It's crazy, but even at this advanced age in life, I seem to lack some rather rudimentary skills. To whit, Fang and I have a very large flat screen television that is in our living room. This is clearly a man-television. It requires four remote controls just to turn the damned thing on---the sound system, the uber-surround sound and the HD-enhanced viewing...to say nothing of actually turning the television on. For Christ sake, I just want a picture and some sound. The bells and whistles are lost on me.
The remotes have been so well used in their brief tenure (and let's be clear, by the ten fingers that belong to the male living in this apartment), that I can not even program a channel in the non-HD category in order to just find out..you know, today's weather. I usually resort to a head thrown back gesture and a frustrated mew when, suddenly, the remote is snapped from my hand (this would be from the male in the house) who effortlessly dials in a series of numbers to provoke a picture on the screen in seconds. I suspect this is his supreme domestic talent. It should be--he spends enough time laboring on it.
This kind of dominance bothers me. I am perturbed that I too cannot whip out double fisted remote controls and access any channel in my 200+ channel domain in a mil-second. That I can't easily invoke the picture-in-picture function on the TV. That I don't even know how to work the remote for the stereo sound to the TV. That I don't have any channel numbers memorized outside of NBC, PBS and Bravo. I fairly suck.
Honestly, I'm just trying to figure out how to turned the damned thing on.
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Ours is much simpler, just a remote for the TV and one for the DVD player. I don't watch much TV anyway -- the OTHER man of the house is a 'flipper', and it drives me crazy.
Come stay in the "Smart" house. The thermostat is controlled by the computer. The lights are controlled by the computer. The damned phone is answered by the computer--I can't just play back a missed message or look at the phone display--I have to sign on to my e-mail and wait for it to be forwarded there. But, worst of all, you are right, the television, the stereo and the internet are controlled by the computer. AND--the screen savers for the computer, are all of our photos stored on the computer. It randomly chooses them and puts them up. Every time I want to watch something, I feel like I am entering into a final round of Mother May I...
Hello Ladies: sorry to hear you all are having problems with the tv remotes and such.Well, my problem I can't operate the washer but I have good knowledge of the dryer.(I even read the ops manual)Anyway who cares if you ask you shall receive,we didn't design it,that way,its just is.Life isn't fair,but its worth trying something new??My wife is the flipper in the house,so I know what you mean.Thanks for letting me say my 2 cents worth.
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