![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-762676-100x100.png\")
Well, at least they had the decency to upgrade their customers from one boob to two, free of charge.
1 replies
Well, at least they had the decency to upgrade their customers from one boob to two, free of charge.
![\"user-pic\"](\"/css/images/default.gif\")
What better people to show B rated porn too?
Conspiracist theory: Girls Gone Wild did it puposly to make sure we all burn in Hell!!!! And to sell a couple tapes to some backed up people.
The only emergency alert I have after watching that commercial at 2am is trying to find a towel fast enough.
![\"user-pic\"](\"/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-614980-100x100.png\")
I guess it's true that nothing wholesome happens after midnight.
The first ever positive Comcast piece on the site! I want to paypal donate them $5 for this!
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-414437-100x100.png\")
This is actually hillariously win.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-968286-100x100.png\")
wow, way to go Comcast. Now I understand why everybody hates them.
![\"user-pic\"](\"/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-545239-100x100.png\")
I think it's a great idea to provide porn in case of emergencies. At least it'll keep people inside and out of danger.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-16563-100x100.png\")
At least the Pope didn't show us his tits.
![\"user-pic\"](\"/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-147328-100x100.png\")
Not. Again.
Well the EBS did work, but some jerk had something on that channel that was no-no-no-nauty boy, let me turn you over my knee and give you a spanking!
This is hilarious.
\"We interrupt your regularly scheduled Pope broadcast to inform you of possible boobies in your area. Please stand by.\"
Well, honestly, as an atheist and agnostic person, I'd rather watch Girls Gone Wild than the pope. And I don't even like Girls Gone Wild.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-7101-100x100.png\")
@Cocoa Vanilla: Great. However, I'd doubt you'd want to see a GGW ad if you stayed up past 2 in the morning to watch something you do appreciate.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-562864-100x100.png\")
@Cocoa Vanilla: Ouch, that would be a tough decision. Fortunately we don't have a TV and don't have to watch either :)
*goes to find wife's boobies instead
@HiPwr:
\"A person can believe in a god (theism) without claiming to know for sure if that god exists; the result is agnostic theism. On the other hand, a person can disbelieve in gods (atheism) without claiming to know for sure that no gods can or do exist; the result is agnostic atheism.\"
It's from an \"About\" article, so take from it what you will.
@SJActress: That explanation still makes no sense to me. How can you disbelieve yet claim not to know for sure? Disbelieving implies that you have made up your mind about something. I need to canvass this matter over a good deal more.
@valsharess1: Did you hear about the insomniac atheist dyslexic? He stays awake wondering if there is a dog.
@HiPwr:
He doesn't believe that there are people who say you can't prove there is a God.
Or something like that.
I don't know which one I less want to watch.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-871030-100x100.png\")
The irony is great.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-58582-100x100.png\")
Take that papalcy.
I call bull on Comcast's response. The fact that it was a 30 second advertisement suggests it was more likely a malfunction with their local ad insertion system than anything to do with EBS.
You know those messy ads for local businesses and events you see on cable channels? That's a system at the cable company that overrides the channel feed with its own commercials. When the timing is out of whack, it inserts the ad in the middle of a TV show instead of during the commercial break.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-851357-100x100.png\")
@gaberussell: I thought that the EBS tests interrupted more than just one targetted channel, as well.
@HiPwr: That's true - EBS cuts all channels on the cable system over to an input that usually has video from a character generator (providing text on screen) and audio from a phone line.
When I was involved with that stuff, EBS was triggered by calling the phone line attached to the EBS equipment in the cable company head end and then dialing a passcode. That would trigger the cutover, and the caller's voice would go out live on all channels to convey emergency info.
This was before digital cable, though I doubt much has changed. The idea that the EBS system would be mistakenly routed to a commercial playback input seems unlikely, since the first rule of the Emergency Broadcast System is \"You do not screw with the Emergency Broadcast system.\"
Is it true that they granted priesthood to anyone who didn't pop one?
![\"user-pic\"](\"/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-255368-100x100.png\")
Think of the complaints they would have gotten if Girls Gone Wild was interrupted by the Pope.
Those girls are crazy. It's entirely appropriate to broadcast an emergency message to alert the populace so that they can be put down immediately.
Why does a channel that provides emergency information even have ad's in first place? most of the time don't they just use a PSA channel for that?
![\"user-pic\"](\"/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-237201-100x100.png\")
I wanted to provide some quick clarity. This was not a glitch in terms of our systems. Here is what happened: As part of the Emergency Alert System, we elect to auto tune our boxes to a local broadcast channel to provide the best information in an emergency. We test this system monthly late at night to limit any inconvenience. During this month's test the local broadcast channel had a paid advertisement for this video (The same video was on their over the air broadcast). This was not a commercial being run by Comcast or content provided by Comcast. We do apologize that this occurred. Our intent is to guide the box to a local news source for further information in an emergency and certainly not advertise this content to people not interested.
I hope this makes sense.
Thank you!
Frank Eliason
Comcast
@ComcastCares on Twitter
We_Can_Help@cable.comcast.com
@comcastcares: Is there any kind of notification to viewers of the cutover? I'd imagine you'd get a lot of phone calls from confused people when they suddenly can't tune in any channels except a local affiliate.
