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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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I think Toshiba made a 42", because I think we had one when I was younger.
He didn't say that he carried it alone. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:22 am Post subject: |
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| lemak wrote: |
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| Used to laugh when the lift would die (sometimes for days at a time) in these big apartment complexes and the princesses would have to drag their unfit asses up to the 18th floor in their high heels. Clip clopping all the way like a freakin' Clydesdale. "Ommoh!! I leaft-uh my Samsung Ga-Rek-Shee down inna da car!!" Back down again haha. Thankfully most of the schools are pretty cheap and tend to house teachers on the lesser desirable, cheaper fourth floors. Floors 3~5 are perfect in my book. High enough to weed out many of the mosquitoes, street noise and rapists, but low enough that you could probably survive a flaming inferno-induced leap. |
Yeah because that chubby foreigner over there will love to walk up 18 floors with his groceries.  |
Uh oh I set off your kneejerk Korean rose colored radar it seems.
"I don't like the mosquitoes in Korea in summer."
"Mosquitoes are worse in Canada! If you don't like Korea then you should just leave!" lol.
I made reference to the unfit foreigner in the post directly below that one, so it's all balanced, Homesy-poos. |
Naw, just think having to walk up 18 FLOORS would piss off ANYONE. Except you of course as you clearly are superman and immune to such things. |
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lemak
Joined: 02 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| lemak wrote: |
| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| lemak wrote: |
| Used to laugh when the lift would die (sometimes for days at a time) in these big apartment complexes and the princesses would have to drag their unfit asses up to the 18th floor in their high heels. Clip clopping all the way like a freakin' Clydesdale. "Ommoh!! I leaft-uh my Samsung Ga-Rek-Shee down inna da car!!" Back down again haha. Thankfully most of the schools are pretty cheap and tend to house teachers on the lesser desirable, cheaper fourth floors. Floors 3~5 are perfect in my book. High enough to weed out many of the mosquitoes, street noise and rapists, but low enough that you could probably survive a flaming inferno-induced leap. |
Yeah because that chubby foreigner over there will love to walk up 18 floors with his groceries. |
Uh oh I set off your kneejerk Korean rose colored radar it seems.
"I don't like the mosquitoes in Korea in summer."
"Mosquitoes are worse in Canada! If you don't like Korea then you should just leave!" lol.
I made reference to the unfit foreigner in the post directly below that one, so it's all balanced, Homesy-poos. |
Naw, just think having to walk up 18 FLOORS would piss off ANYONE. Except you of course as you clearly are superman and immune to such things. |
Who has said anything about climbing 18 floors *not* bothering people?
What exactly is your point?
Seems to me like you're just trying to start an argument again  |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:10 am Post subject: |
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Not at all.
Was just commenting.
If that offended you, sorry. No offense was meant except perhaps with the superman comment but that worked well with your rant on that k-woman and her heels whining as she climbed 18 floors.
Carry on and sorry for any offense. |
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declan74
Joined: 06 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:16 am Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
I think Toshiba made a 42", because I think we had one when I was younger.
He didn't say that he carried it alone. |
Ahhh a voice of reason on here for a change.
Actually a mate helped me carry it and it was far from 300lbs but very heavy nonetheless. I doubt you'd find a 300 lb television that wasn't filled with bricks.
I didn't take a video of my journey up, but wish I had in retrospect to silence some of the tossers that come on here looking to disprove and attack genuine posts and posters. Get a life dude. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:00 am Post subject: |
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| Actually a mate helped me carry it and it was far from 300lbs but very heavy nonetheless. I doubt you'd find a 300 lb television that wasn't filled with bricks. |
Wrong again. Here's the 300+ pound Sony 40 inch XBR CRT:
http://reviews.cnet.com/direct-view-tvs-crt/sony-wega-kv-40xbr800/4505-6481_7-9453304.html
Any bigger than 40 inches, then you are probably talking about some commercial CRT and I don't know how likely you were to find one of those in Russia.
