I watched a bit of the Golden Globes tonight, and was overjoyed to see The Office win two globes! My British coworker, Ritchie, introduced me to the show a while back, and I quickly watched up every episode made (sadly, there are only 12 episodes… EVER!) Ritchie let me borrow his Office DVDs, but I had to do some hardware hacking on my computer to even watch them (since they’re British DVDs, the region encoding isn’t compatible with American DVD players). If you haven’t seen this show, you owe it to yourself to watch it; they’re still airing reruns on BBC America if you get that channel, or they’ve since released an American DVD of the first series (what the Brits call a season).
Ritchie also lent me two DVDs of another British show called Spaced. This show is very funny, and has TONS of movie, TV, and video game references. I became hooked on this show as well, and quickly watched up all the episodes (this show had two series of 7 episodes). This all happened quite a few months ago, but recently Ritchie and I were talking about a few funny moments of the show, and I realized how much I miss it. So, I did what any good capitalist would do, I went to Amazon UK and bought the two DVDs (my recently hacked Xbox is now a region free DVD player, so I’ll be able to watch these region 2 encoded DVDs on a TV!)
When I was placing the order for the Spaced DVDs, the total came to 31.61, including shipping, which I thought was VERY reasonable. Deal done… then I receive the email confirmation the next day (saying that my DVDs have been, not shipped, but ‘dispatched’… those Brits and their fancy words). The email confirmed the price at £31,61… how could I have been so stupid?!? Of course… the cost was in POUNDS! Actual cost to me: $57.71. Ouch! But after I got over the sticker shock, I realized that I’m still happy I ordered the DVDs. The show is so good, it’s worth $4 an ep!
Dang, that is very very spendy, however, it is prolly worth it.
But then again, how would I know.........I have never even hear of the Office or the Spaced.
But it sounds cool.
Hey, by the way, i though that you were gonnna start doing the Amazon in a new window like this......
Let me know what is up with that.
Dang, that is not very very spendy, since you have the money. But then again, how would I know.........I don't know your bank account number.
But it's cool.
Hey, by the way, I thought you were gonna finish your MOD story sometime soon...in a new window........
Let me know what is up with that.