Things that don't make sense

Strong Bad
Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
edited February 28 in Clubhouse Archives
After briefly viewing a Bose special on QVC last night, i'm left with this question:

What the hell does blowing out a candle by placing a speaker at one end of a U-shaped PVC plumbing tube and a candle at the other end supposed to represent in acoustical terms? So, if I place a lit candle in front of my SDA-SRS 2.3's and turn up the volume, does it mean my speakers suck **** if the candle doesn't blow out?

Also, I'm at the gym this morning finishing my workout. I notice this woman, not in that bad of shape, exit one of the personal trainer's offices and comment..."Yeah, thats good advice!" About 20-30 seconds later, this FEMALE personal trainer, oh about 5'6" and damn near 170-180 lbs comes out of the office. The 170-180 lbs pretty much consisted of all bodyfat. I hope the advice the trainer gave her was followed by..."Now do the exact opposite of the advice I just gave you because you see the results it has given me!"

I'm such a mean ****! I should really stop picking on Bose like that! No apologies for stupid trainers! :D

John
No excuses!
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  • pjriccio
    pjriccio Posts: 8
    edited May 2002
    QVC always tries to show that there products they are selling are above and beyond top Quality. They always bring in a so called Expert or a Factory Engineer. QVC is for the Novice on any Products.

    Maybe she was listening to some new Polks that the FEMALE Beast just bought???

    John, its time for a HDTV 52 inch Big Screen or Larger, and a larger room for your System.

    Just a Thought!

    Paul.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited May 2002
    Good 'wow' factor from Bose there eh? At least it wasn't the clear bass module with the packing peanuts inside moving around.....

    Nevermind LISTENING to the speaker, hell it can blow out a candle, that's gotta mean something, right?

    Chicken Fried Steak, thats my one 'beef' for this post. What does chicken have to do with it? Fried chicken is fried chicken, why is fried steak not 'fried steak'. We don't have 'chicken fried corn dogs' or 'chicken fried hot apple pie'

    I just don't get it. Don't get me started on a 'near miss' (in aviation terms) either...

    Cheers,
    Russ
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited May 2002
    just let it go man, just let it go.....

    BDT
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • dylan
    dylan Posts: 453
    edited May 2002
    ..."It is then fried in hot oil, shortening, or drippings until the coating is browned and crispy, similar to fried chicken."

    Hmm, chicken fried corn dogs sounds like Fair food. In a restaurant I used to work at we would make chicken-fried chicken for hung-over mornings. Beer batter and foccacia crumbs... now I'm hungry. Now that I think about it, I could probably blow out a candle on those hung-over mornings... :rolleyes:

    How about the possibility that major league baseball players might strike?? What in the hell more do they want??
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited May 2002
    Professional (if you can call it that) sports are a complete joke. How anyone can sit for hours and watch that crap is beyond me. Just a bunch of over-paid, over-glorified children who think what they do is serious stuff.


    Peace Out~:D
    If...
    Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
    Ron loves a film = don't even rent.
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited May 2002
    How about the possibility that major league baseball players might strike?? What in the hell more do they want??


    Good lord Dylan, how can any human live on an average salary of 2 million dollars a season!!! I feel so bad for those players having to go out there and play baseball for that chump change!

    We should all take up a collection for poor Alex Rodriguez and his 15-20 mill a season. He's got one foot in the poor house!

    I say let baseball run itself out of business. We can then count on Vince McMahon to come out with Extreme Baseball and the "Play-for-pay" concept. The more batters a pitcher intentionally beans in the head, the more $$$ he makes. Razor sharp cleats, corked bats, rushing the pitching mound and body slamming the pitcher, piledriving the Umps head into homeplate for a bad call...

    I'm there! Count me in for season tickets!


    John
    No excuses!
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  • hoosier21
    hoosier21 Posts: 4,413
    edited May 2002
    How about this:

    I work all year, over pay taxes, oops They owe me a refund because I OVERPAID, but the next year I have to report it as income??? am I the only dumbass that does not understand that?
    Dodd - Battery Preamp
    Monarchy Audio SE100 Delux - mono power amps
    Sony DVP-NS999ES - SACD player
    ADS 1230 - Polk SDA 2B
    DIY Stereo Subwoofer towers w/(4) 12 drivers each
    Crown K1 - Subwoofer amp
    Outlaw ICBM - crossover
    Beringher BFD - sub eq

    Where is the remote? Where is the $%#$% remote!

    "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us have...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited May 2002
    Hard to say, I haven't had a refund in quite some time...but I never reported them as income the next year....

    We used a CPA this year (2001) taxes, and Dubya's $600 check did not get mentioned, nor did it have to....

    Cheers,
    Russ
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • lax01
    lax01 Posts: 496
    edited May 2002
    Would anyone like any cheese with that whine? :D:D:D:D

    Just kidding! BTW, I think I am going to pick up my HSU VTF-2 tonight, I am pumped!
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  • Billm57
    Billm57 Posts: 689
    edited May 2002
    Originally posted by Ron-P
    Professional (if you can call it that) sports are a complete joke. How anyone can sit for hours and watch that crap is beyond me. Just a bunch of over-paid, over-glorified children who think what they do is serious stuff.