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| wish I had in retrospect to silence some of the tossers that come on here looking to disprove and attack genuine posts and posters. |
The reason why I know that you're either lying or exaggerating is that I still have my ancient 32 inch Sony XBR. Back then, I lusted after the 36 and the 40 inch XBR versions, but they were several thousand dollars more and I had to seriously consider how I'd ever move them. I know moving my 32 involved two people and would take us hours to move up 10 floors. Moving the 300+ lb. 40 inch involves four people and you'd have serious problems navigating it around a staircase.
While I think it's possible to move a 36 inch given enough time, there's no way you carried a direct view 42 inch CRT over ten floors. Just look at the comments on this thread with similar sized CRTs:
http://www.avsforum.com/t/991666/what-was-the-largest-direct-view-crt-ever-made
"In 1990 I saw a Sony 43 inch direct view CRT. It took 4 men to carry it. They had a big sling and two long poles to carry it. They had to carry it on their shoulders. It cost $13,000 in 1990."
"we had 15 of the 40" mits. we used them when renting out video conference setups. we would have to send 4 guys just to get them out of the case and setup." |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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The Toshiba 51" CRT weighs 169 lb.
He didn't say that it was Sony. Toshibas weighed (and cost) considerably less. He also didn't say that it was in 1990. They were much cheaper towards the end of the decade. My dad would have never spent over 2 grand on a TV. For all we know, it was fairly recent and he'd purchased the TV for cheap, second hand.
Don't make assumptions based on retail at time of release. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:26 am Post subject: |
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| He also didn't say that it was in 1990. |
I can't think of too many Westerners who'd be ordering pizza and getting big screen TVs in Moscow 1990. I'm guessing it was more like 1999. |
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declan74
Joined: 06 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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| He also didn't say that it was in 1990. |
I can't think of too many Westerners who'd be ordering pizza and getting big screen TVs in Moscow 1990. I'm guessing it was more like 1999. |
Actually,it was 2009. The tv belonged to the landlord who decided to give it to me as I didn't have one. I can't recall the make, but it certainly wasn't a sony. It was big and very bulky but far from 300 pounds. |
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lemak
Joined: 02 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| declan74 wrote: |
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| He also didn't say that it was in 1990. |
I can't think of too many Westerners who'd be ordering pizza and getting big screen TVs in Moscow 1990. I'm guessing it was more like 1999. |
Actually,it was 2009. The tv belonged to the landlord who decided to give it to me as I didn't have one. I can't recall the make, but it certainly wasn't a sony. It was big and very bulky but far from 300 pounds. |
The joys of the Korean ESL world that you're required to clarify such inane details, huh? |
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byrddogs
Joined: 19 Jun 2009
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Unless there is some great view, I have no need to be on a high floor (elevator or not). My first apt. in Shanghai had a great view. I was on the 22nd floor out of 34 and wanted to be higher. My current apt. has no view and I'm right where I want to be on the 2nd floor out of 6. Lugging bikes up any further than that sucks. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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Of all the things to discuss, we end up debating the size and make of a TV in Russia, and how heavy.
I love Dave's  |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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The Toshiba 51" CRT weighs 169 lb.
He didn't say that it was Sony. Toshibas weighed (and cost) considerably less. He also didn't say that it was in 1990. They were much cheaper towards the end of the decade. My dad would have never spent over 2 grand on a TV. For all we know, it was fairly recent and he'd purchased the TV for cheap, second hand.
Don't make assumptions based on retail at time of release. |
Read my post again. I didn't mention nor imply it was 1990. I was merely pointing out how difficult it was to transport a DIRECT VIEW CRT TV of that size by using someone else's quote.
However, I think the problem is that you guys are talking about rear projection TVs. When declan74 mentioned a TV "with the big picture tube in the back" I assumed he was talking about a direct view CRT TV and limited my comments appropriately to direct view TVs. Apparently, his idea of "big" is radically different than mine. (Insert male member joke here.) So I stand by my statement, it would have been impossible for him and his friend to lift a direct view TV of that size up 10 floors. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 1:50 am Post subject: |
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You're right. Big is relative  |
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Hank the Iconoclast
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| They were working on the elevators at my uni, so I routinely had to walk up 11 flight of stairs to my office. Also, my uni is on top of a hill which is equivalent to about six flights of stairs. Good times. |
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