Larry Jaques wrote:
On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:05:41 -0400, Michael A Terrell
wrote:

Neon John wrote:
On Sun, 01 Oct 2017 09:33:44 -0500, Ignoramus13481
wrote:


meanwhile the suckers keep on buying

I'll bet the people in Florida and Texas who stockpiled bottled water
did not consider themselves suckers. We keep bottled water in gallon
jugs in our motorhome because there is no telling what the local water
tastes like. We're certainly not suckers.


I had six gallon jugs of distilled water on hand for cooking, and 16
two liter bottles of fake Diet Mountain Dew when Irma hit. The gallon
jugs were 87 cents each, and the diet soda were 75 cents, each. I also
had 20 cans of Spam.

Well, at least you ate and drank "well". kaff, kaff, kaff


My electricity was out until the 169th of last month. CATV and
Internet were resorted on the 20th. The landline still doesn't work,
over a month later.

That's late in the month! g


People around here will not cut down dead or dying trees. A huge one
fell, crushed their fence, snapped off a 40' power pole and block the
road, and ended up taking out the fence across the street. They cut up
enough to clear the road, but the upper part was still over tree feet in
diameter.


My broadband provider closed my Earthlink account and replaced it
with their crappy product, taking my email and Newsgroups with it. I
just signed up for a different Usenet service a couple days ago.

I'm having trouble with Centurylink out here on the Left Coast. My 3
year contract expired and my $74.12 monthly payment for phone and
5mbps Internet jumped to $90 and change. I called them and was put on
hold, then was hung up on 15 minutes later. I called back and was put
on hold again, but I hung up after the ******* didn't come back on to
the call within 45 minutes. By then, I was so mad I said "F*ck it."
About a week and a half later, my ire had cooled and I called again
and got someone who stayed on the line, telling me they did away with
contracts, and everything is just $85/mo for phone and 12mbps
Internet. That works out to $100/mo after taxes and graft fees. I
was all set up to pay $100 for the faster modem/router when the day
came and the installer called and said "Well, we won't be able to do
this. The fastest broadband in your area is 5mbps and they aren't
allowing us to do bonded pairs any more. A few days later, I got the
letter of cancellation from Centurylink. When I got back from house
sitting for my sister, I grabbed the stack of mail from the box and I
had a bill from my old long distance service, though I'd called them
to shut it off a month ago. The fee had doubled because I wasn't on
the original contract any more, and Centurylink hadn't taken it over,
so Centurylink has bent me over and ass-raped me in just one more way.
I hope that makes you feel better about what the storm put you
through.



Centurylink sucks. My landline hasn't been worth a damn, since it
changed it's name from Sprint. The underground lines are 50 years old,
and mostly bad pairs. They won't replace it, until they decide to
convert everything to fiber.