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| - Okay, we all hate our cable company. No matter which one it is, the price, the customer service, or the total package of content offered. It is our inherent American right to hate the cable company. Just like the government or our dentist's assistants. That said, I am trying to be objective.
Is Cox a decent cable provider? Sure. For the price of a couple weeks worth of groceries, I get such quality programming as Spike(which emits Axe body spray thru a special new adapter on the router), CSpan, Cspan II, Cspan Espanol, about five religious channels, the worst ESPN(flagship) of all seven ESPN networks, which I don't get, MTV2(now that it shows Boy Meets World all day long. Not back when it was relevant), FX(home to edited Hollywood blockbusters and Russell Brand's late night show. Points off right there, mate), several shopping channels and about four other channels dubbed History, Nat Geo, etc. that basically show monster truck pulls piloted by alligators and hillbillies trading in antique rifles for Skoal money. I don't get about a hundred other interesting sounding channels, because I won't shell out the extra bills to watch even more of the same listed above.
Has cable always been this bad? Sure. But now it costs more, and shows even yet less content. I have HBO just to watch anything of value. I find myself watching the local channels, HGTV and Lifetime more than anything. And the "music stations"? Err, no thanks. If I want to hear bland music, I'll throw on Pandora. About the only trump card cable holds right now is AMC. Damn you, AMC.
Now, the internet service. Ask me three months ago, I would have said "tremendous". But since the summer, bollocks. It freezes, it crashes and uploading(life's blood to a net troll and homebody such as myself) is nearly impossible. It's not my computer before you even start tech support nerd!! Trust me. I've unplugged and rebooted everything in the house save for a clock radio. I've found varying degrees of bandwidth depending on the hour of the day. Which is why I'm writing this at 5 am. My Blackberry has better net service. Sad. Just sad.
The people? Can't say. I leave that tomfoolery for the wife to deal with. If I so much as have to hear one "sir" over the phone, I would probably murder everyone on my block. That's more of a personal problem. She seems to not like them from what I hear.
In all, a mediocre experience at best. They are making money hand over fist and I'm entertained maybe two hours a day. One may say "boo hoo, at least you can afford it. Some of us can't even feed our kids." Listen, that's your problem, lazy people. I go to work and pay for services that are subpar. My Verizon service? No complaints. My other utilities? Just fine. I'm not a curmudgeon(I kind of am). You are just currently the worst thing I pay for. By default, you get the bad review. Try harder and I might just praise you. But why should you? You get paid no matter what, so screw the consumer. That should be your motto if it already isn't.
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