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finesse said:
Learning how to talk again again. This will be the fifth time in six years that things have changed in how I could talk and eat. First, I had all my teeth pulled before radiation. Then, at the last moment, they decided to put in a trach which involved using a speaking valve to talk. After a little over a year, they removed the trach. Because of the amount of radiation, instead of closing in a week, it didn't close at all. After a year of keeping the stoma bandaged and having to put a finger over the hole to talk, they closed it surgically. Today, I finally got full dentures. Damn, it feels funny and talking is strange.
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Great news
 
finesse said:
Learning how to talk again again. This will be the fifth time in six years that things have changed in how I could talk and eat. First, I had all my teeth pulled before radiation. Then, at the last moment, they decided to put in a trach which involved using a speaking valve to talk. After a little over a year, they removed the trach. Because of the amount of radiation, instead of closing in a week, it didn't close at all. After a year of keeping the stoma bandaged and having to put a finger over the hole to talk, they closed it surgically. Today, I finally got full dentures. Damn, it feels funny and talking is strange.
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Thank you for posting that. I'm sorry you had to go through it all. But on the upside, it sure puts into perspective all the trivial inconveniences I "suffered" over the last six years. Every time I get too deep into the whole "WOE IS ME!" thing, it takes someone like you who really has encountered obstacles in life more serious than how far away from the grocery store entrance I had to park to slap me back into reality. Again, thank you.
 
UNCatTech said:
I'll never buy another Samsung tv.

It comes with samsung tv plus. A bunch of crappy free 490i channels that I do not watch to watch.

So, I keep removing the app and I've set the settings to return to the last viewed at startup. But the stupid samsung tv keeps being added back to the apps and becomes the default.

I'm about to throw the TV out of the window and buy a different brand.

I own 4 different brands of tv and this is the only one I have this issue with.
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most samsung things are total shit these days. their fridges SUCK
 
UNCatTech said:
I'll never buy another Samsung tv.

It comes with samsung tv plus. A bunch of crappy free 490i channels that I do not watch to watch.

So, I keep removing the app and I've set the settings to return to the last viewed at startup. But the stupid samsung tv keeps being added back to the apps and becomes the default.

I'm about to throw the TV out of the window and buy a different brand.

I own 4 different brands of tv and this is the only one I have this issue with.
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I went to hook up a new Smsung tv my sister bought a couple of years ago. And yep, went through all the rig-a-marole with setting up accounts and crap and then discovering how locked in you were to their world. Wouldn't load many 3rd party apps. Had those same qazillion channels. Looked at my sister and said we are factory resetting and returning. Got a HCL Roku for near half the price. Great picture no problems.

They do make good phones though.
 
grimes70 said:
I went to hook up a new Smsung tv my sister bought a couple of years ago. And yep, went through all the rig-a-marole with setting up accounts and crap and then discovering how locked in you were to their world. Wouldn't load many 3rd party apps. Had those same qazillion channels. Looked at my sister and said we are factory resetting and returning. Got a HCL Roku for near half the price. Great picture no problems.

They do make good phones though.
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The other brand TVs that I have also offer the free channels, but they don't actively try to force you to watch them.
 
JCTarheel82 said:
Their electronics are quality. Appliances are and have always been garbage.
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The TV is fine. It's the stupid programming that keeps reinstalling the crap and blocks one from permanently removing the crap that I don't want.

If it absolutely has to be there, then do like the other manufactures, it's there but you never notice unless you actively look for it.

I purchased a TV, I don't need anything else from them. I'm to the point of either installing a ROKU or throwing the TV away and purchasing a different brand.
 
UNCatTech said:
The TV is fine. It's the stupid programming that keeps reinstalling the crap and blocks one from permanently removing the crap that I don't want.

If it absolutely has to be there, then do like the other manufactures, it's there but you never notice unless you actively look for it.

