Anyone want a TV?

I have a TV that I'm needing to get rid of.

It's a 27"[1] Toshiba FST, complete with speakers and floor-standing cabinet, built-in. I can't find an exact model number on it.

It is at least 15 years old - I suspect older - but is in perfect working condition. It has UHF-in (still in original dust-proof covers. Who the hell uses UHF-in?), two VHF/cable-ins, S-video and Component in as well as all kinds of sound plugs and a pile of outputs, too. The entire unit is 42" wide, 20" deep, and 31" high. The casing around the TV is wood. It's heavy, but two people can carry it easily if they each grab one end. It's on wheels and actually rolls, so it's not hard to maneuver on any flat surface - no need for help to wire things up or vacuum behind it, etc.

The remote is in less than perfect condition - it works, but sometimes you have to shake it first. It's been dropped a few times over the lifetime of the unit.

Interested? Make an offer. If you're not local, then shipping from Ottawa, Canada is your problem. If you are local, I'm pretty sure it will fit in my car and, if so, I can drive it over to you. If not, well, I know people who have bigger cars than I do and I could probably borrow one, or you could pick it up, or you could rent a van for about $30... the possibilities are endless.

Ugly-ass cellphone picture!


[1]: All units measured in Crappy Obsolete Pointless Scale, because, for TVs, people insist on it. I kinda see why, since "68.6 cm screen" just doesn't have the same ring to it, but that's not the point.

I'm SURE I heard somebody running the can opener.

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"Women: Very nearly people in many respects"

james_nicoll links me to a bunch of perfect examples of Nice Guy syndrome, in its native environment: antisocial losers.

American health care at its finest.

Woman bleeds to death in Emergency room as doctors and hospital staff stand by watching, refusing to assist, and 911 repeatedly tells family and bystanders that they can't make the doctors look at a patient and they can't take her to a different hospital, and that the woman should complain to the hospital staff if she feels she's being poorly treated.

Bonus: The desperate family, confronted with a refusal by the doctors and staff to even look at a woman vomiting blood on the floor of the emegency room, called hospital security. Security called the police, who arrested the woman (still vomiting blood constantly and writhing on the floor in pain) and dragged her out of the hospital on an alleged parole violation. She died on the way out of the building.

Note the source and destination states. I'm just sayin'!

Today is, indeed, a WTF kind of day.

Short version: chpicker is flying his 11-year-old son out from Columbus to spend a month with his grandfather. NorthWest Airlines loses him. TWICE - so that the boy has to explain to the airline, repeatedly, that the plane they're trying to put him on is going across the country to the wrong state entirely.

It gets worse: NorthWest Airlines *replaces* him with a terrified 9-year-old girl, delivering her to the man supposed to pick up the son and insisting that she go with him, and he take her.

Yes, they just demanded that a complete stranger take away a 9-year-old girl who'd been entrusted to their care, and who they'd just delivered to Pensacola instead of Oklahoma.

aaronace brings the art from N

OMG PONIES

Japanese game shows are awesome.

Watch on YouTube

They're playing Tetris.

Live.

Live tetris.