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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 7:22 pm
not1!!!! hiya, sweetie. sorry about your medical mess-up. i am always told i have to call 6 weeks ahead to get my primary physician, but they don't open the books til 4 weeks ahead. huh?!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 7:56 pm
Who: I have always named my cars. I figured they acted like they had essences of their own, they might as well have identities too. No real gripes tonight from me...just wanted to poke my head in and look around.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, May 08, 2004 - 9:36 pm
ARGH! We joined Netflix on Tuesday, and our first 3 DVDs were sent out on Wednesday and we received them today. We put in American Splendor and the audio kept cutting out and skipping. DH was upset since he had especially wanted to see that one. We then tried Lost in Translation--same problem. We then were really aggravated. So we put in the 3rd, while DH is muttering that we're quitting, and I'm trying to calm him down as the whole purpose of tonight was to LOWER his blood pressure, and we started the 3rd DVD, The Magdalene Sisters, the movie finally starts (after 5 public service announcements about spousal abuse/domestic violence) and we're just getting into it, and at the 13:40 mark, the audio totally cuts out. I'll be sending back the CDs in a priority mailer with a please refund our money letter. Has anyone else had good luck with them?
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Lobster
Member
04-13-2001
| Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 8:32 am
Lkunkel, I've been with Netflix for a few months now, and I haven't really had any problems with them. Occasionally, there might be something on the DVD that is causing it not to play. I've experienced this more with Blockbuster than Netflix. You can wipe them off with a soft cloth or tissue. Something could be wrong with your DVD player too. It sounds strange that all three discs have problems. If you own any dvds put one in and see if it plays. If it doesn't, then you know it's your player. If one of the discs has something on it, it could have gotten on the laser thingie that reads them, and then you'll have problems with audio and such. Blockbuster has a dvd cleaning system that goes for around 10 dollars. It comes with a CD that has a tiny little brush on it that will clean the laser thingie. You could probably find one of these at Circuit City or Best Buy too.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 10:14 am
Lobster, I would have thought it was our machine too, if we hadn't just watched Kill Bill, Vol. 1 before putting in the Netflix DVDs. Hmmm, I'll check again, tho, when DH isn't around. I don't want his BP going up again.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 10:20 am
i've been using netflix for 2 years. only had 1 cd with a problem. they just sent out a new copy. it sounds more like what lobster said. that something was deposited on your dvd machine.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 10:29 am
Lkunkel: Take a look at the DVDs from Netflix on the 'down' side of the disc. See if there looks like any scratches, dirt, smudges, etc. on there that would cause your DVD player problems. Some time ago, I purchased a large bottle of a product called 'ClearKote CD Restorer' (works on DVDs too) from Blockbuster. Along with a manual CD cleaner, I was able to fix just about any problems I had with rental DVDs and view them normally. I would simply place the DVD in the cleaner (label down, data side up), spritz the surface once with ClearKote, then operate the cleaning device a few times. Perhaps this small investment would save you a lot fo grief in the future. Hope this helps.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 11:43 pm
I have a gripe. It concerns local news, but I just need to gripe somewhere.... We had a horrid accident in Colorado over the weekend, where a steel girder collapsed off of an overpass, and came down on top of an SUV, killing the family of three inside. It seems like the "investigators" are worried more about covering someone's ass, and pointing fingers at individual scapegoats, than in finding out how/why it happened and making sure it never happens again. A release of a 911 tape from a motorist who called in about an hour before it happened said the girder (he called it an I-beam) looked like it could fall. The dispatcher thought he was talking about a sign, and sent a road crew out to investigate. The road crew only a sign in the median, said no immediate hazard, and put it on the schedule to check it out on Monday. Ok, my beef is, so far they are trying to blame the "training" of this dispatcher and the miscommunication that followed. But so much more attributed.....she said "sign," and the caller didn't correct her. The road crew was sent out to the right spot, so why didn't they notice the girder sagging? So today, they're now pointing fingers at CDOT, and how the work was signed off on. I'm just reading into this that the people involved are all "uh uh, it wasn't our fault, it was yours...his...hers...theirs..." Folks, lots of people and situations played a part in it, figure out why the string of events led up to this tragedy, and make sure it never happens again! 911 Transcript NTSB Report Maybe I'm just too sensitive. I don't know. Yesterday's news focused entirely on the 911 dispatcher, and even said she was on "paid administrative leave" pending the outcome of the investigation.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 6:04 am
I heard this story on the news too. Broke my heart.