@comcastcares: Quick correction the test is actually weekly. I guess I need to stay up later more often.
So I take it the Girls Gone Wild people did not have to pay Comcast for this syndication in cable?
I sure hope not, since only antenna folk were able to see it.
![\"user-pic\"](\"/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-363287-100x100.png\")
Stop with the technical details, Smithers. However you managed it, bravo. This one will get you extra gravy with your next holiday bonus chicken.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-286941-100x100.png\")
I love how 1 person called to complain, yep, 1 :-)
Can I request Comcast please pre-empt any Pope coverage in the future? Definite drain on your ratings. Thanks.
Geez, what's with all the Pope-bashing?
@gafpromise: I am wondering the same thing. I am not Catholic but I know that the Pope is an honorable man and I respect him. I don't know if it is that he sticks to his beliefs even if it brings him hatred but I see the Pope as a wise a good human. With all the fraud and people trying to ruin each other on this site I expected people to respect the Pope.
You know, if Comcast wasn't so desperate for advertising revenues that they'll show anything as long as someone is willing to pay for it, they wouldn't have to worry so much about getting their feeds crossed.
Comcast has got to be the champion purveyor of sleaze advertising.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-488475-100x100.png\")
I don't know, but the porn thing was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. I laughed myself silly over that one.
![\"user-pic\"](\"/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-957543-100x100.png\")
\"AMEN!\" said the congregation.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-126307-100x100.png\")
Porn ad interrupt the Pope? Best thing to ever happen!!! :D
At least we've finally gotten away from reality TV.
Mythology from the Pope followed by silicone from Dr's MacNamara and Troy.
The only thing real on TV that night was the Snuggie!
Sorry to be so picky, but since when is a broadcast of a Good Friday Mass (which only happens once a year, as far as I know) a \"regularly scheduled program\"?
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-133551-100x100.png\")
Given it involved the Catholic Church, I would have expected an ad for \"Underage Choir Boys Gone Wild\" :-)
\"As you've probably heard, the Pope has asked all the Cardinals to return to Rome. You know how they got them all to come back? They told them that there was going to be a performance by the Vienna Boys Choir.\" --Jay Leno
![\"user-pic\"](\"/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-345620-100x100.png\")
So the Pope, one of the best Popes the faithful have seen in generations is deathly ill. The Vatican calls in doctors of all sorts, experts in their fields, to find out what's wrong with the holy man. Doctor after doctor fails to diagnose the Pope, who by this time is bed-ridden and weak, having resigned himself to death.
The assembled Cardinals are in a panic. They don't want the Pope to die as he's been such a positive influence on the Church for so long. They invite more and more doctors to come and see what is wrong with the Pope and try to cure him.
Finally, a doctor comes that can figure out what's wrong with the Pope and how to cure him. \"It's simple, he says, the Pope needs to have sex with a woman.\"
The Cardinals are shocked and call in another horde of doctors for a second opinion. After listening to the first doctor, they concur - the Pope needs to have sex with a woman to live.
In a panic, the Cardinals approach the Pope on his sickbed. They explain the situation and the cure. The Pope refuses. He's worked so hard to restore the Church's image, to bring it above scandal that to go back now would be hypocrisy. The Cardinals insist and after what seems like days of arguing, the Pope relents.
Wheezing from his bed, the Pope says, \"If this is what must be done to save my life and thus save the Church, then it must be God's will. But I cannot in good conscience just have sex with any woman. I have three requirements.\"
The Cardinals collectively sigh in relief. \"Of course, your Holiness. we would only select a chaste and pious woman who...\"
\"No, no. I am thinking of the Church's future. The woman must not know who I am lest this scandal damage the Church. Therefore,\" he coughs, \"she must be blind.\"
The Cardinals all nod their assent. \"Of course, your Holiness.\"
The Pope take a drink of water to ease his dry throat. \"And what's more, as a man who has never touched a woman carnally, I do not know what I may say when we perform the act. Therefore, she must also be deaf lest she hear me cry out and can identify me.\"
Again, the Cardinals agree. The Pope begins coughing again, deep wracking coughs that shake his withered frame. He drinks another few sips of water as the Cardinals lean in closer. \"Your Holiness... The final requirement? Should she be mute as well? A virgin? What?\"
The Pope waves his hand to silence the assembled Cardinals. \"Finally,\" he gasps between coughs, cupping his raised hands towards the sky, \"She must have big tits!\"
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-25155-100x100.png\")
Tyler Durden was running the projector again.
MAYBE THE POPE BASHING COMES FROM PEOPLE'S DISAPPOINTMENT IN HIS PERFORMANCE.
IN AFRICA HE WAS AN EMBARRASSMENT.
IN ITALY HE STILL HASN'T BEEN TO ABRUZZO, 8 DAYS AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-511415-100x100.png\")
Hahahahahahahaha!
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-131723-100x100.png\")
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-87429-100x100.png\")
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-386301-100x100.png\")
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-346324-100x100.png\")
I love how my market was the one which had the Superbowl porn. Honestly, I thought the whole thing was hilarious; it's spawned a whole new variety of dance moves.
\"The Superbowl\" and \"The Comcast\" being my favorites.