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Author Topic: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?  (Read 16049 times)

Offline GullyFoyle

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #15 on: October 21, 2010, 06:53:36 PM »
£71 a month? That's 2 cans of Special Brew a day. Every day!

Offline Quiet Lion

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2010, 07:03:33 PM »
All the channels, 3 multi room, HD+.

Well worth it to me.

Offline Salsa Party Animal

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #17 on: October 21, 2010, 07:34:24 PM »
Got Virgin+ package.

When I see the Superbowl for NFL I just cancel skysports subscription until September. It is too expensive to keep it running for 12 months.

Offline ChrissyPrice

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #18 on: October 21, 2010, 07:40:50 PM »
If it wasn't for cricket i'd have binned it a while back.

Like he said. Although I may think about getting rid after the Ashes, although its broadband is pretty reliable.

Offline TheSandman

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #19 on: October 21, 2010, 08:07:51 PM »
No and never will.

Offline Chris Jameson

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #20 on: October 21, 2010, 08:16:40 PM »
Haven't got it, don't want it. If there is a tv series I fancy watching I wait until it's out on DVD. Got no interest in watching Man Utd/Liverpool/Chelsea/Spurs etc.

Offline ez

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #21 on: October 21, 2010, 08:22:02 PM »
Yes but not sky sports.

Offline D.boy

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #22 on: October 21, 2010, 08:31:19 PM »
We cancelled our sky 2 years ago. The monthly cost was the main reason plus the only channels I really watched were the motorcycle racing and the odd villa game. To be honest I dont miss it at all.

Offline curiousorange

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #23 on: October 21, 2010, 08:37:27 PM »
My folks have Sky with the sports and I'm always on at them to knock it on the head. Obviously it's great when Villa are on but I don't give a shite about watching Blackburn-Sunderland or West Ham-Wigan. Some of these 'other' games turn out to be great but I wouldn't know because I hardly watch them. I'm sure I can pull myself together enough to visit a pub if I want to watch a Villa away game.

Offline TheMitaCopier

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #24 on: October 21, 2010, 08:58:12 PM »
virgin took £108 out of my bank account this month, i will phone them up tomorrow and find out why, they better have one hell of a story for me

Offline Rigadon

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #25 on: October 21, 2010, 09:00:02 PM »
Puliewalnuts:  "Sharks and Nazi's channel". 

Every SINGLE night there is a documentary called something like HITLERS HENCHMEN or THE SHARKMEN OF THE BAHAMAS.  Etc.  It's funny cause it's true. 

I had Sky sports for about 3 months to watch the last ashes.  When the football season started I cancelled as I cannot be arsed to watch Blackburn v Manchester City on a Sunday afternoon etc.  I have only a passing interest in watching Spanish football.  The only games I'd watch were Villa when work stopped me from getting there (which is most of the time).

I think the problem is that football is now utterly removed from the sport it used to be and is now about only money for every stake holder apart from the people who show up for games.  If you take the game of the 50's and compared it to now it is pretty much polar opposite - this we all know. The  60's saw the first celebrity footballer and it's snowballed from there along with all other aspects of celebrity culture.  FOotball as a media has now outgrown the game itself and we're now at a crossroads -the Man City experiment has only quickened it.  Football as we knew it is over.  I must say that the Rooney thing is just another example, the latest since our own Mr Milner, of an unnecessary economics and politics in football.  Long live the revolution.  Until then I hope for 3 points the weekend. And there you are.

Offline Bad English

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #26 on: October 21, 2010, 09:08:43 PM »
Sky 'multi-room'? Jesus! Must be the ultimate in opium for the masses. No wonder nobody goes on strike or protests any more in the UK. Get out and burn some fucking sheep!

Offline phantom limb

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #27 on: October 21, 2010, 09:11:58 PM »
I did have it but cancelled it last month. It's bastard expensive, and whenever Villa are on Keys and Gray just end up spouting off about how shite we are (even when we're playing well).

I've got to the stage in my life where I would just rather spend my money on much more important things, like alcohol.

Offline Mark H

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #28 on: October 21, 2010, 09:13:05 PM »
Yes I have Sky and pay for just about everything - HD, Multiroom, ESPN and think its value for money with how much it seems to get used 

Offline Risso

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Re: Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
« Reply #29 on: October 21, 2010, 09:15:13 PM »
Sky 'multi-room'? Jesus! Must be the ultimate in opium for the masses. No wonder nobody goes on strike or protests any more in the UK. Get out and burn some fucking sheep!

You can't surely have forgotten how evil the weather is in the uk for 90% of the year?  It's alright going out a striking and a protesting when you can still wear a T-shirt in October! 

 


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