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Thats one way to play the fishing game
Actually, this arrangement is a dousing rod to find the remote. It’s located in a that-a-way direction.
What are you talking about, this IS the remote. That old tech with the infrared and all that was so outdated we needed to update to pencil and fishing wire.
nope its a trip wire, you step on it and the tv falls on you
Because paying 12 bucks for a new remote or getting up is just out of the question, we now must cycle through every channel just to get to one right before the one that is on.
A real outdoorsman could carve a remote out of a block of wood.
What good is that? It can only push one button…
this worked a lot better than throwing rocks at the TV
True. But not nearly as much fun.
Elvis used a .38 caliber TV remote – to turn it off.
Ever shut off the whole system with a 12-gauge? Pictures will be publicly available soon. >:}
what about the other buttons? FAIL
Lame. A real kludger would have rigged it up to do channel up AND down
Not really, serious channel surfing is one way only. This lazy kludger is 100% legit.
One tiny piece of the life size Mousetrap game. Where did I put the bowling ball?
thats pretty much awesome except for the pencil obstructing the view, which is super annoying
Unless that’s the on/off button, this kludge is about as pointless as those pencils.
if this person is as lazy as suspected (albeit creative) i think it’s safe to assume the tv never goes off
Once, while stranded in the Canadian wilderness, I caught a wolverine in a figure-four deadfall quite similar to this.
Maybe this is the telegraph attachment for the Web TV
This is Kool.
Time to pencil in a new remote.
How Rube Goldberg changes the channel.
Channel surfing, as brought to you by actual surfers (no offense, guys, it’s just a stereotype.)
The yellow pencil also serves to hide your name from mom when it floats in the news marquee for a 7-11 heist. That is the whole point for this kludge.
“Kids, in my day we didn’t have remotes… we had to use a string, pencils and a rock to turn the TV on and off. You don’t know how good you have it with your fancy remotes with the fancy buttons….”
We had to cycle through all the channels available to get to the one we wanted! And there was only the one!
Channels? You had channels? We would gather around the TV in a circle, giddy with excitement as we watched dad turn it off and on and off and on until it was time for bed. And we didn’t have electricity.
TV? You had a TV? We just had a cubish-shaped hunk of long that we got to look at, day in and day out. There was a small knot on the side of it that we had to pretend was an on/off button. And don’t get me started on how bad our reception was.
luxury! we couldn’t afford a log, we had to stare at the wall and pretend there was a log
and the volume?
So… that’s how McGyver changes the channels…
Cmon this is the most classic kludge! I used yardsticks taped together…
No, dad. This is not how you “wire” the TV to connect it to “the internets”. Put the goggles and the apple down and I’ll get it setup for you, ok?
That’s just ridiculous. Everyone knows you should use a green pencil for the lever!
seriously guys, that thomson has no remote, at least not the one which should work with IR, and that button is for changing channels, there are at most 21 one of them, one should easily use this kludge for that many channels.
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where’s the spring?