Well it turned out my remote control for my television was absolutely essential because no universal remote I found on the market was gonna make it do what I needed it to do to play DVD's. I was panicking, man!! And then I started to realize that even though I had hitherto refused to believe it, that mother fucker was likely inside the couch. You see I had figured out that whoever made my couch was stupid enough to leave a way for objects to literally disappear into the couch undetected forever. So I lifted the couch and felt around on the bottom and heard a sound strangely like the remote control I so longed for (the second half of 24 Hour Party People depended on this). So I realized I would just have to get some scissors and cut into the bottom fabric of the couch, and when I did so, guess what fell out. The object that had tortured me for half the bloody weekend, that's what. Christ. I'm serious, if I ever lost that, I'd have to buy a new television, it isn't funny. Otherwise I could never play DVD's. Live and learn.
― Bimble, Saturday, 28 July 2007 04:06 (eighteen years ago)
My best solution to this was when I was still at university, I attached it to my loft(bed) with a line of duct tape. Never lost it after that.
― kingfish, Saturday, 28 July 2007 05:39 (eighteen years ago)
B, if this happens again, check online -- we've got a pretty common Sony DVD/VHS combo but when our remote broke I found about 50 exact matches (not universals) for sale on eBay.
― Jeff Wright, Monday, 30 July 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39226
― sanskrit, Monday, 30 July 2007 02:48 (eighteen years ago)
My youngest sister used to be our remote control. "J, change the channel".
Sorry about that dude.
― Hard like armour, Monday, 30 July 2007 05:13 (eighteen years ago)
Well, blimey, it's Jeff Wright of all folks! Long time no see. Did you know the Church are making a major comeback right now? :P
Anyway, the problem with my remote is it has a feature marked "GAME". When I need to play a DVD on my television, I must push this button marked "GAME" on the remote or it doesn't work. There is no mention of a DVD button, it's just "GAME". And I saw no remotes with a feature named "GAME". Yes I know this makes my television insane, and yes I DID attempt to negotiate with it via buttons on it's front, but it wasn't having me at all. It demanded I use remote control.
Thanks for the suggestions, though. :)
― Bimble, Monday, 30 July 2007 05:59 (eighteen years ago)
You can borrow my sister.
― Hard like armour, Monday, 30 July 2007 06:07 (eighteen years ago)