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Koko586
Member
02-25-2004
| Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 5:15 pm
Lkunkel did you have any luck with the Netflix DVD's? Your problem sounds similar to something that happened to us. All of our personal DVD's played fine until we rented one from Blockbuster. About half-way in it got pixely and we lost sound. We went back to Blockbuster and got another copy and it did it again. We bought a new DVD player and have not had any problems with anything from Blockbuster or Netflix. I have the old DVD player in the bedroom and it will play some of the Netflix DVD's fine but has problems with others. It still plays all our personal DVD's just fine so it must be fine scratches on the rental ones that bother it.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 9:54 am
My gripe is with the Coca Cola company. I drink a lot of coke and diet coke and usually pay between 99 cents and 1.29 for a two liter bottle of soda (mostly I stock up when it is 99 cents and 1.19. Well I go into my supermarket last week and there are no two liter bottles of soda they have all been replaced with a "new convenient 1.5 liter bottle" which costs 1.09. Without warning the coca cola company has raised the price of coke by 25%. And not only that they did it in a deceptive manner because they assume all consumers are idiots. That is my gripe and now we drink Pepsi. My husband bought his first bottle of pepsi this week and that is saying a lot.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 11:47 am
Maris, you've got a good gripe. I noticed where I buy my twelve packs that the other brands were on sale and had taken the prestigious shelf where Coke products used to be. I asked the clerk if they were no longer going to be selling Coke products. She said they were, but my guess is that they no longer have the #1 priority they used to enjoy. Also, if your store is charging 1.09, I'm wondering if that is going to be the standard charge or if it was just that store trying to cash in on someone's ignorance. Seems Coca-Cola has not been servicing their machines or living up to expectations in quite a few businesses here, causing some to drop their product and go with other soda companies. This has been building for several years. Coke is losing money because of bad service.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 12:34 pm
Maybe it's in preparation of the impending strike?
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 1:27 pm
Pepsi is better than Coke anyway.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 1:32 pm
Oh definitely, Kool! Although I have one renegade son who prefers Coke. ;)
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Bakerygirl
Member
11-03-2002
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 1:43 pm
20 oz bottles of coke and pepsi are 1.29, which is way too high when you can get a 2 liter for the same of less. But the 20 oz bottles are usually easy for me grab, but i've been getting cans instead lately.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 3:48 pm
24 cans of all Coke products are on sale at Meijer this week - $3.96. Too bad I drink Diet Pepsi!
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 3:50 pm
Oh and has anybody seen the 6oz cans of Coke and Pepsi for sale/ usually a 12 pack costs just as much if not MORE than a 12 pack of the normal 12 oz cans.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 3:50 pm
I am very big on tea...my favourite choice of beverage. I prefer Salada but we always end up buying Tetley cos that's what he likes (and it's cheaper, lol).
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 4:05 pm
We drink ALOT of iced tea -UNSWEETENED [ok Kentucky why do alot of you serve only sweetened tea? I'm sweet enough as it is. *L* Besides you can always ADD sugar for those who like it sweet; you can't take it out for those who like it unsweet]. Usually Luzianne or Liptons. My West Bend Iced Tea Pot is on it's last legs, I don't know what I'll do when it's kaput. I don't like the others I've found.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 4:09 pm
Oh...that is something I never got used to is iced tea, Serate. Never heard of it as a kid. My Mum...lol...no offense to iced tea drinkers.... but she used to call it...cold slop! I like lemonade one in a while in the summer but I drink tea even on the hottest of days.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 4:17 pm
I don't like to drink anything hot - even hot chocolate which I adore. I have to cool it downa bunch with milk. Hot tea I'll drink every now and then [esp when I'm somewhere I'm obligated to drink and it's coffee or hot tea as choices] but I have to put so much sugar in it to gag it down....it's funny as I can't stand even a pinch of sugar in iced tea. Do not EVER give me coffee - hot, iced, candy, flavored, whatever I can't stand it. Your mum sounds like my mom!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 4:21 pm
All my "yankee" friends in college would be so confused when I would say "hey wanna go get a coke?" and then order ice tea!!! National drink of the south..but I can't abide by the sweet tea crap! 
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 4:33 pm
Lol, you guys...funny how fussy we are about our bevys...you'd think it was guys discussing their favourite beer brands! ;) So,'coke' is generic down South, Annie...cool! And Serate...I'm with you...I will have nothing to drink if all that's on offer is coffee...yuck! ;)
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Monday, May 24, 2004 - 8:04 pm
When I'm 'up north' I drink Pepsi products and 'down south' it's Coke products. It's all in the water used to make the cola that makes the difference in taste! If you are in Atlanta buy Coke - that's where it began. Going to the Coca Cola factory is fun, too.
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