

she probably feels bad enough about the TV, and being at fault for it, without anything from your end

this is one of those things that people learn from..

never bring it up again

Jon Miller

	03-09-2005 09:18									#13
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I'm getting huge brownies for not going off about it. Its something you have to work at.

Most things like this in life you can either laugh about or get angry about. Its a no brainer which is better for your marriage but hard to do.

	03-09-2005 09:50									#14
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of course..

you are the master

I just thought I would say what I thought

JM

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I wish

	03-09-2005 16:36									#16
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so how many hours did that TV live in your house?

	03-09-2005 17:51									#17
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are you in the north then?

	03-09-2005 19:04									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse I'm getting huge brownies for not going off about it. Its something you have to work at. Most things like this in life you can either laugh about or get angry about. Its a no brainer which is better for your marriage but hard to do.

Indeed Horsie

Sometimes a point is more pronounced being unannounced

20+ years with Mrs Troll has taught me I get farther when saying nothing at all and she smiles warmly and thanks me for not rubbing it in

of course this has nothing to do when its reversed

	03-09-2005 19:51									#19
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What on earth are you doing in Panmunjom? Have you had too much of that aussie sun? Maybe for your next posting you'll take a position in a safer place like Baghdad.

	03-09-2005 20:01									#20
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actually Baghdad isn't bad if you're in the green zone - the flight and drive in is hairy I'm told - the main problem is mortar fire into the green zone - they stonk it almost every day - a friend of mine was just there

	03-09-2005 20:30									#21
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Is it unsafe in Panmunjom during peacetime?

	03-09-2005 20:41									#22
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most of the time - US officer was killed with an axe there about 20 years ago

	03-09-2005 20:53									#24
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G-Troll - that picture just cracked me up!

Last edited by Barinthus on 03-09-2005 at 21:10

	03-09-2005 21:02									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Barinthus G-Troll - that picture just rocked me up!

Yeah

when ya been married awhile that picture has a funny surreal meaning, your wifes used to go off on ya and ya flinched now my baby sometimes does and I usually do this when she does and of course makes her a little hotter (I usually just say in a very sweet voice I wuv uoohh)

Maybe Mrs Horsie goes high and to the right if good old AH would do that?

Nah, Horsie seems too nice to intentionally try to infuriate his sweetheart

	04-09-2005 04:16									#26
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that looks like me this morning - the kids were away last night

	04-09-2005 05:51									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse that looks like me this morning - the kids were away last night

You finally had a chance to snuggle up close with your laptop, without those nuisances running around!

	04-09-2005 06:04									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Verto You finally had a chance to snuggle up close with your laptop, without those nuisances running around!

much like many a married man

just when you start hunting and pecking

smack

but you have to love the joys they bring

insert wife or computer for above analogy

	04-09-2005 11:19									#29
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thats a cute grandson you got there

	04-09-2005 11:36									#30
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So is Mr. Horsie planning on adding to the stables, as it were.