I purchased a TV, I don't need anything else from them. I'm to the point of either installing a ROKU or throwing the TV away and purchasing a different brand.
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I always slap a Roku on all of my indoor TVs. Love the UI. Best bang for your buck IMO is a LG C series with a Roku Ultra. I went cheaper on the back porch TV (LG Mini LED) because, well, it's outdoors and I wanted to stay under a grand.
 
JCTarheel82 said:
I always slap a Roku on all of my indoor TVs. Love the UI. Best bang for your buck IMO is a LG C series with a Roku Ultra. I went cheaper on the back porch TV (LG Mini LED) because, well, it's outdoors and I wanted to stay under a grand.
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You'd be surprised at the picture quality of HCL and Roku tvs. Rather inexpensive. And the Roku starts right up with their interface.
 
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Remember Prez Rickard, the first teen-age president? As it appears that the younger among us were perhaps less afflicted by Covid-19 germs and were often asymptomatic carriers my mind wanders back to another time when the youth of the world were potentially powerful - the 1970s.

True, these are just the mind-wanderings of a 60+ historian & denizen of popular & underground culture but the prospect of more blunders by septuagenarian so-called leaders makes this sextagenarian feel some identification with that long-ago fantasy.
 

highness got us looking so crazy right now​


Say what you will about the royal family, but they have an amazing talent for tactfully celebrating their colonizing past every Commonwealth Day.

CANADA-BRITAIN-ROYALS-JUBILEE King Charles III is now also a DJ. | Pool photo by Paul Chiasson/AFP via Getty Images

His Royal Highness and man cursed with dry pens King Charles III is now also a DJ. He shared his own playlist of pop songs. Some of them are even from this century!

Say what you will about the royal family, but they have an amazing talent for tactfully celebrating their colonizing past every Commonwealth Day.

This year in particular, the musical initiative is welcomed by anyone who needs a distraction from whatever type of hell is currently being broadcast by 24-hour news channels.

Monday was the world’s premiere of King Charles’ new radio show: The King’s Music Room. The title alone is proof that the monarch is a true man of the people: Who doesn’t have a room solely dedicated to listening to music these days? It’s usually the one on the ground floor of our mansions, next to the library, ça va sans dire.

But despite the out-of-touchness of a 76-year-old billionaire who received a tax-free inheritance from his mother and owns a multimillion-pound real estate portfolio, the temptation to check out the royal playlist is irresistible. Even with POLITICO Towers’ refusal to pay for an Apple Music subscription — as apparently this doesn’t qualify as “investigative reporting.” Agree to disagree.

From King Charles’ sausage fingers tap-dancing to Kylie Minogue’s “Loco-motion” to his tribute to Bob Marley & The Wailers’ “Could You Be Loved,” there is a lot to unpack, though one edition of this column is not enough to cover it all. If any Freudian pseudo-therapist wants to send in their thoughts anyway, please do.

But what makes this playlist truly magical is a salute to another, more powerful royal with a larger following: Her Majesty the Queen of pretty much everything, Beyoncé. I guess there is something the king has in common with his subjects after all.

Picture it: Fancy music room, Buckingham Palace, 2025. Charles III’s pen ran out of ink again; he’s upset. He puts on a record: “Crazy in Love.” Beyoncé sings, he dances, Jay-Z raps, and all is well with the world again.

 
I have no idea where it came from, hence random, today I had a craving for peanuts in a coke bottle. It's probably been 30+ yrs since i've had it.
 
gregh1 said:
I have no idea where it came from, hence random, today I had a craving for peanuts in a coke bottle. It's probably been 30+ yrs since i've had it.
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+30 years, that's nothing. Only 2 days ago had got an urge for something that happened 2,069 years ago.
 
05C40 said:
+30 years, that's nothing. Only 2 days ago had got an urge for something that happened 2,069 years ago.
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Does this have anything to do with all of the pictures I keep seeing with Cesar salads with multiple knives sticking into the bag?
 
Why is there such a difference between turbo tax online and the one you install on your computer?
 
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