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Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 4:54:25 AM

housesub4you

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I'm getting so dammed tired of the news media and all the polling they are doing.

"While many are still deciding who should be president, by 52 percent to 45 percent they would prefer having Obama than McCain to their summer cookout, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released Wednesday".

This is what we get from 24 hour news channels, if there is no news just start creating it.

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 5:01:28 AM

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Welcome to the world of disposable news and throw away commentaries. I agree with you, it's a lot of drivel. My solution is to not watch television: it muffles quite a lot of the noise.

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 6:28:25 AM

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Funny you should mention that. I just canceled my cable. There is nothing on TV worth the $90 per month they charge

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 6:31:34 AM

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Nope, it's not worth it - and the absence of television provides windows of opportunity to have all sorts of active, delicious fun

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 7:06:38 AM

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Maybe you could start a Poll to get a general consensus of how we feel about it.

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 7:26:53 AM

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Ha, I agree with you more than you do. To me it is not worth a set top box, even at $50 forever minus a $40 rebate. That means that I won't pay ten bucks to have TV forever.

A dandy little box I do have though puts the PC screen on the TV, so I can watch all those clips on a 36" Sony. Now that was worth fifty bucks.

T

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 9:02:08 AM

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Take a look sometime at how even the venerated Associated Press Poll results are achieved. A 'sample' as small as 500 people -- chosen with little regard for assuring 'randomness' and viola! this is what we all think.

Followed by a disclaimer in teeny-weeny type that the poll has a built in error rate of up to 10%.

'There are liars, damned liars, and statisticans'.

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 10:34:06 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: housesub4you

Funny you should mention that. I just canceled my cable. There is nothing on TV worth the $90 per month they charge

How can you say that!!! OH MY GOD! Have you not seem the thrilling programs on TV!!!! A few highlights....

The Deadliest Catch - I am utterly mesmerized by this show! The crab traps go in the water, then they pull them up and dump the crabs out and put them back in! Its just riveting edge of your seat excitement!

Ice Road Truckers - I mean whats not to love about this show! Truck driving is such a fascinating job to begin with and to watch this I mean wow - they pick up a load, take it some place drop it off and come back... Hmmmmm I wonder whats gonna happen next - OMFG They picked up another load I didnt see that coming!!!

Axe Men - Ooooh check it out they cut the tree down. Now they are pulling it up the hill.... I cant wait to see what they do next week... God, let it be sunday night soon.... The aniticpation is killing me...

The Verminators - Hmmmm a brave band of exterminators going into battle with cock roaches, bedbugs, and rats. Thats exciting stuff right there...

Animal Cops Houston / Detroit / Miami / Phoeonix / NYC / Bumblefuck Iowa - Hmmmmm they are going to a house where there is a cat hoarder. Wonder what they will find??? OMG CATS! LOTS OF CATS! Oooh and a starved dog on the other case... Cant wait for the next episode!

I mean what the fuck is wrong with you house? How can you live without that excitement in your life... Have you no need for adreneline at all???? Get that cable back on now!

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 11:06:59 AM

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LMAO

Wow, I never looked at it that way before. Perhaps I acted in haste.

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 11:13:00 AM

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Not forgetting all the DIY house and car renovation series. I luv them I do.
I used to watched American Chopper but the accents get on me nerves lol

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 11:15:22 AM

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welcome to the world of disposable sociology. there's a book that i want to pick up once my pay checks finally start coming it (this is the first job that i've ever had that i've had to wait over a month for my first pay check) that is supposed to point out ways to tell what's misused, deliberately misused, and just bad statistics. i want to get it for when/if i go back and get my doctorate so i can teach. i hate when people start throwing around random numbers as if the numbers mean something by themselves.

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 12:14:36 PM

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Oh I forgot to mention another amazing TV show... Meerkat Manor. This thing need an emmy award and it needs it fast. Basically you get to watch the life and times of a bunch of meercats, which are kind of like African Gophers. It is RIVETING! They dig holes, they stick their heads out of the hole, when a predator comes they go back in the hole... They eat, they fuck, they go to war with their neighoring band of meercats. Its like watching the Sopranos - except the main charectors are covered in fur and have fleas....

I shouldnt reveal this, but as many of you know I live on Galveston Bay... I am pleased to anounce that I am currently in preproduction for my upcoming show - "Hermit Crab Haven" which will be filmed on location on the breakwater in my backyard. It will be MUST SEE TV! (and stay tuned for my second smash hit - Seagull Shangrila....

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 12:21:00 PM

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DA, If you're going to make a documentary series, could you do one on the Dog Shit Picker Upper? If not, could you call the folks and see if it could be put on "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowes?

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 4:33:43 PM

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DA, If you're going to make a documentary series, could you do one on the Dog Shit Picker Upper? If not, could you call the folks and see if it could be put on "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowes?

Actually a recent neigborhood poll determined that my dog shit picker upper guy has a 78 point lead in this neighborhood over Banannarama in the november elections. But yes, thats a great idea for a show - we can call it "Dog Turds - Houston" or "Houston, We Have A Poopie"

I mean my dog shit guy has to be at least as interesting as the Ice Road Truckers or the fucking Meercats. LOL

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 4:43:45 PM

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I have yet to understand why Ice Road Truckers is on the History Channel. What the fuck does ice road trucking have to do with history? Now they have the loggers on the History Channel; again WTF? The crabbers are on the Discovery Channel! I remember when the History Channel and the Discovery Channel used to have interesting programming. A&E used to have really great programs too. Now they have completely dumbed down those channels for the pro-wrestling crowd.

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/2/2008 7:34:13 PM

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PBS has an interesting documentary that i wish had been featured on A&E or History.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/carrier/

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/3/2008 4:56:16 AM

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Thanks for sharing that site. Sure gotta love PBS and continue to support them as much as possible.

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RE: Enough with the Polls - 7/3/2008 11:15:53 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: candystripper

Take a look sometime at how even the venerated Associated Press Poll results are achieved. A 'sample' as small as 500 people -- chosen with little regard for assuring 'randomness' and viola! this is what we all think.

Followed by a disclaimer in teeny-weeny type that the poll has a built in error rate of up to 10%.

'There are liars, damned liars, and statisticans'.

candystripper

um...actually...10% is low to average (acceptable range is up to 25%)...and a 500 person sample is actually quite large...it matters if it's representative or not. a small representative sample is much much much better than a huge unrepresentative one.

bigger is not always better.

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