    Peace Out~:D
    Ron-I gotta agree with ya on this..I put the Cubs on to help me take my Sat afternoon naps..thats about it..Thats why Im an NHRA fan..
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  • scottvamp
    scottvamp Posts: 3,277
    edited May 2002
    I say let baseball run itself out of business.
    We can only hope!
    I live in Arizona (I sometimes wonder what GOD pays these rare people there salaries) I found out they are called FANS. Or as I call then idiots
    Looking for my point ????? People spent Millions of $$$$ on T-Shirts before the team was even picked. Give me a freaking break. BUT with that said they WERE the quickest newbie team to win the WS. And are well on there way again. What sucks is my Dad is a huge Baseball fan and made me watch the WS on my 8' HT. Snooze fest.:rolleyes:
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  • DarqueKnight
    DarqueKnight Posts: 6,765
    edited May 2002
    Originally posted by john d. strong
    Also, I'm at the gym this morning finishing my workout. I notice this woman, not in that bad of shape, exit one of the personal trainer's offices and comment..."Yeah, thats good advice!" About 20-30 seconds later, this FEMALE personal trainer, oh about 5'6" and damn near 170-180 lbs comes out of the office. The 170-180 lbs pretty much consisted of all bodyfat.


    Maybe (hopefully) the second lady was the supervisor for the personal trainers. At the last gym I was a member of, all the personal trainers were young, trim, and fit. However, their supervisor was a 50-ish overweight woman.:p
    Proud and loyal citizen of the Digital Domain and Solid State Country!
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited May 2002
    John, its time for a HDTV 52 inch Big Screen or Larger, and a larger room for your System.

    Paul,

    With my list of Mustang performance parts up and over the $4000.00 mark and still climbing, I think the TV is way in the backseat for now.

    I'll revisit this issue in the fall...late fall...late late fall. I'm too obsessed with fixing up the Stang right now. The weather is awesome and I want to cruise around town, not be stuck in a room watching movies.

    John
    No excuses!
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  • phd500
    phd500 Posts: 75
    edited May 2002
    Bout the BOSE...

    I know a guy that sweres by BOSE. He says there the best thing on earth and nothing sounds better. So after looring him to my house, I had him listen to my home theatre. Now I have a Sony Dolby Didgital reciever (100x5watts), with a JBL N center, 4 15" JBL's and a Polk PSW1200 subwoofer. I put in my Jurassic Park DVD and cranked it, just so he got the full effect of a theatre with real speakers. After playing about a 1/2 hour of the movie I shut it off. I figured no freeking way he want's BOSE now, rong:( . He actually said it sounded like crap. He said there wasn't enouf treble. He even said that the BOSE had better bass that you could feel:supermad: . Beleve me when you sit in my theatre you hear the highs, and the bass, well, do I have to say 4 15's and a PSW1200 again. My theatre messures 123db at the listenning spot ( about 10' from my speakers). And that isn't even full volume, plus that's with only one pair of 15's on. Is it just me or does this guy need to be smaked really hard :)
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  • pjriccio
    pjriccio Posts: 8
    edited May 2002
    John,

    What kind of System do you have int the Stang??
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited May 2002
    What can we say to make you feel better about the Bose incident? Too bad your system just didn't stack up against it. I mean, the guy bought Bose stuff and likes it. How can you care what his opinion is at this point? It is somewhat like asking your friend who is into fuel economy type cars what kind of muscle car to buy.
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • avelanchefan
    avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
    edited May 2002
    Professional (if you can call it that) sports are a complete joke. How anyone can sit for hours and watch that crap is beyond me. Just a bunch of over-paid, over-glorified children who think what they do is serious stuff.

    LOL! Thats calling the kettle black! And buying movie tickets or DVD's to watch twenty million dollar actors is doing what exactly? People sit for hours to watch movies, other people sit for hours to watch sports.

    Its the same thing....entertainment. And both types of entertainers get paid handsomely to entertain us. And all of them whine, all of them have their qwirks, all of them do jail time or spend time in court for the stupid crap they try to pull.

    And all of us will forgive and go back to get "entertained" some more. Whether watching movies or sports, or musicians. (Which holds a long list of whiney arseholes)
    Sean
    XboxLive--->avelanchefan
    PSN---->Floppa
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  • joe logston
    joe logston Posts: 882
    edited May 2002
    one good thing about the whole qvc is that bose must be hurting be cuase they are trying to sell there junk with all the rest of the juck on qvc.
    . rt-7 mains
    rt-20p surounds
    cs-400i front center
    cs-350 ls rear center
    2 energy take 5, efects
    2- psw-650 , subs
    1- 15" audiosource sub

    lets all go to the next ces.
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited May 2002
    Still sporting the old cheapo factory radio. A monster system will be installed down the line. Just have to get the engine overhaul and paint job finished first.

    Preliminary price quotes have put a full audio system in the Stang at around 3 grand. Definitely have to wait a little while for that!

    John
    No excuses!
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  • cgravil
    cgravil Posts: 101
    edited May 2002
    but your gonna use polk or polk/momo speakers right?
    The probibility of someone watching you is directly related to the stupidity of the action in question.:eek:
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