Satellite Radio

ZKindaGuy

Whatever...I stand by what I say about the "F" word on SAT radio...I don't care if it is just a minor number of channels that does it...bottom line is that it isn't necessary to be broadcasting filth over the airwaves every other word...and if it is necessary for anyone then that person must not have much going in life...

370Z Purist

Language is language, you can't do anything about it. Just deal and listen to other stuff. I don't swear much myself but I don't mind an occasional shout or hearing it ... as long as it seriously isn't every other word.

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"Since one of my brake light bulbs just went out, the forum told me that my piston rings are about to blow."

ZKindaGuy

370Z Purist

Clarify what is BS?

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"Since one of my brake light bulbs just went out, the forum told me that my piston rings are about to blow."

ZCarGo

First, let me say I never thought I'd pay for radio. I didn't have cable until I moved into a house with zero TV reception in 2001.

I started my subscription with an add-on radio when I was still in CA. Very long commutes and radio blew with constant commercials. This was well before I had an AUX input on my radio so I was stuck shuffling CDs..I hate CDs, they are a real PITA.

Since I began, the price has gone up to whatever it is today. I don't really care what the cost is, it's paid for itself 100X over in my sanity. I have a 100mile round trip commute and couldn't imagine terrestrial radio with the constant barrage of commercials.

Between XM and my MP3 player (3000+ tracks), I've got all the entertainment I need. The only time I've ever listened to FM in the past 4+ years is when I'm in a car wash and I can't get a signal. CDs? What are those? I couldn't tell if my CD changers have worked in the past 5 cars because I've never used them.

I am a firm believer of the First Amendment. Having this freedom doesn't require a listener to tune in..there's always the "next station" button and you do have the parental controls ability you can set up to protect the little ones

Now for the bad stuff:

• The customer service really blows.
• They can't get their billing straight to save their life.
• You will wait on hold for hours to talk to some Indian dude who you can't understand.
• I can't stand all of the channels I don't use and have to pay for (kind of like cable).

..and one last note..I wouldn't waist your time with the traffic service. Perhaps in cities with a good alternate infrastructure it would be worth something. I use my Google Maps on my phone to get my traffic...it's free.

-ZCarGo-

tooohip

Humm... What channels are you listening to? I mostly tune in the Alternative or classic rock stations and rarely hear this stuff? On the other hand, it's a pay service like cable and this stuff is said from time to time. I hear it mostly in some of the songs that are played, but that's the same as if I had the mp3 or a CD, so I'm not sure what stations you listen too (perhaps switch off the porn channel and listen to a music channel). ;-)

Regardless, if you don't like the language change the channel. I'm so sick of folks who bitch about language.

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ZKindaGuy

The "language is language" part. And having "to just deal" with it. All we have done for the last 50 years is just "deal with it" and we have let this country which once stood not only as a beacon of t freedom...but freedom grounded in a good sense of wholesome morals and values.

And now look at it.....a country full of:

• drugs
• sex
• white-collar thievery
• courts that don't have a clue as to what is fair, equitable or just
• a government that continuously lies to its people
• a country that protects illegal aliens instead of booting them out
• kids that think so little of life that it doesn't even phase them to do things for "fun" that can instantly remove that life
• schools full of kids settling their differences by shooting one another
• kids that video-phone fights as a hobby and then post them on the Internet for everyone to be entertained by
• ....and the list just goes on and on and on ad naseum.....

These kinds of behavior and all the other BS we have just looked the other way about has done nothing but made us slaves to perdition. We as a nation have become decadent...its that plain and that simple....and once a nation has turned that corner into becoming that then as history has 100% of the time shown everything else about that country will collapse...its morals...its values...its people become lazy with entertainment usurping productivity.....the vices become the virtues around which the people rally...it becomes shackled by numerous contradictive laws....and finally the last stage of the fall of their greatness....the economy collapses.

And you are going to tell me this cesspool we have allowed to be created right beneath our feet and now have to stand in is really great and something to look forward to having???

And please don't hand me the other BS and say "well if you don't like it you can always go to some other country where its worse than us and there is nothing but a dictatorship"......well let me say there is no country worse than a country that had it all and didn't respect having it enough to have the desire or commitment to want to preserve, nurture and keep it and instead just let it all slip away....

That my friend is one of the highest atrocities that can be allowed to occur....

And someone here will no doubt say..."all this anger just because of some foul language on the airwaves?" Well to that moron I say....how in the heck do you think it all begins...with some monstrous obtuse undeniable thing??" No it starts with something so innocent and innoculous that it slips by completely unnoticed...which is exactly how a "cancer" of any kind gets started. And that is how it has all but completely slipped away from us in the last 50 years.

So am I angery? You bet!! And that is the reason I labeled what you say as BS...because it is what it is...the same BS crap I always hear or read when someone starts to call others out on their incredulous stupidity.

tooohip

LOL, just read the above post again for the same BS crap I always hear or read!"

Sorry, but the language on XM radio isn't causing that!

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xiven

"Its all part of the plan"

cossie1600

Wow, someone drank too much of the republican bible kool-aid.

Pushing_Tin

People here swear, are you going to stop coming? There is swearing and sex on TV, do you stop watching TV? Live a good life and stop worrying about what everyone else is doing.

texmedic

Sweet lord I post a couple days ago about xm and I look back on here today and the its gettin bananas up in here!! I think xm just might be sending me secret expletive ridden messages and controlling my brain and they, the voices, say " You drive "f"in fast right now and enjoy your automobile and go forth and partake of the handling and the sweetness that is the 370Z you are driving!! They say some other stuff about callin in sick and driving around instead and once I think they said something about eating only dolphin safe tuna..... Anyway the point is.... Ummmm well I really dont have a point but, I like xm. and xm has channels for pretty much any lifestyle choice and I believe the constitution supports those choices. Hooray Freedom!

370Z Purist

(I am somewhat expecting a lock now...)

I appreciate the fact you have an opinion, but unless you actually do something about it, you're not entitled to a rant like this. Maybe not all countries have our freedom, liberties, privileges, etc., but unless you actually make some petition to fine or jail people who swear, all you're doing is rehashing traditional values.
I understand what you mean, but guess what, every country is bound to fail. You think this democratic republic system actually even works? I might only dabble in political science, but there is no perfect government. Our system is wrapped up to its eyeballs in a mess of crime, injustice, and a bunch of other typical crap. It's not going to change.

(I think I smell subliminal messaging here...)

Oh, and if you want to feel a little better, print out a certificate from here:
The NO Cussing Club
sign it, and then hang it on your wall.

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-Phil

"Since one of my brake light bulbs just went out, the forum told me that my piston rings are about to blow."

Evolved

Channel 202 is where it's at. I'm betting ZKindaGuy would love it.


Only XL channels have cursing. Which is around 10 out of 170 channels.

TheWeatherman

Ha ha! The Virus! My fave. I sit and laugh all day when I listen to that channel. ZGuy's head might spin in circles though.